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The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become 'Could Cognetti be the new...

A NEW CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY from the author of bestselling murder mystery Death & Croissants the most hilarious murder mystery since Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club Richard Ainsworth is...

'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style 'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan ' Mad Men meets White Lotus ' Red 'Stylish and twisting' The Times 'A...

One of the bestselling books of the 21st century, now a major Sky TV series starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FOR THIS EDITION I tattooed...

A SEARING HOT SUMMER READ FOR FANS OF SALTBURN AND THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. 'A stunningly written ( and translated) story about greed, fraud, hedonism and identity. The story hooks...

The charming and original story of a small, declining community's struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old...

The tales and stories of John MacPherson - The Coddy - were an instant success on their 1st publication, and they have been in demand ever since. A renowned character,...

'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODOVAR 'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word' DUA LIPA 'The book that everyone is reading' NEW YORK...

Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of...

'A MASTER OF HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION' GUARDIAN The Talented Mr Ripley meets A Room with a View in this dark and irresistible historical novel featuring Monica: a fourteen-year-old girl with...

'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian 'Juan Marse's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable' Times Literary Supplement From one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about...

From the French Marian Keyes comes an uplifting novel of mothers and daughters, families and extraordinary friendships that will make you laugh and cry. Fo r fans of Ruth Hogan,...

'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian 'Juan Marse's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable' Times Literary Supplement From one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about...

Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite, Peter Gaveston, unleashes a horde of demons . . . Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, hastens to...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned. The council will bulldoze it. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. But Olga cannot ascertain...

From the author of the bestselling Follet Valley cosy crime series - over 200,000 copies sold in all formatsSupported by a major publicity and marketing campaignIan often appears on national...

Set in post-war Oslo and following on from Echoes of a City , by an author who understands the city like no other. "One of Norway's finest writers" GUARDIAN "Profoundly...

THE GRIPPING NEW PAGE-TURNER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ADORED, MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER , THE ISLAND 'A beautiful, moving and thought provoking story, The Figurine is a stunning read ....

A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style with an energetically modern worldscape. Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is...

A SEARING HOT SUMMER READ FOR FANS OF SALTBURN AND THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. 'A stunningly written ( and translated) story about greed, fraud, hedonism and identity. The story hooks...

"Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour." -Jhumpa Lahiri "One of Italy's most accomplished novelists." -The Guardian Imagine a child, a daydreamer, always gazing out of...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned. The council will bulldoze it. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. But Olga cannot ascertain...

'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES 'ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLER WRITERS OF OUR AGE' DAILY EXPRESS Paris, a misty night a few days before Christmas: a young woman...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned. The council will bulldoze it. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. But Olga cannot ascertain...

A SEARING HOT SUMMER READ FOR FANS OF SALTBURN AND THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. 'A stunningly written ( and translated) story about greed, fraud, hedonism and identity. The story hooks...

A wistful fictional love letter to old Hollywood and the films of Billy Wilder, moving from sunny Greece to a modern-day Britain, from one of our greatest British authors. A...

' Soula is the most exciting new voice in Irish writing' Barry Pierce, i-D 'O ne of my favourite books so far this year' Shahed Ezaydi, Stylist ' Soula Emmanuel...

The charming and original story of a small, declining community's struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old...

The new sun-drenched summer read from the bestselling author and TV presenter 'Soak up the glamour' PRIMA You're invited to the most glamorous wedding of the year... The guests are...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...

For centuries scholars have been baffled by Inca accounts that spoke of legendary white gods that walked the lands of South America performing miracles. Stranger still were the carvings left...

A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some...

A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories...

A richly varied anthology of Spanish short stories, curated by celebrated translator Margaret Jull Costa This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the...

The climate crisis has escalated beyond our worst nightmares. Raging wildfires sweep through the Swedish countryside, turning vacationers into climate refugees. And yet, against this hellscape, life goes on. Marriages...

Six friends. The holiday of their dreams. One night that changed it all . . . 1989- The tunes are loud and the clothes are louder when a group of...

A stunning story from a master storyteller, published for the first time in an adult edition. Both a love story and a deeply moving account of the horrors of the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2025, CELEBRATING THE BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends...

'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...

In this hypnotic, shimmering novel, Le Prix Medicis-winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg reveals the power of secrets to destroy generations of families. After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood...

A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time 'I want to have him, I really do....

Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating' and 'a treasure of a read'... Love grows where you least expect it... July...

This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world's master storytellers....

From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends torn apart by gang violence and class differences. Dogge is from affluent Roennviken in Stockholm....

'Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it' TESSA HADLEY 'Powerfully compelling' GUARDIAN 'Unbelievably good' ELIZABETH DAY 'Complex and nuanced... the perfect definition of summer reading' LUCY CALDWELL 'Subtle, complex,...

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early...

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her...