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Author: Elisa Lodato Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 *** The new novel from the author of An Unremarkable Body, shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award 2018. *** 'Elegant,...

***Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018*** EVERY MOTHER IS A WOMAN WITH A PAST 'An intriguing tale of love and loss . . . written with verve and...

Katharine is found dead at the foot of the stairs by her 30-year-old daughter Laura. The medical examiner's report, in which precious parts of her mother's body are weighed and...

"On every page Lodato's prose sings with a robust, openhearted wit, making Edgar & Lucy a delight to read...Lodato keeps us in his thrall because his grip on the tiller...

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At a meatpacking facility in Missouri, Dee-Dee and her coworkers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift. The work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut...

There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to The Morningside. The Morningside was once the jewel of Island City. But now the luxury...

In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo...

Penina has grown up believing the Orthodox Jewish teaching that there is one soulmate out there for everyone. But now she's twenty-nine and single, she's staring to wonder if she's...

Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled her lifelong dream to travel to Arabia and has arrived in the ancient city of Muscat with her fiance, Rory. Desperate to escape...

'Fun, sexy hijinks in a sparkling debut' LEX CROUCHER 'Bursts and blooms with wit and humanity ' BETTY CORRELLO 'I loved this warm, charming romcom' LILY LINDON THE FIRST RULE...

From New York Times bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a sizzling sports romance full of flamingo feathers, slow-burn heat, and one grump-meets-sunshine love story that's anything but fake. They're faking...

It's all magical hands on deck for vampire Elisa Sullivan and her allies as they fight to save the Windy City from a supernatural onslaught, in the newest installment of...

'A redeeming way to look at the condition, as not merely a burden but ultimately a blessing ... unexpectedly moving ... validating and hopeful' Guardian Anxiety. It's all in your...

'Funny and astute, Lewis has a keen eye for both the echoing loneliness and transcendent moments of connection in our increasingly atomised lives.' Marie Claire What happens when you reach...

Along the border of gentrifying Los Angeles, a teenage girl is found dead at a construction site. Homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton's partner assumes it's a suicide. Lou isn't buying...

THE DEBUT ADULT NOVEL FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE KISSING BOOTH , A MAJOR NETFLIX HIT Five couples. One week. A love story like no other . ....

"Irresistible....Amelia is still a joy." -- New York Times Book Review The intrepid archeologist Amelia Peabody and her fearless family, the Emersons, are back in Egypt, and something very nasty...

What happened to network television in the 1980s? How did CBS, NBC, and ABC lose a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits? Ken Auletta,...

'Captures the fierceness of female friendship' BETH O'LEARY | 'The essential book on sisterhood' NIKITA GILL Shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2023 Three women. One life-changing friendship. One chance...

'Refreshingly original and laugh-out-loud funny' - CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Delightfully shocking and irreverently funny' - JANICE HALLETT I have a gift. I see people as ghosts before they die. Of course,...

'Delightful ... Venner builds an excellent narrative of a city that was thriving and bustling with life at the very point it was snuffed out.' The Times We all know...

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest ' SARAH MILLICAN 'Hollie McNish's words always sweep...

After their successful book speculating on What Killed Jane Austen, Dr Jim Leavesley and Dr George Biro turn their attention to How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles and more medical...

'A truly funny and wonderfully heartfelt comedy of errors with a plucky, lovable heroine . . . Danica Nava is a fresh, exciting new voice in the world of romantic...

'Delicate and beautiful ... What a gift' Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello, Beautiful'A revelation - the kind of novel to read in one sitting' Liz Moore, bestselling author of...

Peter Evans's biography of Aristotle Onassis, Ari , metwith great acclaim when it was published in 1986. Ariprovided the world with an unprecedented glimpse of theGreek shipping magnate's orbit of...

One of Fortune 's 'Best Books of 2021' When Ralph Waldo Emerson published his seminal essay on self-reliance in 1841, the United States was still reeling from the effects of...

'A beautiful novel about messy relationships, finding yourself and over-coming past trauma. I completely lost myself in this story' SARA JAFARI, author of The Mismatch ' I enjoyed this book...

Meet the Lakefront Billionaires . . . Get ready for another addictive romance from Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Lauren Asher Rafael Ellie Sinclair is a hopeless romantic...

'An immersive, glamorous, sexy and gripping modern love story to gulp down hungrily and quickly' SUNDAY TIMES 'This sexy, summer romance slips down as easily as oysters and champagne' DAILY...

Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we...

Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we're often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until...

Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice's Grand Canal, 'il palazzo non finito' was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century...

A doctor who has lost his child. A woman in an abusive relationship. A madman who lives only to kill. These are the people who will discover that they are...

During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can...

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species...

Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend....

This book is based on award-winning research that analyzes transcripts of intrafamilial child sexual abuse trials. Building on the contemporary focus of legal trials as hegemonic sites of storytelling from...

Silas Grange is a handsome young doctor who prides himself on keeping his appetites under perfect control. But when Grange is summoned by a mysterious, voluptuous widow named Celia Quill,...