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In the heat of the summer a garden party is planned and the stage is set for secret passions to be revealed.But as the magic of the garden casts its spell over the characters they begin to face the awful truth that their feelings can be a matter of life or death.Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.

A utterly absorbing, panoramic novel spanning two centuries and shining light on French colonialism in Cote d'Ivoire - by the author of Standing Heavy, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic - insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love.

Juno meets Under the Tuscan Sun

It's senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she discovers she's pregnant. Her determination to keep her baby is something her boyfriend and mother do not understand. So she is sent to Spain, where she will live ...

In a fantastical version of Renaissance Italy panicked by plague, the Medicis and the Lorraines tear the city apart with alchemy and amazing gadgets. Meanwhile a pair of star-crossed lovers seek to save their love, with the assistance (or perhaps despite the assistance of) a mysterious figure: the Shadow Master.

In 1860, after years in the army, Robert Douglas returns to Dundee and finds George Gilbride (the Wizard), a whaling ship owner, but falls foul of sinister gangster John Wylie.

A provocative bestseller from one of Norway's most highly-regarded novelists

A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death

When Wim and Marie, a young Dutch couple, agree to hide a Jewish man in their home during the Nazi occupation, they think they are fulfilling their patriotic duty. Tension and awkwardness reign in the house as they try to adapt to this forbidden guest, whom they know as Nico. Small accidents and unexpected ...

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, LOLA IN THE MIRROR is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES, Trent Dalton.

Mrs Jekyll, the third novel from Emma Glass, reframes Stevenson's classic story of human duality in the present day, as one woman contends with a terminal diagnosis - and unearths the effervescence of a life suppressed.

The story of a young woman's brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her

A raw and striking debut novel about redemption and recovery

'Suberb . . . vivid' TELEGRAPH

'Michael Deagler is the real deal . . . a truly intelligent work from a clearly intelligent writer' PERCIVAL EVERETT

'Illuminating and moving' AIMEE BENDER

Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. ...

A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts .This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die - to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he can't stop clinging to the past. His ...

Louis L’Amour’s long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of highly explosive ...

'The best fiction I have read this year.' JOHN BANVILLE, IRISH TIMES *BOOKS OF THE YEAR*The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writerIn these twelve quietly dazzling, carefully crafted stories, Billy O'Callaghan explores the resilience of the human heart and its ability ...

"The Distance Home" is the story of two children growing up side by side – the one given opportunities the other just misses – and the fall-out in their adult lives. Funny and tragic, both intimate and universal, Paula Saunders’ debut is about how our parents shape the adults we become. It is a ...

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice.

'War and Peace for creatives' (Bob and Roberta Smith) - this epic novel traces the rise and fall of a 1970s songwriter/composer from childhood to old age, exploring the wider repercussions of creativity and success

The original version of the classic novel of the epic World War II battle, confiscated by the Russian secret services in 1949, and now rediscovered in the Russian archives.