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From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging. When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two...

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life. Signed editionFor rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge...

When I opened my eyes, I was no longer myself. I had become the villainess of a zombie apocalypse, with a zombie’s teeth buried in me. And yet… I didn’t die. When I returned unscathed, everyone looked at me as if I’d risen from the grave. Just one bite, I thought. These were the people who had abandoned me. Surely,...

DISCOVER THE ANGELS VS DEMONS DYSTOPIAN ROMANTASY SENSATION'An eerily broken world, a whip smart, badass heroine, a brutally gorgeous angel, and a shocking twist at the end? Say less. I couldn't put it down' LAUREN KATE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series 'Unapologetically slow-burn and insanely addictive' LYRA SELENE'A fierce, compulsive read' BRIGITTE KNIGHTLEY'A dystopian romance unlike any I've read before' BROOKE...

‘A lot of fun to read’ New York Times Book ReviewThe Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, are as close as a mother and daughter can be. Yet, while their bond is strong, they are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian; meanwhile her daughter, Amanda, is fascinated by the dark side of...

‘If you were thrilled by The House of the Spirits, you'll love this’ Marie ClaireAs a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that erased the first five years of her life from her mind. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, she grows up with privilege, comfort and everything she could ask for.But while she is free of the...

‘Gorgeous and sad and gripping and moving’ Marian Keyes‘Brilliant … so vivid you feel like you’re remembering the events yourself’ The Times‘I am telling everyone about it ... A triumph’ Rachel Joyce‘A subtle, clever, evocative book’ Joanna Quinn, Guardian‘I'm stricken with love for this book’ Meg Mason‘Exposes the sisterly bond – messy, mistake strewn and quietly marvellous – with tender...

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and caretakers drift in and out. All the women who have ever lived and died in that house are waiting for her...

‘A gifted and determined stylist, Colum McCann seems to have taken a vow never to write a dull line’ New York Times Book Review'Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann' Irish Sunday Independent______________________An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a...

‘A powerful and moving collection’ Roddy Doyle___________________A group of British soldiers appear to help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in a flood. A young boy and his mother, under cover of night, painstakingly prepare for the marching season ahead. And a young woman and her son sit over a game of chess in a...

She makes the rules, and God help anyone who dares to break them…Jia Khan had achieved power that most could only dream of. In a world full of self-posturing men she had given women a voice and had built a criminal empire that spanned the globe. But the time has come to legitimize the business. To keep her family and...

‘If you like your passions grand and your views panoramic, then Daughter of Fortune will be irresistible’ The TimesIn colonial Chile, 1832, the infant Eliza is found on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company. Adopted by the maternal Miss Rose, she is raised dutifully, with Victorian piety and propriety. But as a young woman, Eliza falls in...

To save her sister, she’ll rewrite history… ‘A spectacular writer. Her unwavering command of voice, time, and place bring history to life with imagination and purpose, but it is her skill in illuminating the selfless bonds between women that gets me every time’ Bonnie Garmus ‘A luminous novel: richly imagined and full of characters you’ll root for until the end’...

Beauty and the Beast meets The Vampire Diaries in this exhilarating, steamy first entry to a romantasy trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lexi Ryan, in which a powerful, magic-wielding princess is coerced into allying with a dark and mysterious prince to break an ancient curse. One empire. Four kingdoms. Countless deadly secrets. Twenty-two-year-old Aurora Evanselier’s graduation from...

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW - THE SHOWSTOPPING NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL TREASURE MEL GIEDROYC Glorious. Just like Mel... Sweet, funny and moving – Miranda Hart Classic Mel. Funny, clever and loads of heart. I loved it – Dawn O'Porter A brilliant, warm and funny romp – Graham Norton If Malfoy Getrich has written a book, I'm...

If all happy families are alike, the Kennedys of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, are the exception. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. governs his silver-spoon sons and daughters, all nine of them, with the same firm hand that earned him a fortune, an ambassadorship, and enough clout to plant the seeds of an American political dynasty. But heavy hangs the head that bears...

FUNNY AND DELICIOUS - ELLA RISBRIDGERBRILLIANT . . . I LAUGHED ALL THE WAY THROUGH - REBECCA WAITA WHIP-SMART, FUNNY AND THOROUGHLY MODERN NOVEL ABOUT MONEY AND LOVE - i PAPER Hannah is in her mid-thirties and struggling to make ends meet when she is introduced to her best friend's affluent colleague, Oscar Jennington-Bridge, and asks him out on a...

In this twisty, uproarious debut for fans of The Wedding People and Traitors, a pop culture obsessive uses her reality TV expertise to investigate a suspicious disappearance aboard a yacht—while falling for a hot deckhand and avoiding confronting her best friend's untimely passing. This is a story about a definitely dead girl, a possibly dead girl and a living dead...

In this moving debut novel set over one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss and a startling secret. A transporting summer read for fans of Into the Blue, Lily King, The Paper Palace, Elin Hilderbrand and The Wedding People. 'A novel about grief and first love... tender and precise'...

Beautifully contemplative Nussaibah YounisDelicate and dream-like Orlaine McDonald After a spell of misfortune, Mercy has a chance to start again. A no-fault eviction led her to the world of house-sitting, and she has been moving from home to home, attempting to rebuild her life. With advice from mentor Ekua and a virtual network of fellow house-sitters, Mercy has garnered reviews...

Beautifully contemplative - Nussaibah Younis Delicate and dream-like - Orlaine McDonald After a spell of misfortune, Mercy has a chance to start again. A no-fault eviction led her to the world of house-sitting, and she has been moving from home to home, attempting to rebuild her life. With advice from mentor Ekua and a virtual network of fellow house-sitters, Mercy...

When Dahee Shin was nine years old, she made a promise to protect her favourite cousin, Channing, who has always been like a sister to her. Now, at thirty, Dahee has found herself in a Korean American community in a New England beach town, once more running to the rescue of her debt-ridden relative. Ever the idealist, Channing—who has spent...

Carrie is Stephen King's legendary debut. Carrie White is no ordinary girl. She has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie — the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night...

Will soon become a classic. Elle EspañaOne of the most beautiful Italian novels of recent years. The Hollywood Reporter RomaEvery book club will want to discuss this novel. Sarah Damoff, bestselling author of The Bright Years One summer evening, in a quiet seaside town near Rome, everything changes for the Ansaldo family. The Ansaldo family's contented life is built on...

Wants and Needs is a novel about big life choices and coming of age in your thirties: a woman embraces ethical non-monogamy and finds a new kind of love along the way. Independence seems to be drifting away from Misty. Just months ago, she was living with her fiancé and planning their life together. Now she's single, back in her...

A riveting, emotionally-charged tale of forbidden love, centred on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades ago. In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with its newfound Independence, headstrong Margaret meets British-born Benjamin, a man seeking his ancestral roots after the death of his half-Nigerian father. Their connection is immediate,...

Three desperate prospectors embark on a perilous quest for gold in 1920s Mexico. 'Gold is a very devilish sort of a thing, believe me, boys' Deep in the wild heart of Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains lies treasure beyond reckoning, just waiting to be found by those who know where to look. Or so believe three Americans—Dobbs, Curtin and Howard—down on...

Night and blood were unchanged, night and blood had been with us always. The utterly gripping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Death in the Family. London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all. Kristian Hadeland, newly arrived in the city, seethes with ambition and contempt. His family in...

An unflinching, absurdly funny portrait of life in exile by one of the greatest Yugoslav writers ‘In the end life is reduced to a heap of random, unconnected details. It could have been like this or like that, it's absolutely immaterial.’ A pink cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener: these are some of the contents of Roland the Walrus'...

The Mare is based on a true story, a masterful and haunting Holocaust novel about how an ordinary person becomes a monster—and what happens in the aftermath. Before the Second World War broke out, Hermine Braunsteiner was an ordinary young woman, a teenage housemaid from Vienna. By the time the war ended, she had transformed into one of the most...

A gripping Christmas-themed short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid! A THRILLER SHORT STORY! A gripping Christmas-themed short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid! What would you sacrifice for the perfect gift? Despite working two jobs, she can't even afford a present for her...

Meet your new bestie Melody Moss in a hilarious new series about friendship, school and what it takes to survive being twelve! Melody Moss is back for Term Three... and things are getting seriously complicated. She has an actual boyfriend (!!!) but has no idea what she's doing. Her ex-best friend is still firmly in frenemy territory. Victor, her true...

The Death Ship is a cult masterpiece and a darkly comic tale of survival on the high seas. Whoever survived the Yorikke could never be frightened any more during his lifetime by anything. Stateless and stranded after he loses his passport, sailor Gerald Gales flees arrest and persecution across Europe, until he finally finds work on the Yorikke, a decrepit...

Award-winning author, Yrsa Daley-Ward's stylishly intriguing and experimental debut novel exploring family, fate and female fantasies. Totally original, entirely compelling and astonishingly well crafted, The Catch solidifies Yrsa Daley-Ward as one of Britain's best and boldest voices. A dark and lyrical debut that's well worth the wait. – Yomi Adegoke, author of Slay in Your Lane and The List A...

A moving portrayal of loss, consolation and belonging in a remote community. It seemed that even the jungle fell silent for a moment as if it wanted to help save a little child. In the depths of the Mexican jungle, American traveller Gerard Gales is hunting for alligators when he comes across a small village along the banks of the...

The new novel in Mary Lawson's beloved, bestselling prizewinning sequence is set in the small-town community of Solace. A winter treat perfect for fans of Elizabeth Strout, Anne Tyler, and Colm Tóibín. 'She's one of my all-time favourite writers... utterly captivating' - Graham Norton 'A masterpiece of insight into what it means to be fully flawed and perfectly human. I...

In this mesmerizing and profound novel, the arc of a woman's life in a devout, insular community challenges our deepest assumptions about what infuses life with meaning. A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025 'It will become an underground classic' New York Times 'A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait... Standout' Wall Street Journal 'An irresistibly smart and...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a classic romance novel soon to be a major Netflix series, adapted by Dolly Alderton and starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. However, the Bennet girls are in need of financial security through marriage....

A story about family, identity, and the messy truth of finding yourself - from the legendary multi-million selling author who writes real life, honestly told. She's spent her life holding everything - and everyone - together. But she's done being perfect. Now it's time to be herself. Dol Westward has always been the dependable one - the steady hand, the...

The critically acclaimed, intense and funny coming-of-age debut novel about the magical thinking of youth and the mystery of adolescence. Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he's fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his mostly absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how...

A beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition of Gaskell's most famous novel ‘How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?’ Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon gives her beloved fans what they want for Christmas: a new Mitford novel. "Jan Karon is a national treasure. Prepare to laugh, cry and fall in love...The heartwarming gift we all need." - Fannie Flagg, New York Times bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe When Father Tim's...

A moving and heartfelt new novel from one of Britain's greatest writers. The year is 1907, and Maurice Ravel is one of the most admired young composers in France. In Belle Epoque Paris, he cuts a charismatic, dandyish figure, whose technically flawless music hides a deep emotional core, and whose unpredictable talent is as hard to pin down as his...

A father is stranded with his baby daughter as violence breaks out in the jungle, in this page-turning and explosive new novel. Deep in a tropical rainforest, Kit and Lara escape modern life by dedicating themselves to charity work and raising their baby, Helen. But their idyllic isolation is shattered when an outsider arrives with frightening news: across the border,...

The thrilling international bestseller by 'China's answer to John le Carre' (Financial Times) Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at Unit 701, China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillance officer who can hear sounds from miles away; the beautiful, unstable maths genius who meets a violent end; the old man...

Discontent by Beatriz Serrano is a sexy and hilarious Spanish bestseller, where a young woman's office persona threatens to crack when she's forced to attend her company's annual retreat. Life can't go on like this - can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection. On the surface, Marisa's life looks...

From the Booker prizewinning author of Possession, a beautifully packaged hardback novella, telling a tale of elemental passion and hope. 'The snow did not numb Fiammarosa; it pricked and hummed and brought her, intensely, to life . . . This is who I am, the cold princess thought to herself, wriggling for sheer pleasure in the snow-dust, this is what...

Longlisted for the National Book Award 2024 'Sparkling' - New York Times 'Magnetic' - Ira Glass 'Fierce' - Time When Catalina, a witty, vulnerable and beautiful Ecuadorian student, arrives at Harvard, she feels like one of the chosen. She is a miracle child who has escaped death in Latin America to be raised by undocumented grandparents and now studies at...

The author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Pine returns with another sinister and atmospheric tale of buried secrets, set in the brooding Scottish landscape. From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, Pine, comes a haunting and atmospheric new gothic thriller, set in the brooding Scottish landscape. In this corner of Fife, summer nights meant parties on wind-blown beaches, wrapped in...

Uprooted meets Midnight Mass in Mere Joyce's heart-pounding horror novel, As the Snow Gathers. For decades, the town of Aplin Shade and the Fanteur have had a deal: the Fanteur take the dead, and the townsfolk let them in exchange for peace. Until now. And as winter sets in, there's nowhere left to run. The forest doesn't just take what...

Arendal is a novel about impossible love and impossible life from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Death in the Family. The haunting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Death in the Family. The year is 1976. Syvert is on his way back to his wife and two sons after a work trip when his...

All the Little Secrets is the highly anticipated follow-up to All the Little Houses. From the USA Today bestselling author of The Hunting Wives (now a hit Netflix series) comes a deliciously wicked stand-alone sequel to All the Little Houses, as the fallout from an utterly unexpected death reverberates over every margarita and through every pine-lined street down in Texas....

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote form a captivating tribute to the Christmas season. Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories in this volume range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden...

A heart-stopping new crime thriller series by the internationally bestselling author of the DCI Jack Hawksworth books. It’s easy to keep quiet if you’re dead.Meet Nina Crow, once a rising star of the Australian Federal Police, now recovering from a spiral into darkness after an undercover operation went horrifyingly wrong, shattering her life and her career.Finally clean after eighteen months...

Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged. SUNDAY TIMES Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny. CATRIONA WARD Weird and wonderful. LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer...

Orkney 1942. Forbidden lovers, divided by war, united by a secret act. Amid the turmoil of the Second World War, a group of Italian prisoners is sent to the remote Orkney island of Lamb Holm. In the freezing conditions, hunger and untold hardships of Camp 60, this ragtag band must work together to survive. Domenico, a talented artist, is among...

LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2026AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF 2025 'Astonishing' — LUCY ROSE'Biting and rich' — MOLLY AITKEN'Unforgettable' — OBSERVER'A novel of rare power' — GABRIELLE GRIFFITHS Myma, do you hear it? Myma, do you hear? Myma? Maya and Daughter live in complete isolation in a secluded woodland, their days aligned with the light...

Here is a magnificently clear-eyed portrait of our times lit equally by sorrow and rage. Neel Mukherjee is a superb writer, and Choice is his greatest work yet. ― Michelle de Kretser 'Dazzling... by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' ― Monica Ali 'Profound and beautiful' ― Paul Murray 'A vital, haunting, devastating read' ― Sarah Waters A publisher, who is...

‘I’m a seventy-three-year-old woman, Tristan; I am practically invisible. I’m exactly the sort of person you need to pull off this caper. Oh my God, I can’t believe I just used the word “caper” in a sentence referring to myself!’ Tristan Barclay, art historian, minor TV celebrity and Belvedere Tours leader, is reluctantly embarking on his final tour of European...

Winner of the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . . Despite the three women knowing each other better than their own siblings, Sylvie's death had opened up...

Set me as a seal on your heart, for love is stronger than death. Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast continent and through some of Europe's great cities, The Submerged Cathedral is a beguiling, heartbreaking story of paradise and the fall, of sacrifice and atonement, and of sisterly love and rivalry. Most of all, however, it is about an...

'A blockbusting explosion of toxic masculinity' Spectator In a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth - no, sixth? - child into the world. But Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready...

A stunning collection of Black American horror short stories curated by the prolific author-editor-scholar team of Maurice Broaddus and Dr. Chesya Burke. Edited by award-winning writer, community organiser and educator Maurice Broaddus and scholar, professor and award-winning author Dr. Chesya Burke, with an introduction by Dr. Burke, Black Horror: Canonical Voices from Then to Now is a landmark anthology offering...

A stunning collection of African-Australian short stories from the multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon. Black Dingo is a cross-genre miscellany that embraces multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon's hybridity as an African Australian who is 'betwixt', 'a sum of parts'. She is a mother, a daughter, a sister, a woman, a writer, an author, an editor, a scholar, and a friend. She is...

A sweeping story of one woman's grit across war, exile, and rebirth, this novel tracks an entire people through the century that remade them. It's a spotlight on the cost of survival—and the scale of what endures. From a crowded Sabbath table in Bialystok to the gas chambers of Auschwitz and the fires of resistance, one family fights to stay...

Franny is AWOL from her French translation job, her cat-sitting gig is making her anxious, and an obsessive personal project is shooting off in more directions than the London Underground. She needs to leave the UK and return home. But Aotearoa turns out to be less relaxing than she thought it would be, because she keeps running into people she’d rather...

The triumphant conclusion to the Villains trilogy from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. The ExtraOrdinary of Merit City, a secret group of individuals gifted with a power connected to their manner of near-death experience, have been keeping a low profile, avoiding the ever-watchful eye...

The unforgettable story of Edmond Dantes is a masterpiece of literature that has remained popular with readers for nearly two centuries. From best-selling author Alexandre Dumas—who also wrote The Three Musketeers—comes the epic tale of Edmond Dantes, wrongly imprisoned for fourteen years, kept from the woman he loved, and unjustly denied the life they had planned. His revenge on the...

A spellbinding tour de force from the author of The Invisible Bridge - a novel about varieties of infidelity, the provenance of a literary masterpiece, and the power of storytelling to shape identity and destiny. Luna, Phoenix, Queen is a miracle of a book' Katie Kitamura, author of Audition ‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen breaks all the rules and makes its own....

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists, Aysegül Savaş’s acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity. A researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long-distance lover, only to find he is not the same man she remembers. An expat meets a childhood friend on a...

“Shea’s page-turning prose and loveable, curious, and kind protagonist keep the heart at the center of this tragically gorgeous novel.” — Booklist, STARRED REVIEW For fans of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes this unforgettable and fiercely compassionate novel. Immediately upon his release from a 25-year prison sentence, former...

The hit LitRPG fantasy series, AWAKEN ONLINE, is now in hardcover for the very first time and widely distributed with, CATHARSIS (Awaken Online, Book 1)! Loner. Outcast. Villain. Jason logs into Awaken Online fed-up with reality. He's in desperate need of an escape, and this game is his ticket to finally feeling the type of power and freedom that are...

You're only old once. Time for a new adventure... Sunday Times bestselling author Deborah Moggach revisits her best-loved setting in the follow-up novel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 'THANK GOD for Deborah Moggach' Independent'The Moggach miracle continues' The Times A generation after we first visited it, the 'Best Exotic' Marigold Hotel, where Western pensioners retire to soak up the sun...

They move from party to party, engagement to engagement, scheme to scheme—never stopping long enough to notice that nothing is holding. Money evaporates, relationships dissolve, plans collapse. Still, the music plays. Vile Bodies is comedy at speed, but its subject is exhaustion: a generation living as if permanence were optional, and discovering that it is not. Beneath the glitter, something...

A priceless object. A handful of people willing to lie, betray, and kill for it. And at the centre, a man who knows exactly what everyone is doing—and how far he is willing to go himself. The Maltese Falcon strips the detective story to its core: not the solving of a crime, but the negotiation of a world where nothing...

In December 1941, Japanese troops landed on the northern coast of Borneo and began a brutal three-year, eight-month occupation. Set in a forgotten theatre of World War II, The Crossing of the Boars is a gripping magical-realist tale of a multiethnic village fighting for survival. Opening years after the war, with the Village of the Boars enveloped in wildfire smoke...

A young woman disappears into a world where the law does not reach. Abduction, violence, and trial, all unfold with terrible clarity and no relief. Nobody intervenes, no one answers, nothing is repaired. Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect. Institutions hold their shape but their force is gone. Power acts freely. Consequence...

It begins with a drink thrown in a moment of anger—public, irreversible, and instantly understood. From that point on, everything closes in. Business relationships sour, social standing slips, money tightens, and the small evasions that once held life together stop working. What follows unfolds over just a few days, with a precision that makes every misstep feel both accidental and...

BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. One ordinary morning, in an unexceptional town, every mobile phone lights up with the same emergency alert. In this compelling, darkly funny and moving debut novel, each of Vincent Yu's utterly relatable, flawed characters is given a choice: in the face of mutually assured destruction, do we reach for...

‘He manawarū, he tāuteute hoki tēnei pukapuka e āta whakaahua ana i te wā koroniara o Aotearoa, i te wā Wikitoria hoki o Ingarangi, mā roto i te tirohanga a tētahi rangatira nō Ngāti Wai. E mīharo rawa atu ana te mahi a Paula Morris ki te whakamārama i te ao o tōna tupuna, o Paratene Te Manu, me te...