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'If you love a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers rom-com with plenty of chemistry, then this is the book for you' Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year Yesterday they were just exes. Today they're a writer and a publicist... on tour in Europe... for a month. When A...

The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times) **A Guardian book to look forward to in 2025** ' A masterful stylist writing at the top of his power...

When family tragedy strikes, Alice Fonseka, the dreamy, artistic child of a Singhalese mother and Tamil father, leaves the beautiful island of Sri Lanka. Unable to bear the injustice of what has happened, her family heads for England.There, in a totally foreign environment, Alice builds a life fo...

A BRAND NEW spicy upstairs/downstairs historical romance featuring the Queen's Deadly Damsels! Perfect for fans of Emma Orchard, Virginia Heath and India Holton Dare she risk her secrets? In the world of upstairs/downstairs, Housemaid Penny Smith anticipates her employer’s needs and blends into...

A BRAND NEW psychological thriller from USA Today bestseller Claire Allan She would have been the perfect mother. But if she can’t have her happy family, she's not going to let me have mine. All I wanted was to help women become mothers. When I met Alice Monroe, we instantly connected. She was ...

She came. She cooked. She killed.Little Hélène Jégado was always different. Schooled in the ancient beliefs of the Breton people by her mother, the beautiful child grew up feeling detached from the nineteenth-century world around her. Her destiny was to do the work of the Ankou, Death's henchman. ...

In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, astronomer to King Louis XV, sets sail for India. He hopes to record the transit of Venus, but rough seas - and war with the British - make his quest more complicated than he could have imagined.Two hundred and fifty years later, anxious, lonely Xavier Lemercier chan...

From the bestselling author of The Postcard and How To Be Parisian Wherever You Are, this unique book charts Françoise's Sagan journey to publication for her legendary novel, Bonjour Tristesse.Before Françoise Sagan the literary icon, there was Françoise Quoirez, an eighteen-year-old Parisian gir...

A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert.Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter - the littl...

Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld prizeThis New York Times best-selling graphic adaptation of Proust's classic is an accessible yet still faithful rendering of Swann's Way.Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most en...