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Fun, witty and sun-soaked – literary cartwheels and seaside capers from the astoundingly brilliant mid-century writer who destroyed her own books. Great friends, Mimi and Caroline, are off on holiday to a beautiful Italian island. There they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of character...

TEN PEOPLE WENT INTO THE MUSEUM THAT DAY. ONLY SEVEN CAME OUT... Police officer Tia recently failed her exam to become a negotiator: her dream job. But when a peaceful climate change protest at a London museum escalates, and one of the radicalised members takes Tia and others hostage, she realis...

Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of woman's desperate quest for freedom. 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck' Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self...

'Thrillingly disorienting... ultra-sensual' GUARDIAN 'Hauntingly beautiful' GLAMOUR 'Rowdy and razor-sharp' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN An erotic, surreal novella about the ecstasies of intense friendships and obsessive love Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, re-encounters Cecilia,...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE VAL McDERMID DEBUT AWARD 2024** Richard Osman meets MasterChef in this gripping cosy murder mystery. In this cookery school, murder is on the menu... 'If Agatha Christie were to go on Masterchef, this novel would be the result.' Clare Pooley 'Delicious fun!' Tess Gerritse...

In Fat Chance , poet and publisher Kent MacCarter investigates variations on how non-fiction can be reported, taking an uncanny look into sole survivors of major airline crashes, a memoir approach at the surgical complication known as gossypiboma – where an instrument is left behind in a body cav...

*A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK* Discover the gripping new detective thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae series ‘A dark, richly satisfying story that proves just how good a crime writer he is.' Daily Mail ‘Hard to put down’ ***** Reader review THE CLOCK IS TI...

THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER 'Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone’s lives... an accessible and sensible read that helps demystify AI' Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragon's Den 'Nigel Toon is a visionary leader in the field of artificial intelligence... a...

READERS HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THE EX VOWS: 'This book made me ACHE but in a good way' 'This book was an absolute delight. I couldn’t stop reading and devoured this in two days and then needed a day to process my emotions' 'This book, this story, these characters, ripped me wide open and slo...

'An espionage story of high literary calibre' Strong Words Magazine 'A dramatic and thoroughly immersive account of loyalty, ideology and betrayal' Guardian 'A terrific new voice in spy fiction…A complex, action packed portrait of a continent in ferment’ Mail on Sunday 'In remarkably granular det...