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A feel-good sapphic small-town summer romance featuring a bestselling fantasy author and a warm-hearted cafe-bookstore owner! Hannah Taylor has some novel problems. The bestselling fantasy author, who writes under a pen name, is suffering from writer's block after her long-term relationship co...

'Entertaining and vivid… This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the Secon...

Brought to you by Penguin. A ground-breaking, present-tense reconstruction of the life and world of one of the most consequential figures in world history, Suleyman the Magnificent, from the author of The Lion House Chosen by The Times, Guardian and Financial Times as a 'Book to Look Out For' i...

The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

In the heart of London's dazzling society, Rosanna Hempel seems to have it all—a doting father, a promising future as the heiress to the family business, and the adoration of a charming suitor. Her life is a flawless portrait of privilege and potential—until a single fateful moment in the park sh...

A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, about a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here. “A visionary book that is at once pensive, rollicking, and truly, bone-deep unsettling. Alex Gonzalez's rekt is an absolute s...

He's everything a bad boy royal should be...Prince Marco of Ralvinia is lethally handsome, incredibly rich and irresistibly sexy. His royal title and prestigious position as a high–powered CEO bring a high media profile, and women flocking to his door. But after tragically losing the one woman he...

Can soulmates survive a darkness threatening to tear them apart?   The Darkness is banished and a new era has begun for the Were and the Covens, bound together by the magical Pact that keeps them safe.   Spirit-talker Morghanna Cantrae doubts she's strong enough to lead her Coven into their n...

Headlong into the unknown…Independent, willful Kate Starr has cherished a penchant for handsome Lord Shelburn since she was sixteen years old, but as a mill-owning industrialist, she moves in a different world from the libertine earl. Then one fateful day, Shelburn invites her to accompany him in...

The wild rogue and the wallflower!Toby Sutton, Earl of Renfrew, is a notorious libertine with no interest in marrying a wellbred young miss and making her his countess. But when he meets lovely Lady Viola Frain, irresistible desire creates an explosive mix with his native recklessness. Within a m...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER 'I'm insisting you date her. Five dates together, then I'll have this surgery.' Billionaire CEO Connor Stewart is being blackmailed. By his own grandmother, no less, who is refusing to have life-saving surgery unless Connor dates Mia Simms, his dull and dowdy marketing ...

Dr Lauren Stephens is volunteering in Karesh when she uncovers a crime and is forced to flee for her life. When a huge sandstorm leaves her stranded in the middle of the desert, a handsome stranger comes to her rescue, taking her to his luxurious camp. As they shelter there, the attraction betwee...

In stories of astonishing compression and insight, Mavis Gallant wrote of characters severed from their home, exiles disconnected from each other and from themselves. Tracing the fault lines of the post-war world in the intimate lives of her characters, she could conjure an entire worldview in a ...

Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, but where did it all begin? Hidden in the names of English towns and villages, in copses, fields, lanes and hills, are the ghostly traces of birds conjuring powerful identities for people in ancient land...

Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable – war and humiliation. Much about China's modern relationship with the West is the product of its past inter-reactions, conf...

Three women. A baby rescued from the sea. Lives forever changed. When Sapphie, a passionate environmentalist, goes on a camping trip in the bush, she miraculously rescues a baby from the sea. The baby belongs to Candace, a charity worker struggling with new motherhood. The act of rescue throws t...

Love, mythology and magic collide in a delicious, action-packed new romantasy series from Australian author and award-winning podcaster Olivia O'Flynn, for all fans of Sarah A Parker, Carissa Broadbent and Rebecca Yarros. She was made of magic and wrath ... In a world fractured by belief, the g...

Thirty years on from The First Stone, Madison Griffiths is ready to blow the conversation wide open The professor who whispers sweet nothings into his students’ ears makes sweet nothings out of them. Sweet Nothings is a gripping account of four women’s interwoven stories in the wake of having o...

'A sinuous, thrilling meditation on fakes and forgers, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier and Sarah Waters' OLIVIA LAING 'So witty and propulsive you will forget how brilliantly constructed it is' JESSIE BURTON 'Deliciously engaging and wildly intelligent'  AYŞEGÜL SAVAŞ 'A delightful, playful puzz...

‘a gloriously distinctive writer: brava, brava!’— Michelle de Kretser, Miles Franklin award-winning author of The Life to Come and Theory & Practice ‘Cure lures you in with mesmeric prose then startles with profound insights on pain, faith, motherhood and, above all, love.’—Diana Reid, bestselli...