In suburban America, a stay-at-home mother unravels as isolation pushes her towards a shocking transformation.Once an ambitious artist, the mother now spends her days caring for her young son while her husband travels for work. As her exhaustion and resentment build, she notices new instincts, new appetites, and a destabilising shift in her sense of self.What begins as doubt hardens into something wilder. Her body changes. Her desires sharpen. In embracing ...

Brought to you by Penguin.NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING AMY ADAMSAre you looking for a book with bite?One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else...At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she mi...

'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN'Stunning' DAZED'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK‘Hauntingly good’ iNEWS’A must read’ GLAMOUR'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEERFrom the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating qu...

The breathtaking historical fantasy set onboard the Great Trans-Siberian Express**'**Imagine a crossover between Murder on the Orient Express, Game of Thrones and Paradise Lost . . . Brooks has serious talent' SUNDAY TIMES'I was completely transported by this book . . . I urge everybody to pick up a copy' STUART TURTON'Breathtaking . . ....

A Best Book of the Year in HARPER'S BAZAAR, BBC, THE NEW YORKER, GLAMOUR, GAL-DEM and HUFFPOST'Witty and thought-provoking' Stylist'Blistering' Glamour'Unusual, original and strikingly contemporary' Guardian'Absolutely brilliant' Ruth Ozeki'A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference' The T...

Perfect for fans of Coco Mellors, R. F. Kuang and Yomi Adegoke, this electrifying debut and TikTok sensation charts the unlikely relationship between a pregnant teenage pizza delivery driver and a stressed-out, middle-aged mum.Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl, our dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She’s grieving the death of her father, avoiding her loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring h...

The bestselling author of international BookTok sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story of a group of misfits who meet in the local cemetery each night to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.Every night, in the college's ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the colle...

An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eating them and then procreating. This exclusive edition also includes the story that first brought Sayaka Murata international acclaim: 'A Clean Marriage', which tells the story of a happily asexual couple who must submit to some radical medical procedures if they are to c...

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2022 I'M A FAN tells the story of an unnamed narrator's involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, Sheena Patel makes startling connections between power struggles at the heart of human relationships to those in the wider world, offering a devastating critique of social media, access and patriarchal systems.

**Brought to you by Penguin.A novel from Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage.**A glittering family. A Notting Hill house. Step into their secrets . . .Notting Hill, London. Lou Parker's famous mother walks out of their pink front door and doesn't return home by midnight, or the midnight after... Looking after her little brother, trying to piece together where their mother might be, Lou ventures into a different wor...

From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before.An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eating them and then procreating. Published in English for the first time,...

'A meditation on how horror can lurk beneath the surface of even the most poreless skin' New York TimesWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Bisexual Novel 2024A WIRED Best Book of 2023An Audible Best Horror Book of 2023For fans of The SubstanceOur narrator produces a wondrous sound from the piano learned from her mother and father, who fle...