Betrayal charts the dramatic collapse of the post-1945 international system. Ours is now a world in which Trump's America has endorsed Putin's land-grab in Ukraine, painted Europe as an enemy, and toppled and kidnapped Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, an anti-western alliance has taken shape featuring China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Countries find themselves in an uncertain and dangerous era. It is a return to nineteenth century imperialism and spheres of infl...

THE BOOK EVENT OF THE YEAR: An unprecedented blockbuster collaboration between MrBeast, the world's #1 creator with more than a billion followers, and James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author.In a world on the brink of collapse, one hundred players face off in a ruthless, high‑stakes competition with everything on the line. The reward? The chance to save humanity - and one billion dollars. The stakes couldn't be higher.Across brutal environments a...

**Brought to you by Penguin.ND-5 and Jaylen Vrax embark on their descent into the galaxy’s underworld in search of answers and opportunity, in this essential prequel to Star Wars Outlaws.**Jaylen Barsha, heir to his family’s immense power and wealth, had his life charted out for him neatly and meticulously by his parents, even though he suspected his neglected half-brother Sliro would be a better fit for the bright corporate future his parents envisioned. Then the ...

ND-5 and Jaylen Vrax embark on their descent into the galaxy’s underworld in search of answers and opportunity, in this essential prequel to Star Wars Outlaws.Jaylen Barsha, heir to his family’s immense power and wealth, had his life charted out for him neatly and meticulously by his parents, even though he suspected his neglected half-brother Sliro would be a better fit for the bright corporate future his parents envisioned. Then the Empire stripped it al...

**FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORTWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR'A masterly work of historical witness and moral reckoning' OBSERVERAn immersive and unforgettable novel of one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War.**I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things . . . were gone forever.Against the rapidly shifting landscape of post Civil War America, Tennyson Bougu...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE REST OF OUR LIVES'Human, astonishing, superb; and sublime.' Guardian'A formidable voice . . . the bastard son of Philip Roth and A. S. Byatt.' New Statesman'A remarkable achievement.' ObserverTaking place over the course of one year, shifting between uptown Manhattan and a private high-school campus in Riverdale, Either Side of Winter moves sea...

From an award-winning debut novelist, Born of Guilt is a powerful and heartrending novel about the intense bond between mother and child and the consequences of freedom.' I am calm only when alone. That's what my mother used to say. As a child I hated her for this because it meant I shouldn't have existed. Now I'm frightened by how much I understand her.'Newly arrived in America, Yana spends her days in a series of dead-end service jobs an...

Introduced by Sinéad Gleeson, John McGahern's Booker Prize-shortlisted Irish 'masterpiece' (Colm Tóibín) is essential reading for admirers of Claire Keegan.As he weakened, Moran became afraid of his daughters.Moran's life is defined by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Now, he is simply an ageing widower, eking out an existence on the small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. He keeps contr...

This beloved memoir of an Irish childhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of classics like Amongst Women is a 'healing book' (Sebastian Barry)'McGahern is about as close as we get to Proust.' GuardianI am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is ...

**FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWelcome to Christmas at Grey Gables, where everyone's a suspect.**Struggling mystery writer Nicholas Child is commissioned to help another writer finish the overdue follow up to his breakout bestseller.Travelling to Grey Gables, the writer's Cape Cod home, in the week before Christmas, he discovers a house full of secrets, and a cast of very suspicious guests.When two shocking deaths occur, Nicholas tries to...

With a new foreword by Kevin Barry, McGahern's 'timeless' (Sinéad Gleeson) novel of rural Irish life is perfect for admirers of Claire Keegan.When the bells rang out for Mass, the strokes trembling on the water, they had the entire world to themselves.Joe Ruttledge has returned to his native Ireland with his wife Kate. Leaving behind their life in London, the couple begin their new existence on a tranquil lakeside farm. Over a year, they become emb...

With a new foreword by Colin Walsh, this is 'one of the most volatile, vital and unsafe novels in Irish literature', banned by the censor for obscenity in 1965 - and just as explosive today.He was coming and there was nothing to do but wait and grow hard as stone and lie.Mahoney grows up in fear of his father: of his beatings with the heavy leather strap; of the nights he wants love. Seeking to escape the claustrophobic family farm, he contemplates...