During a time of restricted movement, the narrator of Mr Outside visits his reclusive father Thomas who is packing up to move into a care home. As father and son grapple with the task, long-buried conflicts resurface. Thomas, a poet and former radical priest, slips between affection and fear, while the narrator struggles to find the words he's been holding back. Yet amidst confusion and grief, moments of humour and connection emerge, as both men discover new ways to understand eac...

New fiction by:Suad AldarraCaleb Azumah NelsonJan CarsonElaine FeeneyOona FrawleySinéad GleesonAnna Jean HughesCaleb KlacesNaomi KrügerHenrietta McKerveyPaul McVeighMary Morrissy

Fatherhood is the debut novel from award-winning poet Caleb Klaces, combining prose and poetry in an experimental work of verse fiction.Following the birth of their first child, a couple move out of the capital to the northern countryside, where they believe the narrator's great-grandfather, a Russian emigrant, was laid to rest. The father dedicates himself to parenting, writing and conversation with his dead ancestor, newly conscious of the ties that bind...

When Mrs Hunter chooses William she thinks she has found the perfect prey . . . but has she met her match?http://www.youtube.com/user/PenguinKidsTV?feature=watch

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024The Times Novel of the YearAnd a Guardian, FT, Economist, Irish Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Irish Independent and Independent Book of the Year'One of the finest novels published this year.' Sunday Times'I could not put it down.' ANNE ENRIGHT

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, WITH OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLDShortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the YearYvonne Carmichael has a high-flying career, a beautiful home and a good marriage.But when she meets a stranger she is drawn into a passionate affair.Keeping the two halves of her life separate seems easy at first.But she can't control what ha...

'OMG... I read the last page and just stared into space and thought "that was bloody brilliant"' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'THE ENDING???... It kept me up late at night reading... Will definitely be recommending this to everyone I know' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Laugh-out-loud funny and practically every other known emotion. This book has it all' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐December 2023. The human race has fought a deadly virus an...

10 terrific thrillers from the million-copy, no.1 bestselling author: 'Britain's answer to Stephen King and Michael Crichton' [Sunday Express]Peter James has written some of the most suspenseful, edge-of-the-seat thrillers the genre has seen. Now read ten of the very best:POSSESSIONDREAMERSWEET HEARTTWILIGHTPROPHECYALCHEMISTHOSTTHE TRUTHDENIALFAITH

A rousing and original debut story collection that probes the erotic, emotional, and intellectual lives of elder women, CAT BRUSHING will be published in the author’s 80th year.CAT BRUSHING, the provocative debut by Jane Campbell, vigorously explores the sensual worlds of thirteen older women, unearthing their passions, libidinal appetites, integrity, and sense of self as they fight against prevalent misconceptions and stereotypes of the aging.

Everyone loves the wickedly dry sense of humour of The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine.Okay, Okay. So hang me. I killed the bird. For pity's sake, I'm a cat.Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about.Who on earth will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ...

** Winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology**** Featuring 'POSSUM', now a major motion picture starring Sean Harris**Featuring:A.S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ramsey Campbell, Etgar Keret, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Maitland, Alison MacLeod, Jane Rogers, Gerard Woodward, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nicholas Royle, Ian Duhig, Matthew Holness, and Adam Marek.In 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that ...

The cat sat comfortably on the wall.Are you sitting comfortably?Then I will continue.As you know cats like to sit. Sometimes they like to sit and think, and sometimes they just like to sit. But on this occasion the cat was sitting and thinking,'What a lovely day'.But little did the cat know that it was all going to go horribly wrong.