In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan,...

***OUT NOW: FRAN HILL'S WONDERFUL NEW NOVEL HOME BIRD***Featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman's HourA Daily Mail Book of the Year'A warm and wonderful story' Adele ParksRunner-up for the Paul Torday Memorial PrizeIt’s the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would be poet Jackie Chadwick is newly fostered by the Walls. She desperately needs stability, but their inse...

A story with a compassionate eye, the heartwarming vibes of A Man Called Ove mixed with the high emotional stakes of Anne Tyler, Cattail Lane is an uplifting family drama about overcoming the past and the extraordinary power of second chancesNick Ackerman’s life is an aimless circuit between his uninspiring job and the local bar until a note from a stranger changes everything. He learns he has a 14-year-old son, Billy, whose grandmother can no lon...

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another.Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows, stresses, and missed signals. With every passing day, Ellie’s hopes are buried deeper in the harsh winter snows.When Eric finds Hannah Finch, the girl across the road, wandering a...

Leverage meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a gaslamp fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the wealthy.The Canarviers are the premier performance thieves in New Washington, blending astonishing acrobatics, clever misdirection, and daring escapes to entertain their rich patrons. As King Canarvier has always told his children, their work is art....

Leah McPhillen is unlucky when it comes to love… every man she has ever cared for left her without explanation…When she finally meets a man who piques her interest, a horrendous crash interrupts their date…When Leah’s father, Officer Liam “Phil” McPhillen, is blamed for the crash since he was in pursuit of the stolen truck, and Leah finds a young cousin of hers whose life is in danger, she finds her world mixed up in danger, intrigue, and chasing love in th...

The New York Times Instant BestsellerA Today Read With Jenna Book Club Pick"I dare you not to fall wildly in love with Grace...It's a book about love, about grace, about even when we fall from those we love we can always find our way home...You will laugh on the first page and you will keep laughing until you're crying on the last page." **―Jenna ...

‘A spooky rollercoaster of a book. Lots of twists and turns – I loved it’ Simon McCleave ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐No one expected them to go there. The question is: will any of them leave?Six friends travel to a remote island north of the Scottish Highlands for an old school reunion. They’ve rented The Lighthouse – a stunning, now abandoned building that was once notorious for deaths at sea.On the first evening, someone goes missing. The group...

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!Hamelin, Vermont, isn’t the most likely place for bagpipes and tartan, but at Peggy Winn’s ScotShop, business is booming…While on a transatlantic hunt for some authentic wares to sell at her shop, Peggy is looking to forget her troubles by digging through the hidden treasures of the Scottish Highlands. With so many enchanting items on sale, Peggy can’t resist buying a beautiful old tartan shawl. But once she w...

It all starts with a sneeze! Katie Woo catches the flu. She feels yucky and has to miss a few days of school. Will she ever feel like herself again?

Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 (So Far) by Vogue • Named a Best Book of 2023 (So Far) by Cosmopolitan • Named a Best Book of Spring 2023 by Esquire • Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and ThemAn addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on ...

2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best NoveletteFrom Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power has kept the peace and tranquility, and the kingdom has flourished.Jewel Lin and her Lapidary Sima may be th...