Big Little Lies meets Tiger King in this fun and propulsive debut novel about three suburban women who, over the course of one summer, each use the growing hysteria around a big cat sighting to achieve their own agendas—some more sinister than others.Former zoologist Coralie King now reigns over a different sort of animal kingdom as Queen Bee of Sevenoaks, a wealthy suburb of London. When her husband Adam spots a panther on the ho...

It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world…Becky Mooney is a Scottish Dolly Parton tribute singer with such terrible stage-fright she can only perform when dressed up as country music’s biggest, blondest star.But after splitting with her boyfriend (and Kenny Rogers singing partner) Becky decides to take inspiration from Dolly to go it alone and try to shine like a diamond in a rhinestone world.As she searches for a way forward...

´There is a fish on the sand; I see it clearly. But it is not on its side, lying still. It is partly upright. It moves. I can see its gills, off the ground and wide open. It looks as though it's standing up.´A few decades into the twenty-first century, in their permanently flooded garden in Cornwall, Cathy and her wife Ephie give up on their vegetable patch and plant a rice paddy instead.Thousands of miles away, ex-pat Margaret is struggling to adjust to life in Kuala Lumpu...

COMING JULY 2026, A BRAND NEW SEQUEL TO THE DICKTIONARY CLUB! Pre-order STARS AND SWIPES by Sophie Gravia now.Chase away the winter blues with a brand new laugh-out-loud read about friendship, love, and surviving modern dating, from the Queen of Holiday Reads, Sophie Gravia.Readers LOVE The Dicktionary Club:'This had me laughing out loud from start...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816.The dark summer that birthed a monster . . .**Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of her sister’s intentions, Mary seeks a refuge.But Lord Byron’s villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like a trap.When Byron suggests each gue...

Every flame tells a story.George McGlory has been adrift since the death of his beloved wife, Audrey. But when he stumbles upon a public health funeral—a stark ceremony with no flowers, no mourners, and no love—he resolves to do something about it.Determined that every life deserves to be remembered, George teams up with florist Elena, undertaker Edwin, and Sid, the eccentric owner of a bric–a–brac shop. Together they form The Light a Candle Society

True Grit meets The Road in this postapocalyptic psychological thriller--narrated by a young girl who has just learned that her adopted father may be a serial killer, and that she may be his next victim. Everything Elka knows of the world she learned from the man she calls father, the solitary hunter who took her under his wing when she was just seven years old. He has taught her how to shoot, track, set snares, and start fires-all the skills she needs to survive in a frozen, lawless land ...

'A superb book’ – Observer‘Gripping, vivid and compelling’ – The Critic‘Humane, absorbing and meticulous’ – New Statesman‘An extraordinary book’ James O’Brien, TLSThree Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings, publishing on the 20th anniversary of the event.Thr...

Bloomsbury presents Right Place, Right Time by Ali McNamara, read by Imogen Church.‘Charming and utterly intriguing’ Katie FfordeCould this be the moment they’ve both been waiting for?Eve has always loved antiques.She loves the way an item from the past can offer a glimpse of another world, of another time. It’s why she painstakingly researches the stories behind every item in Rainy Day Antiques, her little Cambridg...

Hong Kong, 1953: In a remote mansion, witnesses insist a massacre took place. The police see nothing but pristine rooms and declare it a collective hallucination. Until decades later, when one witness returns…from the Edgar®-nominated author of The Last Russian Doll.In 1950s Hong Kong, Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist revolution struggling to put her past in Shanghai behind her. When she receives a shocking invitation—to take part in a compe...

'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems' - TelegraphCovering 200 years of royal history from Queen Victoria to King Charles, and looking forward to the future reign of King William, Power and the Palace is the gossip-laden and highly revelatory account of the relationship between the sovereign and the prime minist...