Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by an ensemble cast which includes the BAFTA award-winning actor Adeel Akhtar (Killing Eve; The Night Manager; Les Miserables), Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey; The King's Speech), Natalie Simpson (Outlander; Les Miserables), Emma Fielding (Unforgotten; Les Miserables) and John Owen-Jones, who was the youngest actor ever ...

Go beyond the original Shondaland series on Netflix, Queen Charlotte, with this lushly romantic Bridgerton prequel novel written by New York Times bestselling authors Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes as the marriage of Queen Charlotte and King George of England leads to an unexpected love story and a union that transforms society.In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours.Born a German Pr...

Queen's Ford, seat of the Forde family for centuries, is crumbling into ruin. Devastated by their reduced circumstances, handsome and bored Jeremy Forcombe is determined to find a solution.He persuades his sister, Mariota, to go along with his outlandish plan to masquerade as highwaymen. Things go awry when they meet their match in their victim and there is an accident with a gun.Now the handsome Earl of Buckenham is injured, and the siblings are praying for his recovery – ...

Brought to you by Penguin.Black Sheep is read by Natalie Simpson, star of Les Misérables.Abigail Wendover has no time for love.She is far too busy protecting her niece, who has fallen madly in love with a suspected fortune-hunter.But her efforts become vastly more complicated with the arrival of Miles Calverleigh, the black sheep of his family - a reckless bachelor with a scandalous past.Abby soon d...

**** From the bestselling author of Amazon Number One series *THE GIRLFRIEND **Sisters* is an unsettling story of sibling rivalry by the number one bestselling author of The Girlfriend, Michelle Frances.****'**Terrific . . . Twisted, fraught with suspense' - Jo Spain**'**I tore through the pages, desperate to discover the terrible secret that separates Abby and Ellie. This high-speed chase of a novel is a perfect summer read' - Loui...

When Noel Dupree’s mother passes away from a sudden illness, she inherits the family home and their much-loved florist business. While still in mourning, her unscrupulous father resurfaces after many years’ absence and finds a way to undermine her mother’s will. Without regard for Noel’s welfare, he claims everything is rightly his, and the family lawyer can’t produce documents to prove otherwise.By invitation from her best friend, Noel makes a hard choice to leave her childhood ho...

The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

The scorching, escapist new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Castaways**‘An addictive sun-soaked thriller’**MARIE CLAIRE‘The perfect holiday read’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS‘Brimming with tension’ CLARE MACKINTOSH‘Talk about twists and turns’ EMMA STONEX‘Utterly addictive . . . her best yet’ ERIN KELLYWE WERE DYING FOR A HOLIDAY

A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.A day spent locked in a room by border officials without any explanation as to why. A riddle that seemingly has no answer: curlew or curfew, you choose. A phone call from a college friend who hasn’t been in touch in years. And all of it is somehow inextricably linked to the life of a young blacksmith hounded from her tradeand branded a vagrant nearly 500 years ago.Award-winning author Ali Smith shines a guiding...

**“This book wrecked me in the best possible way.”—CARLEY FORTUNE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After“Shatters your heart in pieces, then puts it together again and again.”—ABBY JIMENEZ, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the SummerSIX SUMMERS TO FALL IN LOVE. ONE SUMMER TO CHANGE IT ALL.**Liv and Finn meet six summers ago working in a bar on the rugged Cornish coastline, their future...

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.It’s like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...Sade Hussein is start...

**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ""BEST HORROR FICTION OF 2024""From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection.A woman welcomes a parasite into her body.A teenager longs for perfect skin.A scientist tends to fragile alien flora.A young man takes the night in...