A collection of romantic stories taken place over time.I lived in Washburn Missouri and it's a small town and growing up in the 70- 80's. That brought me close to home and, to myself down home values where some people think of Old Fashion values now. Yet I am going to stay with this because it is whom I want to be. To all of my future readers who spend their time in reading my work in writing. I will always say to all "Thank You" for me it's a way to show highest respect and honor....

As read on BBC Radio 4A Sunday Times Best Book of the YearAn Observer Best Debut of the Year'Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses'A joy . . . vivid, loving and genuinely funny' - The Sunday Times'I didn't want it to ever end' - Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things**The Boy from the Sea is Garre...

Broadcaster Matthew Sweet presents a sequence of radio plays by Samuel Beckett, with star casts including Stephen Rea and Ian McKellenSamuel Beckett captured the pathos and irony of modern life like no other dramatist. In the decade following the success of Waiting for Godot (1952), he wrote some of his most absorbing work for radio, among them this sequence of short pieces. Suffused with the same musicality as his stage plays, they are increasingly differ...

Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, The Artist and the Feast is a captivating novel of love, art, food, desire and thwarted ambition, which builds propulsively over one scorching French summer in 1920s Provence.During a scorching summer in 1920s Provence, a young journalist, Joseph Adelaide, turns up at the farmhouse of reclusive artist Edouard Tartuffe, hoping to write an article about him. There, he meets Ettie, Tartuffe’s niece, who appea...

**'Extraordinary. I loved it' - Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist'Engrossing and moving . . . gives voice to so much that's unspoken about Ireland' - Emma Donoghue, author of Room'Wonderfully compelling . . . haunting' - Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the SeaDelving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey is an extraordinary novel about love and freedom, belonging and rebellion – and a...

From the exceptionally original mind of CWA Gold Dagger Award winner and Booker longlisted author Belinda Bauer comes this sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years.How do you find something that doesn’t exist?On the cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who nest there. The most beautiful are sold for large sums. A small girl—...

Brought to you by Penguin.Who will cast the first stone?1915, the Cabrach, Aberdeenshire. An isolated Scottish community is disturbed by a strange discovery: a body in a peat bog, perfectly preserved. Two people haul the body from the ground: Lizzie, the wife of a wealthy local landowner, and Johnny, a nomadic singer and farm hand. At hearthside and inn, people whisper: what have we unearthed?One unveiling brings others. For Lizzie, tenaciou...

**A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself.*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**AN NPR BOOKS WE LOVE PICK**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025***When Nadia Amin, a witty and bighearted PhD, publishes an article on deradicalization, everything changes. The United Nations comes calling with an opportun...

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s attempts to mend his relationship with his son before it’s too late: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood, dogs, and atonement that is already an international sensation."One of those ‘you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love’ books.” —Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of A...

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, and Literary HubA novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He’s carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.In chapt...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATE O'BRIEN AWARD'Heaven' Katherine May, bestselling author of Wintering'A glowing, generous novel' Irish Times 'A warm, unsentimental and beautifully observed book for our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days'Grace is a fabulous character ... there's a touch of Olive Kitteridge in her' Good HousekeepingGrace lives alone in a coastal vill...

**Winner of the Irish Book of the Year * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction * Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceFrom one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people together and divide them“I said it before. Madness comes c...