THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of CrudoJust outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. Wha...

Vincent comes of age in Paris in the summer of 1916.With German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the stillness of the city sits at odds with the candlelit salons he attends at night.Then an electrifying encounter with the enigmatic writer, Marcel P, draws Vincent’s desires out into the light, while his ever-riskier liaisons with a young solider begin to shape his future...

The New Novel from the author of Lie With Me‘Doomed youth, simmering desire and 100-proof nostalgia is what Besson does - and he does it very well . . . perfect reading for a heatwave . . . this novel made me nostalgic for the sultry summers I never had’ The Times‘This is a poignant, haunting beach read about loss of innocence, the precariousness of existence, and that painful period of adolescence when th...

Brought to you by Penguin.Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas.

The New Novel from the author of Lie With Me‘Doomed youth, simmering desire and 100-proof nostalgia is what Besson does - and he does it very well . . . perfect reading for a heatwave . . . this novel made me nostalgic for the sultry summers I never had’ The Times‘This is a poignant, haunting beach read about loss of innocence, the precariousness of existence, and that painful period of adolescence when th...

When James meets Luke, everything changes – an exhilarating tale of hidden desire and sudden freedom in the wild countryside.A GUARDIAN BEST SUMMER READTHE INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLER‘An achingly beautiful story of first love’ GUARDIAN‘Gorgeous… I promise it’s amazing!’ JACK EDWARDS‘An exquisite tale… Super...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION******A 2026 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST******LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING***IN SEPTEMBER 2022, in response to the death of Mahsa Jîna Amini in police custody, after being arrested and beaten for not wearing her hijab properly, thousands of Iranians - mostly women - took to the streets in one of the country's ...

'A staggeringly honest exploration of how shame, cruelty and the hunger for acceptance can make us feel sub-human. Visceral and vicious, horrifying, unflinching and unputdownable' RACHEL HARRISONYou'd kill to look this good...Over three hundred pounds, Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mould of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. He's tried every diet under the sun but still he remains stuck in his dead-end job, in love and in his body.But then h...

'Rebecca Serle is a maestro of love in all its forms' GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 'Everything you could wish for in a love story - beautifully told, effortlessly romantic, and surprising in the very best of ways' HOLLY MILLER, author of What Might Have BeenDaphne has never left her love life to chance. The truth is, she can't . . . Every time she meets a man, a note will arrive. On it, a ...

Bridgerton meets Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue in this stunning queer romance by KJ Charles, author of The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting**.**'KJ Charles is, in my opinion, a titan of her genre'– Talia Hibbert, bestselling author Get A Life, Chloe BrownNicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte, is making a splash in Society. The son of a French noblewoma...

A searing collection of E. M. Forster’s short stories about forbidden sexuality and desire‘Madness, isn’t it? What can it matter to anyone else if you and I don’t mind?’Exploratory, experimental and pioneering, the short stories collected in this volume show E. M. Forster writing about love between men with sensitivity, honesty, anger and humour. Written between 1903 and 1958, only two of the fourteen stories here appeared in print in Forster’s lif...

***READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND***‘Beautiful and heartfelt... A masterpiece’‘Intricate, compelling and completely absorbing… heartbreaking, uplifting, intensely moving’‘Beautifully written… a novel of found family, acceptance, loneliness and belonging’‘Breathtaking… so different’‘So heart-achingly good’‘Beautiful and mysterious’’Nobody shou...