When we first met Paula Spencer - in The Woman Who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together.Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne.Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the j...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer.**At sixty-six, Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor – is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its gh...

Brought to you by Penguin.The bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time weaves ancient fables into fresh, unexpected forms and forges new unforgettable legends.The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love – and of the monstrosities of patriarchy.The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth.Actaeon, ch...

‘Beautiful … Incredibly moving’ ANN PATCHETT‘Sun-saturated prose’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘A rich tale you can’t put down’ iNEWS‘Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ POLLY SAMSONA family secret. A new love. The chance to start again.Margaret's childhood is one of Saturday morning pancakes and sunlit swimming pools behind white picket fences. Then, on...

‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN'Gripping … Bravura storytelling' VOGUE'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women's asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.Hum...

**Brought to you by Penguin.The unmissable new novel from** Fran Littlewood, the New York Times bestselling author of Read With Jenna pick Amazing Grace Adams**: a story of three grown sisters, whose father - in a moment of crisis - accidentally lets slip that he has a favourite daughter…**A STYLIST MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025A SUNDAY TIMES "STUFF EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT" PICKNoth...

She may not have it all figured out yet. But this year she's ✨manifesting✨'For every fan of Bridget Jones, Marian Keyes and Sophie Kinsella, this is the book. I absolutely loved it. Hilarious, chaotic and so full of heart, I couldn't put it down’ RACHEL GREENLAW I manifest… The perfect man (Guy Carmichael) falling in love with me.I am letting go of… My rat-infested flat (to make way for my dr...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died.**As a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. In the weeks and months before Max’s death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape.A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story, but the past ref...

Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2016A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy DiesWhat links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French ...

'Punchily provocative and often bitingly funny' THE TIMES, Book of the Month‘Binge-worthy, real, really funny’ KILEY REID‘Spiky, smart and so original’ CLAIRE DAVERLEY'Entertaining and very timely… One of the most enjoyable novels I’ve read in a long time' GUARDIAN**'Unputdownable' DAILY MAILA ONE WOMAN SHOW A ONE ...

**'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...

Brought to you by Penguin.**The funny, moving and uplifting new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Never Greener and Us Three.The joyful Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick.**Grace is about to turn ninety. She doesn't want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants to heal the family rift that's been breaking her heart for decades....