'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN'If you like Shuggie Bain, then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN SISSAYJohn MacDonald is a four-year-old boy growing up in the slums of Glasgow. His mother is an addict who leaves him starving in their flat for days at a time.When a neighbour files a report, John is wrenched away from her and dropped ...

'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN'If you like Shuggie Bain, then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN SISSAYJohn MacDonald is a four-year-old boy growing up in the slums of Glasgow. His mother is an addict who leaves him starving in their flat for days at a time.When a neighbour files a report, John is wrenched away from her and dropped into the care sys...

The sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places.“Elvin James Mensah's Small Joys is breathtaking and heartrending, by turns hilarious and devastating and surprising and wild. Mensah's prose makes the intangible deft and tremendous — from the balm of friendship, to the beauty of queerness, and the all-encompassing elixir of community. Tender, thrilling, and honest; Small Joys is a beam of light...

One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want.Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts and behaviours of others – just as others use it change yours.We have been perfecting our influence for millions of years, but in the last 20 years digital technologies have revolutionised how influence works. ...

Brought to you by Penguin.When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, her true...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA stunning and compelling novel for fans of PACHINKO, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, and SHU...

Brought to you by Penguin.***WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2023***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023Sean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits. Back on the mad all-nighters, the borrowed tenners and missing rent, the ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family**Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brothe...

Brought to you by Penguin.From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue SkyOn opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past.When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they're drawn back there to revisit a glorious childhood summer, the last before their mother died. But their journey uncovers memories of a far l...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWhen the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, it created an unprecedented impact, greater than the aftermath of 9/11 or the global financial crisis. But out of such disruption can come a new way of thinking, and in this superb new book former UK prime minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the challenges we face in 2021 and beyond.In the book, he states that there are s...

Brought to you by Penguin.'We're not famous anymore. We're notorious.'For over a decade, the Lancasters were celebrity royalty, with millions tuning in every week to watch their reality show, Living with the Lancasters.But then an old video emerges of one of their legendary parties. Suddenly, they're in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons: witnesses swore they'd seen missing teenager Bradley Wilcox leaving the ...

Brought to you by Penguin.A laugh-out-loud memoir of becoming a 21st-century priest, Touching Cloth is also a love letter to the Prayer Book, Liverpool, lager, funerals, homemade lemon curd, and, above all, to what the Church of England can be at its best.The very word 'reverend' inspires solemnity. To be a priest is to dedicate one's life to quiet prayer and spiritual contemplation. Isn't it?Fergus Butler-Gallie reveals wh...