'Beautifully captures the pain of growing into yourself, and the intensity of all-consuming female friendship' ROSE WILDINGYou lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is Ella.Ella's with you at the party when you first kiss a girl.And Ella takes you to the hospital the first time you're diagnosed.Over the next few years you have a string of relationships and jobs, but you can always count o...

'An incredible debut from a blazing new voice in Scottish fiction' Image'Beautifully captures the pain of growing into yourself, and the intensity of all-consuming female friendship' ROSE WILDING'I inhaled Gender Theory in one intoxicating sitting . . . a powerful and necessary novel' RACHEL DAWSONYou lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is Ell...

'Crackles with female fire and fury' – The Guardian'A bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown' – The Observer'Fast and furious' – The Sunday TimesWife, the gripping new novel from the prize-winning author of The Exhibitionist, is a nail-biting portrait of the beginning - and the end - of a rollercoaster marriage.When Zoe Stamper first catches the eye of the sophi...

‘A delight for anyone whose heart thumps at the sight of dawn, dusk and hazy light’ Nell FrizzellAt first, I didn’t find fog – fog found me.Liminal, transformative and increasingly elusive – far from a simple cloud of water droplets, fog is a state of mind. As mist drifted through a copse of trees, turning a familiar place strange and otherworldly, Laura Pashby snapped a photograph and an obsession began.Pashby hunts for fog, walks and swim...

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...

'I have no words. It is definitely one of the best books I have ever read. It was written so beautifully and it was like seeing the reflection of my last relationship on every page. Truly amazing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐My heart let down its hundreds of walls. But all I was loving were his demons.I met him at a party, staring at me from across the room; eyes the colour of midnight. Like I was an undiscovered species that had fallen in his lap at the exact mo...

**A Times Best Novel of the Year'Taranto’s hilarious, provocative debut novel . . . switches seamlessly between psychological realism and diabolical farce.' – The Times/The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year''Sometimes you read something new and immediately think how brilliant it would be for a book club.' – Vogue**In Julius Taranto’s wickedly satirical and refreshingly irreverent debut novel, a young physicist follows her mentor to ...

A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times Children's Book of the Week.Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados, Obah dreams of freedom. As talk of rebellion bubbles up around her in the Big House, she...

Brought to you by Penguin.Bright and precocious ten-year-old Kwame Akromah knows how to behave. He knows the importance of good manners, how to stay at the top of the class and out of the way when his mother and father are angry with each other. But when his charismatic cousin Yaw arrives from Ghana to live with the family while he looks for work, the rules Kwame has learned about the world can no longer guide him.Twenty years later, Kwame is a secondary-sc...

'Powerful' JOANNA GLEN'Beautiful' KATE SAWYER'A triumph' JENNIE GODFREYThe eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg.If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place, looking through the trees into the garden, here's what you'd see:A father and son, a fox standing between them.Jack, home for the first time...

** Order Life of M, the new novel from Rachel Cusk, now **WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD'Cusk combines humour and striking emotional honesty.'Financial Times'Cusk shows a brilliant, and often hilarious funny, aptitude for identifying surreal moments in social interaction.'Evening Standard'Cusk is a highly interesting, original writer and more unusually she is a joy...

"This is one helluva read. Incredibly raw and visceral" - Harriet Tyce, author of BLOOD ORANGE"Thought-provoking and honest" - Winnie Li, author of COMPLICIT"A page-turner" - Louise Dean, author of BECOMING STRANGERS"I couldn't put it down" - Tasha Coryell, author of LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER"A riveting study of power and control..." - Louisa Reid, author of THE POET...