What is love?It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts.In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs and diaries.A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north-facing courtyard gar...

Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation.During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from malicious battling between Christian and Communist Koreans. Forty years later, Ryu Yosop, a minister living in ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.What is love?It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts.**In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs and diaries.A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north...

What does it mean to lose yourself – and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession – not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, bu...

This is the story of a hidden Britain. A Black Britain. One that existed outside London and forces us to reappraise what it means to be British.'A vital corrective' STEVE MCQUEEN'A revelation' NESRINE MALIK'Necessary and urgent' GUARDIAN'Joyous' GQ**AN OBSERVER, GQ MAGAZINE, ESQUIRE AND INEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

It feels as though we have each been walking along our own path in the same forest. And now, we have found our way to a clearing and suddenly we see that we share not only the clearing but the forest too. You think it begins when you meet, but in fact, our stories were already entwined.'Our century's answer to Proust' New York Times'Astonishing' London Review of Books'Unforgettable' Hernan ...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami'– Haruki Murakami'The most exciting Japanese novelist at work today'– The TimesA heart-stopping story of teenage girls on the brink in 1990s Tokyo from the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts...

A quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a VoidRika Horauchi’s new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus—in Latin—every Monday, when the museum is closed.Initially reluctant, Rika starts to enjoy her strange new job. Recommended by her old university professor for her exemplary language skills, Rika leads an otherw...

The third volume of the Booker-shortlisted masterpiece about a woman lost in time.WINNER OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL PRIZE'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss'Extraordinary.' Daisy Johnson'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo'Absolutely marvellous.'

Welcome to Tenderness. Our doors are always open.Need a pick-me-up? Visit the Tenderness convenience store in Mojiko, Kitakyushu.A sweet treat to lift your spirits.A quiet place to talk over a warm meal.A kind word when you need it most.The sound of the sea in the distance.You'll always find more than you imagined possible here...Returning to the bestselling series that sold a million copies, *Meet Me at the C...

Book Two in the LOST SOULS series of a young man with special powers to connect the living with the afterlife. For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR____The much-anticipated follow-up novel to Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living with the dead.

'Two Women Living Together is a wonderfully calming and cosy read. I always adore stories of women who choose to live beyond the confines of cultural expectation—and this book might just be my new favourite!' - Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction, and a former judge for the 2025 Women's Prize.‘Everything about this compelling, curious, beautiful story of two women moving in together, in midlife, is ...