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Jack Forder has been in a rut lately. Things aren’t great with her increasingly distant boyfriend, and her job at the gallery has done little to further her artistic aspirations. Then, one night, after she reluctantly joins her boyfriend at a party, she finds inspiration from an unexpected source. Inspiration quickly leads to a new goal: to get strong, and to gain new confidence. Which was a task, because confidence was one thing she severely lacks.Jack’s journey leads her straight...

Lexy Brennan leads a good, simple life, and has never been anyone’s fool. When a stunningly handsome, obnoxiously arrogant, exceedingly rich stranger sets his sights on her, she’s cautiously intrigued.But then his exploits lead to an encounter with the police, into a throng of waiting reporters… and she learns he is actually Duke Nicolai, distantly royal, and the tabloids have pegged her as his new girlfriend! What begins as a simple misunderstanding quickly snowballs into a plot h...

Lizzie Reese has a problem: she needs a job to pay the bills, and her passion for the cello hasn’t prepared her for many options. When she finds herself at the doorstep of the wealthy Alexander Griffin’s high-class art gallery, she’s more than willing to do what it takes to please the stern, demanding man in exchange for work.When his domineering nature prompts her to rebel, a spark ignites between them. Lizzie doesn’t quite understand his power over her... but she finds herself he...

Rose Walters is a city girl running away from a failed relationship. Joel DeLange is a cowboy who's spent the last five years running from his tragic past and the inheritence his father left him on his deathbed.So it only made sense that they would run headlong into each other... deep in the heart of Texas.

A story about love, art, and the 2008 financial crisis. Towards the end of the 18th century, twenty-four traders would meet under a tree to buy and sell shares. The tree was located at 68 Wall Street, so called because of a wall that used to mark the northern limits of the colony of New Amsterdam, on the Island of Manhattan.On May 17, 1792, the twenty-four brokers signed, beneath the tree, the Buttonwood Agreement. This marked the foundation of the New York Stock Exchange, and the birth of...

Set in Southeast England, friendship and love among a group of men whose lives have been intertwined since World War II. When one dies, the survivors are brought together and are forced to take stock of the paths their lives have taken, by choice and by accident, since the war. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize.

Set in Southeast England, friendship and love among a group of men whose lives have been intertwined since World War II. When one dies, the survivors are brought together and are forced to take stock of the paths their lives have taken, by choice and by accident, since the war. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize.

Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers;...

**Brought to you by Penguin.A gorgeous novel of music, secrets and self-discovery from the brilliant young author of Braised Pork**For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. With her marriage, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child.Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived...

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED PROPHET SONG.'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange FlowersIn the spring of 1945, farm-worker Matthew Peoples runs into a burning byre and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle are destroyed in the blaze.Following the disaster, the bull-headed and proudly self-sufficient Barna...

Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open WaterThe one thing that can solve Stephen's problems is dancing. Dancing at Church, with his parents and brother, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise; he might have lost his fai...

Brought to you by Penguin.AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2023WINNER OF THE 2021 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZENik has lots of questions about his late father but knows better than to ask his mother, Avani. It's their unspoken rule.But when his grandfather dies, Nik has the opportunity to learn about the man he never met. Armed with a key and new knowledge about his parents' past, Nik sets out to u...