Longlisted for the Somerset (CIBA) Award for Contemporary Literature · Finalist, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2025Are you the Jack Mathews I met on Santa Catalina Island twenty-one years ago?One message. Sent on a whim during lockdown, when the world stopped and there was nothing left to hide behind.Elizabeth Lambert has everything she was supposed to want — an old-money husband, a daughter, a life that looks right from the outside. What she d...

After three years, her missing husband has returned—but can she ever trust him again?A bereavement, I called it. A death without a body, a coffin, a note, or a reason. But what do I call it now, now that you've come back?When Kate marries Marc, a wild, sexy Frenchman she meets on holiday, everyone is stunned. But Marc proves to be an adoring and attentive husband—until the morning he goes out and doesn't come back.After three years searching f...

Ever wondered what it's like to date an actor who hits the big time? When Stella Tyler's boyfriend shoots from penniless waiter to Hollywood star, her life nosedives from city lawyer to lovesick dogwalker.It's all over the internet that Stella's boyfriend, Joseph West, has just proposed to his co-star but Stella is the last to find out. On the heels of heartbreak, Stella rejects the offer of a partnership at her London law firm and vows to spend her time rescuing an...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “a hilarious tale [with] hijinks worthy of classic I Love Lucy episodes . . . too good to pass up” (USA Today).“Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your LoverBecky ...

An "engaging . . . entertaining journey," Landing explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance love in the digital age ( The New York Times Book Review).Síle is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who's traveled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to Ireland, Ontario, the tiny town in which she was born and raised. When Jude meets Síle on her first transatlantic plane trip, th...

Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December . . .“I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”—Jodi PicoultWritten with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the w...

Former stepbrothers find Christmas romance under the tree.Daniel Diaz likes his life neat and orderly even if it means being lonely. Maybe he's a workaholic (definitely), but he loves his HR career. What he doesn't care for is getting a bizarre call from the ER telling him an injured grad student with a concussion put him down as his emergency contact.Daniel doesn't even recognize the name at first. Cole Smith? Cole told the hospital to call him? Their pare...

Curl up with three festive short stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas for BeginnersAll I Want for Christmas is YouChristmas is around the corner but Maria just can't get into the spirit - will she ever find Mr Right? But when a secret admirer starts leaving her poems and notes, it looks as though her luck is about to change . . .Cold TurkeyTara is in love with a man ...

"A gripping psychological thriller."—Daily Telegraph"A fascinating and addicting read."—Suspense MagazineThe Sunday Girl delivers a dramatic thriller for any woman who's ever been involved with a bad, bad man and who knows how it feels to be broken, broken-hearted, and bent on revenge.Taylor Bishop is hurt, angry, and wants to destroy Angus Hollingsworth in the way he destroyed her. She's ...

In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author's peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters' streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives. Dark and provocative, the...

One minute I was looking for my retainer in the bathroom. The next, I was staring at a boy who looked just like me. And I don't mean my reflection! What's going on here?

'I absolutely loved this book!' Maxine MorreyWhen Charley finds herself suddenly single on Christmas Day it feels like her world has fallen apart.Forced to move back in with her parents, she embarks on a journey of re-invention. When she meets Ed, who is on honeymoon alone after being jilted at the altar by a bride he's never met, it looks like her life may be taking a turn for the better.Fate, however, has other ideas, and she and Ed are...