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'Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most' Emma Gannon, author of Olive'So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling DaysMeet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free thera...

Readers love Interesting Facts About Space...'Loved it. For as long as Emily Austin is writing books I'm reading them''Emily Austin, I'm going to politely ask you to stop writing characters I relate to so viscerally''I will never get over this book. Ever''This book made me feel incredibly seen''So full of heart and kindness and honesty''To all the Enids out there, this is for us, and I hope it brings you comfort like it did me'

Sometimes people just...click.'A highly charged, passionate and tender love story. Wonderful'Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time'Castillo is a literary firecracker... If you liked Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, you'll like this'Pandora Sykes, Books and BitsThirty-something Girlie Delmundo works a ...

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and caretakers drift in and out. All the women who have ever lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.As day turns to night, four hundred years' worth of memories unspool, and th...

Success is an acquired taste . . .From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Olivie Blake, this is a powerful and darkly fun novel about ambition, lust and eating your fill – as wealthy mums and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend.Being accepted into The House would be Nina Kaur’s first step into a bright and shining future. The most exclusive sorority on campus, its members are beautiful, high...

'Huang's Immaculate Conception is unlike anything else I've read this year... a heartfelt love letter to art, and a superb work of fiction' New York TimesAn achingly tender and twisted portrait of companionship that captures the tenuous line between love and possession.Mathilde is a dizzyingly talented, tortured artist and Enka, struggling to create art that feels original, is immediately drawn to her. The two strike up ...

‘One for those with strong stomachs and big hearts’ – The TimesA scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband.Kesta’s husband, Tim, was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. The country is now in a period of respite, the government seemingly having rounded up and disposed of all the infected.But Kesta has a secret . . .Tim may hav...

'One of the best horror books of the year.' Darcy Coates'A stunning gothic and an exceptional debut.' Rachel HarrisonA young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumoured witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines.Carigara, 1986. Josephine del Rosario is the town pariah, left destitute after her parents were assassinated, and destined to m...

**The International BestsellerWinner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year AwardShortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' – Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller**'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' – The IndependentBelfast: three girls are living for the weekend, their friendship the only thing that matters.Harley: hurtling from club to club in...

Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.

'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN'Stunning' DAZED'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK‘Hauntingly good’ iNEWS’A must read’ GLAMOUR'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEERFrom the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating qu...

**FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A masterwork of the form . . . mesmerizing.' New York Times'A fun, sexy, dangerous, dark thriller about corruption.' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah'A dazzling literary talent.'** EsquireAkwaeke Emezi's exhilarating new novel follows five people over the course of a weekend which will brutally upend all of their lives.As Kalu drops Aima at the airport, it marks ...