AN ADOPTION REUNION- based on a true story -Meet Polly, her Italian husband Joe and his identical twin brother Cicero. Polly is adopted and wants to find her heritage, but the twins' passion for Italy dominates her life. She gets more style than Gucci, more opera than Verdi and more pasta than she can eat.If this isn't bad enough, Polly's friends insist that she belongs where she is loved – safe and secure in her wealthy Sydney suburb.What should Polly do?

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting, beautifully illustrated short story set in the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.**'A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They're the same thing really.'Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees-and she is only ever happy when she is walkin...

National Bestseller • A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize • Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award • One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the YearA New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Guardia...

Longlisted for the 2016 Giller PrizeThe stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters. Characters undergo genetic testing, garden, overeat, starve themselves, consider suicide, travel, have their hair cut, fall pregnant, all while simultaneously driving each other towards moments where they sometimes unwillingly - glimpse the meaning and shape of their lives, and who they might become.

A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival**—with a new introduction by James Wood.**Richard Tull, a failed and disillusioned novelist, seethes with envy as he watches his longtime friend Gwyn Barry, a talentless, populist charlatan, rise to literary superstardom. Barry is adored by readers, celebrated by critics, and constantly in the public eye, while Tull sinks deeper into middle-a...

The Light of Evening is a reissued edition of the novel by award-winning author Edna O'Brien.In Edna O'Brien's twentieth work of fiction, an elderly widow on her deathbed in rural Ireland tells the story of her life—a story of love, family, estrangement, and motherhood."O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." — Newsweek

**Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025**Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now living alone in the Adelaide Hills. In The Chinese Postman he reflects on his life with what he calls ‘the mannered and meditative inaction of age’, offering up memories and anxieties, obsessions and opinions, his thoughts on solitude, writing, friendship and time. He ranges widely, with curiosi...

A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner.“Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How It All Began, Penelope Lively has captivated readers with her singular blend of wisdom, elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story coll...

An Edgar® Award Winning SeriesMyrtle Hardcastle—twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective—is back on the case, solving a string of bizarre murders in her hometown of Swinburne and picking up right where she left off in Premeditated Myrtle and How to Get Away with Myrtle.When the proprietor of Leighton’s Mercantile is found dead on the morning his annual Christmas shop display is...

Boston, 1984. Even in a world without cell phones, messages come through loud and clear if one is listening. When thirty-something Nora Forrest travels to Manhattan to see a Broadway play starring her idol, an aging Irish actor named Hugh Sheenan, she doesn’t know whether what happens in the theater that night should be credited to witchcraft, extrasensory perception, synchronicity, or simple accident—and she knows that many people would tell her nothing had happened at all.Told thr...

DISCOVER A BRILLIANT NEW SAGA WRITER.CHARMING, AUTHENTIC TALES OF LOVES AND LIVES IN THE BLACK COUNTRY…Will Millie get what her heart desires?1920s Dudley. Millie is the proud owner of a daring Egyptian bob haircut and a job at the new opera house.So when Millie meets Augustus Johnson, a rich patron of the opera house, she dares to hope for more than a just a passing smile.Will dreams come true for Millie? Or will the past forever shape her future?

**Kirkus Review“Arch comedy . . . Dave Eggers channels Anthony Bourdain.”An outrageously funny and original debut set in the fast-paced and treacherous world of a restaurant kitchen**Fresh out of university with big dreams, our narrator is determined to escape his past and lead the literary life in London. But soon he is two months behind on rent and forced to take a menial job in the kitchen of The Swan, a gastro-pub with haute cuisine aspirations.M...