When we first met Paula Spencer - in The Woman Who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together.Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne.Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the j...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer.**At sixty-six, Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor – is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its gh...

Brought to you by Penguin.The bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time weaves ancient fables into fresh, unexpected forms and forges new unforgettable legends.The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love – and of the monstrosities of patriarchy.The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth.Actaeon, ch...

‘Beautiful … Incredibly moving’ ANN PATCHETT‘Sun-saturated prose’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘A rich tale you can’t put down’ iNEWS‘Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ POLLY SAMSONA family secret. A new love. The chance to start again.Margaret's childhood is one of Saturday morning pancakes and sunlit swimming pools behind white picket fences. Then, on...

She may not have it all figured out yet. But this year she's ✨manifesting✨'For every fan of Bridget Jones, Marian Keyes and Sophie Kinsella, this is the book. I absolutely loved it. Hilarious, chaotic and so full of heart, I couldn't put it down’ RACHEL GREENLAW I manifest… The perfect man (Guy Carmichael) falling in love with me.I am letting go of… My rat-infested flat (to make way for my dr...

Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2016A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy DiesWhat links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died.**As a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. In the weeks and months before Max’s death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape.A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story, but the past ref...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, read by Kimberly Farr.Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son’s ex-girlfriend...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina, read by Kate Lock.**From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things I've read in years. Couldn't put it down. This book is freedom' Chris Kraus, author of ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full**To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just succ...

Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book PrizeA Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction BookThe captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the women’s liberation movement.What was it like to start a feminist bookshop, in an...

Brought to you by Penguin.What does it mean to love and be loved?It is the 1980s and Finn and Keely are growing up in the North East of England.Keely is a fighter. Even in the face of loss she strives to seek connection, but finds that she’s not always searching in the right places.Finn is quiet, sensitive, distant. He spends much of his time alone, yet deep down he wants to discover the thrill of r...