‘Funny – of course it’s funny – but also smart, insightful and sincere about heartbreak' David Nicholls, author of One Day'A novel to be devoured, adored, underlined ... if only more books made you laugh as much as this' The i'The author of Everything I Know About Love nails the zeitgeist with a witty, relatable and acutely insightful page-turner about the trials and tribulations of the lovelorn' Daily Express---Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings.A...
The breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - available for pre-order now *****This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London...
THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN‘The rightful king of crime’ i News'Deeply moving... some of his best writing yet' TelegraphShocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartach...
Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way. Written in short, bite-sized entries, you can turn straight to the section y...
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & GLOBAL TIK TOK SENSATION, EMILY HENRY'One of my favourite authors' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us'Emily knows how to craft a love story like the all-time greats' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, Daisy Jones and The Six-----Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story.That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his childhood bestie, Petra.Which is how Daphne ends up rooming with her total opposite and the only person...
WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023‘If you haven’t read it, you’re missing out’ Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY 'One of the best debuts I've read in recent years...please rush out and buy it' ELIZABETH DAY In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue t...
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. 'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp.Mitchell – a funny man and skilled historian – tells stories that are interesting and fun. Here is Horrible Histories for grownups’ GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES 'Just fantastic. Delightfully contrary and hilariously cantankerous.Very, very funny’ JESSE ARMSTRONG, CREATOR OF SU...
'Hilarious and wise… Another knockout’ Taylor Jenkins Reid'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover‘A must-read book of the year’ Lauren Asher Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything?Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying...
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVELLONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems. At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise. With his band, making music speaking not just to their hardships, but their joys.Grooving with his best friend, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. His youth, shame and sacrif...
You do not mess with Jack Reacher. He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity and solitude. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to contact him, he knows this has to be serious. You do not mess with the Special Investigators. In the past the elite team always watched each other's backs. Now one of them has shown up dead in the California desert and six more are missing. Reacher's old buddies are in big trouble,...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and d...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these coll...
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts.She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. In short, an icon. Truman Capote's most famous work, Breakf...
The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperbackIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world.Now in this long-awaited sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life's meaning...
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea.Rich with empathy and a searing clarity, Lucy by the Sea evokes the fragility and uncertainty of the recent past, as well as ...
'A writer at the peak of her powers' The TelegraphTruth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.It is 1873.Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and ...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & MAJOR BBC ONE TV SERIES'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug' Evening Standard'Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation' Elizabeth DayAward-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squ...
DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS'This book is breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. You will cry ugly tears' 5***** READER REVIEW'So moving that it left me sobbing but at the same time filled my heart. Beautiful, tragic, heartbreakingly wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW'It is without a doubt the biggest ugly cry I have ever had from a book' 5***** READER REVIEW. Two hearts.One love story. An ending you will never forget...Run...
DISCOVER THE DEEPLY ROMANTIC AND UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT WILL GRIP YOU UNTIL THE VERY LAST PAGE'Wren and Crew stole my heart and neither of them will give it back. I cannot explain how much I adore this story . .. Full of angst, drama and steam' 5* READER REVIEW'Addictive, angsty and unforgettable . .. their chemistry was explosive' 5* READER REVIEW'Wren and Crew are perfection and the chemistry they have is sizzling! I was sweating it out with nerves at Chapter 4...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?'*****Life moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships. Combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations, Haemin Sunim's simple messages speak directly to the anxieties that have become par...
THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most absorbing book I read all year.' Roxane Gay ____________________________This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this countr...
One holiday. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...'Her best yet' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us'Magical, delightful, and utterly one of a kind' Ali Hazelwood, The Love HypothesisNora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers.And he's Nora's work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she'...
