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'Razor-sharp and deliciously wry' COCO MELLORS
'Funny, tender, thrillingly dark' HEATHER DARWENT
'Exhilarating, beguiling, beautiful' OLIVIA PETTER
An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will do anything to infiltrate the rarefied world of New York's fashion elite.
‘You'll be instantly dazzled’ STYLIST
‘Breathtaking … I adored it’ ELIF SHAFAK
‘Masterful’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Another future classic’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty.
1804, Isle of Ray, Essex. Lysander Rose has spent his life searching for the truth about his mother, abducted when he was just a baby. When the men who took her return for him, Lysander is forced to flee – leaving behind everything he knows. But in his escape, he uncovers a clue that draws him into the orbit of a secretive organisation known only as the Circle. As Lysander follows the trail from the Essex coast to the shadowed streets of Edinburgh, he finds himself entangled in a world of murder, blackmail and political intrigue. At its centre: an exiled king, and a conspiracy that could shape the fate of nations. And stranger still, every step of his journey seems to have already been written – played out in the pages of a lurid penny-blood chapbook. But if the story has already been told, can Lysander change how it ends?
This novel takes us from a lonely, windswept island in the Hebrides to a luxurious villa in the Mediterranean. For eighteen-year-old Katie Kelsey this meant the prospect of a life of luxury. But what about her young charge Jamie, and handsome family lawyer Adam?
A standalone from the world of the global bestselling fantasy phenomenon THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE.
In the cult classic novel ‘Bunny’, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences. When ‘We Love You, Bunny’ opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story.
‘Black September’ tells the story of the blossoming of a twelve-year-old boy, Gigio Bellandi, during a summer in Versilia, Tuscany, in 1972: his discovery of music, reading, restlessness, desire, love – and then the unthinkable, lightning-fast interruption of it all. It reconstructs with vivid precision the images, smells, colours, and sounds that animated that lost season, and the irreversible event that overturns it. But this is also a novel about the evocative power of words and the seductive power of language, as it tells the story of an explosion of a pure and surprising talent, also destined to last forever: that of literature and translation.
I am fourteen years old and I’m called Mackenzie Bly. It’s a good name, isn’t it? Unfortunately, I just made it up, I’m actually called Philip Stephens which, if there was ever a competition for the world’s most boring name, would be a clear winner. ‘We didn’t want to call you something that would mean you’d get teased’ is what Mum B says. But given that I’m the size of a vending machine, hate sport, live with my Mums, one of whom teaches biology at my school, and don’t live with my Dad who plays air guitar, has ginger plaits down to his waist and writes random notes on Rizlas instead of using a diary, they might as well have called me ‘Fattus Butticus’ for all the difference it would have made. Oh, and my best friend Sy has just moved to New Zealand. Life is terrible.
A gripping study of the past mistakes and future ambitions, music, love and thwarted dreams, from the bestselling author of Station Eleven
Jack is just twelve years old when he rushes down the hill after his mother’s car on his bike, desperate to reach her before she reaches the lake. What happens next cannot be undone. Jack’s life changes just at the moment he is entering those dizzying years when he will transition from boy to man; when nothing makes sense at the best of times. Yet Jack is not alone. Enveloped as he is by his extended family – his ferociously loving Nana; Grandad, given to sudden bursts of rage; his earthy uncles Haulie and Theo who want to show him what it means to be a man, and the irascible JJ who resents him deeply. Then there is beautiful aunt Rose, whose mere presence ignites every atom in his changing body. But how can a boy with so many questions, in a family with so many secrets, understand the person he is becoming? Without his mother to ground him on the earth, will he spin off into the stars?
Rome, 1599. Beatrice yearns to escape the clutches of her abusive father and determined to find a way back to Rome, enlists the help of Olimpio, the castle’s keeper. Soon the love that grows between them will transform Beatrice’s fortunes, for better and for worse. History has sold her short. She is no doe-eyed victim of her father’s brutality, nor the cunning murderer who plotted her father’s demise. No, this Beatrice – a woman pregnant by her lover, incarcerated in a remote castle by her father, and brim-full of white-hot rage – is both innocent and guilty, saint and sinner. And she will stand tall in the face of the violence of men, no matter the cost.
A speculative literary debut for fans of Mohsin Hamid and Nadifa Mohamed. Twenty-three-year-old South Londoner Sirad Ali’s life is changed for ever when she finds herself transported inexplicably to an alternate reality in present-day Mogadishu during her morning commute . . .
Katie hasn’t spoken to her mother in a year when her boyfriend James introduces her to his cat Silver. A small, vulnerable, incorrigible ball of need, Silver’s acceptance of Katie cracks open something inside of her: an unravelling begins. Fresh out of college and far from home, Katie is desperate to skirt the demands of adult life – especially because, as she promised her mother, the plan was to never grow up in the first place. Luckily, she has James: self-assured, generous, and seemingly happy to make decisions for them both. When they go on holiday to James’s family’s seaside home, Katie’s attachment to Silver grows. Silver doesn’t mind that Katie can’t seem to get a job, hold her own at dinner parties, or make amends with her mother. Silver, who gets to misbehave spectacularly, be childish, be gross, and still get fed, seems to have the life Katie increasingly longs for.
‘Our job is to travel. A different job from arrival.’ As the ship Discovery makes its slow way through space towards New Earth, two children, Hsing and Luis, born into the ship’s society, come of age together. But just as their destinies seem to be unfolding as decreed, a revelation about Discovery’s true course throws new light on to their shared future.
Camille loves Alain, but Alain loves his cat, whom he has had from childhood, more than he could love any woman.
Haunted by memories of a doomed love affair, and living in something of a strange hiatus in Tokyo, the narrator finds himself dreaming of the days he used to wile away playing pinball in J’s Bar. Until one day he embarks on a quest: to find the exact model of pinball machine he played years earlier – the infamous three-flipper Spaceship.