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‘Spellbinding’ ELIF SHAFAK
‘Ingenious’ THE TIMES, Book of the Year
‘Sparkling’OBSERVER
‘A triumph’ PHILIP PULLMAN
‘As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead’ INDEPENDENT
‘Meticulously researched and evoking the beauty of the Venice lagoon’ PHILIPPA GREGORY
‘A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game’ SPECTATOR
Lisette lives in East Berlin but brings her new-born baby to a hospital in West Berlin. Under doctor’s orders, she goes home to rest, leaving the baby in the care of the hospital. But overnight the border between East and West closes, slicing the city – and the world – in two. With a city in chaos and armed guards ordered to shoot anyone who tries to cross, her situation is desperate. Lisette’s teenage daughter, Elly, has always struggled to understand the distance between herself and her mother. Both live for music but while Elly hears notes surrounding every person she meets, for her mother – once a talented pianist – the world has gone silent. Perhaps Elly can do something to bridge the gap between them. What begins as the flicker of an idea turns into a daring plan to escape East Berlin, find her baby brother, and bring him home.
From the bestselling author of The Lamplighters, The Sunshine Man is the story of a terrible crime that shakes a community and a revenge plotted over decades. It is a tangled mystery about love, grief and how our childhood experiences play out in the rest of our lives.
‘I COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN’ SHON FAYE
‘A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME’ OWEN JONES
‘I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY’ COCO MELLORS
On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village. Beholden to the expectations of home and family, his burgeoning desire – an ache for autonomy, tenderness and sex – threatens to unravel his shy exterior. Then he meets Luke. Unkempt and handsome, charismatic and impulsive, he has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle on a nearby farm. Luke comes with a reputation for danger, yet underneath his bravado lie anxieties and hopes of his own. As the seasons pass, and the pair form an ever-changing bond, James falls into a terrifying first love that will transform his life forever.
In a remote castle perched atop a windswept island, a long-awaited royal heir is born. In accordance with ancient custom, a blessing ceremony takes place to bestow the princess with magical gifts – along with a terrible curse. Except this is not the love story you may think you know. There is no enchanted sleep for the princess, and no handsome prince to save the day. Just three women, who together concoct a desperate plan of misdirect that changes the course of all their lives. But dark magic cannot be tricked, and as the end of the curse edges closer, Violanna, Meredyth and Sel each has a choice to make. They can wait to find out if the worst will happen, or they can turn to face the coming storm.
A blend of ghost stories, myths, and song, ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’ is a haunting, deeply felt multi-generational story that illuminates the transitional nature of women’s lives and the feeling of loss they experience, as they give up one home and family to become part of another. When she marries a man from Nepal, Meena must leave behind her family and home in India and forge a new identity in a strange place. This story follows her, the women who surround her, and the daughter she eventually raises, as they carefully navigate the uncertain tides of their diasporic lives.
An Observer Best Debut Novelist of 2025
‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today’ SALLY ROONEY
‘Lively, bighearted ? an utter joy to read’ COLIN BARRETT
‘Truly gorgeous ? a writer of immense talent’ MICHAEL MAGEE
‘Funny and heartbreaking’ FERDIA LENNON
Bursting with epic adventure, romance and humour on the high seas. Someone is making waves ?
The highly anticipated sequel to The Cat Who Saved Books, this is an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving girl and the power of books to make a difference in the world.
Pen and Alice, childhood best friends from Toronto, are in their first year at the University of Edinburgh. Each has come to the city for her own reasons. Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s – now a famous writer known as Lord Lennox – lives. When she is invited to spend the weekend at Lennox’s centuries-old estate with his enveloping, fascinating family, Pen begins to unravel her parents’ secret, just as she’s falling in love for the first time. Meanwhile Alice, an aspiring actor, sees university as her route to the West End and beyond. The star of this year’s theatre production, she’s making the most of the power she wields as an object of desire – until an affair with her tutor begins to slip from her control.
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