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‘May well be the most perfectly constructed, moving, and beautiful novel I've ever read’ ANN PATCHETT
‘One of the most important writers alive’ TASH AW
‘A wise and wonderful book’ ANNE ENRIGHT
Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize winner Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise.
Jalissa and her dad aren’t close, but when he invites her to Jamaica, his homeland, for the first time, she says yes. She’s running from heartbreak and a loss of her own; he’s running out of time. As they travel through sun-drenched towns and navigate tangled family roots, old wounds open and long-held silences begin to break. They’re both trying to outrun something – but along the way, they cross paths with people whose stories shift their own, helping them face the past, reckon with the present and reimagine what comes next.
A deliciously twisty Christmas story of two unlikely hotel guests, from Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Moss
The perfect novel for anyone who has ever dreamt of a fresh start…
A daughter uncovers the secrets of her mother's past in this profound and darkly funny novel
Petra doesn’t like books anymore – not since her career as a literary agent imploded after a social media typo went viral. Now she is stuck for six months, babysitting a little bookshop by the sea, surrounded by books that just remind her of her failure. Ross McCloud’s award-winning debut novel blew the minds of the world’s literati, but that was five years ago. Now Ross and his keenly awaited second work have vanished. Something has gone wrong – horribly wrong – and Ross doesn’t want to talk about it. Marooned in Capelthorne’s Bookshop miles from London, Petra can’t stop thinking about all the ways she has let people down. Then she discovers Ross lurking, incognito, in the second-hand books section. Misery loves company it seems, and a kinship tentatively forms.
From the global bestselling author of Station Eleven comes a story of the broken boundaries between parallel worlds and a single party that links two very different versions of reality.
Dandelion ‘Dani’ McGuire loves her quiet mountain life in Harvest Moon, Colorado even if she and her sisters are part of the town’s magical lore. As the only veterinarian for miles, Dani spends her time caring for the animals she loves with an instinct and touch many consider supernatural. While hiking in the woods, Dani finds a wayward dog that belongs to Bryce O’Dell, an out-of-town journalist. He is there to explore the story of the McGuire girls and their witchy heritage and Dani wants nothing to do with him. But she can’t deny the chemistry and it is hard to avoid someone in this tiny town. Could she trust him? Or will he expose her and her sisters’ secrets to the world?
Every house has a story. This one might change her future. All Zoe Copeland has ever wanted is somewhere to call home. Years in foster care has seen her move from place to place, and now as she faces eviction, Zoe’s determined not to let eleven-year-old daughter grow up the same way. So when a too-good-to-be-true cottage comes up for sale, Zoe takes the leap and moves them to a tiny seaside town she’s never even heard of. The catch? It’s a treasure house packed floor-to-ceiling with clutter. While Florence is falling in love with the various knick-knacks, Zoe becomes convinced she’s made a huge mistake, especially when her grumpy neighbour Jake says exactly that – even as he keeps showing up to help. As they start clearing the house, Zoe slowly pieces together the story behind its former owner, Marly. And the deeper she digs, the more it starts to feel uncomfortably close to home.
A man heads into the snow to hunt down the bear that has been taking stock from farms in the valley. A father tries to make something go right for the son he no longer lives with. A partner is called to help when a cow’s labour goes horribly wrong. A fierce storm threatens to bring down a tree on powerlines over a family’s home. Fear, vulnerability, tension and resolve course through these arresting and indelible stories from one of the finest British writers at work today.
Molly and George Warburton are used to living life their own way. Now, in the ferocious heat of Sin City, the couple are facing up to their failures and final years. They announce that their grandson Luke – college dropout, aspiring writer, electronic dance music aficionado – will inherit their millions. It is sudden news that leaves their daughter Gina hell-bent on revenge. Yet Luke’s good fortune will not last. When a strange newcomer to the neighbourhood insinuates himself into the Warburtons’ world, it is the beginning of a chain of chilling events that could split the family permanently and put all their lives at risk.
Waking up in a Las Vegas hotel room with her brother’s best friend, and no memory of how she got there, isn’t exactly rule-follower Ophelia ‘Lee’ Turner-Jones’ finest moment. She’s done her best to forget it ever happened – until a year later, when a surprise email arrives from a wedding chapel. Now Lee needs to track down her lifelong crush – and tell him that they’re married. Adrenaline-seeking Nico has never stayed in one place for long, so Lee is stunned to find him settled in a small town full of loveable eccentrics in Maine. And that’s not the only surprise – it turns out Nico is in desperate need of a wife. Lee could be the answer to all his problems – if he can keep his hands off her. Pretending to be happily married to the man she’s secretly in love with while the whole town throws themselves into the charade, might end in disaster. Still, Lee can’t help but wonder if this fake marriage could finally be the start of something r
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 . . .
Set in a beautifully imagined fictional version of the West Country, the novel inhabits a twentieth century under siege from older and stranger forces. An epic work of terrific force and lyrical intensity, interweaving the ancient with the modern, the novel probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of Glastonbury and its association with the legend of the Grail. At the heart of the book is the vision of one man, who wishes to make Glastonbury again the great pilgrimage centre it once was. But what really lies in this powerful landscape and why did so many men and women once come to it seeking redemption?
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons. Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, re-emerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?