Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Anna Deerin moves to a remote Cotswold cottage to become a gardener, trying to strip away everything she's spent all her life as a woman striving for, craving the anonymity and privacy her new off-grid life provides. But when she clears the last...

Shortlisted for The Diverse Book Awards 2021. ARE YOU READY TO START THIS CONVERSATION? Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family, and he has a place at Oxford...

“Read this in about two sittings—absolutely loved it. Dazzlingly clever and beautifully twisty. Don’t miss it!!”—Emilia Hart, author of Weyward. The gripping follow up to the “smart, stylish, and savage”...

Shortlisted for the Weatherglass Novella Prize 2024The Secret History meets Stranger ThingsAli Smith says:“Some teenage girls have – yes – performed a spell and hexed the moon. Now the moon, smooth-skinned, street-smart, dryly witty,...

In Fiasco, Kentucky, there is one rule: never fall for a Foxx brother. It isn’t just small-town lore or neighborhood gossip—I’ve witnessed what happens when the men in my family get too comfortable and fall. And maybe that’s...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. A young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants instead – their occupation with memory and...

"London itself is as powerful a presence here as the three gay men whose lives it absorbs." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "Vivid and visceral, London Triptych cuts deep to reveal the hidden layers of a secret history." -- Jake Arnott,...

A breathtaking award-winning novel about an extraordinary, all-consuming love affair. One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man--a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is...

Fernando, a writer, returns to Medellin after an absence of thirty years. He meets Alexis, sixteen years old, a male prostitute and a hitman - a Medellin child - with whom he falls in love. But their tender love is doomed. Alexis needs no reason to kill:...

A heart-stopping small-town romance, the next in the Sparrow Falls series, from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Cowles.   I should've known Lincoln Pierce was trouble from the moment I held my knife to his throat. I've been running...

A heart-stopping small-town romance, the next in the Sparrow Falls series, from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Cowles. Since the moment our lives fell apart, the only thing that mattered was making a good life for my son. A life away...

A heart-stopping small-town romance, the second in the Sparrow Falls series, from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Cowles.   Trust doesn't come easily when you've been running for as long as I have, which is why moving in with a man...

A journey of the self through solitude. Quiet and contemplative, written with deceptively simple and straightforward prose, Stone Yard Devotional is a tender meditation on hope and humanity from an acclaimed author.Shortlisted for the 2024...

In chasing devils, all roads lead to Hell. 1967: A brutal murder occurs at the Weston State Hospital in West Virginia. To amateur exorcist, Merle Blatty, this shocking story rings of the occult. Fueled by a desire to avenge the deaths of his wife and...

This psychological thriller follows a family to their Appalachian farmhouse, where they encounter an unimaginable horror. In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hills of West Virginia. Along with...

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place...

When a reality show about former child stars overcoming addiction culminates in murder, their therapist must take a closer look into their lives—and her own, from USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry.   Dr. Laurel Harlow...

From the award-winning Korean author Gu Byeong-mo and International Booker-nominated translator Chi-Young Kim, comes a thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood. What are you willing to sacrifice for a 'better'...

The award-winning, shocking Korean bestseller, a unique tale where magic comes at a price. 'A story of choice and consequence. Unique and unorthodox' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'I didn't want to stop reading, I still don't want the story to be over' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Don't we...

In this million-copy international bestseller from Korea, the owner of a corner store takes in an unhoused man who does a good deed, a kind soul whose presence will transform the whole neighborhood—a heartwarming tale of community and redemption...