Adult & Contemporary Fiction

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:NPR • GLAMOUR • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • LIT HUB • THRILLIST.King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women...

This science fiction novel is an immersive tale of dark fantasy, combining the occult with a nautical adventure. The story opens with soldiers discovering a recently formed volcanic island. They bring back a mesmerising green artefact, which eventually...

Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. A manuscript is found. Filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of...

A fantasy world among ruled by celestial beings and a dazzling romance between star-crossed lovers meant to be enemies? We're in. Great for fans of Carissa Broadbent and Kerri Maniscalco.A runaway TikTok sensation, Heavenly Bodies is the first book in a...

From the libraries of Princeton to alien planets this is a heist story like no other. For lovers of alien tech, found family and saving the world.Save one world. Doom her own. Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she...

"A perfect tale of 'what if.' Frey broke my heart into a million pieces then tenderly put it back together with her deeply moving message that sometimes the truest way we can love someone is by letting them go." — Kate Robb, author of This Spells...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, The Mother of All Christmases is a gorgeous read full of love, life, laughter, a few tears - and crackers!‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made...

Two friends struggle to balance their personal and professional lives in this charming novel from acclaimed author Maeve Binchy.They met in cooking school and became fast friends with a common dream. Now Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather hope to take Dublin...

Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, isn't it time they left home?Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn't work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher and doesn't earn enough for a place of her...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy tells the story of a generation and a city through the history of a Dublin restaurant in this “warm-hearted” (Boston Herald) enthralling novel.Ella Brady wants to film a documentary about...

Three clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspiciously...

“[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices.” —Parade.“[A] nimble mystery.” —The New York Times Book Review.“Gripping.” —O, The Oprah Magazine.Almost twenty-five...

As the excitement ramps up for December's Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi, journey back to the final moments of Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens and the destruction of Starkiller Base to learn the fate of one of the film's fan-favorite...

Two people living in a world connected by an immense and mysterious library must fight for those they love in the second book in a new trilogy from the international bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn.The Library spans worlds...

This multigenerational novel spanning 100 years chronicles change — changing land, people, and the world around them. A searing novel of language, tradition and loss told in verse, Aednan is grounded in the lives and land of the Sámi, the...

What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy? In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari’s village fell prey to the...

“The people in The Third Realm are as vivid and convincing as Knausgaard’s autobiographical persona . . . Enthralling . . . you can’t stop reading.” —Lev Grossman, The Atlantic.“One of the most genuinely...

THE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japan—for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto!Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest...

Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her...

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness—for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata.At an age...