Adult & Contemporary Fiction

A devastating portrait of a narcissistic Edinburgh school mistress and the coterie of impressionable girls that she takes under her wing, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie cloaks a deliciously scathing attack on the abuse of power in exquisitely crafted and...

(Available ater June 30th, 2023)Now an Indie Next pick! A Most Anticipated Pick for BookRiot | FanFi Addict | The Nerd Daily | io9 | We Are Bookish | BuzzfeedBook of the Year for Kirkus Reviews, Book of the Year for Gizmodo“A delicious tangle of romance,...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER.From New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first illustrated volume of an astonishing new dark...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgettable novel “about people—about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men” (Jojo Moyes).Have you...

Rom-com and Emily Henry are two of our favorite pairings. Book lovers, meeting people on vacation, beach reads—these are all key components (and titles) of Emily Henry’s previous three books. Put them all together, and we not only have our...

From the author of the Magnolia Parks universe and the Never series comes a fresh family drama with a heavy dose of romance and a twist of mystery. "I can't remember the last time I couldn't get a handle on myself and my emotions, but the lid is slipping...

The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's late-night binge . . ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY.'What would you say if I shaved off my mustache?" asks The Moustache's hero of his wife. Once removed, his wife and friends not only fail to recognize him, but deny the existence of the former mustache altogether. A...

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by...

Nuanced, intelligent and tackling a range of important issues from reproductive rights to body dysmorphia, this beautifully written chronicle of the rise and fall of a relationship heralds the emergence of a striking new literary voice. Sam is 28,...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from NPR, BookRiot and BookPage.Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Books of 2023.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a...

Three years. Twelve months. A timeless grief. After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savannah Litchfield has been living half a life. Now seventeen—the age Poppy died—the pain of losing her is worse than ever. When Savannah's...

Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days.After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial...

*Part one of a duet.No good ever comes from a red-head in a stolen dress with her worldly possessions at her feet. I should have known she was trouble when smoke and sin followed her into my bar and she challenged me to a game. She may have won my watch,...

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times...

An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller.The Hunger Games meets vampires in this heart-wrenching, epic fantasy romance of dark magic, and bloodthirsty intrigue from bestselling author Carissa Broadbent.For humans and vampires, the rules of...

Re-release of the mass market edition of the first novel in the best selling Horus Heresy seriesUnder the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor the Imperium of Man has stretched out across the galaxy. On the eve of victory, the Emperor leaves...

She’s his sweetest desire... and his darkest secret.The task was simple. Sneak into Potomac’s most heavily guarded manor. Steal back my pendant. Slip out. Problem number one? America’s most unattainable bachelor caught me. Problem...

A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction…literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics.Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The...

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them–a theme...