Adult & Contemporary Fiction

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,...

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...

*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...

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade.A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.Arthur...

A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison.Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place...

How many loves do you get in a lifetime? And are Magnolia and BJ each other's one and only? It’s been nearly a year since everything happened between Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine on the steps of the Mandarin Oriental, and since then it...

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to...

The Thursday Murder Club is back! The ever-inquisitive residents of the Coopers Chase Retirement Community must be more inquisitive than ever as there’s another murder to solve. And this time, it’s an old friend who’s been killed...

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE MAGNOLIA PARKS UNIVERSE FROM BOOKTOK ROMANCE SENSATION JESSA HASTINGS“It’s the great undoing of my heart as I know it.”Daisy Haites thought she’d left everything about her old life in the past: the...

Any romance involving the perfect student and the bad boy jock is sure to be a good read, but The Deal is truly great. Kennedy gives the meet-cute trope a cheeky twist by having timid Hannah ego-check the cocky Garrett. New York...

NOW A SERIES ON APPLE TV+ THAT STEPHEN KING CALLS “MYSTERIOUS AND TERRIFICALLY SUSPENSEFUL.... EXCELLENT SCIENCE FICTION WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERS." In this second volume in the New York Times best-selling Silo series, Hugh Howey...

All twenty-year-old Daisy Haites has ever wanted is a normal life, but as the heiress to London’s most notorious criminal empire, it’s just not in the cards for her.Raised by her older brother, Julian, after their parents were...