Adult & Contemporary Fiction

He's beautiful, brooding, and bossy…and she just agreed to three fake dates with him. Stefan Dalca is public enemy number one in this small town, a prickly outsider with a murky past that's hard to overlook. All he wants is to race his horses and...

From Justin Torres, author of We the Animals, comes National Book Award-winner Blackouts, a gorgeous novel exploring love, loss and the stories we leave behind. With inventive and transformative form and prose that only deepens the resonance of the...

A teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war. "A school story for grownups that is also about our inability or refusal to protect children from history" SARAH MOSS "Of all Szabo's novels, Abigail deserves the widest readership...

Ask her, boy. Ask her what she begged the stars for and what lives now. Ask her what she ripped from the very heavens. And then ask her if she cares. The old blood runs through her veins. Nismera and her legions rule the realms as Samkiel's power fills...

The second in the soon-to-be-a-movie Lightlark saga, this dark fantasy is only getting better. The drama from Lightlarkramps up as Isla Crown tries to hold it all together. Get hooked before (or after) it hits the big screen! The seductive and...

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018. A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most...

The steamy second instalment in Huang's Kings of Sin series delivers another irresistible billionaire romance where opposites attract. She's his opposite in every way... and the greatest temptation he's ever known. Reserved, controlled, and proper to...

How do you find yourself after you lose the one you loved the most?Grieving the loss of her best friend, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again, in this heartwarming,...

From the author of the viral TikTok phenomenon, The Pumpkin Spice Cafe, comes a brand new spicy romance! ‘Unputdownable, I devoured [it] within days… Dream Harbor is not short of a vibrant and hilarious cast of characters to help breathe...

In this sequel to the international bestseller Howl’s Moving Castle, bookish Charmain finds herself smack in the middle of magical court intrigues . . . and dealing with the dashing Wizard Howl. When Charmain Baker agreed to look after her...

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more).“A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you...

A swoon-worthy rom-com debut that adds a little diplomacy to the mix! Every love story needs a little conflict and Casey McQuiston puts two heads of state at odds with each other. Of course, all this nation-building shows us the proper way to fall in...

Following a liberal Zionist who starts to investigate the collective disappearance of his Palestinian friend and neighbours, Ibtisam Azem's masterful, seductively bold novel mines the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question with sensitivity...

"Mesmerizing and unputdownable - a virtuoso translation of what must surely be one of the best Thai novels to make it into English." - Lawrence Osborne, author of Hunters in the Dark and Only to Sleep. "At its core, this novel from Veeraporn Nitiprapha...

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers.They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother’s wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer—destined to be...

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery,...

After Lucie's (lack of a) love life is exposed to the world by her own daughter, she's thrust into a string of bad dates, nosey internet trolls and an annoyingly handsome radio cohost. The author of the Lovelight Farms series is back with a page-turning,...

Witty, clever and biting, Good Material is an exploration of friendship, love and the many forms a relationship can take. Great for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Emily Henry.From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know...

An Irish town up against a radical right-wing party, Prophet Song is a haunting and harrowingly modern tale that resonates with so much of the present sociopolitical landscape. Written in gorgeous lyrical prose with tangible stakes that feel all-too...