From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town.El Paso has been called the “Ellis Island” of America’s...

Discover how flowers revolutionised our world. While dinosaurs and mammals steal the spotlight, it was the rise of flowering plants that laid the groundwork for all life. This enthralling narrative puts the humble flower back where it belongs: at the...

At a time of personal crisis, travel writer and ‘dark sky’ advocate Megan Eaves-Egenes turned to the stars for solace. But those same stars, which have guided humankind since the very earliest cultures, are vanishing. As nocturnal cities...

Today’s computer scientists play the same role as the oracles of the ancient world and the astrologers of the Middle Ages. Modern predictions not only advise on war, crop output, and marriages, but algorithms and statisticians also now determine...

*A TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER**FOYLES NON-FICTION APRIL BOOK OF THE MONTH*A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025AN AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025‘Fascinating and powerfully...

A captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family while simultaneously planning and executing the most...

A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric Literature * Forbes * LitHub * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * New York Times * People * Vulture An exuberant, brutally hilarious novel about a young woman’s insatiable quest to carve...

'Heart-wrenching . . . A book to read in a sitting' LUCY CALDWELL'A gut-punch of a novel' EMMA DONOGHUE'Cathartic, bold and ultimately hopeful' JESSIE BURTON'Masterfully written . . . Envelops you' JODIE MATTHEWS'Powerful' CATHY...

‘A heady novel about New York in the 1980s that dives headlong into murky territory with a frenetic, cinematic energy . . . a gallery of widescreen vignettes of 1980s Manhattan. Read it slowly and savour its memoirish richness’ Sunday...

'Audacious and propulsive, a story surges with emotion - this is a dazzling novel' - Colin Walsh, author of KalaExploring the fine line between dishonesty and reinvention, Saoirse is an evocative and compelling story of a woman perpetually...

Curtis Sittenfeld meets Katherine Heiny in this irresistible debut about mothers and daughters, the things we carry with us, and those we leave behind Los Angeles, 2001. Sonia is raising her daughter, Mila, alone in the sunny but somnolent suburbs of LA...

'It’s a rare pleasure to read this novel' - Sarah Moss'A rich, elegant and textured novel . . . brilliant' - Seán Hewitt'Truly Outstanding' - Melissa HarrisonAn exquisite slow-burn forbidden love story, laced with...

A woman restoring a historic cottage on the English coast uncovers a startling connection to the past in a haunting and bittersweet novel about art, loss, and love by the author of Closest Kept. Elise, an artist grieving the loss of her son and a...

Secrets, lies and love as the DDR collapses.   It is 1989, and in a small Baltic city in East Germany, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, three young people from vastly different backgrounds become friends. Armando is a factory worker from...

Award-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse. Retelling the mythical love story between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in the...

James Joyce, Viriginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and a multitude of other artistic titans are encountered and ventriloquized in this bitingly funny (and mostly fictitious) memoir by a nearly forgotten literary fantasist.Frederic Prokosch was a fantasist...

A new translation of the final part of Dante's Divine Comedy by a poet and psychoanalyst praised for his previous translation of Dante's Purgatorio.Paradiso is the most stylistically virtuosic book of the Divine Comedy—yet...

The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their...

Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just happens to be an...

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything...