Clothes define people. A person’s attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Indeed, clothing has the power to define people and their generation. Recognizing...

Perfect marriages. Perfect neighbours. Perfect lies. Everyone is guarding a secret in this picture-perfect town. When Karolina Hartwell is arrested driving her son home, the headlines don't tell the full story. It seems nothing will stand in the way of...

Science fiction with a gothic horror twist, this is a creepy, transfixing tale of isolation at the end of the world.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024: The New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, TIME,...

‘Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.’ The lives of Humphrey and James Boyce, a seasoned antique dealer and his good-looking nephew, are changed for ever when the elegant Leonora Eyre glides into their bustling Bond Street...

INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT. When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil to Strangers, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written...

INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES.Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political...

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS.Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good-looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her staid husband Rodney, a civil servant, is...

INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK. 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' -- Richard Osman. 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' -- Anne Tyler. Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads...

This classic novel holds the mirror up to human nature and the battle between the sexes as it explores the love lives of a group of anthropologists.Catherine Oliphant writes for women's magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom...

Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself – especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn’t prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin,...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New...

The funny, wise and brilliant new novel from the star of QI and the author of Between the Stops - an instant Sunday Times bestseller.'Warm, witty and wise... the perfect balm for these turbulent times' -- GRAHAM NORTON.After much searching, the happily...

Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start...

Perfect reading for fans of The Road, Winton's blistering dystopian novel has profound things to say about humanity and survival and centres on a father-son duo who find refuge at an abandoned mine site.    An edge-of-your-seat...

As dramatized on BBC Radio 4.Winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of life and love, full of boisterous energy, joy and heartbreak. His visceral evocation of the Australian landscape is...

A vast, sweeping tale across humanity, time and history from Elif Shafak. This story of love, grief and hope is great for fans of Richard Powers and Ruth Ozeki.From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale...

Now a major motion picture, starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh. Breath, by renowned Australian author Tim Winton, is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death. On the wild, lonely coast of Western...

Soon to be a major film—starring Kelly Macdonald and Damien Lewis!From the bestselling author of The Midnight Library—an “irresistible...full of clever turns, darkly hilarious spins...Even if you're suffering from vampire fatigue...The...

A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown.Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish — to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last...

A spellbinding locked-room mystery about a glamping trip gone horribly wrong when a powerful storm leaves the participants stranded and forced to confront long-held secrets and a shocking disappearance.Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race...