It’s best friend vs. new guy and someone’s feelings got bruised when Emma left her small-town world for the Big Apple. Now she’s back with her new boyfriend in tow — things are about to get interesting in this cozy holiday...

Something magical is brewing in this small town and it’s not just hot cocoa. When JT comes home from Christmas, she isn’t expecting more than awkward family gatherings. Little does she know that the holidays are the perfect time for love and...

A tale about identity, coming-of-age, friendship and love, The Three Lives of Cate Kay is a dazzling, big-hearted journey.REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | NATIONAL BESTSELLER.Named a Best Book of 2025 by Time, NPR, Goodreads, and others...

In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But in order to start her...

'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a...

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd...

Is it wrong to love whatever is beautiful and rich? I love it precisely because it is beautiful, because it is rich — because, I think, it brings joy to my heart. . .On Christmas day, in the flurry of a snow storm, the Huberts discover a ragged...

'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.'Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon—Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest achievements, comparable...

His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics. Roubaud is consumed by a...

The quintessential noir mystery, delivered with razor–sharp prose that leaves you craving more — the mood, the poetry, the suspense. Meet, and at once say goodbye to Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective, Philip Marlowe. ONE...

Comic energy + telling details (some that shock) + and dialogue that pops. A story collection by George Saunders always surprises (in voice, or plot, or jokes) even as it shows us where we've gone completely off the trail.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...

High Hill Manor has hidden a secret for decades. Now it will finally be revealed.Chloe Carter is the new girl. After leaving her previous school in a whirl of vicious rumours, she desperately needs a new start.But things don’t go as Chloe had hoped...

Gillian McAllister is back with an electrifying thriller chronicling a series of disturbing events. After her daughter is kidnapped, Simone will do anything to get her back home in this harrowing story of courage and motherhood. "An unputdownable...

What kind of trouble lies ahead? How can we successfully transition towards a sustainable future? Drawing on a remarkably broad range of insights from complex systems and the functioning of the brain to the history of civilizations and the workings of...

One of the most well-known and cherished novels of the 19th century, Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ tells the amazing story of a fictional Jewish aristocrat named Judah of the House of Hur. Judah’s misfortunes begin with him...

FROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING, WOMEN’S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUND'An absolute masterpiece. Utterly absorbing, genuinely unsettling' JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things'Atmospheric, psychologically...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026****SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You’ll gulp this novel down in one...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'Spellbinding' THE TIMES 'An exquisite, languorous novel' OBSERVER 'Heartstoppingly vivid' OISÍN MCKENNA A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer...

'What a joy it is to read'Michael Magee, author of Close to Home'I couldn't put this book down'Sheena Patel, author of I'm A Fan'Powerful, moving, compelling, utterly enthralling'Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13'A prodigiously talented...

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten tales of cosmic horror. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of 21st Century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the...