Summer Reads

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. A fashionable, mixed-race boutique manager who lives and works in Trinidad's capital city, Port of Spain, she is feisty, fiercely independent and morally ambiguous. Her secrets show only in her bruised skin and the...

Tender, profound and masterfully nuanced, Alzayat’s debut collection charts the emotional reality of the female migrant experience, exploring identities caught in the crossfire between two cultures. Shortlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD, THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE and THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD'A new classic' --  SARA COLLINS, author of THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON'Impassioned. Lyrical and affecting' --  GUARDIANBrixton 1981...

Anappara’s tremendously accomplished debut is a singular take on the modern crime novel. Redolent of the bazaars and backstreets of the sub-continent, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line follows the exploits of three juvenile sleuths on the trail of a child...

As Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, drawings, paintings and messages proliferated in windows and gardens across the country: signs of the eternal human desire to communicate, even as face-to-face contact became impossible. When...

Man Hating Psycho is the caustic new collection of stories from visionary writer Iphgenia Baal. Interrogating the disconnect between our public identities and real-life selves, Baal exposes the inherent duplicity of online communication. Text messages...

Revolving around the lunar aspirations of a boy in post-Civil War Lebanon, Bakhti's charming picaresque comedy brings a vibrant community of eccentrics vividly to life. Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2021 Between Beirut And...

Marrying laconic Irish wit to faded Latin glamour, this tale of careworn gangsters, lost love and male friendship is rich, evocative fiction at its very finest.  Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA dark, evocative and unforgettable fantasy debut steeped in Hungarian history and Jewish mythology, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden.'Rooted in history and myth, The Wolf and the Woodsman is a stunning debut...

"[One of the] buzziest new books arriving this season... [a] rollercoaster of terror, marked by whip-fast twists and turns."--New York Times "Pulled me in from the first page... put this one high on your summer list."--Stephen King When a small-town...

Moving between 1980s small town Ireland and New York, Home Stretch is a searing story of responsibility, blame and a young man’s quest for oblivion, from the author of A Keeper. Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the...

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and unforgettable events in his life in this unmissable essay collection that echoes his droll,...

The first volume in legendary master and New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's epic heroic fantasy series, The Firemane Saga - an electrifying tale of two young men whose choices will determine a world's destiny. The world of Garn once...

Full of dangerous magic, monstrous forces and political intrigue, the second instalment of the Firemane Saga is a story of love and loyalty tested to the extreme in the shadow of a dark assassination plot. Book 2 in Raymond E. Feist's bestselling...

An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse on a young man--and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him--in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming debut...

Compelling, intricate and formidably crafted, The Betrayals opens the doors to an ancient, exclusive institution, hidden away high up on the mountains and dedicated to the study of a strange, clandestine game.  If everything in your life was based on...

(Available on August 10, 2021) The "exhilarating conclusion to Salvatore's Generations trilogy" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) featuring one of the most beloved characters in all of fantasy-Drizzt Do'Urden-a rollicking tale of life, death, intrigue,...

Opening a dazzling new fantasy epic from the author of the Witcher stories, Tower of Foolssees doctor-magician Reynevan fight injustice in an old Europe ravaged by religious wars and hostility to new ideas. A brand-new historical fantasy from a...

"I absolutely adore this book...love story begins slow-like a delicious lowcountry boil-but heats up to the perfect ending." --Kathleen Y'Barbo, bestselling author of The Black Midnight A heartwarming Avon debut of love, forgiveness, and new beginnings...

L. M. Montgomery's classic tale, Anne of Green Gables, gets a romantic, charming, and hilarious modern adaptation, set in New York City. After an idyllic girlhood in Avonlea, Long Island, Anne has packed up her trunk, said goodbye to her foster parents,...