Summer Reads

This heartrending YA tale set in a Swaziland boarding school and featuring an unlikely friendship between girls of different castes won the LA Times Book Prize and is now available in paperback.Adele Joubert loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah...

Fabulously spiky and energetic, Basu's hilarious tale of a woman determined to discover the authentic Indian experience is a wickedly satirical take on cultural tourism filled with romance and killer one-liners. Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman...

We first meet Zwazo Delalun, or Zo, during his childhood, in the 1990s, in a fishing village on the western tip of Haiti. An orphan, he travels the island in his youth, finding work wherever he can. One morning, he meets Anaya, a nursing student. Their...

(Available on August 27, 2021)  Amidst the political unrest of 70s Mexico, an unassuming secretary and a hired goon join forces to track down a disappeared art student in Moreno-Garcia’s ingeniously constructed, evocative noir. From the New York...

From USA Today bestselling author Jen Frederick comes a heart-wrenching yet hopeful romance that shows that the price of belonging is often steeper than expected.As a Korean adoptee, Hara Wilson doesn't need anyone telling her she looks different from...

The Tiger Mom's Tale is a heartfelt, delightful read. Lyn Liao Butler's story of Taiwanese and American identity had me turning pages and laughing (and drooling over the delicious descriptions of food).--Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown, winner...

A tender-hearted, ebullient adventure across Afghanistan in the wake of the US invasion, 99 Nights in Logar sets a quartet of young friends on a quixotic quest to find a missing dog.  Shortlisted for the DSC Prize 2019 Laconic, sharp and playful, 99...

'Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful.' --  HARLAN COBEN 'Sleek, cunning and breakneck.' --  MEGAN ABBOTT 'Thriller writing at its absolute best.' --  JEFFREY DEAVER 'Top-tier.' -- New York Times From the top ten bestselling author of The Expats: Kate...

THE TWENTIETH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIESThe one with the mysterious reverend . . . At a local wedding, Mma Ramotswe reunites with a friend whose daughter has inexplicably turned away from her. Elsewhere, several ladies in...

Beautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the most extraordinary first novel from a mesmerising new talent.One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. In the...

The unparalleled master of the historical epic returns with a sweeping evocation of China from the Opium Wars of nineteenth century to the global powerhouse of the present day.   The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East...

Lyrical and enlightening, Lopez's seminal work on the sublime beauty and extreme danger of the Arctic conjures a landscape like no other in incisive, revelatory prose. A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week The author of Horizon's classic work explores the...

A bold recasting of Pride and Prejudice in Pakistani dress, Unmarriageable works because its lightness of touch and deft characterisation remain true to the spirit of the original. A delicious satire on arranged marriage and a window into a vibrant,...

THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLINGOUTLANDER SERIES - NEW A MAJOR TV SERIESHow far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny? Across seas, across time - across the grave itself. It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. Claire...

THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIESNow a major TV series1771: the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other.Between...

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling All Souls trilogy, soon to be a major...

The bewitching sequel to the bestselling A Discovery of Witches blends romance and fantasy into an irresistible literary brew as Diana and Matthew seek sanctuary in Elizabethan London. Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the...

Three years after her novel Me Before You left its five-million-plus readers inconsolably weeping over its closing pages, Jojo Moyes released this sequel in response to requests on social media for insights into what happened to Lou Clarke. In the...

A crack splits the sky above Gotham City... a tear in reality itself. This rift pulls the Dark Knight into a bizarre and unfamiliar world, with no memory of who he is or where he came from...Batman has been drawn into Fortnite! ** This hardcover...

***THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***Charlie Jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killer. Maybe.Behind the wheel is Josh Baxter, a stranger Charlie met by the college ride share board, who also has a good reason for leaving university in...