Summer Reads

Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world'Like the...

Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written, now a major Netflix film adaptationOne by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the...

The hugely popular journalist and author of Everything I Know About Love shares her wisdom, insight and empathy in these collected highlights from her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style.   Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been...

(Available after 3-20 days)The heart-wrenching story of The Radium Girls meets the enchanting world of Howl’s Moving Castle in a story of timeless love and deadly consequences.It was a day for finding things...On the morning Twain, a lonely boy with a...

From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet—a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven,...

A prank call lands teens in hot water when they dial a number on Fear Street in this deliciously creepy young adult thriller from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine.It begins as an innocent prank: Deena Martinson and her best friend, Jade Smith, make sexy...

The New York Times bestselling novel. This is the riveting first-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be one of the most notorious magicians his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a...

City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from...

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte...

'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob DylanSal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States...

The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a...

A Most Anticipated Novel by PopSugar * Crime Reads * Goodreads *A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author...

*Selected for Simon Mayo’s BBC Radio 2 Book Club*'Quirky and charming' -- GuardianFor readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love story that will move readers old and youngSecretly steaming open...

Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to business executives on how to flourish under pressure and overcome challenges. "Rotella's philosophy is astonishingly simple...his success rate....

(Available after 3-20 days)Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him...

LAST GHOST STANDING, FIRST LOVE BLOSSOMSGhosts are converging on the cursed Mount Tonglu for a massive battle royale, the sole survivor of which may become a Ghost King, a being of unimaginable power. Xie Lian is sent to secretly infiltrate and try to...

In DADDY LONG-LEGS a trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends,...

Here it is, the one, the only, the iconic annual from the experts at Guinness. Who or what will be the ultra-achievers highlighted in this new edition? 3... 2... 1... We have lift off on another fully revised and updated Guinness World Records annual...

Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library...

Everyone is talking about boundaries but what are they? Bestselling author Lysa Terkeurst is here with the tools you'll need to love others and yourself well in healthy relationships and even walk away when necessary. She even provides helpful...