Summer Reads

"A dark and riveting page-turner with an intelligent twist." —Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw ManSOMEONE HAD TO MAKE HIM PAY. SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE HER DOWN.Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon...

1947. 1967. 1987.When Violet and Albert first meet, they are always twenty.Three decades.Over the years, Violet and Albert's lives collide again and again: beneath Oxford's spires, on the rolling hills around Abergavenny, in stately homes and in feminist...

‘Fresh, flirty and gloriously escapist.’ -- Alex Brown, #1 bestselling author of A Postcard from Paris   Will a tropical escape lead to a perfect romance? It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime for Samantha: the launch of her travel blog, her best...

A “boisterous and high-spirited debut” (Kirkus starred review)“that enthralls the reader through their every twist and turn” (Publishers Weekly starred review), named one of the Most Anticipated Books for Brittle Paper, The Millions, and The Rumpus,...

"I’ll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it ever time"—Lucy FoleyEveryone has secrets, don’t they?One last clientA week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France—it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. She’s a smart, stunning...

Wanting You to Want Me is a collection of anonymous stories from the world of London strip clubs, documented by the women themselves. The stories range from behind-the-scenes conversations in the changing rooms, to dance-floor and private room etiquette,...

An extraordinary debut short fiction collection populated by unforgettable characters, Cat Brushing opens windows into older women's lives in a range of deliciously unexpected, fierce and vivid narratives. I was told of an older woman who was asked...

Noah spends his nights drifting between North London pubs and music venues, and his days sleeping off hangovers in the stock room of the floundering record shop where he works. He tries not to think about what will happen when his NHS-allocated therapy...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'If you only read one book this year, Guilty Women won't disappoint. It will leave you breathless'  -- The Express 'Guilty Women's stamped it's razor sharp, blood-stained stiletto heel firmly in the lead to be 2022's...

'Glorious, hilarious and life affirming . . . I absolutely loved it' - EMMA HUGHES, author of No Such Thing As PerfectWould you entrust your life choices to someone hell-bent on avoiding theirs?Natasha has everything under control, at least that's what...

The real Molly-Mae, in her own wordsMolly-Mae is no stranger to the limelight, having found fame on TV and online. But behind the polished exterior there is a young girl with a unique story. It's the Molly not everyone gets to see.In Becoming...

If you could go back and follow the road not taken ... would you?For thirty-somethings Lindy, Ailbhe and Roe, the move to new, hyper-polished, luxury housing development Monteray Valley feels like slow death by Netflix, neighbourhood Whatsapp groups and...

A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II...

A chance to reconnect.A chance to get revenge . . .Emily Toller has tried to forget her time at university and the events that led to her suddenly leaving under a cloud. She has done everything she can to forget the shame and the trauma - and the people...

A suspenseful, contemporary Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of the French Riviera.The most dazzling summer casts the darkest shadows.Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a...

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic, now with a note by author Thomas Harris revealing his inspiration for Hannibal Lecter.An ingenious, masterfully written novel, The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to make a meaningful difference in the world around them.                                                      “One...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead...

A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense.Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half...

Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home.The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.All the test subjects went violently insane...