Summer Reads

How do other countries create “smarter” kids? What is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World “gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to make our own culture look...

A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories.Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their...

The powerful rediscovered masterpiece of Kyiv during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all.'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows what is going to...

With an Introduction by Alex Dolby. Translation by W.H.G. Kingston. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided...

A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow' MAYA ANGELOUThe...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human...

The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in Penguin Classics. In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human...

A FEBRUARY 2023 INDIE NEXT PICK LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE  A short, lyrical debut novel about love, loss, work, time, and the unquenchable desire for connection with others—for fans of Jenny Offill, Mieko Kawakami, David Szalay and...

What a glorious jacket! It's befitting of the Buddhist Zen master, poet and scholar who is one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world. Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet has at its core the simplest of Buddhist solutions: We take care of...

ONE OF TELEGRAPH'S BEST NOVELS OF 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2022A SPELLBINDING DEBUT NOVEL SET BETWEEN WW2 AND CONTEMPORARY MALAYSIAMary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.”—Orlando Sentinel The gripping true story of the duel to end all duels in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his...

This debut novel will take you by surprise. It will sneak up on you when you’re not looking. Walker’s ability to portray the humor in the grimmest situations is disarming. But keep diving in to find the business of life and the human condition. A Venn...

Pop star Ai Hoshino's twin babies Aqua and Ruby-two kids with surprising "pasts"-are basking in all the attention from their idol mother. But that bliss doesn't last long, as tragedy strikes...and alters the twins' ambitions and livelihoods!Number of...

(Available after 3-20 days)I don't deserve her forgiveness, but I can't stop fighting for it.  Bay ran from me four years ago and I can't blame her. I broke her heart and my own with one split second mistake. Now we're thrown together for four weeks...

(Available after 3-20 days)Leo F*cking Hernandez. North Boston University's star running back, notorious bachelor, and number one on my people I would murder if I could get away with it list. And now?He's my new roommate.   I used to think I loved him...

From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men (inspiration for the Netflix Original series Sex/Life) comes a dark mafia romance steeped in Irish folklore. I can't remember anymore if my grandfather's eyes were blue or green,...

The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert MilderSet in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an...

(Available after 3-20 days) He's a librarian by day and the ideal fake boyfriend by night. When it comes to women, I know what they want. And all day long, I give it to them. Dark, broody, and sexy? You got it. Need to laugh? I'm your guy. Desperate for...

Two pioneers in health - Dr Deepak Chopra and Prof Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer's - share a bold new understanding of the brain and a prescriptive plan for how we can use it to achieve physical, mental...

After ten SUPA awesome books, Dog Man is finally back and shows no signs of slowing down! This laugh-out-loud epic Dog Man adventure may be the best one yet, but you need to read it to find out!Piggy is back, and his newest plot is his most diabolical...