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The bestselling razor-sharp debut novel by the author of Everything I Know About LoveHe said 'I love you'. And then he disappeared.Things that are going right for Nina Dean-<ol reversed><li>She's found her dream job.</li><li>She finally has her own home.</li><li>She's met Max, a beguiling romantic hero who has swept her off her feet.</li></ol> Things that are going wrong for Nina Dean-<ol reversed><li>She has the neighbour from hell.</li><li>Her friendships are fracturing, and so is her parents' marriage.</li><li>She hasn't seen or heard from Max for weeks.</li></ol>Just as everything ought to be falling into place, it's all falling apart instead. Nina's beloved dad's memory is slipping away from him, and her mum is caught in a baffling mid-life glow-up. Her friends are becoming strangers and her exes are moving on. Everywhere she turns, she's reminded of time passing.The last thing she needs is another ghost.

Every relationship has one beginning.This one has two endings.Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy.And he can't work out why she stopped.Now he is. . .1. Without a home2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't lookingSet adrift on the sea of heartbreak at a time when everything he thought he knew about women, and flat-sharing, and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him.Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story.

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The VegetarianIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish - the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to one another. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity - their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to expression.Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.Translated by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon.

ONE OF 2024'S MOST ANTICIPATED DEBUTSSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD'Lovable and joyful' NEW YORK TIMES<p>A BROTHER. A SISTER. A LOT OF EMOTION IN ONE APARTMENT.</p><p>This is the story of Greta and Valdin- twenty-something brother and sister with a near-unpronounceable surname, a sprawling Maori-Russian-Catalonian family and questionable taste in partners.</p><p>While Valdin can't seem to get over his ex-boyfriend who fled the country, Greta has an unrequited crush on fellow English tutor Holly, who uses her for admin support. But all hope is not lost for these lovelorn siblings. Through the misadventures and mess of modern adulthood, at least they still have each other - unless drama gets in the way.</p><p>From bad dates to family feuds and embarrassing karaoke nights, this acclaimed bestseller from New Zealand is a fresh, heartwarming and hilarious story about the trials and tribulations of love in its many forms.</p>

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**The international bestseller****A Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023****Chosen as a book of the year by the independent.co.uk**'Her prose is a thing of wonder' Telegraph'Michaels's writing continues to stand head and shoulders above most other fiction' OBSERVER'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity' MARGARET ATWOOD'Michaels is exceptionally open to beauty' GUARDIAN The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces- a soaring and luminous story of chance and change_________________________________________________1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures- ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. Held is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers- affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion.'I am blown away by the scale, beauty, weave and thinking of this book ... It dances with words, time and ideas in a way that seems to reinvent everything I know about the novel' RACHEL JOYCE

From critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Helen Phillips comes an urgent, compelling and deeply human novel that asks: how do we raise our children for a future that is unknown, that we can't see ourselves?

'I absolutely LOVED this book! It’s that perfect blend of funny and emotional … A genuinely entertaining and heartwarming read!' – READER REVIEW‘A darkly funny riot’ – The Times, Book of the MonthWould you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back?Jolene certainly doesn’t.Riddled with anxiety, depressed, and hating her coworkers, she prefers to keep them at a distance. The less she knows about their lives, the better.But when a catastrophic IT mishap grants her access to all of their emails and private messages, Jolene is horrified. The last thing she wants is to read about their dying desk plants, marital troubles, or petty office drama.That is, until looming job cuts make her realize the power this newfound knowledge gives her.As she delves deeper into the private lives of her colleagues, Jolene uncovers far more than she ever expected—and the carefully constructed walls around her own life begin to crumble.For readers who loved The Office US and Really Good, Actually, meet the awkward, hilarious heroine you’re about to fall in love with.Praise for this laugh-out-loud, heartwarming read:'I haven’t been a reader for a long time, but I found this in the airport bookshop before a trip, and it had me glued! Would thoroughly recommend—it had me chuckling away.' – READER REVIEW ?????'This book caught me off guard! It made me laugh, it made me cry … truly incredible and the best book I’ve read this year.' – READER REVIEW ?????'Ever since I saw this book on Bookstagram, I’ve been obsessed. Five months later, I finally got my hands on a proof copy, and OMG, I loved it immensely!!' – READER REVIEW ?????'Please make this into a TV series!' – READER REVIEW ?????

** PRE-ORDER THE SEQUEL I WANT TO DIE BUT I STILL WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI NOW **THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' RedPSYCHIATRIST- So how can I help you? ME- I don't know, I'm what's the word depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her what to call it? depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like? Recording her conversations with her psychiatrist over 12 weeks, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki comes in three different colours; the colour you receive will be chosen at random

A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom. Winner of the 2021 Akutagawa Prize and 500,000 copies sold!

An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Keeping 13, the second book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh.<p></p> <p></p> The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh's extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book hangover.<p></p> <p></p> The reader reaction to The Boys of Tommen says it all!<p></p><p></p> 'The chemistry, the love, everything about this book was so good it gave me all the feels . . . Beautiful book, beautiful words. Chloe Walsh you're my home'<p></p> <p></p>'Chloe Walsh has surpassed herself again, from the get-go you will be hooked, you will be sad, angry, elated, hysterical and you will absolutely love it!'<p></p> <p></p>'This was absolutely EVERYTHING. I find it difficult to even put into words just how much this book made me laugh, cry and swoon'<p></p> <p></p>'There aren't enough stars for this book. It has everything, I laughed, I cried, I fumed and I despaired . . . This is a rare book, one that evokes every emotion' <p></p><p></p> .........................<p></p> <p></p> Falling in love was the easy part. What comes next is the test . . . <p></p> <p></p>Following a devastating injury that has left him sidelined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny Kavanagh is struggling to hold onto his dreams. Lost, insecure, and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unravelling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes, who haunts his every waking hour. <p></p> <p></p>Keeping secrets has never been a problem for Shannon Lynch. The life she was born into demands nothing less. She knows that demons and evil men don't just exist in fairytales. They exist in her world, too. Traumatized beyond repair after her return from Dublin, and desperate to protect her little brothers, Shannon finds herself falling into the same old cover-up, barely keeping her head above water, as her future unravels before her eyes. Beaten and broken, her walls are up and her trust is shaken. <p></p> <p></p>Only one boy has the ability to climb those walls. The boy who owns her heart. But secrets are about to be exposed and lives could be changed forever - can Johnny and Shannon's love survive?<p></p> .........................<p></p> <p></p> Want more of Johnny, Shannon and the rest of The Boys of Tommen? Read the rest of the series so far:<p></p> Binding 13<p></p> Keeping 13<p></p> Saving 6<p></p> Redeeming 6

**MAJOR TV SERIES COMING SOON TO DISNEY+**<p></p><p></p>Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.<p></p><p></p>'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK TIMES<p></p><p></p>'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN<p></p><p></p>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ<p></p><p></p>--<p></p><p></p>In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.<p></p><p></p>When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again.<p></p><p></p>Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.<p></p><p></p>And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun.<p></p><p></p>This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time.<p></p><p></p>'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE<p></p><p></p>--<p></p><p></p>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR<p></p><p></p>'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI<p></p><p></p>'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES<p></p><p></p>'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN<p></p><p></p>'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS<p></p><p></p>'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR<p></p><p></p>'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O

Life Hacks For A Little Alien'Wise and playful and tender and beautiful' Bobby Palmer'So brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading' Rebecca WaitPerfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Remarkably Bright Creatures, this is a charming, witty and moving novel about what it feels like to grow up neurodivergent.'Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes'From her first words to her first day at school, Little Alien can't help but get things wrong. She doesn't understand the world the way others seem to, and the world doesn't seem to understand her either. Her anxious mum and meticulous dad, while well-intentioned, are of little help.But when Little Alien sees a documentary about the Voynich Manuscript - a mediaeval codex written in an unknown language and script - she begins to suspect that there are other people who feel just like her. Convinced that translating this manuscript will offer the answers she needs, she sets out on a journey that will show her a delicious taste of freedom.So begins this charming, witty, and profoundly moving novel about the power of language, the wonder of libraries - and how to find a path that fits, when you yourself do not.'Unique and thoroughly engaging. It is insightful and funny and gently poignant. By telling the story of one little alien, Alice Franklin has told the story of many' Pip Williams, author of The Dictionary of Lost Words'Totally addictive and brilliant . . . Life Hacks for A Little Alien is sure to find its place as one of the best loved works of fiction' Aimee Walsh, author of Exile'Immersive, moving, and fizzing with humour, I couldn't put this book down and I still can't let the character go' Paula Lichtarowicz, author of The Snow Hare'A rare energy lights this wonderful book: a unique recipe of humour, heart, frankness, and an unstoppable fascination with language' Han Smith, author of Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking'Witty, bold, heart-warming and entirely delicious. I devoured it' Jyoti Patel, author of The Things that we Lost