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IT MAY BE QUIET IN THE SUBURBS, BUT IT'S FAR FROM PEACEFUL. . . 'A fantastic frothy read about suburbia with all Tom Allen's great style' JACQUELIN...

THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s 'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH Y...

'THE CRUSTACEAN isn't a novel, it's an obsession . . . I would kill and die for this book' ALISSA NUTTING, author of TAMPA 'MY DARK VANESSA meets E...

Longlisted for the 2026 PEN / Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Winner of the 2025 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. A New York Times Book of the Ye...

A DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 'MUST READ' FOR 2026 'Reads like arcane poetry' TLS 'A smart, razor-sharp takedown of the machismo of Big Oil' CAOILINN HUGH...

LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2026 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF 2025 'Astonishing' LUCY ROSE 'Biting and rich' MOLLY AITKEN ...

AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025 A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A woman finds herself navigating a co-dependent relationship with a gh...

'Very funny' Guardian 'Inkwell black and surprisingly tender' ADAM KAY 'Outrageous' MARINA HYDE 'A blockbusting explosion of toxic masculinity' Spe...

'Wonderfully authentic, electrifying' Clare Chambers Two couples. Twenty years. One unforgettable story. Dylan, Stevie and Ben have been inseparabl...

'In this remarkable novel, Mahesh Rao gives voice to the forgotten and the ignored, and my lord, what a voice it is. Half Light is steeped to a sub...

When you’re fourteen, there is no afterwards. It all begins when Tanja meets Eg. Handsome, grey-eyed, he is a friend of her parents and a teller of...

'Brilliant' DAILY MAIL 'Warm, joyful, smart and nuanced' CURTIS SITTENFELD, author of Romantic Comedy 'This novel is a gift' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN, ...

Two men, decades apart, are ensnared in the deadly search for a fabled treasure in the conclusion to Lavie Tidhar's epic and audacious Maror Trilog...

A Rags to Riches novel. A book for the summer, a story for a lifetime. Pre-order book 3 in the trilogy, The Winter Bride, now. Nuneaton, 1914 For A...

'[A] whimsical tale of transformation... magic is essential, and Okri can spin it.' Guardian 'Full of rich hallucinatory imagery and enjoyably vibr...

Hurricane season can be murder... St. Medard's Bay, Alabama is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town, the R...

From the bestselling author of SIX TUDOR QUEENS, a captivating new novel about two Boleyn cousins, close as sisters - and the truth that will chang...

THE SPIEGEL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE 2024: a woman finds solace in her interactions with internet scammers in this electric a...

'Gorgeous and heartwrenching' CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, bestselling author of Small Worlds and Open Water 'What an electrifying and important debut. Eve...

*** THE FINAL EPIC IN THE NERO TRIOLOGY *** The throne is never safe ... especially in Rome AD 60. Rome stands at the height of its power – glitter...

From author Sarah MacLean, a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning . . . and the one week that...

Imagine an ancient tree by a famous shrine, so powerful that visitors come from far and wide to commune with it by moonlight ... When a run of bad ...

The latest book in Alexander McCall Smith's entertaining and hilarious Professor von Igelfeld series 'It's impossible not to root for von Igelfeld'...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE - AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026 Th...

'The writing is delicate and potent … appeals to both the heart and the intellect' The Independent ‘Dreamlike … a glimpse into the petri dish of 19...

'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose-there's no one like Edna O'Brien.' Anne Enright 'Surprising and beautiful and courageous . . . A beacon.' M...

'Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon.' Megan Nolan 'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear...

'Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon.' Megan Nolan 'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear...

I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be ficti...

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk. When a peaco...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics ‘It’s reactionary to believe in God in our days,’ I said, ‘but I am the d...

He’s a fish out of water, she’s fighting the current, but together will they Sink or Swim? Arriving back in the small Lake District town of Ingleme...

'Cecilia Knapp beautifully captures the experience of contemporary womanhood in this lyrical and insightful novel. A genuine triumph' ELIZA CLARK '...

'Kathy Biggs reminds me of Alan Bennett… she walks the fine line between humour and utter sadness in a way that is very rare' JAN NEWTON When you'r...

‘A wonderfully clever and howlingly funny thriller’ The Spectator 'Glitters with secret agendas, hidden lies and sun-soaked desires' Emma Stonex 'W...

'Jenny Knight's writing is brilliant – telling it like it is, full of warmth and humour' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Powerful … A moving story of female de...

A secret lies behind every door… The Dordogne, 1936 Amid tangled gardens and crumbling walls, Chateau Rousseau guards its secrets well. Pushing ope...

No one can hurt you like a sister Growing up in 1970s Ghana, Evelyn and Maggie are two sides of the same coin. While reliable Evelyn is entrusted t...

‘A superb writer… the Irish Jojo Moyes. Her books are beautifully written, and infused with warmth, humour and human understanding' Irish Examiner ...

*The deliciously entertaining new novel from the award-winning writer and comedian, MARK WATSON* 'Funny and thought-provoking' ADAM HILLS 'A heartw...

THE HOLY CITY IS NO PLACE FOR MERCY 'Matthew Plampin should rank with the best' Sunday Times 'Plampin is heartbreakingly good' The Times 'Gripping,...

'Beautifully written'DAILY MAIL 'Heady, sensually described, deeply felt'GUARDIAN 'A maximalist epic that grabs you by the collar'THE STATESMAN 'Ri...

THE 1 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER "Shockingly good."―The Daily Mail Ten-year-old Mona is about to lose her sight forever. Her beloved grandfather has o...

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?' You couldn't really call the man soon to be christened TonyInt...

New special edition with a new afterword by the author of this shocking dystopian novel and TikTok sensation in which cannibalism is legal If every...

* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 * * A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 * Sara is at the airport, travelling home from ...

* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 * * WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE ATW...

‘Fresh, funny and criminally addictive’ HANNAH GRACE ‘I had a blast with this slasher-romance mashup’ ALICIA THOMPSON For fans of Love in the Time ...