Category: Sci Fi & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There's no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, ...Show more
Category: Thrillers
Chapel Croft seemed like the perfect village for Reverend Jack Brooks and his daughter to find make a fresh start and find some peace. But peace is the last thing they find. Because someone appears determined to keep Chapel Croft's bleak history alive; leaving Jack sinister messages. Meanwhile, Jack's ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
What happens when your experience of motherhood is nothing at all what you hoped for, but everything you always feared? Blythe Connor doesn't want history to repeat itself. Violet is her first child and she will give her daughter all the love she deserves. All the love that her own mother withheld. But ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson. Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
On a visit to her childhood home in rural Malaysia, Durga faces a reckoning. Stuck with her sharp-tongued grandmother in the rising heat, both women must untangle the truth from the myth of their family's past. What happened to Durga's mother after she gave birth? Why did so many of their family members ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
What would it take for a woman to poison her husband? Young couple Elli and Link have been married for a year when Elli meets Gretchen, and the two soon become friends. When Elli confides in her friend about the abuse she suffers at her husband's hands, they hatch a plan for Elli to escape. But when the ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
'A new literary star' - The Times. A Reese Witherspoon and Zoella Book Club Pick. A Times, Stylist, Elle, Glamour and BBC Best Book of 2020 When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for 'kidnapping' the white child she's actually babysitting, it sets off an explosive chain of events. Her employer Alix ...Show more
Category: Ghosts & Horror
Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny. Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers, this is the most comprehensive collection of Highsmith's short fiction, including two unpublished stories. "Every story by the unparalleled master Patricia ...Show more
Category: Thrillers
The Sunday Times bestseller from international bestseller John Grisham. Is a Perfect Storm the Perfect Time for a Murder? 'Another gem from John Grisham' Observer When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida's Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. Most residents flee but a small ...Show more
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Soon to be an ITV television series starring David Morrisey, Luke Treadaway, Charles Dance and Jane Horrocks. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and ...Show more
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
Category: Sci Fi & Fantasy
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this a ...Show more
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