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Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the ultra-luxury development her company is building, a symbol of the dawn of a brighter Lagos. But Yosoye’s idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naive, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her.

It is 1964 and fun-loving Rita has her dream job, working as a nanny for a huge popstar and his family. At first it seems great fun. The house is always full of glamorous people and parties, but soon she begins to worry for the children, who are neglected and crave stability. As if this wasn't enough to contend with, her employer, Cameron Knight, is spending a lot of time in the nursery – and not for the children. Can she keep herself and her charges safe in this chaotic household?

Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead-end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications, living her life through wild weekends and yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, it's only a minor crime. Nobody's going to get hurt. But other people do get hurt, because Natalie's actions do have consequences – tragic consequences.

A dazzling novel in stories from a master of the form that follows the Royal family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention. For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff. In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into the world of adult secrets. In 1950s New...

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other. When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend...

Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Oceans and the Stars, Winter's Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and remembrance set in Brooklyn. High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed 82-year-old narrator of Elegy...

When you end up knocked up by your new boss—with TRIPLETS . . . Keeping things professional is easier said than done. I was just a small-town girl with a messy past. Now, I'm the personal assistant to the city's most brooding billionaire bachelor. Brody Thorne . . . He commands every room with...

'Feverish, devouring and provocative' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb 'Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written' KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End ‘Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go’ TOBI COVENTRY, author of He’s the Devil...

« Je voulais ouvrir un magasin où on écoute les histoires des autres. Sous quelque forme que ce soit. » Cachée au milieu de vieilles maisons et de petits cafés, la boutique Geulwoll n’est pas une simple papeterie : c’est un magasin de lettres. Et si Hyoyeong avait su cela en arrivant...

Charlotte Wood's critically-acclaimed early novel, now published outside of Australia for the first time. Stephen is having the worst day of his life. On a stiflingly hot summer morning, he has decided it's time to break up with his girlfriend Fiona. He's 39, aimless and unfulfilled, but without...

At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’s an NYU dropout with no responsibilities, endless prescription pills, and a Brentwood estate to waste away in. But Los Angeles has other plans. A string of brutal murders targeting addicts spreads through the city, and Susie’s ivory tower begins to crumble. The headlines point too close to home: her father’s ties to an opioid empire, a sinister secret society, and her own complicity in the systems holding it all together.

Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature** Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems. Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too. The city is in flames and the authorities...

Once again brilliantly combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us the stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting final volume in the tetralogy charting the marriage of Russell and Corrinne Calloway...

Brought to you by Penguin. FOR FANS OF BUTTER and KILLING EVE - the Korean cult portrait of a housewife turned contract killer. Translated by Paige Morris, a co-translator of Han Kang A hilariously unsettling tale of love, food and one woman's unconventional quest to support her family. I am no...

“Abigail Savitch-Lew opens up doors to a Brooklyn world that most of us will never see. She reveals the convergence of cultures that is the real New York to life with flair and grace that make this an utterly enjoyable read.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven...

"Read by multiple narrators, the audiobook highlights the novel’s multiple perspectives. The use of accents helps ground the listeners in each character while helping build the tension between players." — Booklist “Isuri Wijesundara, Lipica Shah, and Vikas Adam perform the story’s...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY TIME, OPRAH DAILY, USA TODAY, PEOPLE, ELECTRIC LIT, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LITHUB, BOOK RIOT, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, TOWN & COUNTRY, SHE READS, LIBRARY JOURNAL, AND MORE! New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a captivating story about a young...

'I was recommending this book before I even finished it, which tells you everything you need to know. This book just works!' READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A great story which tugs at the heartstrings.' READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved the sweet love story that came together. Wonderfully...

A chance encounter on a train leads painter Christine Ward to wonder whether Orin Pierce, her beloved college friend, believed dead for two decades, may actually be alive. As she begins to track down the man she believes he might be, she finds herself in the grip of a troubling past she thought she had come to terms with. In her search through the tangles of truth and illusion, memory and dream, she questions her roles as lover, mother, artist, and mourner of the dead.

Emily Lime and her equally palindromic dog Otto live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (zip code 11211), in a warm community of friends and fellow artists. Her life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Marcus, a dog walker and fellow Scrabble nut whose father is Emily's shady ex-husband, who wants the lovable Emily dead. A mystery unravels, a valuable lost cache of paintings is found, and Emily's life changes in ways she could not have anticipated.