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Dolly Alderton

Dk

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 a...

Angela Davis

Dk

Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Power era which resonates just as powerfully today. It is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for a new audience inspired and galvanised by her ongoing activism and her extraordinary example.In the book, she describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmin...

V.v Ganeshananthan

Dk

WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024)SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024"A heart-breaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught within conflicting ideologies as she tries to save lives. I couldn''''t put this book down" BRIT BENNETT, bestselling author of THE VANISHING HALFSixteen-year-old Sashi w...

Celeste Ng

Abacus Uk

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old.He doesn't know what happened to her-only that her books have been banned-and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then...

Lorie Moore

Faber

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. ...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Bantam Books

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in TroubleIn 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is retu...

Leila Mottley

Bantam Books

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice "bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole" (Tommy Orange, author of There There).BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washin...

Emily St. John Mandel

Bantam Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Time...

Isabel Allende

Bantam Books

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht—the night their family lost e...

Lisa See

Simon & Schuster

Elísabet Benavent

Poisoned Pen Press

Two heartbroken people from totally different worlds go on the fake-dating vacation of a lifetime. What could possibly go wrong?Margot Ortega always struggled to be the princess in her own fairytale: a successful career, a huge salary, a gorgeous apartment, and a perfect fiancé. But on her wedding day, she suffers a major panic attack and has to call it off. Devastated and asha...

Kamala Harris

Vintage

Read the inspiring Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the first woman and woman of colour to serve as Vice President of the United States and who could become the next PresidentThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in a California community that cared deeply about social justice As she rose to prominence as a political l...

Maragaret Atwood

Universal Books

When the King and Queen upset a fairy Princess Aurora is cursed with a hundred year sleep What will happen when she eventually wakes up TreeTops Greatest Stories is a series of timeless classics for children aged 711 Its much loved stories beautiful artwork and careful levelling make it easy to select books that children will love ...

Irene Solà

Granta Books

When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish civil war. But then Hilari dies too, and his sister is forced to face life's struggles and joys alone. As the years tumble by, the inhabitants of ...

Sheila Heiti

Fitzcarraldo Editions

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning author of Pure Colour, in the vein of Joe Brainard and Edouard Leve. Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard´s I Remember and Edouard Leve´s Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diari...

Anderson, Gillian

Bloomsbury

What do you want when no one is watching?What do you want, when the lights are off?What do you want, when you are anonymous?When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all.In this groundbreaking book, G...

Aurora Venturini

Shoemaker And Hoar

Four women from La Plata, Argentina, are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals thanks to their impoverished, dysfunctional family—in this darkly comic literary masterpiece from Aurora Venturini, never before translated into EnglishAt the age of eighty-five, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel, Cousins (Las primas), w...

Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen / Emma Due Bitz / Cam

Dk

Start your journey to financial success with Female Invest's guide for safe, smart, and sustainable investing. This is an empowering and uplifting money manifesto, aiming to change the tides of financial power. Are you one of the 68% of women worldwide earning less than a man doing the same job? Then you need to make your money work harder, starting now. In Girls Just Want to H...

Mary-Frances O'connor

Harper Collins

NPR SciFri Book Club PickNext Big Idea Club's "Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022"Behavioral Scientist Notable Books of 2022A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.In The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-France...

Emily Ladau

Berkley

An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Booklist • "A candid, accessible cheat sheet for anyone who wants to thoughtfully join the conversation . . . Emily makes the intimidati...

Charmaine Wilkerson

Dk

When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well.The crime was never solved—and because the Freemans were one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of New England—the case has had an endu...

Gabrielle Zevin

Universal Books

his is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love.When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one morning he is catapulted straight back to childhood, and the hours they spent immersed in playing games.Their spark is instantly reignited and sets off a creative collaboration that will make them superstars. It is the 90s, and anything is p...

Alana S. Portero / Mara Faye Lethem

Mcgraw-Hill

Liu, Catherine

University Of Minnesota Press

Harpman,Jacqueline

Vintage

A haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy.'A small miracle' The New York Times‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed'Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion...

Loretta Rothschild

Penguin Books

Abreu, Andrea

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer.High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class...