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THE THRILLING NOVEL FROM THE WORLDWIDE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHORRICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK''Liane Moriarty is a genuine GENIUS. Here One Moment is off the scale brilliant'' Marian Keyes''A master story teller . . . brilliant and satisfying'' Bella Mackie''You will devour this doorstop of a book'' The Times, Book of the Month–On a plane bound for Sydney the unassuming woman from seat 4D walks down the aisle making unsettling predictions about the passengers.And six strangers find their lives unexpectedly crossing.Each tries to put the experience behind them. But, just weeks later, they can''t any longer.Because not believing a prediction is easy, Until it comes true . . .—PRAISE FOR HERE ONE MOMENT''Easily my favourite Liane Moriarty book so far . . . it is just perfection!'' ***** Reader Review''Funny, frightening, heartbreaking and life-affirming . . . I adored it'' Chris Whitaker''A genre-defying gem'' Woman & Home''A real page-turner. . . Gripping, well-executed, with fascinating characters'' Grazia''Keeps you guessing right to its satisfying conclusion'' Heat''An absolute masterclass. I treasure every word Liane writes, because she has such a rare and deep understanding of people and human behaviour'' Joanna Cannon''Brilliant, thought-provoking'' Fabulous''A tense read that asks many questions about what we want to know about the ends of our lives'' Prima''We drop everything for a Liane Moriarty read!'' Bella''A compulsive plotline, intriguing characters, great writing, surprises, humour and tragedy. It''ll stay with me'' John Boyne''A riveting story so wild you don’t know how she’ll land it, and then she does, on a dime'' Anne Lamott''An absolute masterclass in storytelling. I treasure every word Liane writes, because she has such a rare and deep understanding of people and human behaviour'' Joanna Cannon''A gem of a book, unique and compelling'' ***** Reader ReviewPRAISE FOR LIANE MORIARTY''One of the few writers I''ll drop anything for'' Jojo Moyes''An engrossing mashup of family drama and psychological suspense that offers a mystery. Complex and satisfying. Perfect holiday reading'' Guardian''Keeps you guessing until the very end'' Reese Witherspoon''Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly'' Sunday Express''Had me utterly hooked'' Daily Mail

A Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and didNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Bethlehem. As a child, he played in its shadow and explored the little world within the camp. As he grew older, he began questioning the boundaries that limited his existence. Later, sentenced to life in prison, with no hope of parole, he found himself surrounded by a physical wall.This is the story of how, over thirty years in captivity, he crafted a new definition of freedom. Turning to writings by philosophers as varied as Derrida, Kirkegaard and Freud, he begins to let go of freedom as a question that demanded an answer, in order to preserve it as a dream. The wall becomes his stable point of reference, his anchor, both physically and psychologically.As each year brings with it new waves of releases of prisoners, he dares to hope, and seeks refuge in the wall when these hopes are dashed. And, in a small miracle, he finds love with a lawyer from the outside – while in her absence, the wall is his solace and his curse.A testimony of how the most difficult of circumstances can build a person up instead of tearing them down, The Tale of a Wall is an extraordinary record of the vast confinement and power of the mind.

PRE-ORDER THE BRAND NEW ROMANCE FROM ETTA EASTON NOW! When Brianna Rogers joins a team of teachers who will spend their summer in a Mars simulation to win vital funds for the school library, she thought it would be easy. What she didn’t count on was Roman Major: science teacher, son of the principal, and far too handsome.Brianna is sure he’s been sent to sabotage them. But each day, she finds herself falling harder and harder. While it’s clear the feeling is mutual, she can’t shake the sense that he’s hiding something.As the simulation nears its end, Brianna realizes she may have to make an impossible choice, between the school she’s dedicated herself to, and the man who has won his way into her heart... Perfect for fans of Elle Kennedy, Tessa Bailey and Ali HazelwoodTropes: Forced Proximity Enemies-to-lovesForbidden RomanceOwn Voices

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles?s KoreatownA Penguin ClassicKim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926?1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants? nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty. Kim explores the tensions within a family of immigrants and new Americans and brings to the forefront the themes of Korean immigration, U.S. racism, generational trauma, and the early decades of Los Angeles?s Koreatown from a Korean American woman?s point of view. Through three sections representing the perspectives of mother, father, and daughter, what resonates the most is the voice of a woman and her self-determination, through national identity, marriage, and motherhood.

IT WAS THE PERFECT DAY OUT . . . UNTIL THEY NEVER CAME BACK. THE EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT DAVID RAKER THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE MISSING PERSON MYSTERY, TIM WEAVERRICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Fiendishly serpentine and utterly compulsive' Louise CandlishA beautiful summer day. A remote Dartmoor lake. The Fowler family takes a boat out. Mother Sarah stays on shore. She looks away for one minute. When she turns back the boat is empty . . . Her family has vanished. The police draw a blank. Yet missing persons investigatorDavid Raker knows something isn’t right. He promises answers. But his questions might put him in the path of a killer . . . --PRAISE FOR THE MISSING FAMILY ‘A twisty adventure, a masterclass of plotting’ Literary Review‘Raker and a race against time - is there a better basis for a book? Impossible to put down’ HOLLY WATT‘Oh-so tantalising twisty’ Heat

''Sister Europe is so ambitious and ethically interested that it makes it clear that Zink is one of our most important contemporary writers.'' Guardian As a Berlin night draws in around the pristine glass exterior of the Hotel Interconti, a ragtag group of friends, family, and potential lovers find themselves frustrated. By promise or threat, they have all gathered at a lavish celebration of an elderly author’s venerable career. But dinner is delayed, the speeches are a drag and the gang – a young trans teen and her father; an ageing publisher and his flakey date; a dog, a troubled heiress and an Arab Prince – begin to feel the pinch of boredom, hunger and horniness. Together they will make their bid for freedom, and will soon embark on an exhilarating odyssey through the city’s shadow and light. . .Sophisticated, sexy and exquisitely funny, Sister Europe is the remarkable new novel from one of the most singular, brilliant writers working today: a vivid tale of growing up, growing old and getting down.''Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know'' Jonathan Franzen''To stay out late in Zink’s world, loitering, is a pleasure. Her voice is cool and fastidious, but she has a screwball quality — a comic sensibility rooted in pain.'' New York Times''An extraordinary talent… Zink is in the company of not only Jonathan Franzen, but also Donna Tartt, Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe'' Daily Telegraph

When Margaret Ives, the famously reclusive heiress, invites eternal optimist Alice Scott to the balmy Little Crescent Island, Alice knows this is it: her big break. And even more rare: a chance to impress her family with a Serious Publication.The catch? Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud, Hayden Anderson, is sure of the same thing.The proposal? A one-month trial period to unearth the truth behind one of the most scandalous families of the 20th Century, after which she’ll choose who’ll tell her story.The problem? Margaret is only giving each of them tantalising pieces. Pieces they can’t put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story – just like the tale Margaret’s spinning – could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad … depending on who’s telling it.

‘A fascinating exploration of the linkages between ancestral inheritance, diasporic belonging, and our climate future... I read it in one sitting, which took me on a moving and often unexpected journey’ Aube Rey Lescure''Part of me knew what the hungry ghosts wanted all along, what they still want. It is not vengeance. No, they want something else, but we refuse to listen. They want us to face up to our broken obligations.'' Every spring during the Qingming Festival, people return to their home villages in China to sweep the tombs of their ancestors, making offerings of food and incense to prevent them from becoming hungry ghosts that could cause misfortune. Yet for the past century, a time ruptured by war and revolution, many tombs have been left unattended. Following a record year of wildfires, Alice Mah returns to her family’s rice village in South China, and discovers that her ancestors are almost forgotten, and there are no tombs left to sweep. Instead, there are incalculable clan debts to be paid. Here Mah chronicles her journey from the rice villages of South China to her home in post-industrial England, through the Chinatowns of Western Canada where she grew up, to the isles and industry of Scotland where she now lives. As years pass and fires rage on, she becomes increasingly troubled by her ancestors’ neglected graves. Her research on pollution gives way to growing eco-anxiety, culminating in a crisis of spiritual belief. A haunting blend of memoir, cultural history and environmental exploration, Red Pockets confronts the hungry ghosts of our neglected ancestors, while searching for an acceptable offering. What do we owe to past and future generations? What do we owe to the places that we inhabit?

A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author's visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation and indigenous wisdomDeep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans – the 'men of maize' – serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed.

Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to CleopatraIn this fascinating anthology, ancient women threaten male power by stepping into the roles traditionally held by men. They command armies, exercise sexual autonomy, speak in public, issue laws and subject others (even masculine heroes and citizen men) to their control. All of these stories were written by men and none of them can be read as affirmations or celebrations of women in power. Instead, their sexist attitudes continue to justify women’s exclusion from power.Yet despite the fear and suspicion the male authors direct toward these women, we can find much to admire in their tales, from the coordinated action of the women of Aristophanes’s Assemblywomen, to the righteous anger of Boudicca against sexual violence by men in power, to the successful resistance of Amanirenas against Rome’s colonial expansion. Read differently, these tales testify to the long history of women in power and suggest new paths for female empowerment.

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP-TEN BOOK OF 2024A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEARFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook''s death‘Extraordinarily compulsive and fascinating. I felt it somehow told me more about the making of the modern world than any book I had read for ages'' STEPHEN FRY, BOOKS OF THE YEAR, Observer‘An astounding tale . . . recreated in swashbuckling detail . . . Sides delivers it with narrative urgency. The cast of characters is a joy’ Sunday Times‘An enthralling account of Captain Cook’s final, fatal voyage… An excellent new book’ The Economist ‘A rollicking good read, with a tone that reminds me of David Grann’s recent tale of the 1741 Wager shipwreck . . . riveting’ Daily Telegraph''Vivid and propulsive'' New York Times---On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed – beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population.What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds with his reputation? Renowned for his humane leadership, dedication to science and the curiosity and respect, not judgement, with which he greeted societies that were new to him, Cook had already mapped huge swathes of the Pacific and initiated first European contact with numerous native peoples.The stated mission for his third voyage was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London high society, to his home islands. But Cook carried secret orders to venture north, to discover the fabled Northwest Passage and chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals. And Cook himself was different on his final, fatal voyage.Deeply researched and vividly told, The Wide Wide Sea is at once a ferociously-paced, epic adventure and a searching examination of the consequences of the Age of Exploration from a master storyteller.----‘Sides has written a riveting book, deeply researched, light of touch and always judicious and full-sailed about an exceptional man’s final extraordinary journey’ SPECTATOR''A wonderful, visceral yarn and an enthralling read, replete with brilliant detail'' —ROBERT MCCRUMPRAISE FOR HAMPTON SIDES''Enthralling … as gripping as any well-paced thriller but a lot more interesting because it is also true'' THE TIMES‘Stunningly vivid’ MARK BOWDEN, AUTHOR OF BLACK HAWK DOWN''Splendid in every way… a marvellous nonfiction thriller'' WALL STREET JOURNAL‘Extraordinary … meticulous research shores up a fast-paced narrative’ FINANCIAL TIMES''Viscerally dramatic … spellbinding... bold, dynamic, unusually vivid’ NEW YORK TIMES''Unforgettable…a pulse-racing epic … a masterful work of history and storytelling'' LOS ANGELES TIMES‘Reads like a first-class epic thriller'' TIME

''No one really talks about it. No one really talks about what it is to be a disabled woman, especially a young one. To go a bit mad. To experience pain or exhaustion or feel 92. To navigate all the standard parts of life - exams, careers, dating - but with a body that is different than everyone else’s.''Part memoir, part manifesto, and full of Frances Ryan’s trademark warmth, humour and honesty (as well as hard-hitting statistics), Who Wants Normal? explores six facets of life: education, careers, body image, health, relationships and representation, as well as how to survive life''s bumps in the road.It draws on Frances’s own experience, as well as from highly personal interviews with over 50 of Britain''s best known women and non-binary people with mental and physical health conditions, including Jameela Jamil, Ruth Madeley, Sophie Morgan, Rosie Jones, Fearne Cotton, Emma Barnett, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Marsha de Cordova MP, Ellie Goldstein and Katie Piper.Who Wants Normal? lifts the lid off a subject that is too often shrouded in stereotypes and silence. It offers support, inspiration and a sense of solidarity to the 1 in 4 women with long-term health conditions – and will open the eyes of anyone wanting to better understand what life is really like with a disability.

The bestselling Irish debut novel – a multigenerational portrait of small-town life bursting with caustic wit – for fans of Jon McGregor, Elizabeth Strout and Paul MurrayWelcome to Ballyrowan: a village built out of stories. Stories about the girl who got herself into trouble and disappeared to America, the brother and sister who both went mad, the priest who tried to help them and the doctor who had them committed, about your man going off with a young one half his age, the child he left behind, the neighbour who took her in, and what was said and done about it afterwards . . .‘Engrossing, funny, delightfully wicked’ Irish Times‘A novel for anyone who ever wondered what the neighbours are really up to behind closed doors’ Jan Carson, author of The Raptures‘Full of disgrace, inherited trauma and family secrets. It will make you laugh - because if you didn''t, you''d surely cry’ Aingeala Flannery

Discover the rich history of Britain''s millennia-old network of pathways, and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again. . .''An essential read for those who love walking'' Jackie Morris, author of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells''Cornish’s book delves back in history and is written with a sense of urgency'' Mail on Sunday''[Cornish''s] passion for walking, natural beauty and the abundant history of these old ways shines through'' Times–Hundreds of thousands of miles of ancient paths crisscross our land. Whether Iron Age footsteps or Anglo-Saxon mercenary trails, Railway Age tracks or Home Army defences, they reveal a hidden story. Jack Cornish has spent years walking and recording these forgotten routes and The Lost Paths is his history of the people who created and walked these ways. From sheep drovers to Cornish miners to workhouse wanderers, this tale of the land beneath our feet brings our past to life and puts its future squarely in our hands.–PRAISE FOR THE LOST PATHS‘A rallying cry to reclaim lost routes and preserve this precious resource for future generations’ Walk Magazine‘Fascinating’ Country Walking‘A celebration of an ancient network and a rallying cry to reclaim what has been lost and preserve it for future generations’ The Best of UK‘[A] fascinating history of path-making and path-taking . . . our guide excels at historic story-telling . . . Cornish’s celebration of our grand wealth of history ways, and the different motivations for walking over the centuries, is a worthy clarion call for us to keep treading paths – so we don’t lose our way . . . ‘ The Oldie‘A lively account of millennia of movement, and a call to action to preserve an endangered heritage’ Inkcap Journal

A Leopard-Skin Hat may be Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. A masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance, it is the story of an intense friendship between the Narrator and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders.A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and tormented young woman battling many demons, and of the Narrator’s loving and anguished attachment to her. Serre poignantly depicts the bewildering back and forth between hope and despair involved in such a relationship, while playfully calling into question the very form of the novel. Written in the aftermath of the death of the author’s little sister, A Leopard-Skin Hat is both the celebration of a tragically foreshortened life and a valedictory farewell.Translated from French by Mark Hutchinson.

Welcome to the most exclusive retreat of the summer… but not everyone will make it out aliveSuccession meets White Lotus in the razor-sharp follow-up to the universally acclaimed Bad Summer People--Caitlin’s spending a week in paradise – with the strangers who are her new colleagues.Everyone is on a high. They’re sellingthe company and about to make a killing.Until one of them disappears.Suddenly there’s no stopping the secretsand hidden betrayals from spilling out in the open,putting the sale and everyone’s lives at risk.Caitlin knew she wouldn’t be able to trust all of her new colleagues.But she never expected any of them to be capable of murder . . .--PRAISE FOR EMMA ROSENBLUM''Need a post-Waystar fix? Get your eyes round Bad Summer People'' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE''The perfect page-turning summer read'' GRAZIA BOOK CLUB''Think Succession by the sea'' RED MAGAZINE''Wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp'' KEVIN KWAN''A cracking debut . . . Brilliantly written'' DAILY MAIL''Delicious: such gossipy, naughty fun. Cancel all plans'' LUCY FOLEY