Literary Fiction

It’s the summer of 1951 and everyone is looking to put the dark days of the war behind them. The government’s solution: The Festival of Britain, a celebration of the country’s creativity, grit and ingenuity. For foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn, it...

A classic novel of desire and jealousy. Ann Prentice falls in love with Richard Cauldfield and hopes for new happiness. Her only child, Sarah, cannot contemplate the idea of her mother marrying again and wrecks any chance of her remarriage. Resentment and jealousy corrode...

A striking novel of truth and soul-searching. Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks.Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes,...

Confessions of a Forty-Something Fk Up** by Alexandra Potter is a funny and heartfelt contemporary novel about starting over when life doesn't turn out as planned. Nell Stevens returns to London after her business and relationship collapse, only to discover that her friends have...

Days of Light by Megan Hunter is a sweeping historical novel inspired by the influential Bloomsbury Group, exploring love, loss, desire and the passage of time. It begins on Easter Sunday in 1938, when nineteen-year-old Ivy gathers with her bohemian family and their friends...

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker is the epic conclusion to the internationally bestselling Seven Sisters series. The seven sisters gather together aboard the Titan to say a final goodbye to their enigmatic father, Pa Salt. But before...

Birmingham, 1858. Dora, a spirited young maid with a vivid imagination, finds solace in the library of the esteemed family she works for. But when a forbidden love leads to a secret that could ruin her, Dora has no choice but to leave the...

A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, Hamnet is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play. On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is...

She rose as a favourite. Will she fall as a traitor? In the dazzling, dangerous world of the Tudor Court, nothing is more powerful than a secret – or more deadly. Jane Boleyn has mastered many masks: loving wife, devoted sister, and obedient spy....

When English pilot-major John Blackthorne is shipwrecked in Japan in the early seventeenth century, he finds himself in a world completely unlike his own. As civil war threatens the country, Blackthorne becomes involved in the struggles of powerful warlords and gradually rises from an...

A curator who recreates historic rooms becomes fascinated by the story of an almost-forgotten medieval king. As she studies his life, the boundary between the past and her own present begins to blur. The king himself is a reluctant ruler, pushed onto the throne...

A once-in-a-generation debut from a major new talent, The Names is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2026'I've...

Heartbroken by unrequited love, courage will guide her path . . . When Molly and her best friend both fall in love with Harry Spencer, their former closeness is strained, but Molly quickly turns her mind to the Suffragette movement, finding solace and passion...

FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEVER LET ME GOSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the...

Home Front by Kristin Hannah is a powerful story of love, marriage, family and the lasting cost of war. Jolene Zarkades is a mother, wife and army reservist whose life changes when she is deployed to Iraq. While she is away, her husband Michael...

Dear Mrs Bird by A. J. Pearce is a warm and uplifting historical novel set in London during the Blitz of 1941. Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a war correspondent but instead finds herself working as a typist for the formidable agony aunt Henrietta...

The new book from the no. 1 New York Times and no. 2 Sunday Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang 'A riot' PANDORA SYKES 'Razor-sharp' TIME 'A wild ride' STYLIST 'Darkly comic' GQ 'Satirical and humorous' COSMOPOLITAN Athena Liu is a literary darling and June...

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the National Book Award for FictionWinner...