****SOON TO BE A MAJOR HBO SHOW STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN AND MAYA ERSKINE**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA RICHARD AND JUDY PICKWINNER OF THE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY'Creepy, shocking, compulsive' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Unnerving, addictive.' Grazia'The smartest thriller you'll ...

'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the s...

Acclaimed author Andrey Kurkov gives powerful insight into life in Kyiv following the 2013 protests and before the 2022 Russian invasion.-16°C, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution. I walked between the tents. Talked with revolutionaries. They were weary today. The air was thick with the smell of old campfires.Ukraine Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov's first-hand account of the ongoing...

An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt; a suspenseful tale of a tangled love triangle in the long shadow of the war on terror.Manhattan attorney Sam Tahar appears to have it all: fame, fortune, an enviable marriage to a prominent socialite, and two children. But his charmed life is built on a lie - he isn't the person he pretends to be.As the son of a Tunisian immigrant growing up in a grimy Paris tower block, Samir Tahar seemed destined to stay on t...

The Heartbreaking French BestsellerWhen Antoine lost his wife, Hélène, he was left to care for their baby alone. In this wry and honest book he writes about how they have fared since that terrible day.Life, After follows a father learning how to create a home for his son. From imagining the reviews he might receive as a parent, to dealing with the emotions that arise around a new relationship and talking to children about bereavement, Antoine chart...

'Please read this' DAVID MITCHELL'Direct, beautiful, humane' MADELEINE THIEN'A book to give, to share, to cherish' LEÏLA SLIMANI'An essential novel' DAVID DIOPOne morning, during a ceasefire in Gaza, a young photographer wanders far from his hotel and into the narrow alleys of the city. Roaming aimlessly, he stumbles across an old man, surrounded by stacks of books. As the photographer raises h...

From the author of Heatwave**, a Waterstones Book of the Month**From the translator of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair**,** Lullaby and HHhH'The modern day successor to Francoise Sagan'Evening StandardThe Beach is the only nightclub in town, a bright yellow cuboid on the docks. Fo...

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray." Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became...

Picture the scene - an idyllic resort on the island of Réunion. Martial and Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect moment with their six-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, clear water, palm trees, a warm breeze...Then Liane Bellion disappears. She went up to her hotel room between 3 and 4pm and never came back. When the room is opened, it is empty, but there is blood everywhere. An employee of the hotel claims to have seen Martial in the corridor during that crucial hour.T...

****SOON TO BE A MAJOR HBO SHOW STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN AND MAYA ERSKINE**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA RICHARD AND JUDY PICKWINNER OF THE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY'Creepy, shocking, compulsive' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Unnerving, addictive.' Grazia'The smartest thriller you'll ...

The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier.“It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor. It is very well written and very moving. I’m sure my mother would have loved this book.” — Tessa Montgomery d’Alamein, daughter of Daphné du Maurier, as told to Pauline Sommele...

From the author of Heatwave, a Waterstones Book of the MonthFrom the translator of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Lullaby and HHhH'The modern day successor to Francoise Sagan'Evening StandardThe Beach is the only nightclub in town, a bright yellow cuboid on the docks. For most people it is a place to drink, flirt and hook up. Most people grow out of The Beach; t...