INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKMAJOR TV ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPMENT BY AMY ADAMS'Calling it The Handmaid's Tale crossed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid goes some way to describe this novel's memorable world, but it is also wholly its own' KIRKUS'2021 is already a year that could use a little joy. Here to pr...

'SPARKLES LIKE UNEARTHED TREASURE' KALIANE BRADLEY'A MESMERISING NOVEL' OBSERVER'AN IRIDESCENT CONTEMPORARY FOLKTALE' LUCY ROSERich, wild and shimmering with mystery, Bog Queen is the new novel from Anna North, bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick OutlawedIn 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to id...

'If The Girl on the Train was the woman of 2015, then Sophie Stark is this year's model. Anna North's novel, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, has been a hit in America, with Lena Dunham describing its protagonist as a "totally unforgettable female antihero". Out now - soon every girl on every train will be reading it' Sunday TimesWho is the real Sophie Stark?The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is the story of an enigmat...

Winner of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction“I read The Life and Death of Sophie Stark with my heart in my mouth. Not only a dissection of genius and the havoc it can wreak, but also a thunderously good story.”—Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room“This novel is perceptive, subtle, funny and lingers in unexpected ways. The analysis of a woman who puts her art above all else is e...

Eighteen-year-old Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica -- one of the last places on earth that is still habitable, after North America has succumbed to a second ice age. Education, food, and basic means of survival are the province of a chosen few, while the majority of the island residents must struggle to stay alive. The rich live in "Manhattanville" mansions made from the last pieces of wood and stone, while the poor cower in the shantytown slums of "Hell City" and "Little Los ...

'This feminist Western will keep you on the edge of your seat' Reese Witherspoon'A real treat' Jenny Zhang'Shares concerns with The Handmaid's Tale and The Crucible but is distinctly itself' The i'Contains basically everything I want in a book' VoxIn the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.Ada loves her broad-shoulde...

Who is the real Sophie Stark?The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is the story of an enigmatic film director, told by the six people who loved her most. Brilliant, infuriating, all-seeing and unknowable, Sophie Stark makes films said to be 'more like life than life itself'. But her genius comes at a terrible cost: to her husband, to the brother she left behind, and to an actress who knows too much.With shades of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, A ...

'SPARKLES LIKE UNEARTHED TREASURE' KALIANE BRADLEY'A MESMERISING NOVEL' OBSERVER'AN IRIDESCENT CONTEMPORARY FOLKTALE' LUCY ROSERich, wild and shimmering with mystery, Bog Queen is the new novel from Anna North, bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick OutlawedIn 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to id...

Published in the United Kingdom in 2015, Christobel Kent's The Crooked House has drawn comparisons to works by the pantheon of British female literary suspense writers--Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, P. D. James, and Kate Atkinson. In this darkly atmospheric psychological thriller, she accomplishes what those celebrated writers do best: she creates an insular world (a single house, a small town) where something sinister has occurred, and subtly inflects each page with the tox...

Accomplished, resonant and surprising (Guardian) -- a debut for fans of Summer of My German Soldier.In July 1940, eleven-year-old Lydia escapes life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives home to her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty. Lydia settles in though, determined to wait out the war.Later that night he arrives: a wounded soldier, gun-wielding, heralding a full-blown Germa...

'It's our son, Sam... someone took him. Please help us'Emma hoped that she and her family would return from their year abroad closer, with memories to last a lifetime.Instead, they returned minus one child.A year on, Emma is haunted by the image of an empty cot, and feels further than ever from her husband.Is their son still out there somewhere? Will the mystery about what happened that night ever be unravelled?And, if the truth does...

In one moment, two lives will be changed forever … and forever … and forever.The one thing that’s certain is that they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next … They fell wildly in love or went their separate ways. They kissed or they thought better of it. They married soon after or were together for a few weeks before splitting up. They grew distracted and disappointed with their daily lives together or fo...