From an electrifying new voice in literary fiction comes a tense, unflinching novel about love, stepmotherhood, and the limits of chosen family.Livia, a forty-year-old Italian translator living in New York City, never wanted children – so when she falls in love with Arno and is drawn into the life of his five-year-old daughter, Emma, she resolves to try, despite her misgivings.But, as years pass and tensions deepen, what begins as reluctance curdles into so...

From an electrifying new voice in literary fiction comes a tense, unflinching novel about love, stepmotherhood, and the limits of chosen family.Livia, a forty-year-old Italian translator living in New York City, never wanted children – so when she falls in love with Arno and is drawn into the life of his five-year-old daughter, Emma, she resolves to try, despite her misgivings.But, as years pass and tensions deepen, what begins as reluctance curdles into so...

PRE-ORDER THE MOVING, CAPTIVATING NEW NOVEL FROM LAURA IMAI MESSINA: THE ISLAND OF LOST LETTERS'Absolutely breathtaking' Christy Lefteri, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo.We all have something to tell those we have lost . . .On a windy hill in Japan, in a garden overlooking the sea stands a disused phone box. For years, people have travelled to visit the ...

'Full of heart, intrigue and lessons in forgiveness . . . A great novel that you will devour' Cosmopolitan Best Summer Reads'Deeply moving' Woman's OwnAn unforgettable, award-winning bestseller - a story of love, guilt, betrayal and atonement'You can't love someone without knowing their whole story . . .'Fleeing a pitch-dark past, Emilia I...

Off the coast of Japan lies the small island of Awashima, home to a tiny post office that gathers letters sent without addresses. Letters to lost loves, lost objects and moments in time now lost forever.Risa arrives in Awashima on a cold, clear morning. She has offered to help at a small, neglected post office, unique for collecting undeliverable correspondence from Japan and around the world. It is an immense task, but Risa does it out of love. Her father was an unconventional pos...

A luminous debut about the search for belonging, the tension between departure and return, and the legacy of migration, Tangerinn is a novel of memory, a stirring meditation on culture, identity, and inheritance set between London and the windswept beaches of southern Italy.Mina is thirty and living in London. She fled there at twenty to reinvent herself to escape her small-town past, but a decade later she is drifting, un...

'GOOD FOR THE SOUL' iNews'MESMERISING' Sunday Post'LYRICAL' iPaper"TENDER AND MOVING' Woman's OwnA POWERFUL, MOVING NOVEL OF GRIEF, HOPE, FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE BASED ON A REAL HEARTBEAT ARCHIVE ON AN ISLAND IN JAPAN.To find what you have lost, you must listen to your heart . . .On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima...

'Absolutely breathtaking' Christy Lefteri, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo.We all have something to tell those we have lost . . .On a windy hill in Japan, in a garden overlooking the sea stands a disused phone box. For years, people have travelled to visit the phone box, to pick up the receiver and speak into the wind: to pass their messages to loved ones no longer with us.When Yui loses her moth...

A reassuring read for any little one who has ever worried about getting lost or trying something new.The Unicorn Babies were the very best of friendsThey lived beside the river where the magic rainbow ends.There was Pinky. There was Inky. There was one called Little Bea.And they all played in the meadow by the sleepy willow tree.When one little unicorn gets separated from her friends, she needs to face her f...

'GOOD FOR THE SOUL' iNews'MESMERISING' Sunday Post'LYRICAL' iPaper'TENDER AND MOVING' Woman's OwnA POWERFUL, MOVING NOVEL OF GRIEF, HOPE, FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE BASED ON A REAL HEARTBEAT ARCHIVE ON AN ISLAND IN JAPAN.To find what you have lost, you must listen to your heart . . .On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima...

A story of conflicted friendship and its unravelling, told against the background of an ever-present, mind-twisting social media verse."A truly precious book." — GraziaMaia is 26. Stuck in a dead-end job and a dysfunctional relationship, she's treading water. Gloria, 18, is an influencer with 2 million followers, and the fragility of those who grow up too fast.Both are bereft. Maia, of purp...