'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...

In 1942, parachutists Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubiš are dropped into Nazi-occupied Prague with orders to kill Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared figures in the Third Reich.Heydrich oversees the Nazi secret services and helps design the machinery of terror across occupied Europe. The parachutists’ mission, known as Operation Anthropoid, depends on secrecy, courage and the support of an underground resistance network. Moving between cramped Prague safe houses and...

HOW DO YOU DEFEND DEMOCRACY WHEN THE RULES HAVE CHANGED?Presidents turning into monarchs. Tech tycoons and autocrats intent on global regime change. Armies of cyber trolls.The old order is at an end. The Hour of the Predator has come.Former political advisor Giuliano da Empoli takes us on an insider's journey through this new reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles. We ...

Fourteen-year-old Goldsmith Jones is left stranded in crime-ridden, gangland territory. He finds himself living at The Shades, a home to local street kids. While selling sexual favours down the Dead Man's Alley to survive, Jones is charmed by a seaman he knows as Sweet Virginia. Moving further away from the relative security that The Shades and his best friend, Raccoon, offered him, Jones is drawn ever closer to the manipulative Sweet Virginia. When Raccoon falls gravely ill and is taken t...

Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award" Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy thriller."— New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and part Le Carré—from one of the world's preeminent authorsJean Echenoz's sly and playful novels have won critical and popular acclaim in France, where he has won the Prix Goncourt, as well as in the United...

**Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award“Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy thriller.”—New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and part Le Carré—from one of the world’s preeminent authors**Jean Echenoz's sly and playful novels have won critical and popular acclaim in France, where he has won the Prix Goncourt, as well as in the United States, wher...

**One of The New York Times’s 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st CenturyOne of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2018*Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine*She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.“A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing . . . Slimani has us in her thrall.” —Roxane ...

****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 ...

***As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air*One of The New York Times’s “Novels Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026”From one of the boldest and most captivating voices in world literature, a sensual and provocative coming-of-age novel about a young Arab woman on a quest for sexual and political freedom“Propulsive and fearless . . . I won’t be surprised if this book finds readers for generations to come.” —Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Hom...

Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralysed, just like in the Bible. The Vatican is overjoyed—imagine, a real saint in the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the American South.The only hitch? Her method: she heals the people she sleeps with in her motorhome. And she sleeps with a lot of people, it's what she does for a living. And that's precisely what's bothering the Vatican.For Luis Molina of the Savannah News, ...

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writer's work when it is translated–specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maïa Hruska traces the strange, shape-shifting legacy of one of literature’s most elusive figures—not through traditional biography but through the lives of his earliest an...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Leïla Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos.' TIMES'Slimani is a fearless writer.' EVENING STANDARDQ: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you?A: I'd take the fire.This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of th...