The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the story of Erna Mullings, a teenage Jamaican girl uprooted from her island following the sudden death of her beloved grandmother. When Erna is sent to England to be reunited with her siblings, she dreads leaving...

Lori works illegally in a rented flat in central London, living in fear of police raids which could mean losing her small daughter and her dream of a new life. Freya is a student who finds she can make far more money as an...

When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous characters from across the Cold...

A Horror/Breakup Story in Five PartsCatrin Vander, a lonely video producer, buys an Artificial Intelligence partner that's meant to bond for life. After ten years together, her holographic wife suddenly disconnects without a warning. The breakup drives Catrin to the point of near insanity....

ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR THE PANOPTICON.Jessie, the devil's daughter, arrives on the doorstep of an imposing tenement building and knocks on a freshly painted...

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote form a captivating tribute to the Christmas season. Selected from across Capote's writing life, they range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep...

Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going well. Alice is living a haunted existence, selling videos of herself cleaning for money, drinking herself to sleep.She hasn't spoken...

Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki’s song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a trans-formative friendship begins. But as Rukmini’s star rises and Neela’s stagnates, jealousy and...

"An Oprah Magazine Most Anticipated Historical Novel of 2021" Buzzfeed 'A book You're Going to Love in 2021, with stunningly lyrical writing, Greeley elevates Austen-inspired fiction onto a whole new plane.' - Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society. As a fussy baby,...

An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake. 'Captivating...intense...seductive' - Guardian A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite...

'Simply one of our most exciting writers' - Observer. 'A free-wheeling and joyful exploration of the works and lives of a range of artists and thinkers who brought libidinal and creative energy together with spectacular results' - Jack Halberstam The body is a source...

The mesmerising sequel to the NYT bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire The Girls of Paper and Fire did the impossible. They escaped. But out in the unforgiving wild, hunted like prey, Lei and Wren learn that the most terrifying prisons have no walls.Lei,...

'As funny as it's intellectual, this page-turner about crashing and burning is spot-on about ambition, infatuation, theatre, film, ethics, teens, and everything else.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room 'Witty... Earnest... Laugh-out-loud... Pitch-perfect' New York Times. In the pursuit of fame, how do you know...

Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. An enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it. The House of...

'Kalynn Bayron does more than re-write a fairy-tale... She breaks it apart and rebuilds it into a wholly original and captivating story where girls finally decide for themselves who lives happily ever after' Brigid Kemmerer. Ever since she can remember, Briseis has had power...

One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess searching for her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire.Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana:...

A queer non coming out story about sex, adolescence, class, fear and contagion in the 1980s: a lush, sensual experimental novel with a hidden linguistic constraint.

Includes Signed Bookplate. When Julia flees her unhappy marriage for the handsome tailor Eve Perret, she expects her life from now on will be a challenge, not least because the year is 1911. They leave everything behind to settle in Vienna, but their happiness...

'Moving, gripping and dazzlingly written' Stylist The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of Room. Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the...

All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood,...

The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak 'My favourite way to learn is when a funny, clever, honest person is teaching me - that's why I love Rosie Wilby!' Sara Pascoe. In 2011, comedian and podcaster Rosie Wilby was dumped by email... though she did feel...

Finding your voice. Speaking the truth. Falling in love.All the biggest drama happens in high school... Mean Girls meets To All The Boys I've Loved Before in this hugely relatable high-school takedown from the queen of UKYA. Paige is used to staying quiet in...

A queer historical murder mystery that explores notions of justice and morality, driven by compelling flawed characters. In the summer of 1912 in Northern England, sapphic couple Louisa Knight and Ada Chapman are drawn into the investigation of their neighbour's murder. The police quickly...

Aria, Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Alison have been best friends since the third grade. They go everywhere together, thinking no-one can come between them. If anyone is the ringleader of the group it is Alison, and the other girls cannot help but confide all...

THE LESBIAN LOVE STORY YOU'VE BEEN DYING TO READ. Ash Persaud is about to become a reaper in the afterlife, but she is determined to see her first love Poppy Morgan again, the only thing that separates them is death. Car headlights. The last...

The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions With a foreword from Paula Akpan, Do you know where "yaaaas queen!" comes from? Do you know the difference between a bear and a wolf? Do you know what all the letters in LGBTQIA+ stand for?...

"A sweet, sexy, honest teen romance that just happens to involve two girls-all the more charming for being so very ordinary."* A Kirkus Best Book of the Year! A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year! A Bustle.com Best Young Adult Book of...

Kacy Sullivan, a 21-year-old architect student from Raleigh, North Carolina, has the world at her feet. A rigorously planned birthday celebration brings her more than she bargained for when she meets Alex Dawson, a bar owner with a grief-stricken past. On the surface, she...

'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New Statesman. The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by...