Published By: PicadorPages: 128Released On: 01/10/2026 Tell me the worst thing you’ve ever done. On Christmas Eve, in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast, a man and a woman meet for the first time. As a snowstorm gathers outside windows twinkling with fairy lights, they share a meal, pour wine, propose a toast. Janice andContinue reading “The Winter Guest – Sarah Moss”
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Ply – Hernan Diaz
Published By: PicadorPages: 464Released On: 24/09/2026 Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher. Stealing electricity from the grid to power the downtown music scene she adores is a risky occupation, and the city she moves through is dangerous. Someone is following her. Soon, the pincher isContinue reading “Ply – Hernan Diaz”
How to Use a Fork: Stories of Mending the Broken Brain – Orlando Swayne
Published By: PicadorPages: 320Released On: 04/06/2026 In How to Use a Fork, the beautiful science of brain plasticity meets remarkable human stories of survival and recovery – the man who thought the mitten on his hand was a fish, the woman who thought her arm was a baby, the patient who found his way back toContinue reading “How to Use a Fork: Stories of Mending the Broken Brain – Orlando Swayne”
The News from Dublin – Colm Tóibín
Published By: PicadorPages: 272Released On: 26/03/2026 In the stories that make up The News from Dublin Colm Tóibín delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves. A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in theContinue reading “The News from Dublin – Colm Tóibín”
Fair Play – Louise Hegarty
Published By: PicadorPages: 288Released On: 03/04/2024 Abigail and her brother Benjamin have always been close. To celebrate his birthday, Abigail hires a grand old house and gathers their friends together for a murder mystery party. As the night goes on, they drink too much and play games. Relationships are forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kissesContinue reading “Fair Play – Louise Hegarty”
The Cat Who Saved the Library – Sosuke Natsukawa
Published By: PicadorPages: 224Released On: 10/04/2025Translated By: Louise Heal Kawai Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole other story. Thirteen-year-old Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library is a home from home and books have become her best friends. When Nanami notices books disappearing fromContinue reading “The Cat Who Saved the Library – Sosuke Natsukawa”
The Lantern of Lost Memories – Sanaka Hiiragi
Published By: PicadorPages: 224Released On: 22/08/2024Translated By: Jesse Kirkwood One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back . . . In a cosy photography studio in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. A kind man will hand them a hot cup ofContinue reading “The Lantern of Lost Memories – Sanaka Hiiragi”
The Burial Plot – Elizabeth MacNeal
Published By: PicadorPages: 336Released On: 06/06/2024 She wants him. He’ll take everything. London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie’s feet andContinue reading “The Burial Plot – Elizabeth MacNeal”
Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge – Lizzie Pook
Published By: PicadorPages: 336Released On: 01/02/2024 London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. ‘A tragic accident’, the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isn’t right.Continue reading “Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge – Lizzie Pook”
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth – Natalie Haynes
Published By: PicadorPages: 304Released On: 28/09/2023 We meet Athene, who sprang fully formed from her father’s head: goddess of war and wisdom, guardian of Athens. We run with Artemis, goddess of hunting and protector of young girls (apart from those she decides she wants as a sacrifice). Here is Aphrodite, goddess of sex and desireContinue reading “Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth – Natalie Haynes”
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