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Good Material (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Dolly Alderton || Penguin Books UK
The Vaster Wilds (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Lauren Groff || Penguin Books UK
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'Exhilarating' GUARDIAN
'Her writing has a timeless quality' THE TIMES
'[Has] a visionary quality' OBSERVER
A profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive
A servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief of everything that her ...
Four Seasons in Japan (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Nick Bradley || Penguin Books UK
From the author of The Cat and The City - 'vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell - a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway. From the very first page, Flo is transformed and immediately feels compelled to translate this forgotten novel, a d...
Honeybees and Distant Thunder (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Riku Onda || Penguin Books UK
The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami
- OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN
- WINNER OF THE NAOKI PRIZE AND THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD
- A MAJOR MOVIE RELEASE IN JAPAN
'A thrilling and often nail-biting depiction of music, friendship, and personal demons' OBSERVER
'Propulsive and poetic' KIRKUS
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Welcome to a magical world...
Small Worlds (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Caleb Azumah Nelson || Penguin Books UK
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL
Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems.
At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise. With his band, making music speaking not just to their hardships, but their joys. Grooving with his best friend, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. His youth, shame and sacrifice.
Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But wha...
The Seventh Son (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Sebastian Faulks || Penguin Books UK
'Genuinely thought-provoking’ THE TIMES
'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD
‘Faulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer’ GUARDIAN
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
Tech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London institute, a daring switch is made. Young academic Talissa Adam believes she is simply carrying a child for a grateful family, but the baby inside her is different from any living human. The boy, Seth, grows up...
Animal Farm (Heruitgave)
student reader edition
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Penguin Books UK
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Tom Hanks || Penguin Books UK
'A proper literary belter' THE TIMES
'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMAN
A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all.
Spanning eighty years and culminating in the opening of a film, we meet a cast of characters including a troubled soldier, a young boy with an artistic gift, an inspired and eccentric director, a pompous film star on the rise, a tireless product...
My Husband (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Maud Ventura || Penguin Books UK
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
PRIZE WINNER OF FRANCE'S FIRST NOVEL AWARD
'Riveting' OBSERVER
'Totally addictive' ALICE SLATER
'I couldn't put it down' JOHN BOYNE
From the outside, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she's never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated.
Determined to keep their relationship pe...
What You Are Looking for is in the Library (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Michiko Aoyama || Penguin Books UK
THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams.
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Sayuri Komachi is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it.
In this uplifting book, we meet five of Sayuri's customers, each at a different crossroads:
- the restless retail a...