**AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER**

**Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer**

'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him - until a chance encounter changed everything

Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderl...

'Gripping, mythic, bone-pulverising ... A spectacular achievement'

ANTHONY DOERR

'Jesmyn Ward is one of the greatest writers of all time. And Let Us Descend, once again, proves it'

JACQUELINE WOODSON

'Transcendent ... The best book I've read in years'

LOUISE KENNEDY

'Stunning ... Will grip you from the first word to the last'

NATHAN HARRIS

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The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand.

On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of he...

Brooke is thirty-three, resolutely single and slightly adrift. She wants her work and life to have meaning - and she finds it at the Asher and Carol Jaffee Foundation, where she's tasked with assisting an octogenarian billionaire in the noble quest to give away his hard-earned fortune.

When Asher Jaffee takes a special interest in Brooke, it's hard for her not to fall under his spell. He's attracted to her intelligence, her willingness to spar with him, her refusal to be deferential....

A young woman's life is forever changed in the summer after World War I when she befriends a group of independent, motorcycle-riding women in a seaside town on the English coast

'Written with great humour and compassion, it is an absolute delight' - PIP WILLIAMS

'An absolute joy of a book ... Historical fiction of the highest order' - ANN NAPOLITANO

It is the summer of 1919 and Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Now that all the men have returned from the front, she has been asked to g...