An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024

'A simmering debut, heady with the possibilities of language and the righteousness of female rage'

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies

'Lush and dreamlike - a sweltering novel, where the sunlight pulses with nightmarish dread'

Colin Walsh, author of Kala

'A modern-day Dionysian cult of women in the woods - haunting and exhilarating'

Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne

'Emma Cline's The Girls meets Lord of the Flies . . . compelling, cult...

An explosive new thriller from #1 bestselling author Joanne Harris, her first standalone for over a decade

The Secret History meets horror meets Jonathan Safran Foer - with a dash of The Royal Tenenbaums.

An exciting debut novel about a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.

Intriguing, propulsive and profoundly disturbing, this is a fearless look into the dark heart of family politics from a naturally gifted storyteller' JONATHAN COE

THE ROSENTHALS ARE NOT LIKE OTHER FAMILIES

Hannah and Eric are devout Jews living in North London with t...

'I loved it' Maggie O'Farrell

I loved this fresh take on the gothic genre. Vivid, haunting, surprising' STACEY HALLS

'A full-blooded gothic mystery with bite, great characterisation and heaps of atmosphere' EMMA STONEX

1852. Margaret Lennox, a young widow, is offered a position as governess at Hartwood Hall. She quickly accepts, hoping this isolated country house will allow her to leave the past behind.

Margaret soon feels there's something odd about Hartwood: strange figures in the dark, tensions between servants and an ...

'For fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett, this quietly beautiful book will break, then mend, your heart' Amazon, The Best Books of 2023

WINNER OF THE 2023 BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION

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One family’s deepest pain. Another family’s darkest secret.

On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi’kmaq ...

The enthralling tale of a powerful Greek goddess maligned in both myth and ancient history, as told by Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Saint.

'A brilliant read' Women & Home | 'A spirited retelling' Times | 'Beautiful and absorbing' Fabulous | 'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology' Harper's Bazaar | 'Jennifer Saint has done an incredible job' Red

When Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronus, helps her brother Zeus to overthrow their tyrannical father, she dr...

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...

A luminous novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, addiction, redemption and connection.

When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has always struggled to see past himself. But then a call from his ex makes him fear their ...