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Booker Prize Winner 2024 | Orbital, Samantha Harvey | Prize Winning Books to read 2024
We’re over the moon that Orbital has WON the #BookerPrize2024!⁠ ⁠ Huge congratulations to Samantha Harvey 👏 👏 👏⁠ ⁠ A slender but powerful novel full of hope, love and beauty, it’s an incredible read, and a thoroughly deserving winner.⁠
Slow Dance, Rainbow Rowell Book | New Rainbow Rowell Book 2024 | Love Stories, Romance
Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary. Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. And what will happen when they try to make their way back to each other.
The best books out this month | New Books July 2024 | Best Books to Read Now
New fiction and non-fiction releases from Lisa Jewell, Irvine Welsh, Keanu Reeves, Alice Liveing, and more.
The best new paperbacks to read this summer | New Books to Read 2024 | Books to Read This Summer
From romance to memoir to crime, discover the latest page-turning paperbacks that will have you hooked
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing | Feminist Literature | Essay Collections
'The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history to discuss the meaning and practice of feminism. This is a book that every person should read: the multiplicity of voices from various times and spaces allows women of the past alongside women of the present to be noisy about why feminism matters. It is a collective masterpiece' Helen Carr, BBC History, Books of the Year
Beautiful Star, Yukio Mishima | Translated Japanese Fiction | Japanese Books
Translated into English for the first time, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. This extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together, and convinces them that they have a mission: to find others of their kind, and save humanity from the imminent threat of the atomic bomb...
Lies and Weddings, Kevin Kwan | New Books 2024 | Books Like Crazy Rich Asians
Taking us from the sand beaches of Hawaii to the skies of Marrakech, from the glitzy bachelor pads of Beverly Hills to the inner sanctums of England’s oldest family estates, Kevin Kwan has written a juicy, hilarious and sophisticated tale of love, money, murder, sex, and the lies we tell about them all.
Scripted, Fearne Cotton Book | Funny Books | Books About Love and Relationships | New Books 2024
Jade Shaw has lost control. The last place she expects to find answers is on the floor outside her flat. But there it is: a mysterious, untitled script, predicting an infuriating row with Adam. Later, as if by magic, the scene becomes reality: word for word, line for line, with Adam getting his own way. Having been given a sneak peek at her future, Jade knows she needs to rewrite her destiny. Can she create her own happy ever after?
Best Coming of Age Novels | Good Books for Young Adults | Readers Favourite Books
Coming-of-age novels: a genre of enduring popularity, and for good reason. What better way is there to experience life in its most vivid, angst-ridden form?⁠ ⁠ A while back, we asked our followers on social media to share their favourites. We were quickly inundated with recommendations, everything from nineteenth century epics to queer classics to sensational millennial love stories.⁠ ⁠ Here are some of the most popular picks 👉⁠
Best Coming of Age Novels | Good Books for Young Adults | Readers Favourite Books
Coming-of-age novels: a genre of enduring popularity, and for good reason. What better way is there to experience life in its most vivid, angst-ridden form?⁠ ⁠ A while back, we asked our followers on social media to share their favourites. We were quickly inundated with recommendations, everything from nineteenth century epics to queer classics to sensational millennial love stories.⁠ ⁠ Here are some of the most popular picks 👉⁠ ⁠
Penguin Classics | Books to read in Summer | Summer Classics | Classic Novels | Summer Reads
We've handpicked some of our favourite reads for this season, from an iconic compulsive thriller set in the back streets of Istanbul to a classic in travel literature that will take you from the rolling hills of the Cotswolds to the southern tip of Spain.⁠
New Paperback Books to Read 2024 | New Zadie Smith | The Fraud | Historical Fiction Books
In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew Bogle as star witness.
New Books to Read 2024 | Summer Novels | Books to read in Summer | Welcome to Glorious Tuga
A complete and vivid world to escape to, Welcome to Glorious Tuga celebrates a fictional island, and the warm-hearted families who live there. Enchanting, uplifting and very funny, this is a captivating novel about love, belonging, and what it really means to come home.
New Books to Read, 2024 | Table for Two, Amor Towles | Short Stories, Novella | Books Set in NYC
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.
New Books to Read, 2024 | Sweetness in the Skin, Ishi Robinson | Coming of Age Stories
Pumkin Patterson dreams of a life beyond her Jamaican hometown. But what we dream of and where we belong aren’t always the same thing…