'A breakthrough book, A Woman Like Her  bracingly illuminates an increasingly global if yet under-covered phenomenon: the tragic collision between the forged selves of social media and the brute realities of ordinary life.'  Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger

A beautiful woman in winged eyeliner and a low-cut top lies on a bed urging her favourite...

1944, Barga.

An American soldier. An Italian girl.

Divided by loyalties. Brought together by war. 

Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Facsist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live?

As Germans occupy...

You shouldn't come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to hear it.

In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests.

Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a head full of stories. And she sees right away what the...

One of the most highly anticipated nonfiction debuts of the year

All Lina ever wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her?

All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?

All Sloane...

In the second instalment of Lynne Truss's joyfully quirky crime series, our trio of detectives must investigate the murder of a hapless romantic; an aristocratic con man on the prowl; and a dodgy Brighton nightspot...

It is summer in Brighton and the Brighton Belles are on hand to answer any holidaymaker’s queries, no matter how big or small. The...

The tense, tender must-read book of the summer – perfect for fans of Louise O'Neill and Sara Barnard.

‘You make me feel like there’s something good in the world I can hold on to,’ Aaron says. He kisses me again, draws me so close it’s almost hard to breathe. ‘I love you, Gem. And I promise I’ll hold your heart forever.’

When Gemma meets Aaron, she feels...

From the author of the Zoella Book Club-pick Letters to the Lost comes another emotionally complex, romantic story about two teens struggling to unpick the grey area between right and wrong, perfect for fans of John Green and Jennifer Niven Rob had it all – friends, a near-guaranteed lacrosse scholarship to college and an amazing family – but all that...

'An absolute gem of a book' Alastair Humphreys

Know how to tramp and you know how to live . . . Know how to meet your fellow-wanderer, how to be passive to the beauty of nature and how to be active to its wildness and its rigour.

Tramping is a way of approach, to nature, to humankind, to a nation, to beauty, to life itself. It is a gentle art and there is...

An exclusive extract from the outstanding new verse novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; poignant, thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores mental health and friendship while asking what it means to be a family.

I am not who I say I am,

and Marla isn’t who she thinks she is.

I am a girl trying...

As a teenager, Markus Torgeby turned out to be a very talented long-distance runner. It didn't take long before he was discovered by an enthusiastic coach who set very high goals. However, while Markus performed brilliantly in training, during competitions he often failed inexplicably.

The pressure of competition alongside the strain of caring for his...

‘This school is an amazing opportunity!’ said Mum.

‘You’re going to find new depths you never realised you had’.

‘I don’t want new depths,’ I said. ‘I like the ones I’ve got already.’

‘Those aren’t depths,’ said Ethan. ‘They’re shallows.’

You think Adrian Mole had problems? Just wait until you meet Sam.

Fifteen-year-old Sam isn’t special. He’s not a...

'This book! Swedish, confessional, shockingly honest about desire, love, loss. I've read it twice now and can't stop thinking about Carolina. Utterly compulsive' MARIAN KEYES

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

The last night, I fall asleep believing we have thousands of days ahead of us. We don't. This night is our last night.

One evening, Carolina says good...

The start of a fantastic new legal series, perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith, written by an acclaimed QC.

'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.'

When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and future of a world that is changing...

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Moor's Account, a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a...

'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' Guardian, Books of the Year '

So many novels are compared to The Secret History and The Talented Mr. Ripley in the digital age, but in this case it’s absolutely justified' Elle

Louise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES

SELECTED AS A SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES AND THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Revelatory' Guardian

'A miracle' Telegraph

'Remarkable' Daily Mail '

A landmark book' Financial Times

How do you build a life when...

Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to...

'By turns hilarious and heart-rending. Plunges fearlessly into the murky grey areas of race and family, of struggling to find common ground, of trying to talk to our children and help them make sense of it all'

Celeste Ng

'Who taught Michael Jackson to dance?'

'Is that how people really walk on the moon?'

'Is it bad to be brown?'

'Are white people...

The second book in the acclaimed new historical crime series, set in Victorian London and featuring a transgender protagonist, following on from the Richard & Judy Book Club 2019 pick 'The House on Half Moon Street'

It’s been a year since Leo Stanhope lost the woman he loved, and came closing to losing his own life. Now, more than ever, he is determined to...