Bestsellers

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist, darkly provoking and deeply romantic — this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated...

A magical poetic coming-of-age story, drawing on feminine power, Indian mythology and healing from bestselling poet, writer and artist Nikita Gill. Picked as as one of STYLIST'S *BEST AUTUMN READS...

Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019 Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently...

Inspired by real historical events, The Mercies is a breathtaking story of love, fear and obsession, and the strength and courage of women. On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around...

A faded list.Nine favourite stories.For two strangers, friendship is only a page away . . .When Mukesh Patel pops to the local library, forgoing his routine of grocery shopping and...

I’m not here to sugar-coat grief. I’m here to be transformed by it. This powerfully vulnerable book invites us to grieve. Having lost her mother at the age of nine,...

The Return of Race ScienceFinancial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the YearWhere did the...

The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows ItAre women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And can...

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's...

Unravelling unconscious biasUncovers the science behind our 'unintentional' biases using real world stories underpinned by scientific theories and research.For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr...

How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern BritainThe groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern BritainIn Britain, imperialism is everywhere — though we often choose not to see it....

On the choices of being a woman Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives. In a world where women...

Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of InjusticeA doctor and an economist explore the hidden links between health and structural injustices, and set out a radical vision for a fairer world.What...

‘Big-hearted, earthy and funny… A rattlingly good story' — Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold HotelWhen Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating...

In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert...

An urgent exploration of how the gendering of emotions came about, and what we can do to change these damaging stereotypes, by award-winning behavioural and data scientist Dr Prayga AgarwalHow...

‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly...

British-Punjabi sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina Shergill have never been close. But now they've been thrown together on the strangest family holiday of all time…When their mother died, she had...

Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s StrengthA groundbreaking book about women's strength, inspired by author Poorna Bell's journey to get physically strong after her husband, Rob, died and the huge...

Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.Bombay, 1950. For over a century,...

An eccentric and charming cookbook from Dishoom, with over 100 recipes from the much-loved restaurantsAt long last, Dishoom share the secrets to their much sought-after Bombay comfort food — the...

Set in Uganda in 1972, an extraordinarily moving debut that tells the story of one family’s escape, when Amin forces them to leave: a story of loss and separation, but...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023Bestselling author Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world — its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies...

From Kiran Millwood Hargrave, the bestselling author of The Mercies, The Dance Tree is a heart-stopping story of family secrets, forbidden love and women pushed to the edge. In Strasbourg,...

A ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Empireland 2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former...

A Memoir of Race, Family and HomeBrown Baby is a powerful exploration of fatherhood, grief, racism and hope. It is also a love letter to the author’s daughters that is...

‘The book I wish I’d written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next’ — Aravind Adiga‘Astonishing, absorbing, terrifying. Immensely good.’ — Philip Pullman‘Red Pill stands as a final blast of sanity...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out...

Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology.Consciousness is the great unsolved mystery in...

An Improvisation on Indian MusicBy turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music:...

Fearless verse to find your voiceFrom international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring...

80 brilliant, flavour-packed Indian recipes to make in 30 minutes or lessChetna Makan's bestselling cookbooks combine her creative flavour twists with a love of simple Indian home cooking. Taking inspiration...

Fast Easy Indian from the Mowgli Home Kitchen Spice-packed, punchy, fresh Indian-inspired dishes to get on the table in 30 minutes or under. This is the food that Nisha Katona,...

Chetna Bakes with Flavours of the EastChetna Makan is known for her unique recipes, which introduce colourful spices, aromatic herbs and other Indian ingredients into traditional Western baked favourites. Whether...

Around the world in 22 murders… MURDER. BLACKMAIL. REVENGE. From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New...

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and...

We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets.But now you know one of ours…Rules for being a maid:• No smoking• No boyfriends•...

A perfect miniature of a novel about arrivals and departures, new worlds and old homes.A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali...

The prize-winning debut fiction work by Amit Chaudhuri, the author whose 'languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all' (Salman Rushie).Abhi, a Bengali boy,...

A memoir of finding life after loss Poorna Bell was sold the fairytale of life. That love wins the day. That marriage is the rescue to an otherwise unhappy existence....

A history in three metamorphoses There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a...

Maximum flavour, minimum fuss from the creator of the 1.75 million copy-selling ROASTING TIN series 75 all-new vegetarian and vegan recipes to help you get delicious dinners on the table with Rukmini's...

  THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Things No One Taught Us About Love distils the ideas found in Vex King's Closer to Love, re-edited and presented in the warm, relatable style of his...

A groundbreaking and revolutionary look at the mixed-heritage experience by actor and filmmaker Jassa Ahluwalia 'This guy has better Punjabi than both of us and he's only half Punjabi.' Only....

From Abir Mukherjee, the award-winning author of the Wyndham and Banerjee series, comes a blistering contemporary thriller with a real message for our polarised times. Your kids are missing, accused...

A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedomsOur human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to enshrine...

The fourth instalment of the Kamil Rahman murder mystery series, THE SPY sees Kamil and his amateur-sleuth restaurant manager partner, Anjoli thrown into the midst of a terrorist plot ONE...

From the ashes of an empire, a hero will rise… Jai has spent his life forced to serve the cruel empire that killed his family and now rules his people....

A searing, deeply personal account of enduring a brutal attempt on his life, thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him - from internationally renowned writer and Booker...

One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on Earth. It's so easy, I thought, to...