Bestsellers

'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?' Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She...

*Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize* *Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize*A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them. A...

A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures You can’t choose who you fall in love with, they say. If only it were that simple. Growing up in Walsall in the...

A smart, contemporary literary thriller from critically-acclaimed author Imran Mahmood one of the genre's most striking new voices A woman strangled in a Mayfair flat. A man fleeing the scene....

An unforgettable debut novel about first love, family obligation and finding your way. In the wake of first heartbreak, Nur somehow meets his perfect woman. Yasmina is bright, beautiful and,...

From the internationally bestselling author ofExit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has...

From an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choice Anyone alive today...

Water for Elephants meets Moulin Rouge in this spellbinding tale of a beautiful carousel that causes people to inexplicably vanish into thin air . . . Paris, 1900 Carousel-maker Gilbert...

Dancer. you should call me by my true name. I'm an executioner.  Aasira can remember little of her life before the Temple, a school for dancers deep in the desert....

'Insightful, passionate, piled with facts and has a warm, infectious love for theatre and Shakespeare running through every chapter' Adrian Lester, CBE Professor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the Bard,...

Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves...Banshees — a howling night-witch and harbinger of death; She-devils — Lilith and her daughters; or...

A powerful exploration of the clash between society, friendship and power - from the internationally bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize 'A profound novel about friendship. I...

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school that boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret,...

'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice...

A complex, vibrant novel about a man in extremis, and the forces that drive him to the ultimate act of desperation A suicide bombing is being planned in Manchester, and...

'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times'Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled - Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness' - Guardian'Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping' -...

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin...

From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysedOn Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came...

London, 1970 Joyce, fresh out of secretarial college, answers an ad in the local paper for a fellow traveller needed to fill a car going on the hippy trail. Arriving...

A brilliantly compelling domestic suspense from a rising star of the crime fiction world, and the man behind BBC/Netflix smash hit, You Don't Know Me Sophie King is missing. Her parents,...

From fresh new voice Aliya Ali-Afzal, Would I Lie to You? is a page-turning, warm and funny debut about what happens when you have your dream life – and are...

Life and Death in a Contested City A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out — from an electrifying new voice in...

A searing, gritty debut crime novel with a resourceful and unforgettable heroine who must make her way in a man's world Be twice as good as men and four times...

A food-lover's guide to digestive health and happinessThe book will take you on a joint culinary and scientific journey through the gut. It is an unapologetic celebration of what I...

'A book full of flavour and colour from a writer I love' – Anna Jones 'Pure poetry and joy' – Meera Sodha 'Such a beautifully inviting book' – Nigella Lawson...

BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A magnificent novel- beautiful, terrible, true _x2026_ It reads already like a classic' - Ali SmithShortlisted for the Baileys Women s Prize for...

'A richly woven novel ... The voice that guides us around this world darts with wit and lightness in a way that is unique and often lovely' - Rana Dasgupta, Guardian'The plot...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMESFor girls, becoming women was...

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALISTSHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years’ SATHNAM SANGHERA ‘Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal,...

"Effortlessly charming and deeply moving, The Girlfriend Act has so much heart and humour" - Ann Liang, author of If You Could See The Sun Aspiring actress Farah Sheikh is...

 YA Romance Debut about family, fame and first love- For fans of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry (for the juicy secrets and blackmail), Gossip Girl (for the elite school setting) and My Mechanical Romance (for...

Jia Khan must fight to stay on top when secrets from the past are revealed. The brilliant, tension-filled follow-up to the bestselling Times and Guardian Crime Novel of the Year. ‘Thrilling.’ The Times ‘Unputdownable.’ Erin Kelly...

A funny, heartwarming and page-turning novel about a British-Asian mother and daughter, who clash over the plans for the bride's Big Day.Noor has no interest in getting married (much to...

The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: an engrossing story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal Hana has a perfect job, a perfect home, a...

The essential collection of Hanif Kureishi's finest literary essays and fiction. Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too...

A powerful, gripping thriller about a young man on trial for murder — Now a major BBC series.A young man stands accused of murder. The evidence is overwhelming.But at his...

Is the truth as simple as black and white? Mark My Words is the searing novel from Branford Boase Award-winner and 2020 World Book Day author Muhammad Khan, asking who...

Now a major motion picture titled Blinded by the Light, directed by Gurinder Chadha, a charming memoir of growing up during the eighties as both a Pakistani Muslim and Bruce...

Structural Racism and How to Fight ItA powerful intervention roundly debunking the myth of progress in racial equality — particularly in the workplace — and offering a blueprint for the...

A new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays. This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the...

From the author of BBC/Netflix sensation, You Don't Know Me, comes an unputdownable, twisty thriller that will keep you gripped — and constantly wrong footed. I didn't kill her. Trust...