Harper Collins

¿¿Escape for summer with this uplifting and gorgeous feel-good novel full of friendship, forgiveness and love, from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author!¿¿

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'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg'Extraordinary' Merlin Sheldrake'A must-read' New Scientist'Enthralling' George Monbiot'Brilliant' Philip Hoare

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.

'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow

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'Escapist, thrilling, unforgettable' Gillian McAllister

'The queen of the destination thriller is back with her best book yet' Claire Douglas

From holy cup comes holy light;

The faithful hands sets world aright.

And in the Seven Martyrs' sight,

Mere man shall end this endless night.

Like every nine-year-old girl, Meena can't wait to grow up and break free from her parents, but as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her daily struggle for independence is different from most. She wants fishfingers and chips, not just chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas, not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities - but more than anything, more than mini-skirts and the freedom to watch 'Opportunity Knocks', Meena wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang.

Written with great warmth and fun and just a hint of wistfulness, 'Anita and Me' is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Sixties, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of change.

"A marvellous crash course in Asian/Brummie culture. Funny, moving and packed full of wonderful surprises."
ESTHER FREUD, author of 'Hideous Kinky'

"God knows there have been enough memoirs of growing up in the Sixties, but Syal's account has a welcome freshness of perspective. She smartly catches the strangeness and violence of childhood, and skilfully evokes an almost vanished kind of rural working-class life. A promising debut."
GQ

"The crucial ingredient is Meena's relationship with Anita Rutter, local lewd flower, skinny of hip, vicious of nature and owner of a dog called Nigger. Best-friend-best-enemy stories have been done before, but this is a beautifully specific portrait."
CHARLOTTE O'SULLIVAN, 'Observer'

The author of the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science.

'This 5-star thriller is a non-stop action-packed adventure... Reads like the latest blockbuster film... I was left breathless, my heart pounding as I turned the last page' NetGalley review, ¿¿¿¿¿

You've cracked the Da Vinci code, now uncover the Vatican secret...

The beautiful and heartwarming new romance from Becky Albertalli, best-selling author of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

Winner of The British Book Awards 2023 Overall Book of the Year

"A game-changing book uncovering the myths and taboos around menopause" - The Guardian

"[Davina is] a perfect advertisement for midlife, an inspiration to us all." - Hello

"A revolutionary book" - Woman's Own

Winner of The British Book Awards 2023 Overall Book of the Year'We can't wait for this.' RedMenopausing is more than just a book, it's a movement. An uprising.

Midlife is a chrysalis, not a crisis.

'One of those rarest of books: so beautiful I almost couldn't bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears'  STACEY HALLS

'Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven' MIRANDA HART

'A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow' DINAH JEFFERIES

'Had me absolutely sobbing - a beautiful, beautiful book' JO BROWNING WROE, bestselling author of A TERRIBLE KINDNESS

'Worth every tear' WOMAN & HOME

'Exquisitely tender, powerfully compelling' SARAH HAYWOOD

'One of my new all-time favourite books - an absolute joy' JULIETTA HENDERSON

'Thoughtful, warm and engaging' CHRISTINA SWEENEY-BAIRD

'Honest, heartfelt and hopeful' MARIANNE CRONIN

'A joy to read' ANNE YOUNGSON

'A love song to women everywhere' ERICKA WALLER

MEET EVA MARTÍNEZ-GREEN, AN ONLY CHILD FULL OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HER BEGINNINGS.

Between her emotionally absent mother and her physically absent father, there is nobody to answer them. Eva is convinced that all is not as it seems. Why are there no baby pictures of her? Why do her parents avoid all questions about her early years?

When her parents' relationship crumbles, Eva begins a journey to find these answers for herself. Her desire to discover where she belongs leads Eva on a journey spanning decades and continents - and, along the way, she meets women who challenge her idea of what a mother should be, and who will change her life forever?

'A glorious journey into loving & longing' ANSTEY HARRIS

'Heartrending and heartwarming' CELIA ANDERSON

'Exquisite' JESSICA RYN

'A deep delight of a book that vibrates with love and longing' HELEN PARIS
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Praise for Joanna Glen's debut novel, The Other Half of Augusta Hope:

'A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion'GUARDIAN

'Entertains and moves in equal measure'DAILY MAIL

'Keep the tissues close'GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

'An irresistible message of redemption and belonging'RED magazine

'Heartening and hopeful' JESS KIDD

'Mesmerizingly beautiful'SARAH HAYWOOD

'An extraordinary masterpiece'ANSTEY HARRIS

'Reads like a feministWar and Peace. A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN

'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER

'Reads like a thriller'THE SUN

The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

Fall in love with Laurie Gilmore's #1 New York Times bestselling romance set in Dream Harbor, perfect for spring! ¿

'Never want this series to end!' ¿¿¿¿¿

'Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE

'Katabasis is more than a novel to savor. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS

'A witty, gorey, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO

A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever.

'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES

'Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD

'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN

With this rich, masterfully written extravaganza of myth and magic, the internationally acclaimed author of THE FIONAVAR TAPESTRY trilogy has created an epic that will forever change the boundaries of fantasy fiction.

Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into a coma and placed on life support. Days later - the night before New Year's Eve - the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John suffered a massive and fatal heart attack. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of 40 years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of this time of tragedy. The result is an exploration of an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage, and a life, in good times and bad.

"teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights" Observer

A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.

The joys of the world, one terrible map at a time - this is the ultimate gift book for the budding geographer or anyone who wants to have a laugh.

'I urge you to read Bad Habit'PEDRO ALMODÓVAR

'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word'DUA LIPA

'The book that everyone is reading'NEW YORK TIMES

'Sublime'ÉDOUARD LOUIS

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WHEN MR GRUMPY MEETS MISS SUNSHINE...

Restored from Tolkien's manuscripts to be arranged for the first time as a fully continuous standalone story, this prominent arc from "The Silmarillion" tells the story of a mortal man and his immortal elf lover in their attempt to rob the evil Morgoth of a Silmaril.

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth.

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.

Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril.

In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost.

'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE

'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR

'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANI

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely ... I was laughing out loud at the same time as my blood was running cold' JOHN CLEESE

'Viciously funny... an exhilarating satire' THE TIMES

'Merciless... a welcome distraction' ECONOMIST, Best Books of 2024

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely ... I was laughing out loud at the same time as my blood was running cold' JOHN CLEESE

'Viciously funny... an exhilarating satire' THE TIMES

'Merciless... a welcome distraction' ECONOMIST, Best Books of 2024

An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS AWARD

'A package of dynamite' Stephen King

'Powerful, compulsive, brilliant' Marian Keyes

An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher

ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER

Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher.

She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student.

Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. It was love. She's sure of that.

Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that happened, Vanessa has to redefine the great love story of her life - her great sexual awakening - as rape. Now she must deal with the possibility that she might be a victim, and just one of many.

Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessagoes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our age.

Previously adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood.

The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation. For still, the question remains - why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives?

This hypnotic and unforgettable novel treats adolescent love and death with haunting sensitivity and dark humour, and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time.

First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.

'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER

Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer

A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021

'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER

Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer

A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Cafecomes a #1 Sunday Timesbestselling grumpy x sunshine Christmas romcom!¿¿

'A charming break from reality' Publishers Weekly

'A delicate weaving of myth and history,The Witch and the Tsar breathes new life into stories you think you know' Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author ofFor the Wolf

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A deeply moving memoir, it gives an indepth analysis of a culture in crisis - that of the white working-class Americans. A "New York Times" No.1 bestseller, it has been described as 'The political book of the year' by the "Sunday Times"

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Find out where it all began for Pip in this prequel novella to the bestselling, award-winning A Good Girl's Guide to Murder,Good Girl, Bad Blood and As Good As Dead. Previously published in 2021 as a World Book Day title.

NOW IN PAPERBACK - THE STUNNING NO.1 BESTSELLING YA THRILLER FROM HOLLY JACKSON, AUTHOR OF NETFLIX'S A GOOD GIRLS GUIDE TO MURDER

Reissue of this hugely popular title from bestselling author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 'Immensely powerful' "The Times"

The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

The first book of the viral Dream Harbor series by #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Laurie Gilmore!¿

TikTok Made Me Buy It - Winner of the TikTok Shop Book of the Year 2024, Sunday Times and USA Today bestseller. As seen on Good Morning America!

¿A LOVE STORY TO DEFY THE GODS¿

¿The epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak from number one SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Rebecca Ross

In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord's evil dominion.

The breath-taking and heart-pounding final instalment in the New York Times bestselling fantasy series SHATTER ME.Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard and Leigh Bardugo.

All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written.

The greatest story can reach the stars . . .

Longlisted for the National Book Award. The epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr. Deftly interweaving the lives of protagonists Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE is his most ambitious and dazzling work.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE

A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet

'I loved it' Zadie Smith

'Brilliant, very funny' Guardian

'Prepare to feel very seen' I-D

On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous Internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in Internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.

Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York - or be anywhere in particular - she flees to Berlin, and embarks on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat social events, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms.

Narrated in a voice as seductive as it is subtly subversive, Fake Accounts is a wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity and authenticity in the age of the internet.

40 Years of Marriage.
8 Golden Charms.
One Man's Journey of Discovery.

"[A] charming, unforgettable story." - Harper's Bazaar

Having been married for over 40 years, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper is mourning the loss of his wife. On the anniversary of her death, he finally musters the courage to go through her possessions, and happens upon a charm bracelet that he has never seen before.

What follows is a surprising adventure that takes Arthur from London to Paris and India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met, a journey that leads him to find healing, self-discovery, and love in the most unexpected of places.

This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebellious factory worker Arthur Seaton and is introduced by Richard Bradford.

Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting hooligan, he knows what he wants, and he's sharp enough to get it.

Before long, his carryings-on with a couple of married women become the stuff of local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl and life begins to look less simple...

First published in 1958, 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' achieved instant critical acclaim and helped to establish Alan Sillitoe as one of the greatest British writers of his generation. The film of the novel, starring Albert Finney, transformed British cinema and was much imitated.

The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS and TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN.

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