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Brought to you by Penguin. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board...

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Welcome to Soyangri Book Kitchen, where a woman leaves her busy life in Seoul to open a bookshop café in the countryside where guests can stay overnight. Perfect for fans of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, celebrating the power of books to heal. In a peaceful village...

The stunning new novel from the beloved bestselling author. A tragic accident leaves the tight-knit book club in the small seaside town of Fairweather reeling. Then stranger Tom McLysaght arrives in the community, and the members of the club find their lives changing in ways they never could...

Brought to you by Penguin. Ignored. Overlooked. But they're about to prove everyone wrong... Janet Pimm is used to being invisible. 70 something, with her beloved allotment for company, she simply doesn't need anyone else. But when the local council threaten to close the allotments, Janet will...

Witchy bookseller + grumpy professor = the perfect romance Lucy Ansari has a magical life. Literally — she’s a witch, managing a perfect little bookshop. And whenever she's a little lonely, she turns to Charles — her beloved, ageing boss — to keep her company. Disaster strikes when...

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR “[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare...

Beneath the surface of global trade lies a deadly black market built on ginseng - a prized root fueling ruthless deals and brutal betrayals. From smoky Hong Kong basements to Kentucky's backwoods hills, three powerful Dons rule an empire that spans generations and borders. But when buried secrets rise to the surface, everything begins to unravel. Power shifts. Allegiances shatter. And those who once were the hunters now find themselves the hunted.

In this spellbinding rom-com about a wish gone wrong, two opposites might just get a second chance at love—perfect for fans of Payback's a Witch and The Ex Hex. Ex-celebrity chef Sirena Caraway has had the wackiest October ever. Her cooking powers are on the fritz, she failed to land a...

Brought to you by Penguin. It is autumn 2004 and in a farmhouse on the hills outside Llandudno, a family endures the agonizing wait for their son to return from Iraq. His decision to join up has left them reeling, yet there are other pressing concerns to be met at home: the working of the...

“An entertaining page-turner.” —Kirkus Reviews on Met Her Match An inspiring family saga about two headstrong sisters who long to forge their own paths. It’s 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas, Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions...

Beneath the Mango Trees is a beautiful coming-of-age novel that transports readers to a small coastal village in Jamaica, where young Marley James lives under the warmth of her family's heritage and the wisdom of her beloved grandmother, Nana Liz. Every day, under the sprawling branches of an ancient mango tree, Marley hears tales of her family's past, deepening her connection to the land and culture that shaped them.

In Love's Dwelling by bestselling and award-winning Amish romance novelist Kelly Irvin, a man and a woman from two different worlds are brought together after a loss but circumstance may not be the only thing that keeps bringing them together. Young Cassie Weaver only wants what is expected of...

enguin presents the audiobook edition of Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper. There was nothing to do but tell stories. Tell this story. And then? Asked Cora. And then everything, said Finn. Newfoundland, Canada, 1992. When all the fish vanish from the waters, and the cod industry abruptly...

The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways.