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09/01/2026

Good news! The gorgeous cover of GOOD NEWS by Alexa Yasemin Brahme is yours to behold. Learn more in the People exclusive. Available May 5, 2026.

A young artist struggles to find her way in New York City while navigating strained relationships, the reappearance of an ex, and her burgeoning sense of self. A mess, of course, ensues. Perfect for readers of Lily King, Sarah Thankam Matthews, and Coco Mellors.

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31/12/2025

Thanks for another great year in the books! 📚 🌟

18/12/2025

Our Winter 2026 list is looking rather merry and bright! ❄️

05/12/2025

'Tis the season for ghoulish creatures, Krampus, and other wicked wintry monsters 💀 🎅

THE DEAD OF WINTER by Sarah Clegg is a gleefully creepy-guide that's a perfect stocking stuffer for horror and holiday fans. Available now wherever books are sold.

02/12/2025

"A perfect holiday read that will illuminate your Christmas tree in new ways!"* EVERGREEN is on sale today 🎄

Every December, millions of people around the globe adorn their homes, offices, and town squares with lavishly decorated Christmas trees to celebrate the holiday season. Yet few pause to wonder: Where did this tradition come from? And in an age of climate upheaval and artificial replicas, will these beloved trees still be here for future generations?

In EVERGREEN, Cornell University professor Preszler Woodshop weaves together a captivating story of humanity’s deeply rooted relationship with evergreens, revealing how the trees shaped economies, launched cultural movements, and propelled America’s rise to global prominence. With stunning historical range and lyrical insight, Preszler guides readers from the awe-inspiring evergreen cathedrals of the West to Christmas tree farms in the Midwest, sawmills in the South, the iconic Rockefeller Center spruce in the East, and beyond.

25/11/2025

Sixty-five years ago today, the Mirabal sisters—Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa, known as Las Mariposas—lost their lives for their opposition and resistance to Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. Through the art and imagination of Julia Alvarez, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression.
IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES gives voices to all four sisters, including the survivor, Dedé, as they tell their stories across the decades.

18/11/2025

Take an unforgettable journey with THE FERRYMAN AND HIS WIFE ⛵

The international bestseller by renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten is now available in English thanks to Alison McCullough's gorgeous translation.

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Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat.

His dog, dead these many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge – from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions. The people from the past accompany him now, prodding him, showing him what he might have missed before, as he waits for his Marta, his late, remarkable wife, to finally join him on the boat again.

THE FERRYMAN AND HIS WIFE is the story of a quiet, yet utterly profound, life told in reverse. Timeless and absorbing, this is a novel about what we take with us – those moments that might seem insignificant as they happen but prove to be the most meaningful, in the end.

11/11/2025

THE MAGNIFICENT RUINS is out in paperback today with a new look!

Named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review, a Notable Work of Fiction by the Washington Post, and recommended by the Los Angeles Times, People, and more, THE MAGNIFICENT RUINS is a wise, witty, and deeply moving debut.

05/11/2025

AMERICAN HAN by deserves a top-spot on your 2026 most-anticipated list. Coming 3.31.26 and available for preorder now.

Jane and her brother Kevin Kim embody the model minority myth until both depart from the path: Jane drops out of law school without telling her parents, and her brother Kevin gives up his promising tennis career and cuts himself off from the family. Their parents feel equally lost in a country that claims to support them and yet in which they can find no place. When Kevin goes missing, no one recognizes his absence as the warning sign it is, until it erupts in a moment that indicts them all.

Both deeply serious and absurdly funny, AMERICAN HAN is a story about striving and assimilation, difficult love, and family fidelity. A searing and probing portrait that challenges assumptions about the immigrant experience, Lisa Lee’s debut introduces a powerful new voice on the literary landscape.

04/11/2025

There's a lot more than pigeons in our city skies. BIRD CITY is now available! 🐦

For readers of WHAT AN OWL KNOWS and THE WORLD WITHOUT US, this infectiously impassioned tour of the five New York City boroughs offers city dwellers and bird lovers everywhere a surprising, delightful new view of the concrete jungle—through its abundant and diverse bird population.

23/10/2025

NESTING by has been named to the shortlist in *three* Irish Book Awards categories! 🌟🌟🌟

Voting is now open worldwide. Link in bio.

In this beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. Suspenseful and all-consuming, NESTING is a triumphant story about self-determination, family, and resilience.

22/10/2025

Read an exclusive excerpt of MISSING SAM, the new novel from bestselling author , courtesy of ! Link in bio.

One night after a party, old grievances surface between married couple Aliya and Sam and the night ends badly with a heated argument. Sam goes for a run early the next morning to clear her head—and doesn’t come back.

Aliya reports her wife missing, but as a gay, Muslim daughter of immigrants, she can’t escape the scrutiny and suspicion of those around her. Scared and furious and feeling isolated as strangers and acquaintances alike doubt her innocence, Aliya makes one wrong choice after another. She must fight to prove her innocence in the public eye even as she is torn between her fear that Sam is dead and her desire to find and save her wife. But is safety ever truly possible for them?

A provocative examination of suburban mores, Missing Sam captures the terror manifested in today’s political climate, and the real dangers, both physical and psychological, of being brown and q***r in America.

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