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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONA masterful, exuberant novel from the acclaimed author of How to be both and the ongoing Seasonal quartet 'Ali Smith has got style,...

A sparkling satire from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly...

A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard How to...

A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'A...

A richly inventive collection of stories about our enduring love of books from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet...

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. 'Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to...

A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful and audacious' Independent Narrated...

A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'She's a genius, genuinely...

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE AWARD 'Joyous' The Times The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot...

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now....

Alla vigilia di Natale – un Natale insolitamente caldo e senza neve – Art, collaboratore dell'ufficio legale di una multinazionale e autore di un velleitario blog di nature writing, parte per la Cornovaglia,...

Nell'Inghilterra post-Brexit in piena pandemia, la pittrice Sandy Gray sta attraversando un periodo di sconforto, aggravato dall'angoscia per le condizioni del padre ricoverato in ospedale. Una sera,...

Elisabeth, ricercatrice trentenne presso l'università di Londra, torna nella cittadina di provincia dove abita la madre per stare accanto a un vecchio vicino di casa, Daniel, centouno anni, che trascorre...

Estate è il quarto volume della tetralogia di Ali Smith dedicata alle stagioni: romanzi che raccontano in tempo reale le crisi del nostro presente (la Brexit, il sovranismo, l'immigrazione, i cambiamenti...

Dans une Angleterre confinée et encore marquée par le Brexit, Sandy Gray est au chevet de son père. Un jour, elle reçoit l’appel d’une certaine Martina, une ancienne camarade de classe dont elle se souvient...

Sacha Greenlaw, 16 ans, et son petit-frère Robert habitent à Brighton avec leur mère. La jeune lycéenne est très engagée dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique, contrairement à son cadet qui...

Daniel Gluck, centenaire, ne reçoit pas d’autres visites dans sa maison de retraite que celles d’une jeune femme qui vient lui faire la lecture. Aucun lien familial entre les deux pourtant, mais une amitié...

Sophia Cleves a proposé à son fils Art - avec qui elle entretient des relations plutôt distantes - de venir passer Noël dans sa grande maison en Cornouailles. A cette occasion, il était prévu qu’il lui...

Le réalisateur Richard Lease a connu des jours meilleurs. Il n’est plus à la mode, et ne se remet pas de la mort de sa grande amie Paddy. Elle fut sa scénariste, son soutien et sa boussole. Ivre de chagrin,...

«L’una e l’altra» è un romanzo a specchio, composto da due lunghe novelle che si collegano e si richiamano a vicenda. Una è la storia di una ragazza che, nella Ferrara del Quattrocento, si finge maschio...

Intorno al lussuoso Global Hotel si incrociano i destini di cinque donne: Sara, una giovane cameriera morta accidentalmente all’interno dell’albergo; Lise, una receptionist dall’inattesa generosità; Else,...

Estate è il quarto volume della tetralogia di Ali Smith dedicata alle stagioni: romanzi che raccontano in tempo reale le crisi del nostro presente (la Brexit, il sovranismo, l’immigrazione, i cambiamenti...

Elisabeth, ricercatrice trentenne presso l’università di Londra, torna nella cittadina di provincia dove abita la madre per stare accanto a un vecchio vicino di casa, Daniel, centouno anni, che trascorre...

La famiglia Smart è in villeggiatura nella campagna del Norfolk, ma così come la casa presa in affitto è più squallida di come la descriveva l’annuncio immobiliare, il loro piccolo gruppo apparentemente...

Alla vigilia di Natale – un Natale insolitamente caldo e senza neve – Art, collaboratore dell’ufficio legale di una multinazionale e autore di un velleitario blog di nature writing, parte per la Cornovaglia,...

Richard è un regista televisivo ormai anziano; la sua migliore amica, la geniale sceneggiatrice con cui ha lavorato ai suoi film più belli, è morta da poco, e lui è stato ingaggiato per l’adattamento...

Nell’Inghilterra post-Brexit in piena pandemia, la pittrice Sandy Gray sta attraversando un periodo di sconforto, aggravato dall’angoscia per le condizioni del padre ricoverato in ospedale. Una sera,...

A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity...

«L'una e l'altra» è un romanzo a specchio, composto da due lunghe novelle che si collegano e si richiamano a vicenda. Una è la storia di una ragazza che, nella Ferrara del Quattrocento, si finge maschio...

"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom...

Readers love The Ingredients for Happiness! ‘A gorgeous summer read’ ‘Uplifting, funny, romantic and charming’...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

"'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'"When the Knight Bus crashes...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo,...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page!...

Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground...

By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

Pre-order Beth's epic new novel, SWEPT AWAY, now! 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' EMILY HENRYTiffy and Leon share...