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New york billionaire adam gold is moving to london. he’s sexy, single and about to come face to face with the gold diggers. karin the jet-setting swimsuit entrepreneur and london’s most glamorous socialite. erin the naive country girl who snares the job as adam’s pa. but the bright lights and obscene money threaten to lose her everything she once held dear. molly, a fading eighties supermodel with an expensive drug habit. summer is molly’s daughter. a burgeoning beauty living in the shadows of her famous mother. packed with intrigue, murder and scorching betrayal, gold diggers will reel you in and never let you go.

Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in western europe. trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore – yet it is considered uncool to care about them. for matthew engel the railway system is the ultimate expression of britishness. it represents all the nation’s ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering and even sexual repression. to uncover its mysteries, engel has travelled the system from penzance to thurso, exploring its history and talking to people from politicians to platform staff. along the way engel (‘half-john betjeman, half-victor meldrew’) finds the most charmingly bizarre train in britain, the most beautiful branch line, the rudest railwayman, and – after a quest lasting decades – an individual pot of strawberry jam. eleven minutes late is both a polemic and a paean, and it is also very funny.

From sunday times bestselling author paige toon comes a heartrending tale about three sisters—identical triplets—who all fall in love with the same man. even though identical triplets pheobe, eliza, and rose look exactly alike, they couldn’t be more different from one another. phoebe is caught between a rock and a hard place. settle down and get married, or return to the french alps to pursue her passion? eliza is in love with someone who is no longer hers. in fact, he probably never was… and her dream of becoming a successful musician seems to be vanishing before her eyes. rose is out of a job and out of a boyfriend. to make matters worse, she’s been forced to move back in with her mother… but these very different girls have one thing in common. angus. the one they all fell in love with…and now sisterhood and sibling rivalry just got very complicated.

It’s 1985 and brian jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition – to make it onto tv’s foremost general knowledge quiz. but no sooner has he embarked on ‘the challenge’ than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, alice harbinson. when alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. he’s going to win the game, at any cost, because – after all – everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . . starter for ten is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years?

Bernadette fox is notorious. to elgie branch, a microsoft wunderkind, she’s his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. to fellow mothers at the school gate, she’s a menace. to design experts, she’s a revolutionary architect. and to 15-year-old bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum. then bernadette disappears, and bee’s search for her mother reveals an extraordinary woman trying to find her place in an absurd world.

Under normal circumstances, izzie and maddy would never have met. their lives are a million miles apart – izzie is bohemian and skint, maddy is gucci-clad and loaded. but, thanks to their respective husbands’ careers, both have been dumped into the english countryside, fish out of water with five young children between them. thrown together at a ghastly women’s lunch, they quickly discover a shared longing for mucky london streets and the residents’ parking permits they’ve left behind. when tragedy hits and maddy’s world collapses, they have to make money fast. a chance discovery leads this unlikely partnership to launch a natural cosmetics company from the kitchen table, with consequences beyond their wildest imaginings. then the media spotlight turns on them, and maddy and izzie have to give up all they hold dear to embrace a lifestyle they hate. but just how far are they prepared to go?

Destiny brought them together. the gods will keep them apart. when shy, awkward helen hamilton sees lucas delos for the first time she thinks two things. the first: that he is the most ridiculously beautiful boy she has seen in her life. the second: that she wants to kill him with her bare hands. with an ancient curse making them loathe one another, lucas and helen have to keep their distance. but sometimes love is stronger than hate, and not even the gods themselves can prevent what will happen…

The sunday times bestseller book of the year at the british book awards shortlisted for the costa first novel award longlisted for the women’s prize for fiction ‘brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking’ jojo moyes ‘a must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all’ candace bushnell, author of sex and the city queenie is a twenty-five-year-old black woman living in south london, straddling jamaican and british culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. she works at a national newspaper where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about black lives matter. after a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places. as queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, what are you doing? why are you doing it? who do you want to be? – the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them. a darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. a disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.