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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.

‘incredibly tender’ marian keyes ‘a total triumph’ nina stibbe ‘beautiful, moving and so funny and well-observed’ philippa perry it is summer on magnolia road when juliet moves into her late mother’s house with her husband liam and their young son, charlie. preoccupied by guilt, grief and the juggle of working motherhood, she can’t imagine finding time to get to know the neighbouring families, let alone fitting in with them. but for liam, a writer, the morning coffees and after-school gatherings soon reveal the secret struggles, fears and rivalries playing out behind closed doors – all of which are going straight into his new novel . . . juliet tries to bury her unease and leave liam to forge these new friendships. but when the rupture of a marriage sends ripples through the group, painful home truths are brought to light. and then, one sun-drenched afternoon at a party, a single moment changes everything. the fiction debut from sunday times bestselling author cathy rentzenbrink, everyone is still alive is funny and moving, intimate and wise; a novel that explores the deeper realities of marriage and parenthood and the way life thwarts our expectations at every turn.

A stolen destiny. an impossible quest. they survived the dark. but can they trust the light? kara valari and maximus kane have been to hell and back, fighting for their love and their lives. but the path back to normal isn’t as easy as they hoped. a dormant secret in kara’s blood has been awakened, and she needs the help of a goddess to learn its full potential—but also its hidden dangers. shielded from the world in the magical enclave of iremia, the lovers reunite with all the fires of their first passion. but as they bond tighter to each other, kara learns that the underworld has targeted her family in terrifying ways, and the safe world around them starts to splinter. unenamored by iremia’s promises of enlightenment, maximus unravels more of the mysteries—and the powers—that are lurking behind the scenes. but to find his and kara’s true allies, he is forced to seek out his enemies and rewrite his thinking on good and evil. caught in a web of gods, demons, and magic, maximus and kara must build stronger bridges to each other and, as a wave of deeper truths heads their way, have faith that the ramparts of their love will hold.

They’re young, fabulous and fanged. . . and they rule manhattan from the trendy uptown clubs to the downtown boutiques. fifteen-year-old schuyler van alen has never quite fit in at her exclusive prep school – she’s more of a vintage than a versace girl – but all that’s about to change. . . because schuyler has just found out she’s a blue blood. the blue bloods are the city’s glamorous – and secret – vampire elite. they’re young, beautiful and powerful. but now they’re being murdered. and schuyler must find out who – or what – is behind it before she’s next.

Shortlisted for the man booker prize 2017 and the pfd/sunday times young writer of the year award winner of a somerset maugham award and the polari prize ‘a quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable’ the economist ‘a cleverly constructed rural gothic fable . . . elmet is a marvellous achievement’ tls ‘pastoral idyll, political exposé, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional children’s story that turns into a gangster film: hansel and gretel meets the godfather’ sunday times daniel is heading north. he is looking for someone. the simplicity of his early life with daddy and cathy has turned menacing and fearful. they lived apart in the house that daddy built for them in the woods with his bare hands. they foraged and hunted. cathy was more like their father: fierce and full of simmering anger. daniel was more like their mother: gentle and kind. sometimes, their father disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes. but when he was at home, he was at peace. he told them that the little copse in elmet was theirs alone. but that wasn’t true. local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. all the while, the terrible violence in daddy grew. brutal and beautiful in equal measure, elmet is a compelling portrayal of a family living on the fringes of contemporary society, as well as a gripping exploration of the disturbing actions people are capable of when pushed to their limits.

1940: the spanish civil war is over, and madrid lies ruined. into this uncertain world comes harry brett: a traumatised veteran of dunkirk turned reluctant spy for the british secret service. in a depiction of wartime spain, this work is a tale, which offers a sense of history unfolding, and the impact of impossible choices.

Crossing decades and continents, sparkles is the totally compelling story of the massot family. fabulously wealthy, internationally adored, the massots own one of the last great aristocratic jewellery firms in paris. but where is its owner pierre, missing presumed dead for 15 years? and what will happen to his beautiful young widow sophie? the answers lie rooted in the past and form part of the future – in a way no-one could ever have guessed…