Discover the emotional, funny, unforgettable BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, Amazon Best Book of 2025 and New York Times bestselling word-of-mouth sensation that thousands of readers are calling their favourite book of the year...
Over 30,000 five star reviews on Goodreads!
'THIS NOVEL IS A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION' Ann Patchett
'I WAS DELIGHTED AND MOVED . . . MASTERFUL' New York Times
'I CAN'T PRAISE IT ENOUGH. AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH' Clare Chambers
'THIS NOVEL IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER JOY' Ann Napolitano
'I DON'T HAVE ANY WORDS. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY' Reader review
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence
From “the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have” (Esquire), a “captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic” (The Baffler) novel about a man whose life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances.
Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers,…
Now adapted into a major film as THE CRITIC starring Ian McKellan
On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room.
Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she has seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed 'the Tie-Pin Killer' she realises that unless she acts quickly, more women will die...
Neither charismatic, brilliant, or beautiful, but under her rule England rose from the chaos of regicide, civil war and revolution to the cusp of global supremacy. She fought a successful overseas war against Europe’s superpower and her moderation kept the crown independent of party warfare at home. This book reveals Anne to be resolute, kind and practical, a woman who surmounted personal tragedy and poor health to come a beloved and effective ruler.
