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FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 'There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them.' The Observer ‘A...

'DEEP, SUMPTUOUS, AND ASTONISHINGLY BEAUTIFUL' HANNAH KANER 'THRILLING AND FEROCIOUS' ELIZA CHAN 'GORGEOUSLY LUSH AND HEARTFELT' GEORGIA SUMMERS 'BREATHTAKINGLY IMAGINATIVE AND POWERFUL' HOLLY RACE ✨A RAGTAG CREW. A PERILOUS QUEST.✨ A pirate faces the gallows drop. A farmer is given a...

For fans of DAISY JONES AND THE SIX, EUPHORIA, and LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE, DARKENING SONG is a fiercely feminist debut about two young women; one a recording artist failed by the industry which made her an idol, and the other her ambitious manager, forced to make an impossible choice between...

Brought to you by Penguin. Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She’s living her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve...

Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble. Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King's ward, she has spent the past ninety years running errands, dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers...

Hattie has spent half her life secretly crushing on Freddie – her best friend Sam's irresistibly gorgeous older brother. But Freddie? He's barely spared a glance for Hattie, the girl Sam befriended one fateful New Years' Eve when they discovered they were birthday twins. Fast-forward to now: Hattie finds herself single for the first time in years – just before the holidays. Enter Sam, who, in classic best-friend fashion, whisks her away to a remote cabin in the Forest of Dean to cheer her up. Snowy woodland views? Check. A crackling fire and a steamy hot tub? Check.

Hazel and Marc were paired together on revolutionary new reality TV show Soul Mated, in which sophisticated AI matches hopeful lovers based on its perceptive algorithms. But when it came time to say I Do on camera, Hazel couldn't go through with it, leaving her perfect match at the altar, his family furious and the whole TV production in jeopardy. Now all she wants to do is fly home. Instead, she's trapped in a tiny isolated airport that's been ground to a halt amidst a massive snow storm... with her ex and his obnoxiously rich family sitting at the gate with her.

Ruby has spent her twenties scraping by in unfulfilling jobs. But now she's tasting her first success as a film director – and she's caught the eye of Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist filmmaker, critical darling and Ruby's idol. When Ellen invites Ruby down to her sprawling country house and offers to mentor her through writing her next film, Ruby can't believe her luck. Arriving in the middle of an oppressive heat wave, she is overawed by the glamour of the house – and finds herself quickly drawn into the middle of a dangerous dynamic between Ellen and her elusive daughter Lara.

All's fair in love and magic. Gwendolynne Chan just needs to get through her final year. At Seamere College of Magical Veterinary Sciences, she spends her days using her powers to heal companion animals while her nights are spent studying for exams. As the star pupil of the magical familiars...

While the years rewind from 2040 back to 2014, Shanghailanders brings listeners into the shared and separate lives of the Yang family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter, and through the eyes of the people in their orbit-a nanny from the provinces, a private driver with a penchant for danger, and a grandmother whose memories of the past echo the present. As they build their lives in this old, futuristic city, we see Leo, his wife Eko and their daughters Yumi, Yoko and Kiko trip over their own desires in their bids to connect with one another, in their attempts to be a family.

New girl in town Jenny is thrilled to make three new friends who share her love of music. They form a band called THE SPELLCASTERS, but when an ancient evil spirit escapes from its underground lair, the girls discover that they have something even more special in common - they can all channel the magical powers of their ancestors! Maya can shapeshift, Tamzin can control nature, and Ananya can read minds. But to stop the evil Graydig from destroying their beloved community centre, Jenny must travel back in time to ancient China to master her own supernatural ability.

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time—beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past—exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.

Read by Mei Mei MacLeod. The only person harder to match than her clients . . . is the matchmaker herself. The Matcha Maker Café is a sweet, small-town slow-burn romance set in a charming matcha cafe, perfect for readers who love Laurie Gilmore, B.K. Borison and the gentle magic of Before the...

Explosive and timely, DEAR DARLING cuts to the heart of a conversation – and gives a woman her voice. An unforgettable novel for those who loved My Dark Vanessa and Half His Age. ‘A seriously impressive new talent’ CHRIS WHITAKER 'A deeply moving character study of a woman in flux’ LISA...

'Blending behavioral science with real-world insights, Your Next Move is a practical, inspiring guide to navigating career and life transitions with purpose and strategy.' Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Take control of your future with five proven rules to negotiate life on your terms. In today’s...

Jenny and her friends don't only share a love of music - the four girls have discovered they have magical powers passed down from their ancestors, and only they can fight back against the evil forces threatening to destroy their community! It's almost time for the Hindu festival of Holi - a...

Being a woman in your thirties and beyond is challenging enough when your brain works the way society expects-throw ADHD into the mix, and it's a whole new ballgame! Written by Laura Kerbey with charming illustrations from Eliza Fricker and quotes from other ADHD woman from across the world...

Meet the Spellcasters, who can change the world with their ancient magic and girl power! Four friends channel the magical abilities of their ancestors to protect their community in this empowering, action-packed new series for listeners aged 7+.

Now a Minister of Hell, Lady Jing is mind-numbingly bored. All she wants is to escape yin Shanghai and spend time with her mortal beau Tony Lee. So when a visiting Irish deity turns up boneless and drained of qi, Jing offers to deliver him to his pantheon's healer in Paris. Accompanied by Tony...

Jenny and the rest of the Spellcasters are thrilled to be going on an adventure trip to the woods at half term - they can't wait to try out all the activities and have fun telling spooky stories round the campfire . . . and perhaps they'll have a chance to practise their new magical powers. But it's not long before strange things start happening, and the girls discover a local legend about a pack of werewolves that terrorised people in the woods long ago. Then Maya's shapeshifting power goes wrong, and it looks like she's transformed into a werewolf for good.