New Trade Paperbacks - Fiction

From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.

In this viciously funny, darkly entertaining and ultimately moving read, the much-loved classic Vanity Fair finds itself in 90s London, and Becky couldn't be a more perfect fit. For fans of Curtis Sittenfeld's Eligible, Becky by Sarah May is impossible to put down.

In the segregated South, a young girl’s life is changed forever

'Society judges the person who falls into the trap, and not the other person, who is the abuser.' What makes a carnivorous plant trap you? How can we avoid it? How can we escape from it devouring us? For the protagonist it is already too late when she realises that she is completely trapped in a toxic relationship with Ibana (her partner).

Your house is on fire. What do you save? You have seconds to decide. If everything is about to burn, what do you rescue first?

The perfect next read for fans of Mexican Gothic, Tripping Arcadia is a page-turning and shocking tale with an unforgettable protagonist that explores family legacy and inheritance, the sacrifices we must make to get by in today's world, and the intoxicating, dangerous power of wealth.

A mesmerizing debut novel set in a tightly knit Pakistani American community where a young doctor gets an unexpected second chance with the first love she never got over when he becomes one of the most eligible bachelors in town.

Family life. Reputation. They took a lifetime to build and a second to wreck. This brilliant and timely novel explores sexual politics and the excesses of the contemporary art world, asking if the true artist must relinquish the ordinary human need for love and connection. Can the creative urge be the most destructive — even deadliest — impulse of all?

In this beautifully-written and meticulously researched historical novel, inspired by true events, the stories of real Irish women convicts weave through a fictionalised account of life and love on board Her Majesty’s prison ship Australasia, which berthed at the penal colony in van Diemen’s Land, in June 1849, with 200 convicts and twenty-eight children. Themes of love, cruelty, desperation, and survival against overwhelming odds, are explored within their political and historical setting.Historical fiction set in Kildare.

THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME

A novel concerned with sports, labor, growing up, and God, The Northern is a funny and heartbreaking book about the series of disappointments that characterize the progress of growing up.