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A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021 “Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.” —The Wall Street Journal Now Featuring an...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, “one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation” (Washington Post) takes on what’s become the country’s most resonant political issue. A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In...

Winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Achievement in Audiobook Production. "Throughout, narrator Dion Graham sustains an authentic cool. His voice subtly slows down, pauses, and cracks as Stone expounds upon his older years. It’s a kind of music unto itself." —AudioFile...

Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book...

A PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023 | An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023 | A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023 | A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2023 An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s...

‘What a page turner!' Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris ' A delicious Art Deco novel with a delightfully acerbic heroine.' Marius Gabriel, author of The German Daughter 'Original and immersive' Eva Glyn, author of An Island of Secrets In a bookshop nestled in the sprawling...

The instant New York Times bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail “Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times “Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." —Washington Post "Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.” —Los...

In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving account. At every stage of her life, Paris offers Marton beauty and excitement, and now, after the sudden death of her husband, Richard Holbrooke, it offers a chance for a fresh beginning.

From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) story of surgery’s development—from the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical research with vivid storytelling. There are not many...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 A darkly comic novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention from the author of The Torqued Man, set in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1939, just as the clouds of war are gathering, Richard...

Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.

When a boy is found dead with the skin of a hare’s head in his hand, everyone knows who killed him—Willis Newland, just released from prison after serving twenty years for an identical murder. But what if everyone’s wrong? Detective Colly Newland reluctantly agrees to investigate a case that seems to involve the whole town, including her dead husband’s extended family. But the deeper she digs, the more secrets she unearths.

'Brilliant and vivid world-building . . . riveting' CHAD STAHLESKI, director of John Wick 'A masterful blend of Sebastien de Castell's unique brand of wry humour, elegant prose, and wonderfully imaginative worldbuilding. I devoured this book and loved every page' NICK EAMES, bestselling author...

The perfect cosy Christmas novel to curl up with this winter, from Sunday Times bestseller Cathy Bramley. 'The perfect Christmas treat!' Sarah Morgan 'The perfect early Christmas present for yourself!' Sophie Cousens * * * * Can two complete strangers save Christmas? Christmas has always meant...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Witches Abroad is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

San Francisco, 1866: una monja irlandesa, embarazada y abandonada por un aristócrata chileno tras una apasionada relación, da a luz a una niña a la que llama Emilia del Valle. Criada por su cariñoso padrastro, Emilia se convertirá en una joven brillante de gran personalidad, autónoma e independiente, que desafiará las normas sociales de su tiempo para profesar su verdadera pasión y vocación: la escritura.

La gran voz de la narrativa femenina de nuestro país vuelve con La casa de huéspedes. Una espléndida saga de mujeres tan reales como la vida misma. Madrid, 1937. En el preciso instante en que una bomba cae sobre un edificio del centro de la ciudad, cerca de la Gran Vía, las vidas de dos jóvenes vecinas cambian para siempre. Elvira, cuyos padres regentan la casa de huéspedes ubicada en la tercera planta, se encuentra exiliada de la Guerra Civil en Francia en el momento de la explosión. Sin embargo, la desaparición del hogar al que tanto anhela regresar supondrá un punto y aparte en su destino.

Gijón, verano de 1929. Con apenas diecisiete años, Manuela entra a trabajar como criada en la mansión de los marqueses de Armayor. Rodeada de un lujo que contrasta con la pobreza de su aldea natal, la joven conocerá la arrogancia y el desamor, pero también el arte de la costura, al tiempo que entablará una amistad inquebrantable con la única heredera de la familia, Alexandra.

El día que la joven Aurora se vio obligada a trabajar en la mina tras el accidente de su padre, se juró a sí misma hacer lo que fuera necesario para salir de aquel infierno.

«Me encomendé al Diablo porque Dios en esto no hace el paro», nos dice una de las narradoras de los trece cuentos que conforman Perras de reserva, el genial primer libro de Dahlia de la Cerda, ganador del Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2019, que aparece ahora publicado...

Un periodista recibe la propuesta de investigar la vida de su bisabuela, Amelia Garayoa, una mujer de la que sólo sabe que huyó abandonando a su marido y a su hijo poco antes de que estallara la guerra civil española. Para rescatarla del olvido deberá reconstruir su historia desde los cimientos encajando, una a una, todas las piezas del inmenso y extraordinario puzle de su vida.