Narrative theme: Identity & belonging Books

By analyzing contemporary Les Miserables online fandom, how can we conceptualize fandom racism, especially when it complicates the typical and sometimes reductive narratives that assign racism to...

AN ANCIENT TOMB. A DEADLY CURSE. A RUTHLESS TREASURE HUNTER. ONLY THE LOST GUARDIAN CAN PROTECT THE PAST'S SECRETS IN THIS HIGH STAKES FANTASY After the death of his estranged grandfather, historian...

An unnamed narrator who has fled a set of friends she despised, who bring out the very worst in her and each other, finds herself once more sat at their dinner table for a single, hideous evening. ...

The Black Panther answers the call of rebellion in this thrilling prose adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' graphic novel: THE INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE OF WAKANDA. Lost to time, space, and legend, Wakanda's...

Award-winning author, Yrsa Daley-Ward's stylishly intriguing and experimental debut novel exploring family, fate and female fantasies. 'Totally original, entirely compelling and astonishingly well...

A stunning debut poetry collection from one of America's rising literary stars: 'A mesmerizing book, deeply original, one of the most profound reading experiences I've had in years' (Louise Gl ck) ...

An elegant hardback edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most acclaimed novels - a moving and stunningly original love story with a startling twist. As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy...

VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES: beautiful flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The lost novel from the author of The Second...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what' Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ...

A resonant new collection from the Forward Prize-winning poet Mona Arshi, giving voice to the marginal women of Greek tragedy to present fresh perspectives on war and migration today 'Wildly...

This recently rediscovered novel from the author of The Second Sex is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart. The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex When...

The lives of three teenage girls are torn apart by a secret in this gut-punch of a novel set in Doncaster in the early noughties - for fans of Eliza Clark and Megan Nolan Shortlisted for the Dylan...

**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK WOMAN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK 'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will...

A masterwork of modern Chinese literature, Taipei People is a collection of dark, wistful stories following the lives and losses of those who fled to Taipei after the 1949 Communist takeover of...

Award-winning author, Yrsa Daley-Ward's stylishly intriguing and experimental debut novel exploring family, fate and female fantasies. 'Totally original, entirely compelling and astonishingly well...

'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' MADELINE MILLER ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 ** PICKED AS ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' BEST PAPERBACKS OF 2023** CHOSEN AS A...

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a sparkling family story of love, betrayal and reunion Nell is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her...

A moving, blissfully escapist story of mothers and daughters, love and tortoises and finding home in the most unexpected of places What if your mother knows you better than you know yourself? 'A...

THE DESTINATION READ OF THE YEAR. Your paradise awaits ... Travel far enough and you might just find yourself - on the world's most remote tropical island 'A cast of characters who are endearing,...

The instant internationally bestselling outrageously unputdownable debut for fans of Bunny, Bat Eater and Yellowface 'An absolute masterpiece' STYLIST 'You'll enjoy this nail-biting life-swap ride...

The deeply moving story of the O'Connor family, its troubled past in the West of Ireland, and a love story of second chances from the Booker-longlisted author of How to Build a Boat THE INSTANT...

A radical novel on androgyny and double selves, from the author of BookTok sensation I Who Have Never Known Men. 'THE '90S GENDER SWAP NOVEL YOU NEED TO READ NOW' (NEW YORK TIMES), FROM THE AUTHOR...

The unmissable debut from the 2022 #Merky New Writers' Prize winner ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2025*** AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2025 WINNER OF THE #MERKY BOOKS...

The unmissable debut from the 2023/2024 #Merky Books New Writers' Prize winner WINNER OF THE #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE; A NEW NORTHERN MASTERPIECE. A SERVICE95 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 ...

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium. A book of the year for the New York Times,...

An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RT GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An...

A sweeping and heartfelt debut novel about alienation, belonging, and the power of love: to transcend languages, borders and time 'A testament to love's fortitude in a tumultuous world' MAIL ON...

For readers of Coco Mellors and Megan Nolan, a poised, vivid and deeply relatable novel about a young woman finding her way back to herself - from the author of 2019's buzz debut What Red Was ...

THE BIG-HEARTED BESTSELLING PHENOMENON THAT READERS ARE CALLING THEIR BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK A TOP 10 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE...

* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * 'A spectacular achievement' ANTHONY DOERR 'Extravagantly beautiful' DAILY MAIL 'One of the greatest writers of all time' JACQUELINE WOODSON 'Extraordinary' GUARDIAN...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake comes a stunningly beautiful tale about love, family and seeking a new life in the aftermath of tragedy Ebby Freeman's life has always been...

The Other Wife is a bold debut about race and class, love and nostalgia and learning to live with the life we have chosen Susan 'Zuzu' Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she's always dreamed...

An uplifting Christmas story of love and friendship for fans of Emily Henry and Josie Silver Christmas is a time for family, but what if you don't have one? For ten years Hannah and Finn have...

Eat, Pray, Love meets Carley Fortune in this gorgeous love story set on the shores of Lake Como, from the New York Times bestselling author Lake Como, New Jersey: Jess Capodimonte Baratta is...

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can solve...

A radical, joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Isabel Waidner In flight from a traumatic rural childhood, Corey Fah has come to earth in a one-bed council flat in the capital. Trapped,...

A poetry collection of epic scale and transformative vision from one of the most innovative American poets For over half a century, Jay Wright's poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the...

Nella Larsen's powerful first novel evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin,...

The Other Wife is a bold debut about race and class, love and nostalgia and learning to live with the life we have chosen Susan 'Zuzu' Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she's always dreamed...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Waking, I cry \"Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart.\"' In these exquisite stories from the genius of English...

WINNER OF WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR: A gripping, heart-shattering love story between two soldiers in the First World War It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood...

A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being,...

Readings Best Books of 2024, Fiction A tweet. A storm. A secret. A revelation. In this age of isolation, what brings six very different people together? Fi is about to get fired over a viral tweet...

Everyone's healing. No-one's happy.For years, Billy’s decisions have been made for her by long-term girlfriend Rose, leaving her free not to think for – or about – herself. But when they break up and...

Anthony Doerr’s brilliant new collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, and the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.Now includes...

the universal theme of a persecuted minority is here applied to the sufferings of an Italian immigrant family settling in a resentful Melbourne suburb. What the critics say: "A study of the...

For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.‘By far my favourite book of of the year’ Guardian One cold night, two newcomers emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York, and it is...

‘With pathos and swift, transporting prose, Natalie Gregory reveals a version of Thailand rich with counterculture, protest, and the lingering ghosts of those erased from collective memory’ Aube Rey...