Narrative theme: Love & relationships Books

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory and Bewilderment 'A love story of charm and substance, brimming over with ideas, yet anchored in emotional truth' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Powers has...

A beautifully sinister, propulsive page-turning adult debut that explores themes of obsession, identity and privilege, about a woman who takes a job as a cleaner - but what she's really after is...

'A beautifully written, gripping and moving novel about the lengths we will go to for the people who mean the most to us... I was utterly captivated, from start to finish' - Holly Miller *** If you...

'The novel Jane Austen would have written if Jane Austen lived in Brooklyn Heights' NEW YORK TIMES THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Searing, hilarious and poignant' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER...

'Wonderfully authentic, electrifying - there are dramas within dramas here and the unravelling is exhilarating when it comes' Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures 'You will not be able to stop...

A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live in it, falling apart. ...

Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder... Get ready for a claustrophobic, roller-coaster ride in 2025. MOST FAMILY REUNIONS END IN TEARS. THIS ONE WILL END IN MURDER. Lucy...

'The Watchful Wife is assured and engrossing. As our crisp, clear-eyed narrator with more than one cross to bear, Ellen guides us through a tangle of ethical and emotional quandaries that feel both...

Woody Brown's vibrant and profoundly moving debut novel takes us to sun-bleached California, to a daycare centre for Los Angeles's disabled community. Woody Brown's vibrant and profoundly moving...

A bold and electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times, from the critically acclaimed author of One...

'Beautiful, haunting.' LOUISE KENNEDY'Vividly real . . . There's love here as well as pain.' MARIAN KEYES'A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . . absorbing.' IRISH TIMES'I loved it.' LIZ...

A heart warming and irresistible Korean novel about the rejuvenating power of pottery, perfect for the growing trend in healing fiction. She rubbed the spoiled clay with her fingertips. Like a wound...

A deeply satisfying novel of sibling rivalry, sexuality and spirituality. Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger...

COMING SOON TO ITV! WINNER OF THE FINGERPRINT AWARD FOR THRILLER OF THE YEAR!  WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL CRIME FICTION! THE NEW CAUTIONARY TALE OF OBSESSION, LOVE,...

The rock legend tells the story of his wild ride with Martin Scorsese - as friends, adventure-seekers, and boundary-pushing collaborators - with all the heart of his New York Times bestselling memoir...

Bridget Jones is mad about the boy - the laugh-out-loud No.1 bestseller behind the hit new film starring Renee Zellweger and Leo Woodall. 'In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones' DOLLY...

How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris from multiple bestseller, Rose Tremain 'Gorgeous' Observer * 'Profoundly...

The beginning of a gorgeous new family trilogy, a story of their love, life and home, of their beginning and their ending, over fifty years and three generations. Every family has a story to tell...

'An unforgettable tale of friendship, love, courage and survival. I loved every word of this fantastically engrossing novel. Jenny Lecoat is an author to watch!' Bestselling author Kelly Rimmer on...

Five best friends must work together to cover up the murder of one of their husbands in this painfully relatable, darkly witty examination of twenty-first century womanhood. If Celeste Ng wrote 'Bad...

From the NYT bestselling author of WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS and SANDWICH. One family, one year and a novel that reminds us what it means to be beautifully, messily human. The NEW YORK TIMES...

The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy 'One of the most important, politically vital...

Celebrating 90 Years of Penguin Michael Joseph publishing the Mermaid collection: Fay Weldon's Down Among The Women with a foreword by Jenny Colgan \"Down among the women. What a place to be!\" So...

The epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his best novel since BIRDSONG The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth...

A heartbreakingly gorgeous and lyrically haunting debut novel about grief in the aftermath of baby loss and the power of queer love - perfect for fans of Julia Armfield, Sophie Mackintosh and Daisy...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible...

Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award How much should one person give to make the world a better place? How much can one family take? **The hilarious, thought-provoking...

Acclaimed author of CHLORINE, Jade Song, returns with her latest literary exploration of the Gen Z condition, I LOVE YOU DON'T DIE - a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of...

Selected as one of the Best Australian Fiction titles for 2023 by Readings Books Shortlisted, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, ABIA Awards Shortlisted, Fiction Award, South Australian Literary...

Alex and Leah meet at medical school and form an immediate and intense connection. Over the course of four years, they are caught in the push-pull of passion and betrayal, longing and reunion...

PRE-ORDER THE DEBUT COLLECTION FROM SPOKEN WORD POET DAN WHITLAM NOW! If you feel like you're running out of time, if you're grieving a relationship or worried you haven't yet experienced one, if...

From the multi million-copy bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop comes a beautiful novel of desire, self-discovery and new beginnings in Paris and the French coast One night in a Parisian...

What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it worked out? The genre-bending queer love story from an unmissable debut author What if you could rewrite your relationship,...

The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller 'Filled with the moments I live for in a story' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry '(Tom...

'Maybe we love people because they won't let us know them.' A summer's evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, showers or a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can...

Le Carre's singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful,...

A claustrophobic novel - like a pot boiling over - Piglet charts the gap between how people see themselves and want to be seen. Discover a deliciously dark and piercing story of food and secrets, a...

At her father's art exhibition, fourteen-year-old Tanja is introduced to Eg. Handsome and grey-eyed, he is a friend of her parents, a man who makes his living with words and sees something...

'This is a moreish reading experience, the type of book you'll want to gulp down in one breathless sitting.' The Guardian At a crossroads in their lives, a couple arrives in Greece to house-sit for...

Ernest Hemingway's last novel written before his death and his most autobiographical Hemingway's last major novel, set in the Gulf Stream islands, captures the struggles of adult personal...

A mortally funny debut novel of a mother's love that defies all odds, including death A mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all odds 'Transcendent and dazzlingly weird'...

Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a veritable prison where more patients are admitted than will ever leave. She is...

WINNER OF THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR 'Emma has captured something rare and true with this book. A truly original...

A story of a consuming first love haunted by European history and family memory, and inspired by real events An exhilarating debut novel about a life-changing romance in the long shadow of European...

Now a major Netflix Series, the Korean feminist satire by the award-winning, bestselling author, Kim Ryeo-ryeong **NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES, STARRING GONG YU AND SEO HYUN-JIN ** Read the...

A ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Carribean community, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life...

Nothing goes unnoticed on Ashdown Close... The darkly comic addictive new novel about friendship and envy from the Sunday Times bestseller Until recently, the most exciting thing that that happened...