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After losing his career and sense of purpose, former architect Max spends his days staring at a vacant lot in the heart of Berlin, convinced that some places and people are too broken to rebuild. Everything changes when he meets Lena, a weary social worker who refuses to accept decay as the final state of a neighborhood or a human life. Together, they begin transforming the abandoned wasteland into a spontaneous community garden, planting flowers and vegetables in soil buried beneath decades of rubble and neglect. As the garden slowly comes alive, so do the people around it.

After her car breaks down along the rugged California coast, psychology graduate student Riley finds herself stranded in Big Sur at the exact moment her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Exhausted by academic pressure and the suffocating expectations of her influential psychologist father, she meets Ethan, a quiet mechanic who understands broken systems better than most people understand themselves. While repairing her damaged engine in a small coastal workshop, Riley begins questioning the future she has spent years building for someone else.

Julian never expected that coming home would feel heavier than leaving.After a decade chasing success in Chicago’s high pressure finance world, Julian returns to the small coastal town of Oakhaven, Maine. Burned out and uncertain of who he has become, he takes over his grandmother’s old...

Set in early twentieth century Switzerland, The Watchmaker's Daughter is a quiet and emotionally rich love story about two people who find connection in a world defined by duty and tradition. Eliza, the daughter of a master watchmaker, dreams of crafting her own timepieces instead of just observing them. Victor, a quiet apprentice with a secret past, works with steady hands and a heavy heart. As their bond deepens through ticking gears and shared silences, they are forced to confront the invisible barriers of class and expectation.

A musical prodigy and his mother spend years searching for each other in this beautiful, sweeping novel of hope, perseverance, and love, from Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices imprint Song is a nobody—just a food delivery worker from a village in Northeastern China—but her son, River, is...

Paris is a city that glows even in its darkest hours but for Julian the world has become a canvas of monochromatic silence. A former prodigy of the art world whose work was once celebrated for its explosive use of light he now lives in a secluded studio in Montmartre where the curtains are...

The village of Zermatt sits in the perpetual shadow of the Matterhorn like a secret whispered by the earth. Marc Vandervelt, once a world famous climber, now lives a quiet life repairing gear for tourists who do not know his name or the tragedy that stopped his world three years ago. His scars are not just on his palms but deep within his soul. When a professional photographer arrives at his cottage, she brings a connection that forces him to confront the silence he has built around himself.

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'A word-of-mouth smash hit' New York Times 'For anything to be truly good, there must be love in it. Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core.' One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he...

The New York Times number one bestselling title. Bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war. Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband...

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. 

Bloomsbury presents Whistler written and read by Ann Patchett FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING, PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE DUTCH HOUSE AND TOM LAKE 'One of the most beloved authors of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES __________ When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the...

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE PULITZER-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED ELIZABETH STROUT COMES A STUNNING STANDALONE NOVEL OF LOVE, LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGS Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting...

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On...

Finalist for the 2023 AUDIE AWARDS for Fiction Jodi Picoult is the author of 17 number 1 UK bestsellers. Now with Mad Honey she has joined up with co-author Jennifer Finney Boylan to give us the most compelling, challenging and contemporary novel you will read this year - and which will start...

REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2025! 'At once a gripping mystery, an exquisitely written ode to the natural world, and a taut, psychological thriller, Wild Dark Shore is a triumph. Charlotte McConaghy is masterful in her ability to show the intricate connections between place and...

In this Audible Exclusive production, Academy Award® nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) narrates one of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Sense and Sensibility. In this timeless tale of misguided romance and heartbreak, two teenage heroines must overcome the pitfalls of Georgian England’s high society in order to achieve the love and happiness they seek. The admiration that Pike has for Austen’s work is shown clearly through this passionate delivery of Austen’s first published novel.

The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift. ‘In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped cover…’ During the years of the Great Depression, Cressida Morley and her eccentric family live in a weatherboard cottage on the edge of a wild beach.

The beautiful new novel that will make you laugh and cry, from the global bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove. ‘A stunning, sweeping, extraordinary story of connection, love, and the unbreakable bonds that guide and shape us. Full of humour and heart, My Friends is simply...

'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow' A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy. 'Maggie O'Farrell is a miracle in every sense' Ann Patchett 'Maggie O'Farrell takes up a bow...

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events.