2026

'Dark, smart, strange, compelling - and tremendously French' HARRIET LANE Marie owes Michka more than she can say - but Michka is getting older, and can't look after herself any more. So Marie has moved her to a home where she'll be safe. But Michka doesn't feel any safer; she is haunted by strange figures who threaten to unearth her most secret, buried guilt, guilt that she's carried since she was a little girl. And she is losing her words – grasping more desperately day by day for what once came easily to her. Jérôme is a speech therapist, dispatched to help the home's ageing population snatch and hold tight onto the speech still afforded to them. But Michka is no ordinary client. Michka has been carrying an old debt she does not know how to repay – and as her words slide out of her grasp, time is running out. Delicately wrought and darkly gripping, Gratitude is about love, loss and redemption; about what we owe one another, and the redemptive power of showing thanks.

El sol baña los acantilados y las aguas turquesas del mar de Cornualles cuando Jane Bellamy y Cedric Stone se conocen en el verano de 1939. No están destinados a ser una ecuación perfecta, pero son jóvenes y el amor lo arrolla todo a su paso. Así que esta historia comienza como otras muchas: él y ella se enamoran. Hay primeras palabras, primeras miradas y primeros besos. Y luego nada. Solo oscuridad. Todo cambia. Años más tarde, en un hospital de Edimburgo, Margot Abbot sostiene en la mano un anillo que pertenece al paciente que dormita en la cama, Cedric Stone. Ella todavía no lo sabe, pero está a punto de abrir un baúl de recuerdos y de descubrir qué ocurrió tras aquellos luminosos días de estío que quedaron atrás.

In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as wry as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus’s final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection. Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many miracles, we find a man struggling with his humanity and his exceptional nature, straddling the line between human and deity, the son of a formless, omnipotent creator in the fallible form of a man.

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing. It was as if I had crept down to the docks under cover of darkness and floated a message out in a bottle, imagining how it might be received. By writing it, I was acknowledging that someone might care about me; that they'd be able to say the right thing without knowing me. Because I was feeling something that other people had felt and therefore I wasn't, as I suspected, the loneliest and strangest woman in the world.' Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, friendships, dating, divorce, the pleasures and pitfalls of social media, sex, loneliness, longing, love and everything in between. Without judgement, and with deep empathy informed by her own, much-chronicled adventures in love, friendship and dating, Dolly leads us by the hand through the various labyrinths of life, proving that a problem shared is truly a problem halved.

From a dazzling new international literary voice, a novel about a malcontented young woman whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a beautiful apartment in the center of Madrid, she has a hot neighbor who is always around to sleep with her, and she’s rapidly risen through the ranks at an advertising agency. And yet she’s drowning in a dark hole of existential dread induced by the expectations of corporate life. Marisa hates her job and everyone at it. She spends her working hours locked in her office hiding from her coworkers, bingeing YouTube videos, and taking Valium. When she has the time, she escapes to her favorite museum where she contemplates the meaning of human life while staring at Hieronymus Bosch paintings, or trying to get hit by a car so she can go on disability. But Marisa's success, which is largely built on lies and work she's stolen from other people, is in danger of being unraveled when she's forced to go on her company’s annual team-building retreat. Isolated in the Spanish mountains, surrounded by a psychopathic boss, overly enthusiastic co-workers who revel in their exploitation, a flirty retreat staff, and haunted by a deeply-buried memory about a past coworker, Marisa is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral. A darkly funny, provocative, and incisive tale of our modern times, Discontent explores the unease we bury eight hours a day, and how explosive it is when it rises to the surface.

Zawsze mówiono mi, że jeśli będę grzeczna, spotkają mnie same dobre rzeczy - dlaczego więc nie jestem szczęśliwa? Czy czujesz, że często zadowalasz innych kosztem siebie? Czy kiedy chcesz powiedzieć „nie” lub bronić własnego zdania, boisz się, że ktoś źle o tobie pomyśli? A może tkwisz w kiepskich relacjach, bo za wszelką cenę unikasz sprawiania innym przykrości? Jeśli tak jest, możesz cierpieć na syndrom grzecznej dziewczynki. Prawdopodobnie od dziecka wpajano ci, że powinnaś być miła, skromna i zbytnio się nie wychylać. Pewnie już zauważyłaś, że świat wcale nie wynagradza twojego poświęcenia i kiedy ty stoisz w cieniu, inni błyszczą. Jako dorosła kobieta możesz jednak odwrócić schemat, który ci nie służy, przełamać wewnętrzne blokady i wreszcie śmiało sięgnąć po to, co oferuje życie. Ta książka sprawi, że: \- rozpoznasz szkodliwe przekonania, które odbierają ci pewność siebie, \- zaczniesz podejmować decyzje w zgodzie ze sobą, \- nauczysz się stawiać granice bez poczucia winy, \- stworzysz relacje oparte na wzajemnym szacunku, a nie na poświęceniu, \- przestaniesz bać się konfliktów i oceny innych, \- przekonasz się, że twoje potrzeby są równie ważne, co potrzeby innych, \- zbudujesz nowe życie na własnych zasadach.

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health in her debut book. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. The book tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance. Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr Smith's empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your mental health every day. Wise and practical, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? might just change your life.

Louise’s key message in this powerful work is: “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” Louise explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness, and how you can change your thinking…and improve the quality of your life.

A gorgeous memoir about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriage—an aching, love-filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy "A powerful testament to reclaiming voice, power, and joy." — Adrienne Brodeur, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Game On a chilly day in early spring, Belle Burden’s husband of twenty years announced, with no prior warning, that he was leaving her. Belle was shocked; he had always been a committed partner and a devoted father to their three children. She thought they were in love. She thought he—they—were living the life they'd always professional success, summers at their beloved beachside home, a vibrant social life. But overnight, her caring, steady husband became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume. In Strangers, Belle revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal. Through all of it, she is transformed. The discreet, compliant woman she once was—someone whose nickname was “Belle the Good”—gives way to someone braver, someone determined to use her voice. With unflinching honesty and profound grace, Burden charts a path through heartbreak to show the power of a woman who refuses to give up on love and rediscovers trust in herself. Strangers is a stunning, deeply moving, compulsively readable memoir heralding the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent.

Daniel disappeared three months, two days and eight hours after his birthday. He was three. He was my son. Empty Houses unfolds in the aftermath of a child’s disappearance. His mother is distraught. As her life begins to unravel, she is haunted by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place? In a working-class neighbourhood on the other side of Mexico City another woman protects her stolen child. After longing desperately to be a mother, her life is violently altered by its reality. Alternating between these two contrasting voices, Empty Houses confronts the desires, regrets and social pressures of motherhood faced by both the mother who lost her child and the new one who risked everything to take him. A literary sensation on its original publication, Empty Houses is a kaleidoscopic inquiry into contemporary Mexico and a provocative exploration of motherhood. It announces an intrepid and breathtaking new literary voice.

El bestseller de psicología coreano que ha unido a dos generaciones Hay muchas cosas que he aprendido en estos cuarenta años como psiquiatra que nunca he compartido con mi querida hija. Tras enterarse de que su hija va a casarse y establecerse en Estados Unidos, una reconocida terapeuta se da cuenta de que nunca ha podido ayudarla como le gustaría. La distancia le hace ver que hay muchas cosas que no ha podido contarle y decide enmendarlo a través de una serie de cartas. En ellas, la doctora Han combina su experiencia profesional, sus vicisitudes como madre trabajadora y las historias de sus propios pacientes para ofrecer píldoras de sabiduría sobre el complicado arte de sobrevivir a la vida adulta. En estas cartas descubrirá Lo que ocurre cuando no te cuidas a ti misma.Cómo pedir ayuda y cómo decir que no. Por qué la experiencia es mejor que la perfección.La soledad en pareja. Por qué Sócrates aprendió música antes de morir. Cómo evitar que el dinero te influya demasiado.Cómo tener menos remordimientos al final de tu vida.