Celestial Lights
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Women’s Prize long-listed Wandering Souls.
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Women’s Prize long-listed Wandering Souls.
A wonderfully warm, witty and wise novel of small-town dreams and eccentric families.
‘A gut punch of a novel’ BOBBY PALMER
‘Thrillingly alive’ ANDREW McMILLAN
‘Everyone should read this’ JUSTIN MYERS
‘A storm of a novel’ LUCY ROSE
A powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path on the streets outside his door, from the acclaimed author of Good Intentions.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2025
‘Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it’ TESSA HADLEY
‘Powerfully compelling’ GUARDIAN
‘Unbelievably good’ ELIZABETH DAY
‘Complex and nuanced… the perfect definition of summer reading’ LUCY CALDWELL
‘Subtle, complex, ambitious’THE TIMES
A Guardian Book of the Year 2024
‘Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it’ TESSA HADLEY
‘Powerfully compelling’ GUARDIAN
‘Unbelievably good’ ELIZABETH DAY
‘Complex and nuanced… the perfect definition of summer reading’ LUCY CALDWELL
‘Subtle, complex, ambitious’THE TIMES
A Guardian Book of the Year
‘Brilliantly audacious’ GUARDIAN
‘Stunning’DAZED
‘Her prose sparkles’ ELIZA CLARK
‘Hauntingly good’ iNEWS
’A must read’ GLAMOUR
‘One of my favourite novels’ JEFF VANDERMEER
‘A haunting and beautiful novel’ ANN PATCHETT
‘Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ POLLY SAMSON
‘Exceptionally moving’NEW YORK TIMES
‘Magnetic, breathtaking’ CHERIE JONES
‘Beautiful … I adored it’ CHRIS WHITAKER
‘Profoundly beautiful’NPR
‘A haunting and beautiful novel’ ANN PATCHETT
‘Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ POLLY SAMSON
‘Exceptionally moving’NEW YORK TIMES
‘Magnetic, breathtaking’ CHERIE JONES
‘Beautiful … I adored it’ CHRIS WHITAKER
‘Profoundly beautiful’NPR
‘A haunting and beautiful novel’ ANN PATCHETT
‘Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ POLLY SAMSON
‘Exceptionally moving’NEW YORK TIMES
‘Magnetic, breathtaking’ CHERIE JONES
‘Beautiful … I adored it’ CHRIS WHITAKER
‘Profoundly beautiful’NPR
‘I COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN’ SHON FAYE
‘A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME’ OWEN JONES
‘I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY’ COCO MELLORS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025
‘Enormously entertaining’THE TIMES
‘As funny as it is moving’GUARDIAN
‘A joy of a debut’ DAVID MITCHELL
‘Magnificent’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO
A stunning debut novel following five women from three generations of a once eminent Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down
**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**
A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author.
‘A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful’ MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash Aw.
‘Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate’ YIYUN LI
‘A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful’ MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash Aw.
‘Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate’ YIYUN LI
‘A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful’ MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash Aw.
‘Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate’ YIYUN LI
‘Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate’ YIYUN LI
‘A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful’ MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer—about family, desire, and what we inherit—from celebrated author Tash Aw.