The acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding returns with a long-awaited, immersive new novel. The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella Affenlight and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way into a larger world that won’t stop changing.
‘Razor-sharp and deliciously wry’ COCO MELLORS
‘Funny, tender, thrillingly dark’ HEATHER DARWENT
‘Exhilarating, beguiling, beautiful’ OLIVIA PETTER
An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will do anything to infiltrate the rarefied world of New York’s fashion elite.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026
‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD
‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE
‘Suffused with tenderness’NEW YORK TIMES
‘Beautiful and powerful’ LISA OWENS
‘Wondrous’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
An extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man’s itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.
‘Razor-sharp and deliciously wry’ COCO MELLORS
‘Funny, tender, thrillingly dark’ HEATHER DARWENT
‘Exhilarating, beguiling, beautiful’ OLIVIA PETTER
An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will do anything to infiltrate the rarefied world of New York’s fashion elite.
‘IT MOVED ME DEEPLY’ LIV LITTLE
‘DEEPLY POIGNANT’ HARPERS BAZAAR
‘GORGEOUS’ RAVEN LEILANI
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ RAVEN LEILANI
‘Extraordinary … moving, compelling and virtuosic’OBSERVER
‘A triumph’ COLIN BARRETT
‘IT MOVED ME DEEPLY’ LIV LITTLE
‘DEEPLY POIGNANT’ HARPERS BAZAAR
‘GORGEOUS’ RAVEN LEILANI
The instant Sunday Times top ten bestseller from the author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, ‘The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic.
‘IT MOVED ME DEEPLY’ LIV LITTLE
‘DEEPLY POIGNANT’ HARPERS BAZAAR
‘GORGEOUS’ RAVEN LEILANI
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
‘IT MOVED ME DEEPLY’ LIV LITTLE
‘DEEPLY POIGNANT’ HARPERS BAZAAR
‘GORGEOUS’ RAVEN LEILANI
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ RAVEN LEILANI
‘Extraordinary … moving, compelling and virtuosic’OBSERVER
‘A triumph’ COLIN BARRETT
