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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream...
From "a singular talent," an "impressive . . .compelling" novel with about a Carribean woman who takes on mysterious orphan in midlife (The Toronto Star).First it's her mother's missing gold brooch. Then, a blue and white dish she hasn't seen in years. Followed by an...
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: "So charming a novel that you don't want to give away a single one of the many twists of its plot" (The New York Times). Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh's coming of age one summer...
Adapted into the 1959 film starring Alec Guinness, this Telegraph Top 20 Spy Novel of All Time is "high-comic mayhem . . . [and] bizarrely prescient" (Christopher Buckley, New York Times–bestselling author).James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in...
Look for Wreck, the new novel by Catherine Newman—a deeply moving story of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn’t go as planned—Coming October 2025. “Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and...
Winner of the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2024Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book PrizeA poignant debut novel and work of Irish literary fiction about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and the search for independence in a society...
“Compelling . . . unfailingly interesting, building suspense as readers wonder what will happen” —Booklist (starred review)“Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Granddaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully readable novel.” —The Guardian“A brilliant...
A #1 internationally bestselling novel of family betrayals, forbidden love, and the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War—from the author of The Island."A crackling historical romance mixed with a dash of family secrets and a splash of female self-discovery." —Time Out...
From bestselling author Cathleen Schine comes Fin & Lady, a wise, clever story of New York in the '60s.It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his...
One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsWinner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award"Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping…Family Life really blazes." —Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book Review Hailed as a "supreme storyteller"...