Shy takes the summer job to make some money. A few months on a luxury cruise liner – how bad can it be? Bikinis, free food, maybe even a girl or two . . . there’s always going to be a fresh crop of passengers, after all.

He’ll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom out with the...

Intrepid journalist Melanie Warner writes a fascinating, cutting-edge exploration of the science and history of processed food and shows how technology transformed wholesome meals into an extruded, hydrolyzed, textured, gun-puffed product that doesn't quite resemble food, taking us inside the...

“This book is a blast! Wry, mysterious and, most of all, telling in the ways of desire and deception, Shortcut Man is one hell of a debut. p.g. sturges has proved himself a worthy successor to Chandler.”

--Michael Connelly

Sturges’ SHORCUT MAN sold for translation into French...

Grand Manila is a tremendous literary journey - tremendous in its scope and breadth of vision as well as in its clarity of insight.

The story begins in the 1950s with the lives of five families in Sauda, a small town in West Norway. From here the book sweeps the world, travelling back and...

In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a...

It does not happen too often that leading publishing houses compete for the first novel of a Hungarian author, that the most prestigious literary magazines publish chapters of it and that there is an international interest towards it even before the book is published. It is doubly unlikely...

Set in the Pacific Northwest during the early twentieth century, this mesmerizing debut novel tells the story of Talmadge, a stoic man who  tends his fruit trees while avoiding human company. When two young girls  seek shelter on his land, events unfold with heartstopping, lyric power. 

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SONG FOR AN APPROACHING STORM is Peter’s long awaited first novel and tells the unique story of a love triangle involving the young Pol Pot in the mid 1950’s, as Cambodia stands on the brink of dramatic change after gaining its independence.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Cambodia, 1955. The country...

The last part of Agneta Pleijel’s historical family trilogy is a novel about a brother and sister who are very close, but who live under completely different conditions. Their father is a well known singer at the Opera in Stockholm, their mother is the daughter of a celebrated actor. The...

Upon her death in 1919, Mrs. Francis Anderson, a wealthy and powerful dowager in San Francisco society, leaves behind a scandalous memoir revealing her former life as a prostitute and madame. So begins Phillip Margulies's delicious debut, BELLE CORA, framed as Belle's confessions, available...

Meet Butterfly – loveable socialite, avid party-goer, inspired shopper and unwittingly acute observer.

Of course everyone thinks her life is perfect but having to contend with a conniving mother-in-law, a husband who doesn’t like parties, and a circle of friends who bring new meaning to...

The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer.

From the Introduction
Understand how gambling...

Set in the scenic valleys and mountains of rural Wyoming an unlikely pair of two city-escapees find themselves in the middle of a murder investigation. Before long, they take up the reigns and do some digging of their own. DEATH CANYON is definitely a different kind of thriller giving the...

Set in a Colorado ski town, Kaya McLaren's How I Came To Sparkle Again is a remarkable breakout novel that chronicles three people and their journey from loss to love; heartbreak to hope

Jill Anthony spent her young adulthood in the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado. But more than a decade...

In December 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. The discovery of the crime writer's abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found over two hundred miles away in a...

Y has been chosen as one of the Waterstones 11 Favourite Debuts of 2013. These titles often go on to be major bestsellers—2012's choices included The Art of Fielding, The Snow Child and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. We are also excited to share that Y has made Canada's Giller Prize...

In the vein of Chelsea Handler, Sloane Crosley and Carrie Fisher comes a hilarious collection of essays from Kelly Oxford, a 32-year-old former model and married stay-at-home mom to three living in Calgary. Kelly’s essays run the gamut from hilarious to heartbreaking, and are drawn from her...

A success memoir with undeniable shades of Amy Chua and dashes of Gladwell’s OUTLIERS. How did one family of brothers come to be so influential? It may be obvious to point out this out, but it’s a project that’s quite close to us.

"World-changers come along very seldom, and three in one...

“Jessica Soffer's gorgeous and word-wise novel shows us how a single sentence can contain wonders, and a kitchen can contain epics; this is a fantastic debut.” — Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances

"Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots is elegant, sensual, surprising and rich....

Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar.

In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle’s...