TRUST Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2023

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength.

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.
When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the over of night.
A spectacular popular and critical success, The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages.

Owning her was all he ever wanted . . .

Everything about Olivia belongs to Malachi Vize.
Her mind. Her body. Her soul. Her fear. Her pain.

When she sends him to prison, her betrayal runs deep. Now free, he wants revenge against the one girl he shouldn't want. His forbidden obsession. His foster sister.
He's spent years planning for this, and now he's ready to haunt her.

When Halloween comes, he can longer lurk in the shadows. All he has left to own is her heart, even if he needs to take it.

He had her, but then he lost her.

Malachi Vize has always had one desire in life.
One goal.
One deep obsession he could never give up on.
His foster sister, Olivia.

For the first time, Olivia has chosen him over everything else she holds dear, and Malachi doesn't intend to ever let her go. But his happiness is soon shattered by powerful enemies who want to claim Olivia for themselves.
Wounded and wrestling with his own demons, Malachi is forced into unexpected alliances to hunt them down, but he won't stop fighting until he gets her back.

Read the captivating dark academia romance in Bound, then flip your book over to unleash the dangers of forbidden love in Unbound.

Bound

A reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets are bound by an arcane text-in more ways than one.
Veronica "Vero" Mercer grew up with grifters for parents, and she knows her way around a con. When grad school bills pile up and her friends are in trouble, she turns her art history skills into a forgery side hustle.
It's supposed to be a short-term deal, but her work draws the attention of Dr. Viktor Ashworth, a reserved, very British professor. Instead of turning her in, Ashworth kidnaps her - politely - and makes an unusual offer: forge a mysterious ancient manuscript for him.

Unbound

A five-thousand-year-old woman who has outlived empires. A doctor who has spent his life fighting death. Their fates collide in a blood game of vengeance.
Lilit of Nineveh has spent millennia in control. As a powerful revenant, she enforces one rule above all: protect mortals. Disciplined and focused, she has never made the same mistake twice, and she has learned that attachments can only lead to ruin.
Enter Roman Martin. An overworked and relentlessly kind ER physician, he is the one mortal Lilit cannot quit. Any relationship between them is against everything Lilit has fought for. Still, she keeps coming back to him.

1980. Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he discovers the aftermath of a drug deal turned deadly. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – walk away or take the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything.


And so begins a terrifying chain of events, as each player in this brutal game seems determined to answer one question: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking.


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road is an incandescent novel, the story of a remarkable and profoundly moving journey. In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family finds tenderness.

Ophelia came to the elite Sorrowsong University to destroy Alex and his family.
But that was before she knew him. Before their love became each of their reasons for living.

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.

My name is Teal Van Doren, and I’m where princes go to die.

I have a secret.
I stole a heart - or rather, a marriage contract.
It wasn’t mine to want, to touch, or even consider.
But it was there for the taking, so I took it.

Huge mistake.

Ronan Astor is nobility in this world.
Arrogant player.
Heartless bastard.
Vicious prince.

Now he’s out to destroy me.
But what he doesn’t know is that I’m coming for him too.

The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving - albeit with some rude and raucous results.

Ariel was first published in 1965, it contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic'…