Chosen as an Observer Debut of the Year 2024, with fans in Maggie O’Farrell, Colm Tóibín, Maggie Shipstead, Anne Enright and many more

An eye-opening and accessible account of the latest as-yet-inexplicable phenomena of the universe – oddities that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.

How do we know if racism really exists? And, if it does, how big a problem is it for the outcomes of people of colour? Only science has the answers to some of societys most pressing questions.

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, worldwide bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, The Women is the story of a generation, of epic love and profound loss. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation – and a world – divided by war.

Incredibly moving and warm, &i>The Boy from the Sea&/i> is a love story: of a family, a town, and a boy whose arrival changes everything, for fans of Kate Atkinson, Claire Keegan and Jon McGregor.