Mongrel

MongrelBy: Hanako Footman THE DEBUT NOVEL THAT'LL STEAL YOUR HEART SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 'So beautiful Simply, it must be read' LISA TADDEO 'This feels like reading an Oscar winning film' AISLING BEA 'Heart shatteringly visceral and precise' WIZ WHARTON 'Compulsive, engrossing, and gorgeous Read it now' STEPHANIE SCOTT Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing

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two princes

and abiding love for your family

the Marines

Katy MacBain moved to Spellbound Falls with secrets she plans to keep

and the very human qualities of the men who framed the document are brought provocatively into focus

Translated from the Korean by Sandy Joosun Lee

particularly if it’s sudden

The power of glitzy advertising and elaborate marketing campaigns is on the wane

you’d put on your jacket

madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt

Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men