Madeline Cash

‘A voice like no other’ Lena Dunham The instant Sunday Times bestseller ‘I LOVED IT . . . Masterfully and totally realised’ PANDORA SYKES ‘The most wildly original book of the year’ HARPER’S BAZAAR ‘Required reading in the same way that Normal People was’ JACK EDWARDS ‘The debut novel for 2026 that has undoubtedly been the most shouted about.’ THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ‘The year’s brightest literary star’ INDEPENDENT ‘Get ready to laugh out loud’ ELLE ‘A darkly funny family saga’ BUSTLE == Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together. ‘As bold and assured a debut as Zadie Smith’s White Teeth or Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides’ MEGAN NOLAN ‘An instant classic and a comic novel about family you could recommend to just about anyone’ SHORTLIST ‘Manages to capture something we can all universally relate to: how normal it is to have a dysfunctional family’ SUNDAY TIMES Readers love LOST LAMBS ‘What a ROMP!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘The hype is real!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘Hilarious, weird, original and addictive!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘If Wes Anderson wrote Little Women.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘I’m shouting it from every rooftop: THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘Perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

2026’s bestselling standout debut ‘Extremely smart, impossibly funny’ CARO CLAIRE BURKE, author of YESTERYEAR

Lost Lambs

Emma Hak-Kovacs

"l'm many things: a physician, a philanthropist. I've been called an animal in the bedroom." She looked into his pointy face. If any woman had called this man an animal, surely they meant a rodent.

“This is a once-in-a-Life time offer. To see how the sausage gets made.”

Abigail had seen documentaries about the making of sausage and other meat products and it was, quite frankly, disgusting. 

“I can't feel my hands in a bad way," said Tibet. Her hands dangled limp at the ends of her wrists. "What if never feel them again? What if we never have another thumb war?”

“It’s alright,” said Abigail, “We’ve never had a thumb war.”

“We don't have money for four-hundred-dollar dresses. We have to put you and your sisters through college.”

“Who’s going to college? Abigail will marry rich, Harper will go to prison, and after high school I have to surrender my life unto God."

“So," said Bud. "My mother was crazy religious-“

“Let's not use 'crazy' as a pejorative, please," Miss Winkle interjected. 

“Right, okay, um, my mother was a batshit-insane devout lunatic who'd pray for my mortal soul if I ate store-bought peanut butter," said Bud.

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