Author Megan Nolan’s bestselling novel Acts of Desperation was, in part, an exercise in putting the romantic co-dependence of her twenties behind her – so when she fell in love again, she feared it would “compromise her power.” How does one learn to allow others back in?

2021 was a year of brilliant new voices in fiction. Here, we look back on five of Vintage’s most exciting debut novels of the year – you don’t want to have missed them.

Whether you're more Bing Crosby or Mariah Carey, Wham! or Destiny’s Child, there’s a perfect book to match your favourite yuletime hit.

The Acts of Desperation author on Dickens, Knausgaard and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist inspiring her to write book number two.

Few things hurt as much as when relationships break down. But much as there are love stories, there are ones about falling out of love, too. Here we recommend some reading for heartbreak.

A blistering anti-romance about the seductive destruction of trying to find self-worth in the gaze of another, from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.