Our pick of the best new novels being published in March 2026, from a to a slow-burn thriller with White Lotus vibes.

Flung Life, author ML Stedman’s follow-up to her wildly successful debut, The Light Between Oceans, is a different kind of beast. Our setting is not a remote island but the endless flatlands of the ...

There is no misfortune too shattering for Derek Cianfrance it seems. The writer and director of "Blue Valentine," ''The Place Beyond the Pines" and now, an adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel "The ...

There’s a scene early on in The Light Between Oceans where Alicia Vikander’s character speaks of a mother and father still being referred to as such even after they no longer have a child, and she ...

If you read the book you might find the film a great disappointment. The film, “The Light Between Oceans”, is a maudlin, self-consciously manipulative tear-jerker. But the book, beautifully written by ...

After the Great World War, Tom Shelbourn returns to his home in Australia and signs up to become the replacement lighthouse keeper on an island 50 miles offshore called Janus. When he falls in love ...

*The Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture presentation of The Light Between Oceans is an epic tale of the healing and everlasting power of love. Based on the novel by M. L. Stedman, The Light Between ...

Filmmaker Derek Cianfrance does all he can to turn M.L. Stedman’s 2012 novel “The Light Between Oceans” into a beautifully reconstructed film adaptation of the same name. This 2016 film, starring ...

There is no misfortune too shattering for Derek Cianfrance it seems. The writer and director of “Blue Valentine,” ‘’The Place Beyond the Pines” and now, an adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel “The ...