LAURA BROOKE ROBSON
LOVE IS AN ALGORITHM
US: Park Row Books/Harper, 2026;; UK/AUSTRALIA: Text Publishing
*A Book of the Month Club Selection
* A Portalist Most Anticipated Book of 2026
Pattern is more than just a dating app—it’s your friendly relationship coach. It will tell you whether you should invest in learning your partner’s love language (quality time!) or pull the escape hatch (red flags galore!). The latest version of Pattern includes Bug, a friendly AI chatbot guaranteed to give you bespoke relationship advice and help revitalize that spark. Take the uncertainty out of love!
Eve wants to make music that’s fueled by love, passion, and rage (feelings!). She trusts her gut and her friends and in no way wants to rely on technology, let alone AI, to tell her how she feels. Danny is anxious—about his dad, his dating life, his coffee order (why is it twelve dollars?), and about the dating app he helped create, which seems determined to serve him terrible matches.
When Eve and Danny start dating, it feels like the solution to all of Danny’s worries—except when it doesn’t. Is she happy? Should he be doing more? Or less? This becomes the catalyst for a revolutionary new version of Danny’s app that promises to quantify relationship health and potential, helping users understand what’s really going on. Problem solved!
As Pattern and Bug, the ever-so-friendly AI assistant, catch fire, users everywhere begin outsourcing major life decisions to Danny’s algorithms. But as Danny reckons with his newfound success, Eve—whose career relies on her ability to write her emotions into song—grows increasingly skeptical of the app’s impact on genuine connection. Their relationship becomes the ultimate modern experiment: How do you fall and stay in love in the digital age?
Joyful, generous and smart—an absolute delight moment-to-moment, full of fun and charm, but also sharp and perceptive about creative work, our dependence on technology, and some of the ways relationships can go awry.’ — Holly Gramazio, NY-Times Bestselling author of The Husbands
“Robson has crafted a compelling love story examining intimacy, vulnerability, and communication in the modern age.” —Margarita Montimore, bestselling author of Oona Out of Order
“Smart, funny, immensely readable, and deeply insightful about how we make art, fall in love, and connect with each other in the age of AI. With its sharp humour and delightful dialogue, Love is an Algorithm was exactly the book I needed—I tore through it.” —Else Fitzgerald, Everything Feels Like the End of the World
“A cutting satire of tech startups, New York City, and dating, this novel is necessary reading for anyone trying to figure out who they are and what they want in the era of social media. In this funny, fast-paced, and intimate tale, there might be A.I. but there’s nothing artificial about emotion.”
—Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld
“Warm, funny, emotional, propulsive and real—a beautiful love story.” —Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed
A CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK
US: Mira/HarperCollins; UK: HodderStoughton
*A BookPage Best Fantasy Book of the Year
*A LitHub Best Book for February
*A BookPage Best Top 10 Books for March
*A BookPage 3 Best SFF Romances of Spring 2025
“A lyrical, melancholy, and deeply moving story about the people we love and the places we long for. Aching and poignant.”
—Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning
On Stenland, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day, any woman on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead, the mark of a skeld. Skeld season comes around without warning, and while each window of time lasts only three months, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead.
That’s how Tess’s mother killed Soren’s parents. Maybe for this reason alone, Tess and Soren should not have fallen in love. Since the time her mother was a skeld, Tess has wanted to leave Stenland, to run from the windswept island, from her family and friends. She is unwilling to bear the responsibility of one day killing anyone, let alone someone she loves. Soren has been determined to stay, to live out his life in the place he knows as home, even if that life could be cut short during the latest skeld season. They cannot see eye to eye—and yet they cannot stay apart. She tries to come back for him. He tries to leave for her. But can your love for one person outweigh everything else combined? And how do you decide how much you’re willing to risk, if it might mean destroying someone else in the process?
Laura Robson has crafted a fascinating story about the choices we make, the responsibilities we carry, and the ambiguities of regret.
“A CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK is above all a second-chance romance, but author Laura Brooke Robson’s simple, elegant tale is also a devoted character study and a love letter to [Robson’s] gorgeous fictional setting of Stenland: the wind, the cairns, the old towers; the ice cream spot and Hedda’s, the only coffee shop; the concrete swimming pool and the claustrophobia of a small town. This grounded, moving novel is a perfect rainy day read and an ode to what it is to be human—to desire and gain, to desire and lose, to find again.” — BookPage Starred Review
“Robson deftly examines the emotional costs of family, love, and loyalty…. an enthralling read that lingers like a half-forgotten memory.” — Booklist
“Darkly enchanting.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A lyrical, melancholy, and deeply moving story about the people we love and the places we long for. Aching and poignant.”
—Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning
“Stunning, heartbreaking, a gorgeous lyrical page-turner, A Curse for the Homesick is a must-read for anyone who understands that love is the deepest, darkest form of magic.”
—Meg Shaffer, USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story
“Star-crossed lovers, a remote island, a deadly curse… A Curse for the Homesick is an emotionally-charged rollercoaster that is as sexy as it is haunting. You won’t want to put it down, but you might have to once in a while just to catch your breath.”
—Ruth Emmie Lang, author of Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
“A thoroughly modern love story set against a backdrop of ancient mythology, it evokes perfectly that feeling of, at long last, finding the only place in this world that is home. Deeply atmospheric, profound, and beautiful.”
—James Goodhand, author of The Day Tripper
“With her signature atmospheric prose and incisive eye for detail, Robson will make you yearn for a place you’ve never been. A bittersweet, hopeful tale about what it means to belong to a place—and how love is a risk worth taking.”
—Allison Saft, New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic