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An electrifying, terrifying collection of literary horror stories from a prize-winning young star of Nigerian writingA FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD, THE LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIONS YOUNG...
She's his fiancee's younger sister. He's the man she's always loved. She's his fiancee's younger sister. He's the man she's always loved. When her sister doesn't show up on her wedding day, Raven has no choice but to take her place - but marriage to Ares...
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life....
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT - NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX DRAMA'IF HEMINGWAY HAD THE PASSION FOR POOL THAT HE HAD FOR BULLFIGHTING, HIS HERO MIGHT HAVE BEEN EDDIE FELSON' TIMEThe novel that inspired the legendary Paul Newman film, The Hustler tells the story...
The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all timeRama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological...
The Duke's Runaway Bride - Jenni FletcherFrom shopkeeper...to Duke's wife.When Beatrix, Duchess of Howden, writes to her estranged husband offering a divorce, she's stunned when he arrives on her doorstep with a different proposition: a six-week marriage...
A Maverick Worth Waiting For - Laurel GreerHolding out for a hero.Tenacity's favorite part-time bartender, rancher Mike Cooper, is known for giving great advice. Too bad his own love life has always been a trainwreck. Could charismatic cowboy Daniel Taylor be...
It's the dead of winter, and a killer like no other is turning a small Wisconsin town into a death trap-one that's closing in on Lucas Davenport.
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were...
Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in the latest in the beloved series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. "We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So...
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One day while combing the beach in their hometown of Las Brisas, the Santos Sisters discover a pair of beautiful medallions. What happens next changes their lives, forever. The medallions are imbued with the powers of a goddess, 'Madame Sosostris,' and can...
An anthology of new and beloved Godzilla creators telling tales that get to the heart of Godzilla's lasting popularity! An anthology of new and beloved Godzilla creators telling tales that get to the heart of Godzilla's lasting popularity! Celebrating 70...
15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a...
A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss" (The Atlantic). "Night was best, for, as...
"Stewart O'Nan has been one of the best chroniclers of the lives of American women." - Susan StraightAn intimate, moving novel that follows The Humpty Dumpty Club, a group of women of a certain age who band together to help one another and their circle of...
An ode to memory, to home, and to the beauty of the natural world What remains of the springs, summers, autumns, and winters of a woman's life? Isadora, now an old woman relegated to a hospice, looks back on her life and how intimately intertwined it was with...
A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Izzy Chen is dreading her family's annual Chinese New Year celebration, where...
This is the story of how we became. I write those words but remain uncertain what they mean. . . . Drinking was a part of it. But as much as it was drinking, it was Ryan's love for Jana. And as much as it was Ryan's love for Jana, it was equally the war. In...
One young woman's relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family. My mother took my sister and me, and she drove...
Tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are In The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny subjects such as sexism, prejudice, the normalizing effect...
At once a queer love story and a noirish thriller, set in the dream factory of cinema, The Silver Book is a fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power....
Unlike anything you've read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set...
From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build-and the lies we live.They called it hysteria. She called it...
January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start.After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled...
A hilarious, suspenseful metaphysical thriller following a day in the life of an English professor who would rather be lifting weights from the author of the cult hit The Novelist Harold, a middling literature professor at a liberal arts college, lives in a...
She did not mean to But she has killed, and killed, and killed again. Dundee, 1812. Isabel Baxter awaits the arrival of Mary Godwin, a girl of precocious intellect and grand passions, sent north to cure an ailment no one understands. Nestled in woodland on...
The emotionally gripping new festive novel from Sunday Times bestseller Katie Flynn. As the threat of war draws closer, Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart, Rory. Their love for one another has never been stronger, but Isla struggles to ignore doubts...
A bracing novel of work, labor, and collective action, this vibrantly written debut is narrated by a man who runs a high-speed train in France-a story born out of the author's experience as a real-life train driver. Driver begins as a contemporary apprentice...
Acclaimed translator Damion Searls's exuberant debut novella navigates the bittersweet tug-of-war between nostalgia and living life meaningfully in a world buzzing with information overload. Analog Days is a snapshot of a circle of friends living through the...
FEATURING HUGE NAMES FROM LITERATURE, COMEDY AND BEYOND - INCLUDING RODDY DOYLE, FRANK SKINNER AND ALAN TITCHMARSH - THIS ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES REIMAGINES JEEVES AND WOOSTER THROUGH FRESH EYES. The irrepressible duo first appeared on the page in 1915, coming...
From the award-winning "master of the short story" (The New York Times Book Review)-nine shattering, hilarious tales of men on the outskirts of America, habituating the motels, hot dog stands, and dive bars time forgot, grappling with a world that is swiftly...
PRE-ORDER NOW Return to the Supper Club this Christmas...The snow-dusted Northumberland village of Tilldale comes alive with festive charm. Filled with twinkling lights, carol singers, and Cath's warm and welcoming supper club, it's the perfect setting for...
From the celebrated author of All My Mother's Lovers, a new novel based on true events asks whether extraterrestrial life might be what ties us to one another, to history, and to reality itself. "Ilana Masad is an exciting talent."-Garth Greenwell "Masad is a...
A doctor-patient love affair goes awry in this near-future dystopian novel, the first by the award winning Hungarian writer to be translated into English. "Like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this...
The groundbreaking novel about a woman whose subconscious mind splinters and finds itself in the body of a young man, from the author of I Who Have Never Known Men. Now in paperback with a new foreword by Isle McElroy for the 30th anniversary of its original...
"A metaphysical detective story and a modern Italian classic. A strange and ambiguous novel and a brilliant meditation on the mysteries that inform literature."-Mark Haber, author of Saint Sebastian's Abyssand Reinhardt's GardenThis haunting novel was...
In his debut novel, longtime observer of culture and politics Fredrik deBoer depicts mental illness in all its grim and ugly reality, free of our culture's endless romanticization of insanity. In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys...
A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He's entangled in a sexual relationship with a...
From the celebrated poet and author of the critically acclaimed novel Inverno comes a mesmerizing new novel, Estate. Caroline, separated from her husband, finds herself drawn to Lorenzo, who has not one but two other lovers. In these propulsive pages, Caroline...
An ambitious, panoptic novel about exile as both condition and state of being by a major young Cuban writer The characters in False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's...
George Packer's gripping fable of imperial collapse illuminates the crises of our times. George Packer's bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With The Emergency, he turns to fiction,...
A book on what happens when the delicate balance of nature tips in favor of the seaThe catastrophe that everyone knew was coming has arrived--the dykes are breached, the tideline rises a kilometer a day, and the citizens of the Netherlands are forced into gyms...
THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FOR 2025 BY 2 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER. Matt had been happily drifting through life - but recently, he lost his job as a bathroom salesman and the tenancy on his home is about to expire. To top it all off, he wakes up...
'The Salvage is a novel to keep you up all night. Anbara Salam is a master of suspense' Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder'A rich, gothic mystery, The Salvage has a moody, salt-drenched atmosphere, and layers of intrigue that span centuries....
"Melissa Lozada-Oliva writes with a perfect blend of intoxicating magic and unflinching humor, illuminating the visceral tensions of yearning and darkness that define our most human moments. A beautiful, sharp-tongued collection that feels like an instant...
Along the way to a translation writing residency on the Dalmatian coast, Archipelago's unnamed narrator has an unsettling, aggressive encounter with a man on a ferry, which sets off a series of strange events. At the residency, she reunites with Luka, an old...
A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection-featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes. The wide-ranging...
Don't miss the dazzling new novel from the nation's favourite entertainer - available to pre-order now! 'Heartbreaking, heartlifting and enchanting' CAROL KIRKWOOD 1942, London In the darkest times, hope lights the way... As the snow falls on Berkeley...
Hans, an esteemed surgeon, has just returned from the hellish battlefields of the First World War. But everything in his home feels alien-even his wife Grete. As he tries to regain a sense of normality, he is haunted by nightmarish visions and a profound sense...
A brilliant and compelling debut, Ravishing shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it capitalizes on our desire to be someone we are notA provocative, darkly surreal novel of two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of...
Not yet thirty, Bathory, or "Bat" to the few who know her well, has assembled a peculiar resume: model, sex worker, linguist, Latin scholar, and assassin. The last of these has been the family trade for generations. Growing up, Bat, her mother, and her father...
INTRODUCED BY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER STEPHEN KINGA STUNNING NEW HARDBACK COLLECTION OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S THIRTEEN DARKEST STORIES - INCLUDING 'THE BIRDS' AND 'DON'T LOOK NOW'Amid the reflections and twisting alleyways of Venice, a grieving couple are...
'Once she had thought of them, their love, as a fortress that nothing, not giants nor dragons nor men with fists and minds of gore could tear down. She realises now, that their love is malleable, mouldable, breakable. As soft as dreams.' Summer in...
This stand-alone edition of King's novella, retitled The Shawshank Redemption, like the film, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Best Picture Academy Award nominee. A mesmerising tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, The Shawshank Redemption is a...
Tombstone, Texas, has never seen anything like the barefoot travelers who barrel in one afternoon, looking like they just stepped out of the seventies. They appear right in the middle of Pinky Elizabeth Swear's eulogy for her beloved rescue cat, Sweet Potato...
Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary decoupage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp. To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an...
From the author of the best-selling Liz Talbot Mystery Series comes a novel about family and secrets, and the lengths we'll go to in order to protect both. Can this charming do-gooder carry the day? Charleston, SC. Hadley Cooper has a big heart. So when the...
'I look. I can't stop looking. That's the deal, isn't it? We all know that's how it works. If someone wants to be seen - and oh, how they want to be seen - then someone has to watch.'Ruth is alone, unnoticed and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter...
Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother and is now looking for love and a potential escape from her small hometown. When a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into a terrifying world. Jodie has been trying to forget...
When everyone's favourite reformed miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, errs from the path of goodness, he starts seeing spirits again - this time of a girl, whose murder he must solve if he is to avoid the dreaded vision of The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Ebenezer...
An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino's darkly hilarious debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success--and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your...
When the chief suspect in the disappearance of Arora's sister is found dead, and Arora's new financial investigation leads to the street where her sister was last seen, she is drawn into a shocking case that threatens everything ... The unmissable finale to...
When reporter Martha Strangeways is called into investigate the discovery of body parts on a remote railway track, she's drawn into a strange case, as her own past comes back to haunt her... The atmospheric, critically acclaimed series continues... Martha...
A darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love and death, The Winter Job flies a hundred and twenty kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night. Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker...
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN meets THE VEGETARIAN in this chilly and chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance. Mira is a desperate young woman, hired by a wealthy single mother to tutor her...
No.1 international bestselling author Tara Moss returns with an immersive post-war mystery as glamorous investigator Billie Walker follows a trail of secrets to Italy's sun-drenched Neapolitan coast. Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground...
It's leaf-peeping season in Cabot Cove, but for someone, it's killing season! A quartet of friends from Florida have come to Maine to experience a New England autumn, complete with hiking in the woods and fishing. When one of them goes missing, the town...
"E. Y. Zhao's Underspin is an eruption of a debut. This novel displays a wondrous ability that renders both the central sport and lives that weave around it with meticulous precision and tremendous heart. The beauty of sport, the spirit of desire and the...
The sugar maples are beginning to turn, and the seasonal visitors have closed up their cottages-one more summer has been thoroughly packed away. But the residents of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, have a celebration to look forward to, until a killer calls sudden...
Vic Hale is the biggest podcaster in the nation; he hates everybody, but is loved by millions. Susan and Hawk can't stand him but Spenser goes way back with Vic's father Tommy, and he believes it's all an act. So when Vic comes to Spenser for help, Spenser can...
This latest Regency-era mystery from USA Today bestselling author Vanessa Kelly finds Jane Austen's clever Emma Knightley (nee Woodhouse) as an amateur sleuth, navigating shocking changes in her family-while meeting her match in a deadly adversary . . . ...
From award-winning children's author Ross Montgomery comes the first in a gripping new crime series, where Downton Abbey meets Knives Out with a sprinkle of wickedness. Secrets, murder and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo - an under-butler and a...
Following the suspicious death of notorious underworld gangster, Lee Royal, his widow Jo and Eddie - the rival gangster Jo has been having an affair with - try to solve the murder. Following the suspicious death of notorious underworld gangster, Lee Royal,...
Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your familyTom's a regular teenager sullen, anxious, super-smart, feeling safe within his bedroom and wedded to his screen.On a packed train, a London commodities trader gets under his skin.The trader's got a fine wife,...
*PRE-ORDER NOW! A DELIGHTFULLY TWISTY NEW MURDER MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR COSY CRIME FANS AND DOG LOVERS EVERYWHERE* They've got a lot of leads...but can they collar a killer? When Charlie Boardman and his beloved Staffy, Ruby, stumble across a corpse in the...
'Tis the season for murder in this seasonal locked room mystery. Welcome to Mistletoe Manor Hotel. Four days before Christmas, twelve stranded strangers gather round a crackling fire... They are sheltering from the storm raging outside. But their relief is...
Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling third instalment to the captivating Regency-era Lady Petra Inquires mystery series. September, 1815. Autumn is in the air as Lady Petra Forsyth and some of the most illustrious members of the ton descend upon...
Jess Armstrong's USA Today bestselling and award-winning series is historical gothic murder mystery at its best, and Ruby Vaughn returns in The Devil in Oxford. If someone were to ask American heiress Ruby Vaughn how exactly the occult came to play such a...
The discovery of a long-buried skeleton on Shiloh's newly acquired family land brings up more than just worms... Murder on the farm? It's gravy for the gossip mill! Thanksgiving in Cherry Glen was supposed to be perfect for Shiloh Bellamy. With lingering...
'HELP! I am addicted to this series! Unputdownable' NetGalley reviewer ????? Snow is falling. Murder is calling. Pre-order the most gripping winter thriller of 2025!Journalist Gordon Carver has uncovered something terrifying in his investigation into a local...
'Conrad is a delight' S.J. Bennett Join Lulu Lewis, a retired detective with a knack for uncovering secrets, and Conrad, her extraordinary talking cat, as they take on their latest case. Hoping for a relaxing break, Lulu sets off with Conrad on her canal...
The world's most famous serial killer story, told from the perspective of a gang of women. PRE-ORDER NOW!He's always one step ahead. But they're coming for him. London, 1888. A monster prowls the gaslit streets, and the police are looking in all the wrong...
From the bestselling author of the award-winning novel Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island comes a captivating new tale that explores the deep ties of friendship, family, and community-and the hidden cracks that can fracture even our strongest connections....
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill. "Happy Wife is...
PRAISE FOR HAPPY BLOODY CHRISTMAS: 'An outrageously funny, festive romp which is as utterly wonderful as it is (Christmas) crackers!' MIKE GAYLE When Anna decides to take her family away for Christmas to avoid a repeat of the 'dead man in the larder' debacle,...
Filled with wit and verve, Vaseem Khan brings his vibrant and dynamic style to this spin-off cosy crime series set in the world of James Bond. Charming, drily humorous, and intelligently crafted, Quantum of Menace, the first in the Q mystery books, will appeal...
THE THRILLING THIRD BOOK IN THE HILDUR SERIES - available for pre-order now! As Christmas comes to the west cost of Iceland, a corpse is found in a fish farming pond. Detective Hildur Runarsdottir and trainee Jakob Johanson barely have time to start their...
The vultures are circling. And this time, John Milton is the only one standing between them and their prey.The cryptocurrency scam was global. The victims were everywhere. But now, the men behind it are running out of places to hide.Milton never wanted to get...
Hunlaf voyages to the Holy Land in search of powerful relics but risks the wrath of mighty Byzantium. A rip-roaring Viking-era adventure from the author of the Bernicia Chronicles, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow. AD 797, Cyprus....
In this action-packed thriller, Special Agent Alex Martel's fight becomes personal when her father is abducted by rebel forces. In the heart of Africa, CIA Special Agent Alexandra Martel's safari with her father spirals into a deadly game of betrayal when he...
Jack Ryan returns in a blockbuster new novel of action, thrills and intrigue in the world created by master storytelling Tom Clancy.An international incident may fracture the Ryan family in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.Even in...
MIXED MESSAGES MIXED MESSAGES It's wedding season, and Sooha is reminded of why she stays so distant from others-except, inexplicably, Taesoo, who continues to go above and beyond as a housekeeper. But Taesoo has his own life to get back to, as Sooha...
Four Black Japanese gay men team up to exact revenge in a culture where discrimination is deep-seated. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage...
Contractor Tess Covington has spent her entire life as a regular non-shifter human, so after she lands in the Denver ER with flu-like symptoms, it comes as a complete shock to be told that, no, she's not sick - she's actually a late-presenting omega wolf...
THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING HEALING SERIES THAT FEELS LIKE A HUG What do you really want for Christmas? <h3> THE FULL MOON COFFEE SHOP HAS SOLD OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES ACROSS TWENTY LANGUAGES The Full Moon Coffee Shop normally appears on the night...
"A wise, propulsive, and deeply powerful novel."--Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me From the bestselling author of the "wise and addictive" (New York Times) The Gifted School comes a riveting family drama, set at a...
A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine's bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous...
Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It's been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still...
Two girls. One dead. One disappeared. Whose side of the story will you read first? Which one is the truth? Choose for yourself in this twisty novel of psychological suspense from TikTok sensation Sandra J. Paul.How could things have gone so wrong between Syl...
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