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An ancient treasure in deep space holds the key to a deadly conspiracy which will shake the Billion Worlds of the Tenth Millennium. At the end of the Tenth Millennium Zee and his AI buddy Daslakh arrive on the icy moon Miranda, hoping to make a good impression...
In a forgotten age of darkness, a magnificent king arises to light the land. They called him unfit to rule, a lowborn, callow boy, Uther's bastard. But his coming had been foretold in the songs of the bard Taliesin. And he had learned powerful secrets at the...
NEW RING OF FIRE SERIES ENTRY FROM IVER P. COOPER A cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire, strands the West Virginia town of Grantville back in time in the middle of the Thirty Years War. One of its ripple effects is that Japan has pulled back from a policy of...
NEW RING OF FIRE SERIES ENTRY FROM THE LATE ERIC FLINT AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR WALTER HUNT: The King is dead: Long Live the King. But which one? Gaston sits on the throne in Paris, but the dead king's infant son has powerful forces on his side, ready to place...
New novel in New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia's epic fantasy Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series. What happens after the War of the Gods? The answer lies in the Heart of the Mountain... Ashok Vadal was chosen by a powerful weapon to be its...
If someone gave you all the money in the world, just what would you do with it? Finally free of Earth and all of his connections to it, David can now focus on his and Kacey's fledgling cargo company, and start considering his future goals as an engineer. There...
Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend,...
A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death duology. The colour of magic was gold . . . ...
Marc Vitrac, born in 1960s Louisiana, came into a world where the first interplanetary probes unveiled life on Mars and Venus, igniting a global Space Race. Fast forward to 1988, Marc is stationed at Jamestown, a US-Commonwealth base on Venus, set against a...
Lords of Creation, the eagerly anticipated finale in S.M. Stirling's acclaimed Lords of Creation series, promises to be a masterful conclusion to a saga that has captivated readers worldwide. Following the remarkable adventures in "The Sky People" and "In the...
In S. M. Stirling's The Sky People an alternate reality unfolds where Earth's solar system harbors a shocking secret. Discovered only in the twentieth century, this revelation about Mars and Venus challenges our understanding of the universe and sparks a race...
Jedi Master Mace Windu travels to a dangerous, remote planet on a mission that challenges even his deadly prowess-all to fulfill Qui-Gon's last request. The Jedi are reeling from Qui-Gon Jinn's sudden death at the hands of a Sith. Jedi Master Mace Windu's...
The news that humanity had been dreading for ages had come true. Zombies are real. Worst of all, we created them. The apocalypse was upon us, and every man, woman and child had to answer a simple question of themselves: "What do we do now?" For a group of...
With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violentlyinsane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlanticocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the humanrace. Banding together...
Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky.With human civilization annihilated by a biological zombie plague, a rag-tag fleet of yachts and freighters known as Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic, searching for survivors. Now Wolf Squadron mu
Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines. When an airborne "zombie" plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith fam
Past. Present. Future. In 1959 a schoolgirl is caught in the rivalry between two male teachers. In 1982 a New Zealander in her thirties is introduced to a snake in San Diego. In 2075 a government official drafts a summary of the first stage in NZ's new-style...
'He wouldn't just vanish!' Kate cries, her head in her hands. 'Something is wrong, I can feel it. And I have to find him before it's too late...' When Kate meets Theo on the worst day of her life, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. Sitting on a...
My whole life, I've been haunted by a secret I've left behind on the coast of Ireland. I may be gone, but if you're reading this Casey, I need to tell you everything... When Casey's dear friend Rosie passes away, her heart breaks in two; Rosie didn't even tell...
Laura, a brilliant young Bosnian refugee, must confront her harrowing past when she falls in love with British diplomat Adam, whose job takes them to Serbia - the country that once invaded her own. With Adam preoccupied in his pursuit of war criminal General...
A voice-driven, funny and poignant exploration of millennial angst, race, trans panic, and the allure of bougie domesticity, Disappoint Me will delight and provoke readers in equal measure. 'Nicola Dinan's second book confirms to me that she is one of our...
A story of falling out of love from the winner of the Comedy Women in Print Award, for fans of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton Mara longs to escape the London rental market and the small, damp flat she shares with her housemate, Lewis...
'Achingly romantic with lashings of Gilded Age glamour.' Jessica Bull 'A Matter of Persuasion completely captured my heart! The way it immerses you in the lavish details of the era made me feel like I was living in that time. I couldn't help but stay...
A hilarious and entertaining novel about spicing up your life! Perfect for fans of Fiona Gibson.Putting the sizzle back in married life.Sarah's humdrum existence as a busy mother is far from exciting, but when her husband comes to her with a wild plan it may...
An utterly unputdownable read that will make you laugh, weep, and think about the world in a completely different way!It's time she made a splash of her own.When Fiona's husband ups and leaves on the same day her only son goes away to college, she suddenly...
Holderness, 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about the local community... Everything except why another family, the Reedbarrows, now live in her ancestral home, Foster's Mill. When Christopher, a man from...
'Dear Miss Maxfield ... what I'm really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don't think it's possible there could be so many in one school, do you? - probably there is only one person who is homosexual in one place at...
Preorder the BRAND NEW hilarious novel from the #1 bestselling author, Maddie Please guarenteed to make you laugh out loud!Joy Chandler has had enough!All she wanted was a lovely family Christmas with perfect turkey and luxury crackers. Instead, daughter Sara...
Emotional, heart-warming, captivating and uplifting, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Kitty Neale.Seven-year-old Lissie Fairweather is the apple of her father's eye, but when a tragedy strikes their family, Lissie must make her own way in the...
Campbell gives voice to the extraordinary (never ordinary) men and women of Manchester. He goes beyond the King's English and formulaic approaches to short stories to capture, in print, how people really talk. Think James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, but Mancunian....
As the frequency of air raid sirens sending an apartment building' s residents to the basement increases, the neighbor children block out reality with the toys at hand- some imported from Western Europe and North America, others...
Meet Tommy Bruce - he's washed-up already, marooned in a ramshackle hotel inherited from dead parents in the armpit of Perthshire, that's just too far off the main tourist trail to be viable. He's too young to be middle-aged, but too old to be what you could...
From a Costa Book of the Year winner, Booker nominee and double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist comes a searing portrayal of the gradual uncovering of one woman's past psychological wounds, set in motion by the arrival of an unexpected letter.In...
BRAND NEW FOR 2024 FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WATCHMAKER OF DACHAU AND THE RAINBOW.1939, Poland. An extraordinary young woman vows revenge on the Nazis after her family are murdered...Ania hears the explosion of gunshots before she sees the Nazi...
Red House Alley is the first complete English translation of Else Jerusalem's Der Heilige Skarabaeus, her revolutionary novel about sex workers in 19th century Vienna. Jerusalem ripped away the veil of moral hypocrisy that viewed prostitutes as predators who...
Afghanistan, 2007. Carl meets Sarah, a nurse, at Camp Bastion and they feel an instant connection. But she's the girlfriend of his fellow soldier, Danny, so he pledges to keep his distance. Finally back in England, Carl vows to never forget those who didn't...
A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted. Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked, on account of their heritage, with profiling one of the last living witnesses of the...
'A beautifully crafted and accomplished debut' - Michael DonkorFor ten months of the year, two men are drawn to adjacent seats in a stadium, carrying the burdens of life and pouring all their hopes into their beloved but ailing team.Fatherless and fretful, the...
Samson Kabarebe will one day be the name on everyone's lips. At only eighteen, it's clear he is destined to join the greats in the pantheon of football gods. Set to change the fortunes of a relegation-threatened Premier League team, he takes the place of...
"Who's afraid of a girl who shines bright?" Rosie Garland's spellbinding short story collection explores extraordinary people defying expectations. Blurring natural and supernatural, these enchanting yet disquieting stories unveil the extraordinary within...
John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor meets an Italian sociologist Bernadette Basagni while working on a contemporary-art project in the Alpine city of I_. As he falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view - when his mother, Sandra,...
The brand-new World War 2 historical novel from the bestselling author of The German Messenger Charlotte Weber is against the Nazi regime and what it stands for, but as she attends Hamburg University, she struggles to make sense of the war she finds herself a...
Ukrainian writer and military serviceman Artem Chekh's book was the winner of the 2021 BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year Award and is a gritty and bald bildungsroman, a lilting picaresque of a life lived in the shadow of someone else's war. Ukrainian writer...
New stories are being written at The Little Penguin Bookshop... Carrie Anderson's business selling books at her local train station is thriving and, with her beloved Mike returned from war, everything feels as though it is falling into place. That is, until...
A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as they grapple with revolutions personal and political. 'Glorious ... Darkly funny, richly satisfying' SARAH...
A fictional thirty-something writer named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher a terrible manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Shortly afterward, while moping around a park in suburban Tokyo, he spots a figure drowning in a nearby aqueduct. He...
Somewhere in the Catskills there's a camp, it's called Camp Jeff. The place is named for Jeffrey Epstein, not that Jeffrey Epstein, this is the good Jeffrey Epstein, a benefactor who wants his name on the building, though the bad one's not entirely irrelevant...
The Contessa Giovanna Landini takes on Gestapo chief Paul Hauptmann in a daring mission in Occupied Rome February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape...
First comes surrogacy, then comes the messy gay breakup in Tom Pyun's tragi-comic debut novel that asks, is it ever too late to finally face yourself and grow up? Winston Kang and Jared Cahill seem like the perfect couple. When they check in for their flight...
Humorous, heartfelt, and endearing, My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor is the story of a young man (as empty as the Big Mac container itself) facing depression head on, and learning to find beauty and hope in a life...
For fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruined a Little When We Are Born delivers a stunning exploration of family and motherhood against the backdrop of Indian diaspora and culture. Tara Isabel Zambrano weaves elements from both the physical and...
A raw deal can leave you dead in the water*The life of a country bumpkin is worth no more than a melon?The boat-dwellers upriver have been punting watermelons down to the market by Tiexing bridge for as long as the townsfolk can remember. A precarious...
A novel about escape and connection, class, sex, and queer intimacy in the American Midwest. The oldest story: an insider pretends to be an outsider and receives praise for his empathy and imagination and intelligence. Maybe some asshole even says bravery. An...
In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from...
One sister found the courage to leave, the other must find the courage to live ... From the Caribbean to 1950s London, an epic story of finding home, Island Song is an atmospheric and lyrical debut of compelling storytelling, for fans of Louise Hare...
Its 1943 and the war continues on in Ambridge. But the minds of the villagers are focused a little closer to home... For many centuries, a local tradition has told of a mystic living in a hermit's cave just outside the village. Legend tells that she has...
A page turning, gender and genre-bending novel set on the Cape Flats in Capetown, South Africa; a story of people who live in a place of violence which involves drugs, corrupt clergy, queerness, friendships - and how these survive in a society that is...
A woman with dark circles under her eyes stands on your doorstep, clutching a little boy's hand. Your heart stops. You let her into your home once before, and it nearly cost you everything... When you first took Riley in as a teenager, you showed her what it...
I take a deep breath before I utter the words I'm terrified to say out loud. My therapist waits patiently for me to speak, but nothing could prepare her for what I tell her next. 'I think I killed my best friend...' Three years ago, Alice Kelly was found dead...
We thought it was nothing. Now she's missing... I look at our neighbours gathered in the garden for our annual summer barbecue, sipping chilled wine and smiling at my two daughters sprawled on the grass. I go inside to help refill glasses and then I hear it. A...
Dawn breaks over the mountains. Not a single part of the girl's once-beautiful body is free from pain. She prays she'll slip into a blissful unconsciousness, but the sound of an engine rouses her. Her swollen eyes struggle to focus as she raises a bruised arm...
When a wealthy property developer and his family are found dead, Cato Kwong is put on the case - one that will take him to Shanghai and to the heart of a cutthroat game. The riveting third instalment of the Cato Kwong crime thriller, featuring the troubled...
Justice has been served . . . unless the accused is innocent.Life in prison is often a nightmare, but Joe Moore believes he is just where God intends him to be. Twenty-five years ago, while high on meth, he makes one terrible mistake after another, culminating...
Pre-order a brand new story from Number One bestselling author Valerie Keogh. An explosive NEW thriller that will leave you shocked! Meet The Wives...Lies, secrets, deadly decisions...When Natasha meets Daniel, she knows her life is made. Rich, handsome and...
Preorder the BRAND NEW instalment in the gripping Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series set in gorgeous Tuscany - it's murder in paradise!A tragic accident?When Italy's greatest opera singer, Rodolfo Argento, is killed in a terrible car accident, the police...
<cite>Lie of the Land</cite> is a dark, domestic literary thriller set in the Black Country in the Midlands, UK. When Rory and Jemma meet, Rory already has a girlfriend, but that doesn't stop them getting together and, much sooner than Jemma would like,...
Famous is the darkly funny standalone thriller from Blake Crouch, the bestselling author of Dark Matter, for fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz Meet Lance. 38-years-old. Works a meaningless job. Still lives above his parents' garage. By all accounts, a...
Silence protects the victims... And the killer Don't miss this award winning debut crime thriller set in Sheffield introducing DI Diana Walker: A grizzly murder has Diana questioning everything she knows, and secrets come to light that threaten to to tear her...
Northern California, end of summer. Fire Hazard Severity Zone: Very High. A mysterious death. On the anniversary of her mother's death, CEO-in-waiting Robyn Sandoval goes for a morning run. She knows her father - a local fire fighting hero - is desperate to...
1950s Flanders- A master forger transforms a young woman's life, but will the price be too high? Combining the cinematic allure of The Queen's Gambit with the seductive intrigue of Jessie Burton's The Muse, The House with Nine Locks is a compelling and...
It matters not who you are born to but where you are made.It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave.The two are unusual criminals in the pocket of a gang Lord named Will Twentyman, the Grave Eorl of Southwark. Mariner is the...
It's not the lies that kill you. It's the truth. They predicted Ivo would become a tycoon They predicted Ayda would go on to become a hotshot lawyer They didn't predict that Lily would be dead Twenty years ago, nine university friends made a series of...
A poisoned chocolate. A stolen dress. An elusive catburglar. Drag's not just dramatic, it's deadly. By day, Joe is a hotel accountant, invisibly sitting behind their desk and playing by the rules. By night, donned in sequins, they take to the stage as Misty...
On an Island full of secrets The truth lies in the dark A gripping and atmospheric debut crime thriller set on an isolated Scottish island... A mysterious death ...
Siena, one of Italy's most beautiful cities, visited by all discerning travellers to Tuscany, is feverishly preparing for the Palio, a horse race dating back to the Middle Ages held every summer in the centre of the town. Milanese lawyer Enzo Maggione and his...
A warm, spellbinding tale about a witch and the secrets her coven has been keeping from her, with echoes of the classic Hades and Persephone story, in the tradition of Practical Magic and Witch of Wild Things. A warm, spellbinding tale about a witch and the...
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Come join Fred the Bear on a stunningly illustrated journey to be crowned the best bear in the wood and, just maybe, learn that there might be more to life than training... from the creative genius behind the #DrawWithRob phenomenon and the bestselling and...
Percy Jackson meets Dan Brown in a fast-paced conspiracy mystery. London, 1665. Fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe is apprenticed to master apothecary Benedict Blackthorn. In Blackthorn's shop, Christopher learns the delicate secrets of transforming simple...
Berlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work in the German War Crimes Bureau - weary, cynical but well aware of the value of truth in a world where that's now a...
Deep in the Arctic, a long-forgotten Soviet military base known only as Dragon Island enshrouds a weapon of unimaginable destructive force - a Cold War doomsday device with the power to obliterate the planet. When a mysterious and brutal terrorist group known...
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boy's journey in search of a place to call home. I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is stronger than any other feeling....
"Catalogue to accompany exhibition of the same name at The Museum of Modern Art, New York"--
Book five in the sensational Magnolia Parks Universe series! How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are in the stars, but is that enough? Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating...
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? After spending a night with an attractive stranger, Gina Davies becomes a prime suspect in an attempted...
Richard Flanagan's Wanting reminds us that he is one of the most exciting novelists working anywhere, full stop - The Age From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The bestselling, universally lauded novel of desire and its denial from acclaimed writer Richard...
Where the River Rises is the final book in the multi-award-winning series The Barn Chronicles by New Zealand author Rosie Boom Where the River Rises is a warm-hearted, engaging book for the whole family to enjoy. The fourth and final book in the...
The year is 1830 and Jamie Pyke, a celebrated silversmith and notorious ladies' man, is keeping a deadly secret. Passing as a wealthy white aristocrat in Philadelphian society, Jamie is now living a life he could never have imagined years before when he was a...
Enjoying dinner with Detective Edgar Babcock, Carmella finds the food and the company equally divine--with the exception of Isabelle Black stopping by to brag about her upcoming wedding. Leaving the restaurant, they hear a terrifying scream from inside...
AN ASTOUNDING NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF FRANKIE AND STANKIE AND BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK ____________________ 'A dazzling achievement. It's beautifully-written, deftly-plotted and moves skilfully from domestic drama to global themes and back again' -...
"Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.'" -The Washington Post This Newbery Medal winner that...
Dove Findhorn is a naove country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, Dove finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His...
'A brilliant book' - Mary Wesley, Daily Mail 'She is simply dynamite ... There are no apparent bounds to Trapido's skill, her inventiveness and her knowledge' - Philip Hensher, Guardian Sparky Christina and her saintly adopted sister Pam couldn't be more...
Selected as a Radio 4 Good Read by Maggie O'Farrell ______________________ 'Sprinkled with magic' - Sunday Times 'Audacious, energetic and dazzing ... There aren't many novelists whose stories one doesn't want to end, but Barbara Trapido is one of them' -...
A sci-fi classic returns to print in its true, best, and original form! With renewed interest in Alexander Key's extraordinary 1968 novel, fans can dive into Escape to Witch Mountain as it was meant to be read. The powerful, thrilling story of Tony and...
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