In a quiet glen beyond the reach of the railway lives a peculiar family who knows the best magic is the kind found in ordinary moments. When Ismay Gebhardt is dismissed from yet another teaching post after an unfortunate accident (which everyone...

SHE RAISES HELL. HE RAISES THE DEAD. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? When new recruit Helspira takes on the doomed mission that no other soldier wants, life - and death - start to get a little complicated. Helspira must play escort to Sikras - a...

‘An intimate story of self-discovery… Beautiful’ Orhan Pamuk ‘For readers who loved Call Me By Your Name, this is a similarly soft, hazy, and quietly devastating story.’ Dua Lipa's Service95 A moving and...

‘LaRue’s writing sparks and shines like the brightest of steel’ Rebecca Ross, #1 bestselling author An infamous thief must carry out an impossible heist to save an immortal warrior from the curse that’s killing him. This fiercely...

One boy’s quest to change his future and restore magic by award-winning writer Ollie George Clark For fans of the best-selling series How to Train your Dragon, look no further for your next epic fantasy quest. It is the day of Deciding in the...

'Brilliant, hilarious, addictive. My new literary obsession' ALICE SLATER'Fresh and vital . . . Lots of fun' MARIE CLAIREFor anyone who has ever had a crush, welcome to your new personal obsession.Mika is about to turn twenty-five, and all she has...

An ode to female friendship and girlhood, this is a bestselling* debut, perfect for fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.Nel, Flo, Maggie and Nicole haven’t been friends for years. Caught in...

The high-stakes of The Hunger Games. The rich magical setting of Caraval. The ensemble cast of Six of Crows. Power, revenge and sisterhood combine in this heart-pounding YA fantasy debut, set in a magical circus in Belle Époque...

If you could be anyone – who would you be? Beth Greenwood has always imagined being someone else. Someone more successful, more exciting. More alive. What would it really be like to walk in another person’s shoes – just for a...

Young Amelio must battle the elements of evil in this exhilarating fantasy debut, as he seeks to unite divided provinces against the most destructive storm the world has ever seen. Obey the storm, or die with it ... In a world ravaged by supernatural...

When clouds roll in, wool-thick and grey, and it's harder to breathe than before, when we can't remember Dad's face or how he sounded anymore, we wait for the stars. After losing her dad, Celeste's life feels like it's splintering. Then she makes a new...

Review "A captivating, funny and beautifully imagined fable" (Beth Jones Sunday Telegraph)"Startlingly beautiful...an eloquent example of the games a fine storyteller can play" (Independent on Sunday)"A beautiful book... It's like a bridge, built between...

He's a bit of a handyman. Or so Mr Parker seems to think. No matter, he'll soon be on that train east to India from these wet lakeland fells. Just as soon as he's finished that little job Mr Parker asked him to do and payment can be discussed later.

Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis SimpsonOne of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba has written the first full biography by a...

In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Once on the train to Moscow he begins to tell his story: a tale of loss, love and...

THE classic thriller of the 20th century - 'Simply the best escape and pursuit story yet written' [THE TIMES] - with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane'[A] masterpiece: a bestseller that redefined its genre' GUARDIAN' Rogue Male is...

The Big Woods was getting too crowded. So Pa sold the little log house and built a covered wagon. The family was moving to Indian country! They traveled from Wisconsin to Oklahoma, and there, finally, Pa built the little house on the prairie.All year...

Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 1999Set in post-apartheid South Africa, Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University...

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to...

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH'Increasingly looking like the masterpiece of British fiction from the past few years' Evening StandardNine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of...