Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his...

Accompanying season three of the runaway Netflix hit, The Crown – The Official History provides invaluable background information to some of the key events of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. Focusing on the years 1956 to 1977, Lacey’s accessible, pacy...

New York Times bestseller Amy Tintera's YA fantasy trilogy blends the romance of Kiera Cass's Selection series and the epic stakes of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen in a story of revenge, adventure, and unexpected love. Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home...

Mapping 15-year-old Nathan’s quest for answers in the aftermath of his brother’s suicide, All the Stars Were Burning Brightly is a powerful and arresting debut about loss and courage to speak out.   Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021 Shortlisted for...

Told with unflinching honesty and courage, Boy, Everywhere documents the refugee experience as a well-to-do Syrian family endure hardship and incarceration on the journey to beginning a new life.Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021 This debut middle-grade...

Lyrical and bewitching, Ifueko's lush fantasy hinges on a sinister Council and the bond that both unites and destroys its members. Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021 'Only one thing is more powerful than a wish, and that is a purpose.' Tarisai has always...

Merging a beautifully judged gay love story with a terrifying post-apocalyptic zombie thriller, Charlton’s scintillating debut is as rich in characterisation as it is in scares.   Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021 Shortlisted for the YA Book...

This former Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year spins a magical yarn of a quirky orphan who takes up with a gang of urchins who scavenge on the rooftops of venerable Parisian buildings.    Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021 Winner of the Blue Peter...

Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021   Ketchup Clouds tells the story of one teenage girl with a very big secret. Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she can't confess to anyone she knows. But then one day she hears of a...

Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021, Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari is an incredibly insightful, honest novel exploring the delicate balance, and often injustice, of life and death - but at its heart is a celebration of friendship, culture, and life...

Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021 While visiting her grandmother's house, an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby - a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. Fabian, the caretaker's son,...

Your home's been attacked. Your dad's in an asylum. You're running for your life. And there's nowhere to hide. You've stumbled on the city's greatest secret: Darkside. Incredibly dangerous and unimaginably exciting. Darkside is ruled by Jack the Ripper's...

Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021 'This is rollicking historical fiction at its best, a great read' - The Sunday Express I am Cat Royal - Orphan, Adventurer, Actress ... Meet the feistiest heroine in children's historical fiction. Reader, you are set to...

Empire's Picks on Fiction 2021When her father dies nobly in battle, fourteen-year-old Thirrin becomes Queen of the Icemark, a tiny kingdom for ever caught between dangerous neighbours. Thirrin must raise an army to protect her people from seemingly...

(Available after September 21, 2021) *Chosen as a 2020 Kids' Indie Next pick * A Locus Reading List recommendation * An Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist* "Shveta Thakrar's prose is as beautiful as starlight." - New York Times bestselling author Holly...

Brimming with Black’s customary faerie magic, this atmospheric prequel to the events of The Folk of the Air trilogy digs deep into Cardan’s past to unearth some incredible revelations. Once upon a time there was a boy with a wicked tongue....

'Delivers more than almost anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender's Gameis a contemporary classic' - New York Times.'An affecting novel full of surprises.' - The New York Times Book Review on Ender's Game.THE HUMAN RACE...

This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world. This is Claude. He's...

From the bestselling author of The Family Next Door comes a new domestic page-turner about that trickiest of relationships and what happens when it all goes wrong**ORDER THE GOOD SISTER NOW**'Fiction at its finest' --  Liane Moriarty, Number One...

'There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.'Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And...