Mythology & Folklore

THIS BOOK IS NOT SAFE TO READ AT WORK. And honestly, the less you know about it before reading … the better! Twenty year old Temperance Verus has never been kissed. But that’s what the basilisk is for. Along with thirteen other contestants,...

THE SPELLBINDING SEQUEL TO THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FAEBOUND ‘Engrossing […] You’ll definitely want more.’ Good Housekeeping RETURN TO THE INTOXICATING WORLD OF THE FAE… Betrayed by destiny...

The first book in the TikTok phenomenon Heavenly Bodies Trilogy: a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers adult romantasy for fans of Sarah J Maas, Jennifer L Armentrout and Stephanie Garber .You know the most dangerous kind of villain? A woman with nothing left...

THE EMPEROR IS HERE. AND SHE MADE HIM WORSE. Rae is a fantasy reader who's been transported to her favourite fictional world of swords and sorcery, castles and monsters. Playing the villainess, she thought she could change the narrative, but this version...

Discover the sequel to gothic fantasy sensation The Bell Witches from Sunday Times bestseller, Lindsey Kelk. Blood is thicker than water… Since arriving in Savannah, Emily Bell has faced prophecies, werewolves, family secrets...

Award-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse. Retelling the mythical love story between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in the...

The King of Tyre is dead, his final words anointing his clever and strong-willed daughter, Elissa, as the new queen until his young son, Pygmalion, comes of age. But betrayal and danger soon haunt Elissa, and she is forced to flee the kingdom. After an...

‘Brilliant… I loved it.’ Santa MontefioreA FORGOTTEN EGYPTIAN GODDESS. A FAMILY IN DANGER.Victorian Egyptologist Clemmie’s dark talents have torn her family apart. Now she has one chance to atone for the past.Clemmie’s gift...

Cuddly and cute, fierce and ferocious, cunning and conniving, worshipped and feared – felines appear in many forms in the humble folk tale. The cats in this collection of 57 stories are often heroic, witty and, at times, scheming or downright...

From the #1 bestselling author comes an epic story of love and war as two opposing deities find themselves drawn together against the odds. Because when Aphrodite and Ares fall in love, sparks are bound to fly . . . THIS IS THE OLDEST LOVE STORY OF ALL...

From the author of the bestselling Herc comes another playful and feisty spin on Greek myth, as the beautiful Aphrodite tricks the gods into believing she is one of them before hatching a plan to bring down Zeus himself. 'I’m a liar,...

A profoundly moving sapphic tale of love, identity and defiance that retells the love story of Penelope, one of Ancient Greece's most famous heroines. One fateful night in Sparta, a young slave girl encounters a mysterious, grey-eyed princess. Melantho...

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten tales of cosmic horror. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of 21st Century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the...

Shakespeare’s The Tempest gets the Margaret Atwood treatment in this ingenious, funny, tear-jerking story about a theatre director intent on revenge.Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival...

The 20th anniversary edition of Margaret Atwood’s iconic tale with a new foreword by the author and an afterword by Philip Pullman. A fresh take on what follows Homer’s The Odyssey by the international best-selling author...

'An illuminating and often thrilling work of feminist reclamation' – The GuardianNo Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind,...

**This new hardcover edition of the fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Never After series has specially designed edges, an exclusive case design, and full-color art.** She's his diamond in the rough. He's her worst nightmare...

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...

From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a fabulous novel connecting the lives of a foot soldier in the Trojan War with a scholar struggling to make sense of his life in modern-day Oxford.      

Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaro’s novel is like...