Summer Reads

Centred on the disappearance of his daughter’s husband and a set of family secrets that the maverick detective isn’t sure that he wants to uncover, A Song for the Dark Times is an intensely personal case for John Rebus...

The great Manga horror master unleashes another spine-chilling extravaganza as a mysterious village is subjected to unidentified flying objects raining down on it, presaging deadly atrocities to come. Horror master Junji Ito explores a new frontier...

A New York Times bestselling love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarah's Scribbles comics.Elsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in all that time, she has never met her match. This all changes...

Spotlighting the quirks and eccentricities of human beings through a race of alien life-forms, the Instagram hit Strange Planet is now compiled into handsome book form. Wry, gentle and affecting, Pyle’s strip cartoons are an uplifting delight in...

'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' -- SpectatorWe talk about sex more and...

The classic bestseller - over a million copies sold worldwide.High fashion, low cunning - and the boss from hell.When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She's never heard of the world's most fashionable...

For anyone who's seen Walt Disney's Snow White, you'll know that the Wicked Queen is one evil woman! After all, it's not everyone who wants to cut out their teenage step-daughter's heart and have it delivered back in a locked keepsake box. (And even if...

(Available after 3-20 days)Lady Tremaine, widowed and raising two headstrong girls alone, finds herself falling for a dashing knight from a far-off land who is looking for a stepmother for his own young daughter. But stepmothers in the Many Kingdoms...

An old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. This is the third: a woman breaks the rules . . .Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's The Sin Eater is a...

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes - fierce emeralds. And not just beautiful, but hot too. BEFORE...

*The 10th anniversary edition with a new foreword from Kristin Neff*'Kristin Neff offers practical, wise guidance on the path of emotional healing and deep inner transformation.' -- Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical AcceptanceKristin Neff PhD, is a...

The second book in The Inheritance Series Darkness falls . . . Despair abounds . . . Evil reigns . . . Fresh from their battle for the rebel state against King Galbatorix, Eragon has no time to rest. He and his dragon, Saphira, must travel to Ellesmera,...

Aria, Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Alison have been best friends since the third grade. They go everywhere together, thinking no-one can come between them. If anyone is the ringleader of the group it is Alison, and the other girls cannot help but confide...

What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scaling a successful business isn't talent, network or strategy. It's an entrepreneurialmindset - and that mindset can be cultivated.Behind the scenes in Silicon...

'Shari expertly traps you, confounds you and leaves you gasping at the end. More, please...' --  FIONA BARTONWhy would you run scared from a happy home?You're waiting for your beloved husband to get home from work.You're making dinner, looking forward to...

'Full of Hoffman's bewitching and lucid prose and vivid characters, The Book of Magic is ultimately about the very human magic of family and love and actions that echo through generations... it casts a spell' -- Matt Haig.THE STUNNING,...

A revelatory account of how making minor alterations to the way we breathe could have profound benefits for health and wellbeing, Nestor’s clear, accessible volume combines science with ancient custom to develop a unified theory of breathing. There...

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty is an accessible entry point into progressive feminist discussion, covering topics such as body image, toxic beauty standards, and identity-building in a world still plagued by misogyny and sexism. Longlisted for the Polari...

I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the melted? How to turn the ground powder back into a person? This idea points to a knowledge that I don't have: how to love without losing the self.'...

Clueless country girl Suzume moves to Tokyo and finds her heart caught between two men!After arriving in Tokyo to live with her uncle, Suzume collapses in a nearby park where she had once seen a shooting star during the day. A handsome stranger brings...