Summer Reads

The edge-of-your-seat YA thriller you've been lookingfor ...'What a debut. So tense - and it didn't lead where I thought it was going.' SUE WALLMAN, author of YOUR TURN TO DIE'Frankenstein meets Heathers. Bonnie and Clyde for the digital age, Every Line...

Based on an astonishing true story of bravery and rebellion, Reinhardt recounts the dangerous exploits of a group of teenage anti-Nazis in Hitler’s Germany and how they fought to bring down a horrific regime. When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends...

Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geordie lad recounting the trials and tribulations of family life and finding first love. Nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal. Danny's mam has a new boyfriend...

With echoes of Noughts and Crosses and The Power, Kettle’s brilliantly imagined dystopia plays clever tricks with gender and authority roles as a teenage boy finds himself caught up in an elaborate assassination plot. They say we're dangerous. But...

The trust no-one tension of One of Us is Lying meets legendary scam Fyre Festival. A high-energy, wildly entertaining, read-in-one-sitting YA thriller to get obsessed with. Plum Winter has always come in second to her sister, the unbelievably cool,...

(Available after 3-20 days)Versace. The very name conjures up images of outrageous glamour and bold sexuality, opulence and daring. All of course true, but only half the story. Versace is also the legacy of a great creative genius from a poor, backward...

(Available after 3-20 days)An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath!Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when...

(Available after 3-20 days)An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath!Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when...

(Available after October 21, 2021)"The glorious love child of Otessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney." Six days ago, Dorothy had a miscarriage. At the novel's opening, she is examining the "thick, curdled knots of string" that are still coming out of her body...

(Available after 3-29 days)A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in...

(Available after February 21, 2021)'Ella Baxter's debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . . there's also much love . . . An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale.' -- Sydney Morning...

Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why. John Berger's first novel is a passionate exploration of the artistic process, and a...

A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2020Disasters, accidents, and deaths abound in Bluebeard's First Wife. A woman spends a night with her fiancé and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret that has bound them together since high school. A man grows...

(Available after 3-20 days)In this collection by a canonical figure in Korean literature, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore -- at its best, accompanied by great beauty and compassion; at its worst by a cynicism that nonetheless turns a...

This definitive edition combines the best plates and text from the great anatomist's Renaissance treasures, including Tabulae Sex, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, and the Epitome. Reproduced from a rare edition, these 96 plates recapture the vitality of the...

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb...

(Available after 3-20 days)2009 reprint of 1910 edition. Two Volumes Bound into one. Arthur Edward Waite was a scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Waite's name has...

(Available after 3-20 days)The reader is given a concept of the life and times when Hippocrates lived. The professions and trades during Hippocrates time are described as well as the early education of youth in ancient Greece.Medicines were not based on...

(Available after 3-20 days)All Galen's surviving shorter works on psychology and ethics - including the recently discovered Avoiding Distress, and the neglected Character Traits, extant only in Arabic - are here presented in one volume in a new English...

"Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives." --President Barack Obama (on Twitter)"An important book." --Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book ReviewNow also a PBS documentary series: the...