Summer Reads

This panoramic novel about a family scattered across the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II is a monument of modern Russian literature by the Ukrainian-born writer hailed as “the Tolstoy of the USSR.”Suppressed by the KGB and years later...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Hemingway’s first novel—both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post–World War I EuropeThe Sun Also Rises tracks...

A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous: madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all the wrong places.Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known...

Winner of the Booker Prize 1991 So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite...

A beautiful hardcover Contemporary Classics edition of Nigerian author Ben Okri's lushly imaginative novel, which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1991.The narrator of The Famished Road is a spirit-child who exists between life and death, destined to an...

Fitzgerald's masterpiece—the quintessential Jazz Age novel—now in a hardcover Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics editionFor generations of enthralled readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, has come to embody all the...

The journalist and podcast host tells her inspirational and courageous story of living with incurable bowel cancer and how developing a positive mindset was key to enabling her to cope with her diagnosis.   I'm alive when I should be dead. In another...

Combining poetry and prose to startling effect, McLeod's powerful debut revolves around a girl imprisoned in a forest made from her own Afro as she comes of age amidst the temptations and opportunities of the inner-city.   A genre-bending YA that...

(Available after September 30th, 2022)On Bird Rock, gannets circle and thick mist surrounds the lighthouse at its centre, hiding the secrets of a tragic past within ...From the second they set foot on the island to join their dad and his new family, Jess...

From the angel realms below to the angel realms above, there is one word that puts the entire fate of the world at risk. War.It's no question a war amongst the realms is coming, the Holy War as a matter of fact, but for Gale Geffen, Guardian of the City...

(Available after 3-20 days)Don't miss the first epic She-Ra and the Princesses of Power graphic novel, based on stories by showrunner Noelle Stevenson!   Even after everything that's happened, the world outside the Horde's walls is still a strange one to...

Delving deep in the fantastical and uncanny realms of British folklore, the author of former Children’s Book of the Month The Midnight Guardians delivers an entrancing story of faeries, changelings and heart-stopping adventure. Heart-stopping fantasy...

The hotly anticipated new standalone from the bestselling and award-winning Queen of Historical Fiction, Emma Carroll.Britain, 1962'Who are you?' I asked.'You don't know who I am? You mean, it's not been on the news?'The girl glanced from Ray to me and...

The latest mind-blowing novel from award-winning author Christopher Edge, Escape Room is a thrilling adventure that challenges readers to think about what they've done to save the world today. When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks...

Joseph Coelho's delightfully dark series of fairy tale verse reimaginings continues with a creepy mash-up of Frankenstein and Rumpelstiltskin, as a junior taxidermist is charged with three frightful tasks.   The second story in a funny, deliciously...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds, a “funny and rewarding” (Publishers Weekly) coming-of-age novel about friendship and loyalty across neighborhood lines and the hardship of life for an urban teen.A lot of the stuff that gives my...

An instant classic with a bear-sized heart, Hannah Gold’s debut novel is a touching story of kindness, adventure, and forging your own path—perfect for fans of Pax and A Wolf Called Wander.   There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that’s...

(Available after October 30th, 2022)A Book of the Year in The Observer and The Times and winner of the Visionary Honours Award.'David Harewood writes with rare honesty and fearless self-analysis about his experiences of racism and what ultimately led to...

She’s twelve. He’s dead. But together they’re going to save the world. Hopefully.   The iconic first book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series. Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate,...

She’s twelve. He’s dead. But together they’re going to save the world. Hopefully. The second book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series. "You will kill her?" the Torment asked.Skulduggery sagged. "Yes." He hesitated, then took his gun from his...