Summer Reads

A chilling Gothic tale with a revealing glimpse of the iconic Mrs. Coulter—one of Philip Pullman's most enigmatic characters. This companion story to His Dark Materials is now in print for the first time in a beautiful gift edition.In this darkly...

A #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestsellerSunny Los Angeles can be a dark place indeed in Cassandra Clare’s Lord of Shadows, the bestselling sequel to Lady Midnight. Lord of Shadows is a Shadowhunters novel.Emma Carstairs has just learned that the love...

When the ghosts of two young children start to haunt a local school, trainee ghost hunters Eve, Clovis and Tom are invited to help investigate the case. But before long they realise there is more to this haunting than they first realised. Could it be...

With the tide turned against the Dead, Peter and the remaining community on Wranglestone prepare to leave for town, where the comforts of the world before await them. Could this be the home that finally brings both safety and unity for all? Cooper isn’t...

A dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Frances HardingeIn a world where anyone can create a life-destroying curse, only one person has the power to unravel them.Kellen does not fully understand his...

From the author of Mad Girl and No Such Thing As Normal comes an engaging YA twist on the story of Rapunzel, as a lonely online influencer famed for her luxuriant hair discovers she has alopecia.   Introducing the YA fiction debut from bestselling...

The Hunger Games meets Station Eleven in a gripping near-future dystopian: love triangles, betrayals and fights for freedom in a world turned upside-down...   Welcome to the Arcadia. Once a luxurious cruise ship, it became a refugee camp after being...

The first in a magical realist series set in Shakespearean London and written with the kind of lyrical dexterity and power that one would expect from Akala, The Dark Lady references the Bard’s sonnets as well as crafting an uncompromising picture of...

'Playful, obstinate and courageously humorous ... hilarious and later heartbreaking' Guardian 'Sweet, funny, highly inventive' Yorkshire Post The personal, funny and poignant tale of a young refugee, from acclaimed storyteller Benjamin ZephaniahAcclaimed...

(Available after 3-20 days)A heartbreaking but hope-filled tale about the stories we tell ourselves to survive...You are strong. You are brave. You are not alone.Seventeen-year-old Iris is happy. She's fearless, she's strong. She is everything but a girl...

Dual-written by a BAFTA-winning children's composer and a K-pop hit writer, The Songs You've Never Heard is a debut YA novel that champions sisterhood, musical talent and body positivity. Perfect for fans of Estelle Maskame, Chris Russell and Taylor...

Friendships, loyalty and online anonymity are tested when four of the best young gamers in the world find themselves immersed in the world of their favourite video game, Distant Dawn.   Jack, Megan, Ayo and Cameron are the Raid Mob: four teenage misfits...

In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the Windrush generation. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him, it’s cold...

The thrilling adventure based on the acclaimed Star Trek: Picard TV series!Starfleet was everything for Cristóbal Rios...until one horrible, inexplicable day when it all went wrong. Aimless and adrift, he grasps at a chance for a future as an independent...

Witness the events leading to the epic series Star Trek: Picard. The Countdown starts here!Before he retired to his vineyard, Jean-Luc Picard was the most decorated admiral in Starfleet. Then one mission changed his life forever. After discovering that a...

The thrilling untold adventure based on the acclaimed Star Trek: Picard TV series!The Alpha Quadrant is mired in crisis. Within the United Federation of Planets, a terrorist strike on the shipyards of Mars has led to the shutdown of all relief efforts...

(Available after 3-20 days)The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic-level apocalypse—only to find that some fates really are inevitable.STARFLEET’S FINEST FACES A CHALLENGE UNLIKE ANY...

An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people...

A novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!The U.S.S. Discovery’s specialty is using its spore-based hub drive to jump great distances faster than any warp-faring vessel in Starfleet. To do this, Lieutenant Paul Stamets navigates the ship...

An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human woman raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first officer. But if she wants to keep the job, she must prove...