Summer Reads

On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favoured by fate, everyone develops a ‘current gift’ - a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their current gifts, Akos and Cyra have gifts make them...

*One of Amazon's 20 Best Books of 2017*Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Southern LivingIn his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of...

A scalpel-sharp and suspenseful dissection of New York society snobbery perfect for readers of Shirley Jackson and Ottessa Moshfegh, Feito’s electrifying debut tracks the paranoid descent of a writer’s wife as she begins to sense that her...

A campus novel told from the perspective of a Black student, Taylor’s powerful tale embraces themes of grief, desire and alienation in rich, eloquent prose.  Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a...

In the still woods, the only movements were bars of sunlight glinting like green glass through the leafy canopy. He stretched higher. There was no sign of his boy. Pax was only a cub when his family was killed and he was rescued by 'his boy', Peter. Now...

The sequel to the acclaimed fantasy Raybearerfinds Tarisai, Empress Redemptor, assailed from all quarters as she struggles to keep control of her tempestuous reign in another stunningly realised West African-inspired epic. The hotly anticipated epic...

Gossip. Rumour. Revenge. Wun Wah Tower. Kwun Tong district, Hong Kong. When Siu-Man jumped from her window on the twenty-second floor, everyone assumed it was suicide. But Sui-Man's sister, Nga-Yee, a quiet and unassuming librarian, is determined to...

This Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece is the story of a father and son's survival in a post-apocalyptic America and is an urgent observation of the best and worst of humanity. At once a brutal vision of the future and a profound meditation on love,...

A fogbound Japanese coastal town is held in the thrall to the mysterious spiral in Ito’s darkly atmospheric and unnerving classic of uncanny, encroaching dread. Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi...

Yato is a homeless god. He doesn't even have a shrine, let alone any worshippers! So, to achieve his ambitious goals, he's set up a service to help those in need (for a small fee of course). He hopes that one day he'll be able to build the temple he...

Yato is a homeless god. He doesn't even have a shrine, let alone any worshippers! So, to achieve his ambitious goals, he's set up a service to help those in need (for a small fee of course). He hopes that one day he'll be able to build the temple he...

Wire-taut and almost unbearably tense, Matheson’s ground-breaking zombie/vampire hybrid unleashed a horde of imitators and continues to influence both horror and sci-fi genres. Told in crisp, spare prose, I Am Legend’s lone-wolf narrative demands a...

'You're not Mia Thermopolis any more, honey,' Dad said. 'You're Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo. Princess of Genovia.'A PRINCESS?? ME??? Yeah. Right.One minute Mia's a totally normal Manhattan fourteen-year-old. Next minute she's heir to...

The author of the bestselling Cursebreakers trilogy returns with a thrilling new fantasy adventure set in a plague-riddled kingdom where a young vigilante must assassinate a cruel monarch so that his subjects can survive. A spark of rebellion is all...

Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very...

Soon to be a major Amazon Prime TV series The third novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published.The Land is One with the Dragon - and the Dragon is One with the Land.The Shadow lies across the...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESNemesis Games is the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series. A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists...

From the author of the bestselling Nevernight series comes a gripping new saga to sink your teeth into, as a lone warrior captured by victorious vampires tells his chilling, unputdownable tale.  From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hands...

By turns touching, hilarious and nightmarish, When We Were Orphans is an ingenious, genre-defying novel from the author of The Remains of the Day. Set in Shanghai and dovetailing colonial guilt and the tumultuous heartbeats of the Second World War into...

The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since...