Summer Reads

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...

Fiction Book of the Month for September 2017 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be Both. All across the country, there was misery and...

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...

Drawing is vitally important for the fashion industry. Fashion Illustration represents a designer's point of view and Anna Kiper's aim is to contribute to the revival of this unique art form. Every illustration lesson in the book presents a story with...

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...

John Dies at the End's "smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next" (Publishers Weekly) and This Book is Full of Spiders was "unlike any other book of the genre" (Washington Post)...

“Eric Evans has written a fantastic book on how you can make the design of your software match your mental model of the problem domain you are addressing. “His book is very compatible with XP. It is not about drawing pictures of a domain; it is about how...

An illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design, by the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of the twentieth centuryA Penguin ClassicBruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by...

Carlos Magdalena is a man on a mission: to save the world’s most endangered plants. In The Plant Messiah, Magdalena takes readers from the forests of Peru to deep within the Australian outback in search of the rare and the vulnerable. Back in the lab—at...

Which vegetables should you eat raw? How do you make the perfect poached egg? And should you keep your eggs in the fridge? Food scientist Dr Stuart Farrimond answers all these questions - and many more like them - equipping you with the scientific...

(Available after 3-20 days)The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman...

A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace“A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a...

Boy meets boy romance and one of them happens to be the Crown Prince of England. It’s one thing to fall in love but another to fall into the arms of a prince! This charming and sweet romance is pure escapism with heart and soul.One of Buzzfeed's 39...

It's time to reset, adjust and take the power back.Having spent over 20 years building her hugely successful beauty empire, Maria Hatzistefanis managed to achieve all her childhood dreams and goals. She has attended exclusive parties, walked on glamorous...