Summer Reads

The pioneering YA thriller author of Girl, Missingreturns with another scalpel-sharp page-turner centred on a disaffected teenage girl and the dangerous world opened up by her father's dark secrets.   A lonely girl, a missing father and a trail of...

Incorporating themes of religion, the care system and domestic violence into a compelling YA thriller, This is My Truth fizzes with suspense as a prank blogger threatens to reveal Amani's terrible family secret. Your friend or your secret - which one...

A scorching and intense YA thriller with a cast of fascinating characters, Lies Like Wildfire sees a group of friends become responsible for a terrible, deadly accident, with the burning secrets they vow to keep threatening to turn the rest of their...

The former Children’s Book Prize category winner returns with a story of fractured family and friendships tested by fate and circumstance that is poignant and utterly gripping.   From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, comes a YA road-trip...

A fantasy adventure powered by a kick-ass wild-west heroine and a collection of magical objects known as Oddities. "A thrillingly original fusion of adventure, magic, and epic alternative history." - Jonathan Stroud"Written with insouciant charm .....

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...

Shortisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 The greatest love story ever told doesn't feature kissing in the snow or racing to airports. It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder and a ban on cheesy cliches. Oh, and zombies...  Bad boys turned good,...

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...

She's a romantic at heart, living in the most unromantic of worlds . . .Nicknamed Sweet Abelli for her docile nature, Elena smiles on cue and has a charming response for everything. She's the favored daughter, the perfect mafia principessa . . . or was...

(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...