Summer Reads

Abner Marsh has had his dearest wish come true - he has built the Fevre Dream, the finest steamship ever to sail the Mississippi. Abner hopes to race the boat some day, but his partner is making it hard for him to realise his ambition.Joshua York put up...

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There also exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Among them, none relishes...

A freewheeling, fantastical spectacular set on the streets of an alternate Mexico, Certain Dark Things finds the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic smuggling an unconventional love story into an exhilarating page-turner about vampires on the run...

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much - not because she's not pretty, she's a very cute bubbly blonde, or not interested in a social life - she really is .....

Dark, gripping and romantic - read the books that inspired the phenomenal Netflix vampire series.Book 3 in the Vampire Diaries series from bestselling author L. J. Smith.Faced with an ancient evil, Stefan and Damon must stop their feuding and join forces...

Dark, gripping and romantic - read the books that inspired the phenomenal Netflix vampire series.Book 6 in the Vampire Diaries series by bestselling author L J Smith.Elena Gilbert is once again at the centre of magic and danger beyond her imagining. And...

Trust has never come easily to Stefan and Damon, but now that ruthless vampire Samuel is determined to ruin their lives, the Salvatores must join forces to defeat their foe. Samuel has already ruined Stefan's chances at a normal life, and now he's...

Dark, gripping and romantic - read the books that inspired the phenomenal Netflix vampire series. Book 13 in the bestselling Vampire Diaries series by L J SmithRuthless scientist and vampire creator Jack Daltry is dead, killed by Damon and Elena. But now...

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years.First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871-72), the story is narrated by...

Amanda Devereaux has a crazy family. Her mother and older siblings are witches and psychics, and her twin sister is a vampire hunter. All Amanda wants is a quiet, normal life. Only when she finds herself the target of an attack meant for her twin, she...

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...

They're Young, Fabulous and Fanged. . .And they rule Manhattan from the trendy uptown clubs to the downtown boutiques. Fifteen-year-old Schuyler Van Alen has never quite fit in at her exclusive prep school - she's more of a vintage than a Versace girl -...

For the Young, Fabulous and Fanged. . .All is never what it seems. Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: is the young vampire in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? As...

With a stunning new cover look, King's chilling classic of a small new England town about to be engulfed in terror.Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk...

COMING 13 August 2019 - BRAND NEW SERIES on AMC UK - The channel that brought you THE WALKING DEADSummer. Massachusetts. An old Silver Wraith with a frightening history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished business.Anyone could...

From the gleefully twisted imagination of Kim Newman comes a barnstorming alternate history novel where Dracula is Queen Victoria’s new consort and vampires are an everyday feature of society. With a plot revolving around Jack the Ripper and lashings of...

(Available after 3-20 days)Dark, gripping and romantic - read the books that inspired the phenomenal Netflix vampire series.Book 1 in the Vampire Diaries series from bestselling author L. J. Smith.Elena Gilbert is used to getting what she wants and she...

(Available after 3-20 days)Dark, gripping and romantic - read the books that inspired the phenomenal Netflix vampire series. Books 1 and 2 in L. J. Smith's New York Times bestselling VAMPIRE DIARIES series.The Awakening (Book 1): Elena Gilbert is used to...

A LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER A Gentleman in Moscow meets "Moulin Rouge" in this stylish, sexy page-turner set in Paris on the eve of World War II, where Clementine, a queer American ex-pat and notorious thief, is drawn out of...

Susan Sontag meets Hanif Abdurraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious nature of Fascism.Images come at us quickly, often without context. A photograph of Syrian children...