Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

Charlie and Sam are faced with a deadly new threat to the living whilst trying to develop their relationship in the spookily romantic sequel to the BookTok hit Sixteen Souls.  Prepare for more spooky, swoony YA from BookTok...

Uncover a magical past that refuses to be forgotten in a world of mythical creatures and ruthless religion in this brand-new duology from the multi-award winning author of The Ninth Rain, perfect for fans of John Gwynne and Andrea Stewart.Leven has no...

December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside, an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. The driver manages to slow the train down so that the impact is...

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war –...

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in IrelandSinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a...

"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.”—Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of...

America’s pregnancy bible answers all your baby questions. When can I take home a pregnancy test? How can I eat for two if I’m too queasy to eat for one? Can I keep up my spinning classes? Is fish safe to eat? And what’s this I hear...

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its...

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its...

A captivating Christmas romcom that finds city girl Tia embark on a fake relationship with country boy Quincy, Only for the Holidays is perfect reading for fans of Priyanka Taslim and Sophie Gonzales. The Spanish Love...

British adolescent angst has never been so “laugh-out-loud funny” as in this first encounter with a sharp-witted, pining, and achingly honest underdog (The New York Times). Perhaps when I am famous and my diary is discovered, people will...

Pay close attention and you might solve this.On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess...

Set in the same world as Shelby Mahurin’s beloved Serpent & Dove series, The Scarlet Veil is an equally dark and riveting ‘romantasy’ perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas. This dark and thrilling vampire romance—set in...

Bridgerton fans rejoice! This epistolary confection—told in letters among three school friends—is perfect for devotees of gossipy costume drama.Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to...

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history."In the end, it did not matter...

Inspired by real-life events, Foster's electrifying seventeenth-century-set whodunit revolves around a respectable noblewoman accused of the shocking murder of her lover. In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me...

The highly anticipated reissue of the du Maurier classics American fans have been waiting for   "Daphne du Maurier has no equal." Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors In...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 WOMEN’S PRIZEA LIBRARY JOURNAL EMERGING STARS PICKA mesmerizing novel of World War II Singapore, “a story about memory, trauma, and ultimately love” (New York...

Two young women set out to rescue an accused witch held captive at the fortress of Vardo in Bergman's electrifying and empowering debut about the power of female solidarity. They will have justice. They will show their power. They will not burn...

Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economicsFor decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is...