Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

Seven of the greatest modern short stories - disassembled by their authors.This innovative anthology reveals the inspiration, the ideals and the work involved in a great short story. Reverse Engineering brings together contemporary classic stories with...

A masterpiece of fiction and memory, Cheri is a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the moments of beauty and pain that make an individual life, right up until its very last moments.Cheri has been living with cancer for many years...

A strong-willed high school girl and a hot young scion of a business empire can’t help trying to outwit each other every chance they get... But could these opposites be conning themselves out of the perfect match?!After her older sister refuses to...

A strong-willed high school girl and a hot young scion of a business empire can’t help trying to outwit each other every chance they get... But could these opposites be conning themselves out of the perfect match?!After her older sister refuses to...

Faced with the choice of being married to a strange spirit or being made into dinner, Aoi decides to create a third option for herself!Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather’s ability to see spirits—and his massive debt to them! Now...

WINNER OF A FORTNUMS SPECIAL AWARD 2023 WINNER OF THE ANDRÉ SIMON AWARD 2022 FOR BEST FOOD BOOK ‘A beautifully written instant classic that is every bit as exuberant and delicious as the man himself!’ Nigella Lawson 'Jeremy Lee is an...

‘This book will earn a place in kitchens up and down the country’ -- Nigella LawsonSeventy-five one-tin recipes: half vegan, half vegetarian, all delicious.With all seventy-five recipes in this book, you simply pop your ingredients in a...

‘Touching and uplifting’ MILLY JOHNSON ’A beautiful story of loss, discovery and recovery’ HEIDI SWAIN ‘Heart-wrenching and compelling’ SARAH MORGAN ‘This book tore my heart into tiny pieces, then...

A sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy.   Everyone says I'm a bad girl. They're only partly right—I don't let fear rule me, and I certainly don't care what people think. But I draw the...

'A stunning, sexy, surprising, super-modern romance that dares to delve where no romcom has gone before. I loved it.' - Emma Jane Unsworth, author of AnimalsStraight-laced Jean has always done what's expected of her. By her traditional parents, her...

Brimming with Giovanna Fletcher's characteristic positivity and feelgood storytelling, Walking on Sunshine is another unputdownable tale of friendship and love peopled by unforgettable characters.   You never know where life will take...

Travel back to 1703 with Skulduggery Pleasant in this standalone novel featuring all your favorite characters. So many enemies, so little time . . .   Italy, 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled town in...

Two sisters, two very different lives: the next edge-of-your-seat thriller by Sophie McKenzie, the bestselling author of Girl Missing.Asha has spent her life on an island community built on the principle of truth. But she discovers she has been...

Seventeen-year-old Aisha hasn't seen her sister June for two years. And now that a calamity is about to end the world in nine months' time, she and her mother decide that it's time to track her down and mend the hurts of the past. Along with Aisha's...

THE DEAD begins one year before the action in THE ENEMY, just after the Disaster. A terrible disease has struck everyone sixteen and over, leaving them either dead or a decomposing, flesh-eating creature. The action starts in a boarding school...

c In this first book in a series set in post-apocalyptic London, children under the age of sixteen must battle for survival against grown-ups who succumbed to a disease that turned them into flesh-eating monsters.In the wake of a devastating...

Mortal Engines is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!   "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." — School Library Journal, starred review"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester...

Mortal Engines is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!   "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." — School Library Journal, starred review"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester...

Mortal Engines is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!"Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." — School Library Journal, starred review"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw...

A chilling, thrilling collection of 13 haunting tales. Perfect for every YA reader!From supernatural thrillers to contemporary horror, creepy ancient legends to murders gone wrong - this insatiable anthology is impossible to put down, and even more...