A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy and is known as @agatharoza on Wattpad.

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A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

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A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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A.M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children. Angelica is also the author of Hunt A Killer, a PERFECT SCORE novel, under the pen name A.M. Ellis, which she wrote as an IP for Scholastic in the US.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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Aabria Iyengar is an American actress and author.

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Aaliya Jaleel is a freelance illustrator, designer, and visual development artist, currently majoring in Animation at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the illustrator of Under My Hijab and Muslim Girls Rise. You can visit her online at www.aaliyamj.com.

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Aaron Allston

After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
He has been an ‘agony uncle’ for many years for both CBBC and BBC Radio 1, as well as on television, including BBC Worldwide, BBC 3 and BBC Learning.

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Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready--a global organizational transformation and coaching practice--that helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. Clients include Johnson &amp; Johnson, Microsoft, Lloyds Bank, Citibank, Boeing, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Dropbox, and charity: water. 
 
He is also the founder of Murmur--a SaaS startup that helps teams scale culture through the magic of working agreements. The Murmur platform will allow every team on the planet to define and share their ways of working. 
 
Dignan is the author of Brave New Work (2019) and Game Frame (2011), co-host of the Brave New Work podcast, and a friend to misfit toys.

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Aaron Edwards is a senior lecturer in defence and international affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, specialising in terrorism and counter-insurgency. He is the author and editor of several books, including Defending the Realm: The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars Since 1945, and has lectured all over the world on aspects of national and international security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Aaron Robertson is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Italian literature. His translation of Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon was short-listed for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and in 2021 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Point, and Literary Hub, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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The Society of Unknowable Objects

Satu Hämeenaho-Fox

From soft launches to slow fades, love-bombing to ghosting, dating is proving to be as complicated as ever. Luckily Jane Austen is here to help.In Sense and Situationships, Jane delivers hilarious, no-nonsense advice on today’s romance dilemmas—mixing timeless wit with Regency-era sass to help you navigate the world of modern dating. 
 
Packed with quotes taken straight from Austen's pen, this book addresses 40 relatable dating challenges, each resolved in Jane's iconic voice. With humorous and insightful solutions, Sense and Situationships answers the burning question on every Janeite's mind: What would Jane do?

Sense and Situationships

Jane Austen's Hilarious Guide to Ghosting, Courtships and Bagging Your Mr Darcy

Morgan Ryan

'Prime Minister Churchill, the Witches of Britain are at your service . . .' 
 
1940, and war rages across Europe. The future looks bleak. But now, emerging from the shadows, the Royal Academy of Witches offers its help. And so it is tasked with finding an ancient artefact that, were it to fall into Nazi hands, would help Hitler fulfil his twisted Aryan dream . . . 
 
Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be chosen to work under Isadora Goode, the Grand Mistress of the Royal Academy of Witches. 
 
Now, three years into her apprenticeship, and with Hitler’s armies rampaging across Europe, the Witches of Britain have joined the war effort – but not without some resistance from within, the British government having originally forced the witches into hiding. 
 
As Lydia’s power grows, she too joins the cause, tracking down magical relics in order to keep them out of Nazi hands. But a Nazi witch infiltrates the Academy with heart-breaking consequences and suddenly Lydia’s mission becomes even more urgent . . . Somewhere out there, hidden amidst the chaos of war, is the Grimorium Bellum - an ancient book that Hitler craves, a book so steeped in dark magic that it has the power to wipe out civilisations - an artefact that Lydia must find and secure at all costs. 
 
Dropped into the heart of Occupied France, Lydia finds allies in Rebecca Gagne, a French resistance fighter with a secret, and Henry Boudreaux, a Haitian-American art historian who seems to possess a little magic of his own. But tracking down this book is only half the battle - for the Grimorium Bellum seems to have a dark agenda all of its own . . .

A Resistance of Witches

Shari Lapena

The gripping new psychological thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Everyone Here Is Lying. *NOW AN INSTANT GLOBAL BESTSELLER!* 
 
'Stunning: fiendishly plotted with whiplash twists and turns' LUCY FOLEY, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Guest List. 
She didn’t see it coming . . . And neither will you.---- 
 
Bryden and Sam have it all - thriving careers, a smart apartment, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple. 
 
Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden – working from home that day - has failed to collect their daughter from nursery. 
 
Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall. 
 
Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It’s as if she just walked out. 
 
How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all? 
 
With every minute that passes – and as questions swirl around their community – Bryden and Sam’s past seems a little less perfect, their apartment building less safe, their friends and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . . 
 
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‘Shari Lapena is far and away one of the best psychological thriller writers in the world.' LISA JEWELL, No.1 bestselling author of DON'T LET HIM IN 
‘I absolutely raced through it . . . a pacy and hugely satisfying thriller. Highly recommended’ KARIN SLAUGHTER 
 
'A modern master of the psychological thriller' STEVE CAVANAGH, bestselling author of Fifty Fifty and The Accomplice 
 
'The queen of page-turners' ANDREA MARA, bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing 
 
'I loved this book... Shari's characters are so brilliantly drawn that I did not guess whodunnit!' LIZ NUGENT, bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond 
 
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Shari Lapena, No.1 Sunday Times bestseller, April 2024

She Didn't See It Coming

Rebecca Yarros

When Georgia Stanton discovers that her late grandmother, Scarlett, the infamous romance author, didn't get the chance to finish her last book, she is determined to share her story. But first, it needs to be written. 
 
Enter Noah Harrison, the bestselling and most charismatic romance author of his generation. When Georgia meets him, she is distraught - athough he's charming and handsome, there's nothing beneath the surface. But as they start working together, Georgia begins to see that there might be more to Noah than meets the eye. 
 
Together, they realize that Scarlett was saving the greatest love story of all until last - her own. While serving in World War Two, she fell in love with the handsome and enigmatic pilot, Jameson. But are Georgia and Noah about to discover that not all love stories have a happy ending...?

The Things We Leave Unfinished

Sam Lloyd

When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you’ve always rolled your eyes at: you’d do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, keep them safe. 
 
So when Joseph Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max scrubbing the kitchen, hands wet with blood and panic flooding his voice as he promises it was an accident, he didn’t mean to do it, Joseph does the only thing he can. He helps Max bury the body. 
 
Joseph thinks that’s the end of the nightmare. Until he finds Max with stricken eyes and bloody hands once again . . . 
 
You’d do anything for your child – even cover up a murder. 
 
But how many times?

The Bodies

Antony Johnston

ARE YOU READY TO BE A DETECTIVE? 
 
In this gripping interactive crime novel, at the end of every chapter, YOU choose what to do next… 
 
You arrive at Elysium, a wellness retreat in an English country manor, to investigate a murder. You find the body of a local businessman on the lawn, with a rose placed in his mouth. 
 
When you examine the body, you learn that he fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door – and the key is missing. 
 
Everyone in Elysium is now a suspect, but who will you interview first? Be careful what you choose, because every decision you make has consequences, and some of them will prove fatal… 
 
Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder? 
 
Experience a gripping new type of story, unlike anything you’ve read before, from Antony Johnston, award-winning crime author and veteran games writer. 
 
***Preorder Book 2: Can You Solve the Murder? - The Forest of Death***

Can You Solve the Murder?

Robert Goddard

The mind-bending sequel to the Times Thriller of the Year bestseller, This is the Night They Come for You. 
 
'A finely-written, atmospheric and interesting story' Sunday Times, Best Thrillers of 2025 
'Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting' Mick Herron 
‘Splendidly serpentine and immaculately plotted, this is British thriller writing at its very best’ Daily Mail 
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Trouble has a way of finding those who spend most of their time trying to avoid it. Or so it appears to Superintendent Taleb, whose attempts to wind his career down to an unobtrusive retirement are once again in jeopardy. 
 
When delegated a television interview to discuss a thirty year old political controversy, his instructions are clear enough: whatever you say, do not rock the boat. But an inexplicable urge in the moment to tell the truth lands him in dangerously hot water. It also reopens some decades wounds which will bring him to the forefront of an investigation he is keen to avoid. 
 
Whether he likes it or not, the past is coming for him. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, quick to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself staring down the barrel of a long buried mystery, which looks likely to add him to its lengthy roster of victims. 
 
This Is the Day They Dream Of is the scintillating sequel to the critically acclaimed This Is The Night They Come For You, which introduced the world-weary Taleb and his always resourceful colleague Agent Hidouchi of the Algerian Secret Service. Together they must navigate the country’ treacherous history to save themselves from its perilous present. 
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Praise for This is the Night They Come For You 
 
'Truly ingenious' The Tablet 
'Goddard sprinkles head-turning double-crossing with delightful by-play between his two leads' The Times 
'Fast-paced, beautifully crafted with some excellently drawn characters... engages from start to finish' Choice Magazine 
'Goddard writes amazing novels of mystery/suspense. His new one is magical and the title is simply the best' Stephen King

This is the Day They Dream Of

Kit Conway

When the peace shatters in suburbia, the claws come out . . . 
 
Coralie King, Emma Brooks and Twig Dorsett are friends. Sort of. They're neighbours on an exclusive Sevenoaks estate who get along. It's convenient. 
 
But one May bank holiday, Coralie's husband insists he saw a panther on the bonnet of his car. And cracks between the elite of the Briar Heart Estate begin to emerge. 
 
As the summer wears on and there are more sightings, the big cat frenzy reaches a fever pitch. Tensions between neighbours threaten to boil over. Everyone is watching their back. But is the real predator a seventy-kilo cat with razor-sharp claws? Or is the actual danger of a much more domestic variety?

Cat Fight

Michael Cordy

THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS JUST SAID GOODNIGHT 
 
On the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a heat dome of record temperatures. Even the global leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to admitthat the climate crisis has reached boiling point and the world’s time is running out. 
 
That same day, at precisely 5:25 p.m., everyone on Manhattan Island – every man, woman and child, including all the world leaders at the UN – falls unconscious. Everyone that is, except for Samantha Rossi, a single mother reeling from devastating personal news and Nick Lockwood, a wounded NYPD detective who wakes from a coma just as the City That Never Sleeps falls into one. 
 
Rossi’s first concern is her daughter. Lockwood’s is his city. As night draws in, they must work together to unravel the mystery of what has happened and why. Each must decide how far they will go and what lines they will cross to save what matters most to them. 
 
Manhattan Down is a pulse-pounding contemporary thriller which dares to imagine the unimaginable, a leaderless world being held to ransom by forces unknown for reasons unknown. The questions it asks are terrifying – and so are some of the answers.

Manhattan Down

Catherine Ryan Howard

The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their burning home, he was, tragically, too late - but hailed a hero. Until it emerged that Kate was dead long before the fire began. 
 
Suspicion has stalked him ever since. After all, there's no smoke without fire. 
 
A year on, he's signed a book deal. He wants to tell his side of the story, to prove his own innocence in print. He just needs someone to help him write it. 
 
Emily has never ghostwritten anything before, but she knows what it’s like to live with a guilty secret. And she's about to learn that there are some stories that should never be told...

Burn After Reading

Veronika Dapunt

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2023 
 
An original and darkly comedic murder mystery about a female personified Death whose sabbatical in modern-day London gets rudely interrupted by a string of unplanned murders. Perfect for fans of Good Omens, The Good Place and Sophie Kinsella. 
 
'Funny and smart. . . a top-class, deep-dish murder mystery and one of my favourite books of any year.' IAN MOORE 
 
'Such an unusual and unique concept. . . By far one of my favourite books.' 5-STAR Reader Review 
 
'Darkly funny, uniquely absurd and madly entertaining. . . I could practically hear Louis Armstrong crooning What a Wonderful World in the background.' 5-STAR Reader Review 
 
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Her job is to die for. Literally. 
 
Most people think that when they meet Death, it’ll be a skeleton in a black potato sack. Maybe with a scythe. Truth is, she’s just a woman doing a job, and she’s very good at it. 
 
But when Death takes a much-needed break to live on earth, things start to go terribly wrong. 
 
Someone’s killing people not on her list (well, not yet anyway) and it's down to her to find the culprit before it’s too late. 
 
To make matters worse, her sanctimonious sister, Life – whom Death hasn’t got on with in millennia – won’t stop blaming her . . . And then there’s the slight problem of the charming (sexy) parasitologist she’s suspicious of. 
 
But she’ll be fine, right? 
 
After all, who better to investigate a murder than Death herself? 
 
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Quirky, fun and witty, this is Death like you've never seen her before. A lover of bright colours, a fierce protector of nature and a human falling in love for the first time. Death's sharp voice will linger in your mind long after you've read. 
 
'Wonderfully observed and brilliantly imagined. . . I never knew what was coming next, but at every point, it made me fall more in love with life.' LUAN GOLDIE

Death and Other Occupational Hazards

Tess Gerritsen

The Summer Guests is the exhilarating and gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast. 
 
‘The Thursday Murder Club on steroids’ SAGA Magazine 
 
THE MARTINI CLUB ISN’T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . . 
 
Maggie Bird’s ‘book group’ is an unusual one – a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the seaside town of Purity. And this summer they plan little more than ‘reading’ (whilst sipping martinis), and some gentle birdwatching. 
 
But trouble is just around the corner as the summer guests arrive. 
 
For acting Police Chief Jo Thibodeau, summer brings its own problems – packed streets, bar brawls, petty theft. And now, a missing teenager down by the lake. 
 
When their good friend becomes a prime suspect in the girl's disappearance, Maggie and her Martini Club must put down their binoculars and roll up their sleeves. Leaving Jo to deal with not only a powerful family desperate for answers, but a meddlesome group of retirees. 
 
Can Jo and the Martini Club find a way to work together, as they uncover one of the deadliest scandals their small town has ever seen?

The Summer Guests

Katy Hays

From the bestselling author of The Cloisters comes this electrifying thriller about an affluent family whose annual retreat to Italy is shattered when a decades-old murder resurfaces . . . think The Talented Mr Ripley meets Succession meets The White Lotus . . . 
 
On the glittering island of Capri, anything can be a mirage. But one thing is true: there's nothing deadlier than a family with everything to lose . . . 
 
The world was shocked by playwright Sarah Lingate’s death thirty years ago at an opulent, 
white-washed villa on the island of Capri. Absolved of the crime, the Lingate family maintains that what happened that night was a tragic accident. And every July they return to Capri to prove it’s true. 
 
This time, Helen Lingate - sole heir to the family fortune - has a plan. Tightly controlled by her father, she enlists the help of the family assistant, Lorna Moreno, to free herself from her family’s stranglehold on her life. And yet, behind closed doors, the legendary Lingate family unity is at breaking point. Upon arrival at the villa in Capri, an anonymous gift awaits them: the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died. 
 
In the aftermath, the paranoid, insular Lingates begin to unravel. As the investigation into her mother’s death is reopened, Helen begins to lose trust in everyone around her: her controlling father Richard, drug-addled aunt Naomi, aloof uncle Marcus, and even Lorna, whose past she realizes is frustratingly opaque. And as the family fractures, the long-hidden truth about that night and the secrets they’ve kept from one another boil to the surface - and they might not leave the island alive. 
 
'Sultry and sophisticated with a menacing undercurrent that keeps you thrillingly unsettled until its final spellbinding twist. Let the languid glamour of Capri gently take you by one hand, an ice cold Negroni in the other, but watch your step — the cliffs are treacherous and so, too, is a family with everything to lose.' 
RACHEL KOLLER CROFT, author of Stone Cold Fox 
 
'Engrossing and sinister . . . a must-read for 2025.' JULIE CLARK, author of The Last Flight

The Vipers

Lynn Knight

Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel. 
 
It is 1925 and women’s lives are changing. 
 
Talented, ambitious dress designer Rose Burnham can stitch a perfect seam – and has a knack for uncovering secrets. In their newly established studio, she and her sisters hear every secret whispered in the fitting room. So when a client confides that she’s been duped by a fraudulent suitor, Rose leaps in to investigate. 
 
Playing the detective is a grand adventure, but pressures soon mount and a string of poison-pen letters threaten a friend. Rose must rely on her wit, her resourcefulness and sisterly support to unpick the truth and stitch together their future – or risk losing her hard-fought independence altogether…

Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread

Orlando Murrin

Worse things happen at sea… 
 
Paul Delamare has been roped into accompanying his old friend on a luxury cruise aboard the magnificent superyacht Maldemer. It’s all plain sailing until his friend’s priceless necklace is stolen, and everyone falls under suspicion. 
 
As Paul races to catch the thief, the ship begins to drift off-course, veering into the storm-lashed mid-Atlantic. Then one of the passengers is found dead in mysterious circumstances, in a pool of coffee and surrounded by cake crumbs. 
 
It’s all hands on deck to catch the killer, but Paul soon discovers guests and crew are harbouring deadly secrets. And if he can’t get to the bottom of the mystery soon, he’ll be sleeping with the fishes.

Murder Below Deck

Simon Mayo

Your house is on fire. What do you save? 
You have seconds to decide. 
If everything is about to burn, what do you rescue first? 
 
'Gripping' Daily Express 
'Full of twists and turns' That's Life 
'Another winner... Plenty of twists, the odd conspiracy theory to ramp up the pace. Insider glimpses into the media and art world add fascination' Press Association 
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When the West End Gallery in London's fashionable Coal Drops Yard is set alight, the fire service must use the list of paintings lodged with it - a grab list - to snatch the key pieces of art from the flames. 
 
But something has been altered. It’s the wrong list. 
 
Then the ashes reveal another tragedy: an unidentified dead body. Someone who shouldn’t have been in the gallery. Crusading journalist Famie Madden wants to know who it is and why they were there. Soon it becomes apparent that the ashes are hiding much more than they should be - and that this is much more than a casual act of arson… 
 
Bestselling author and legendary broadcaster Simon Mayo has created a spellbinding contemporary thriller. He weaves a story ripped from today’s newspapers that will take Famie far from the pages of her website into a murderous family saga stretching back over centuries. 
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Praise for Simon Mayo 
 
'Mayo spools out his many twists and turns skilfully' Observer 
'Simon Mayo is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the thriller world' The Times 
'The characters are well observed, the dialogue effortless and the twists and turns never-ending' Daily Mail

Black Tag

Caro Carver

Is it ever a good idea to go on holiday with friends? 
 
Darcy, Camilla and Kate have each come on this trip of a lifetime for a reason - to celebrate a divorce, to find love, to try to put a traumatic past behind them. 
 
Their dream getaway? The Sapphire Island Resort in the Maldives. With crystal-clear waters and sun-drenched white sand beaches, relaxation is guaranteed. 
 
But all is not as it seems in paradise, and this is no ordinary friendship. 
 
They've got nine days to go . . . and old wounds are already reopening. 
 
Will they all make the return journey?

Bad Tourists

Allan Mallinson

Follow Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey through the 19th century as he takes command of the Sixth Light Dragoons, battles to crush the rebellion, and tries to safeguard his country's interests whilst leaving the brutal war as unscathed as possible. With cuts in the army and with his battalion down to a single squadron, can Hervey remain an impartial spectator when the stakes have never been higher?

'Matthew Hervey is as splendid a hero as ever sprang from an author's pen' The Times 
 
Following the 6th Light Dragoons' successful campaign in the state of Coorg and the deposition of its deranged Rajah, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey is looking forward to a few months' respite for his regiment, for himself and his family. Indeed, with his reputation restored, he's rarely felt so content. Alas, such tranquillity is not to last. 
 
 India's governor-general believes Hervey is just the man to lead a force against the Thuggee and Dacoity gangs whose increasingly vicious attacks threaten not only the stability of a number of friendly princely states but also, of course, the East India Company's interests in the sub-continent. 
 
 And so Hervey reluctantly leads the Sixth into the field once more. It's a mission that will prove infinitely more complex, brutal and bloody than anyone predicted. For Hervey has taken the first steps on the path towards the conflagration history calls the Indian Mutiny . . . 
 
'Mallinson's series of early 19th-century military adventures are even better than Patrick O'Brian's naval equivalent . . . Faithful period detail. Rattling pace. Loveable characters' A. N. Wilson 
 
'Thrilling . . . richly engaging, old-fashioned storytelling' Daily Mail

The Tigress of Mysore

Christopher Fowler

'The most consistently brilliant, entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction, the utterly fabulous Christopher Fowler.' Cathi Unsworth, CRIMESQUAD 
 
It's a Sunday morning, and the outspoken Speaker of the House of Commons has just been crushed under a mountain of citrus fruit . . . 
 
Bizarre accident or something more sinister? The government needs to know because here's a man who knows a thing or two that could compromise its future. 
 
Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit should be on the case, however it seems the PCU is no more with one detective is in hospital, the other gone AWOL with the rest of the team having been dismissed. 
 
But events escalate, and soon a series of brutal yet undeniably clever killings linked to an old English nursery rhyme threaten society's very foundations and out-of-the-blue the PCU is (temporarily) back in business. 
 
And if the two detectives - 'old men in a woke world' - can set aside their differences and discover why some of London's most influential figures are being threatened, they might not only save the unit but also prevent the city from descending into chaos . . .

Bryant & May - Oranges and Lemons

Alma Katsu

Shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for the Best Novel of 2020. 
 
'Totally terrifying.' said C. J. TUDOR, bestselling author of The Chalk Man 
 
'Truly haunting' said SARAH PINBOROUGH, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes 
 
'As ghostly as Gothic' said JOSH MALERMAN, bestselling author of Bird Box 
 
Bringing together Faustian pacts, the occult, tales of sirens and selkies, guilt and revenge, desire and destiny, The Deep offers a thrilling, tantalizing twist on one of the world's most famous tragedies. 
 
Someone - or something - is haunting the Titanic. 
 
Deaths and disappearances have plagued the vast liner from the moment she began her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912. Four days later, caught in what feels like an eerie, unsettling twilight zone, some passengers - including millionaire Madeleine Astor and maid Annie Hebbley - are convinced that something sinister is afoot. And then disaster strikes. 
 
Four years later and the world is at war. Having survived that fateful night, Annie is now a nurse on board the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, refitted as a hospital ship. And she is about to realise that those demons from her past and the terrors of that doomed voyage have not finished with her yet . . .

The Deep

We all know the story of the Titanic . . . don't we?

Steven Pressfield

In the Sunday Times bestseller Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield tells the breathtaking story of the legendary Spartans: the men and women who helped shaped our history and have themselves become as immortal as their gods. 
 
 'Breathtakingly brilliant . . . this is a work of rare genius. Savour it!' DAVID GEMMELL 
 
 'A tale worthy of Homer, a timeless epic of man and war, exquisitely researched and boldy written. Pressfield has created a new classic' STEPHEN COONTS 
 
 'A really impressive book - imaginatively framed, historically detailed and a really gripping narrative' ***** Reader review 
 
 'Beautifully written and a great joy to read' ***** Reader review 
 
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 Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, 
 That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. 
 
 480 BC: At a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of King Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. 
 
 Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as long as possible in order to buy time for the main Greek armies to mobilize. For six days the Spartans held the invaders at bay. In the final hours - their shields broken, swords and spears shattered - they fought with their bare hands before being overwhelmed . . . 
 
 It was battle that would become synonymous with extraordinary courage, heroism and self-sacrifice. 
 
 It was a battle called Thermopylae.

Gates Of Fire

One of history’s most epic battles is brought to life in this enthralling and moving novel

'Winningly eccentric . . . London, in all its non-homogenous, sprawling splendour, is as much a character as Fowler's sleuthing duo' Barry Forshaw, Financial Times 
 
 The Peculiar Crimes Unit has solved many extraordinary cases over the years, but some were hushed up and hidden away. Until now. 
Arthur Bryant remembers these lost cases as if they were yesterday. Unfortunately, he doesn't remember yesterday, so the newly revealed facts could come as a surprise to everyone, including his exasperated partner John May. 
 
Here, then, is the truth about the Covent Garden opera diva and the seventh reindeer, the body that falls from the Tate Gallery, the ordinary London street corner where strange accidents keep occurring, the consul's son discovered buried in the unit's basement, the corpse pulled from a swamp of Chinese dinners, a Hallowe'en crime in the Post Office Tower, and the impossible death that's the fault of a forgotten London legend. All of the unit's oddest characters are here, plus the detectives' long-suffering sergeant Janice Longbright gets to reveal her own forgotten mystery. 
 
These twelve crimes must be solved without the help of modern technology, mainly because nobody knows how to use it. Expect misunderstood clues, lost evidence, arguments about Dickens, churches, pubs and disorderly conduct from the investigative officers they laughingly call 'England's Finest'! 
 
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What readers are saying: 
***** 'Another gem from Christopher Fowler' 
 
***** 'I've loved Bryant &amp; May since I first discovered them' 
***** 'A perfect collection of implausibly, improbably impossible mysteries for readers of Bryant and May both old and new'

Bryant & May – England’s Finest

(Short Stories)

Simon Beckett

* Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * 
 
Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter 
 
'A classy debut' The Times 
'Best thriller I've read all year' Tess Gerritsen 
 
Dr David Hunter hoped he might at last have put the past behind him. But then they found what was left of Sally Palmer . . . 
 
It isn't just that she was a friend that disturbs him. Once he'd been a high-profile forensic anthropologist and all too familiar with the many faces of death, before tragedy made him abandon this previous life. 
 
Now the police want his help. 
 
But to become involved will stir up memories he's long tried to forget. Then a second woman disappears, plunging the close-knit community into a maelstrom of fear and paranoia. 
 
And no one, not even Hunter, is exempt from suspicion. 
 
Gruesome and gripping, this startling new British crime thriller has an unnerving and original twist.

The Chemistry of Death

(David Hunter 1): Harry Treadaway is Dr David Hunter: the darkly compelling new TV series ‘The Chemistry of Death’ – streaming now on Paramount+

James Wilde

Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the third and final chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed . . . 
 
AD 375 - The Dark Age is drawing near . . . 
As Rome's legions abandon their forts, chaos grows on the fringes of Britannia. In the far west, the shattered forces of the House of Pendragon huddle together in order to protect the royal heir – their one beacon of hope. 
 
For Lucanus, their great war leader, is missing, presumed dead. And the people are abandoning them. For in this time of crisis, a challenger has arisen, a False King with an army swollen by a horde of bloody-thirsty barbarians desperate for vengeance. 
 
One slim hope remains for Lucanus’ band of warrior-allies, the Grim Wolves. Guided by the druid, Myrrdin, they go in search of a great treasure – a vessel that is supposedly a gift from the gods. Success will mean a war unlike any other, a battle between two kings for a legacy that will echo down the centuries. And should they fail? Well, then all is lost . . . 
 
This is the shattering conclusion to James Wilde’s rousing reimagining of the myth of King Arthur . . .

The Bear King

'This will haunt you. Riveting!' Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR 
 
'The Shape of Night is as compulsive as it gets.' Lesley Kara, author of THE RUMOUR 
 
 
If the walls could talk . . . they'd tell her to leave. Now. 
 
When Ava arrives at Brodie’s Watch, she thinks she has found the perfect place to hide from her past. Something terrible happened, something she is deeply ashamed of, and all she wants is to forget. 
 
But the old house on the hill both welcomes and repels her and Ava quickly begins to suspect she is not alone. Either that or she is losing her mind. 
 
The house is full of secrets, but is the creeping sense of danger coming from within its walls, or from somewhere else entirely? 
 
*** 
 
Readers are obsessed with The Shape of Night 
 
***** ‘A creepy, atmospheric thriller that I thoroughly enjoyed.’ 
***** ‘A powerful book that I could not put down but … I was scared to pick back up!!’ 
***** ‘Twists and turns till the end. Really kept me turning the pages.’

The Shape of Night

Lee Child

Jack Reacher is a former major in the US Military Police who, since leaving the army, has drifted round the wide open spaces of America, hitchhiking or on buses, wherever the whim takes him. He has no permanent address, no job, no family ties, no car, no luggage, no mobile phone, no credit card - all he carries with him is a folding toothbrush. 
Reacher is never looking for trouble, but somehow trouble always find him. He is the ultimate hero for our troubled times, with a keen moral compass and sense of justice, even if he is often prepared to take the law into his own hands: he says he doesn't want to put the world to rights, he just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

AS FEATURED ON RICHARD & JUDY'S 'KEEP READING AND CARRY ON' 
 
'This is one of his best' - The Times 
 
Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child. 
 
It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right. 
 
In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn't counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch. 
 
Reacher is trained to notice things. 
 
He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... hoping to get rich quick. 
 
As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in. 
 
The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher's offer to help him home. He's vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble. 
 
What hold could the gangs have on the old guy? Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening? 
 
The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure. 
 
 
'Everyone needs to kick some [butt] sometimes, even if it's just imaginary' JOJO MOYES 
 
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Blue Moon is the 24th in the series. 
 
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***OUT NOW***

Blue Moon

(Jack Reacher 24)

In Which Mr May Makes A Mistake And Mr Bryant Goes Into The Dark 
 
Three deaths, seemingly unconnected but for one thing: each happened at precisely four a.m. - the lonely hour . . . 
 
At four in the morning outside a run-down nightclub in the wrong part of London, four strangers meet for the first time. A few weeks later a body is found on Hampstead Heath, hanging upside down and surrounded by the paraphernalia of black magic. Then a young man is killed on a London bridge and a woman is attacked in her modern (and secure) luxury apartment. 
 
To catch this killer, Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit switch to working nights. While John May takes a technological approach, Arthur Bryant calls upon sundry eccentrics and misfits for help solving what seems an impossible case. 
 
But impossible is what the PCU does best. As they draw back the curtain on a city at night, Bryant and May follow a trail of murder, arson, blackmail, kidnap, loneliness and . . . bats. 
 
‘The most consistently brilliant, entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction’ 
CATHI UNSWORTH 
 
‘One of our most unorthodox and entertaining writers’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
 
‘I love the wit and playfulness of the Bryant &amp; May books’ ANNE CLEEVES

Bryant & May - The Lonely Hour

(Bryant & May Book 17)

Jim Al-Khalili

'Excellent, exactly how good science fiction should be: gripping story, beautifully told, while at the same time being scientifically well-informed.' tweeted RICHARD DAWKINS. 
 
'Reminiscent of vintage Arthur C. Clarke . . . has a chilling, nail-biting authenticity' said JAMES LOVEGROVE in the Financial Times. 
 
From renowned theoretical physicist, broadcaster and author Jim Al-Khalili, comes this thrilling debut novel drawing on cutting-edge science and set in a near-future full of dazzling technologies. 
 
2041 and the world as we know it grinds to a halt. Our planet seems to be turning against itself - it would appear that the magnetic field, that protects life on Earth from deadly radiation from space, is failing . . . 
 
Desperate to quell the mass hysteria that would surely follow, world governments have concealed this rapidly emerging Armageddon. But a young Iranian hacktivist stumbles across the truth, and it becomes a race against time to reactivate the earth's core using beams of dark matter. 
 
As a small team of brave and brilliant scientists battle to find a way of transforming theory into practice, they face a fanatical group intent on pursuing their own endgame agenda: for they believe mankind to be a plague upon this earth and will do anything, commit any crime, to ensure that the project fails . . . 
 
And so bring about humanity's end.

Sunfall

The cutting edge 'what-if' thriller from the celebrated scientist and BBC broadcaster

Ian C Esslemont

Esslemont's Path to Ascendancy series takes us back to the majestic and mystical Malazan Empire. This is the much anticipated origin story, chronicling the troubled continent's early history from a time when it was a land ravaged by war, with minor city states, baronies and principates fighting for supremacy.

Fantastic world-building meets spellbinding storytelling in this must-read fan-favourite from Esslemont. Ideal for fans of Steven Erikson, David Gemmell and Brandon Sanderson. 
 
'This book hits all the right notes at all the right times' -- FANTASY BOOK REVIEW 
'Highly entertaining . . . streamlined, tightly-plotted and structured' -- TOR.COM 
'Incredible storytelling' -- ***** Reader review 
'What a treat' -- ***** Reader review 
'A fantastic end to a wonderful trilogy' -- ***** Reader review 
'OMG - amazing. What more can I say' -- ***** Reader review 
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The incessant war between the bickering city states of Quon Tali rages. So engrossed are the warring lords and princes in their own petty feuds that few notice that an upstart mage from Dal Hon has gained control of the southern seas. But some powers are alarmed. 
 
And in the meantime, as Purge and Tali indulge in what seems like a never-ending game of war. Simultaneously, a pair of escapees from Castle Gris make their way across this ravaged landscape of flame and butchery. Their intention is to seek out the legendary Crimson Guard. 
 
And then there's Kellanved, who could not care less about any of this petty politicking or strategy or war. Something other and altogether more mysterious has caught his attention and he - together with a reluctant and decidedly sceptical Dancer - traverse continents and journey through the Realms in pursuit . . . But this ancient mystery that has so captivated Kellanved is neither esoteric nor ephemeral. No, it is of an altogether darker and more dangerous hue. It involves the Elder races themselves, and more specifically - certainly more alarmingly - the semi-mythic, and universally dreaded, Army of Dust and Bone. 
 
Surely no one in their right mind would be so foolish as to embark on a journey from which none have returned? Well, no one except Kellanved that is . . .

Kellanved's Reach

(Path to Ascendancy Book 3): full of adventure and magic, this is the spellbinding final chapter in Ian C. Esslemont's awesome epic fantasy sequence

A Private Thriller

A series of children's modern classic novels by renowned 20th century children's writers. All the titles in this series have the A Puffin Book logo, contemporary-style covers, and child-friendly endnotes.

A Puffin Book

A Ripley Novel

A Slice of the Moon

A Victorian Mystery

A Walk in...

A Women’s Murder Club Thriller

A chef Paul Delamare Mystery

Aberrations

Across the Universe

Actiphons

Adelia Aguilar

Adrian Mole

Adventures in Time

Aftermath

Against War

Age of X

Agent 21

Agent Z

Detective Aidan Waits is a troubled junior detective haunted by his past. Facing an uncertain future, and disconnected from his history, DC Waits and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe work on Manchester's streets to uncover the city's worst criminals among the grime of the underworld.

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