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OUR LANDS ARE WILD WITH GODS, OUR WOODS ARE WILD WITH MONSTERS . . .

Cahan du Nahare is known as the forester – a humble man who can nonetheless navigate the dangerous Wyrdwood like no-one else. But once he was more. Once he was a warrior.

Udinny serves the goddess of the lost, a goddess of the small and helpless. When she ventures into the Wyrdwood to find a missing child, Cahan will be her guide.

But in a land at war, in a forest full of monsters – Cahan will need to choose between his past life and the one he leads now – and his choice will have consequences for his entire world.

From one of the most original voices in fantasy comes the start of an epic trilogy of vicious outlaws, warring deities and an evil empire, set within the bounds of a forest out of darkest folklore. The Gods of the Wyrdwood have awoken, and their time is come.

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‘An experienced novelist at the top of his game – this is Avatar meets Dune, on shrooms’
SFX (rated five stars)

‘A splendid fantasy work, full of RJ’s trademark invention. Highly recommended’
Adrian Tchaikovsky

‘Utterly immersive . . . there’s is still so much more left to explore in this world, and I cannot wait to return’
Fantasy Hive

‘Barker has created a beautiful world that balances the dark and deadly with just the right amount of hope’
Grimdark Magazine

‘A fascinating, compelling novel… with epic themes, epically strange worldbuilding, and excellent action scenes. I’m very much looking forward to the next instalment’
Locus

‘A sweeping story of destiny and redemption. Weighty, deliberate, tender and brutal, this is a big, wonderful book and an utterly involving read’
Daily Mail

‘A five star reading experience . . . the next book in this series cannot come soon enough’
The Fantasy Review

‘A mesmeric, enrapturing read’ Eimear McBride

‘Beautiful and original’ Colm Tóibín

‘In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish’s combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and back and forward again in a dreamlike trance that acknowledges how the worst suffering exists side by side with the tender beauty of memory, friendship, words and the silences of recognition’ Ilana Masad, NPR

‘Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes truly simultaneously) . . . It swallowed me up, and then all at once, a word or a phrase would reach me like a bolt of lightning, charring and electrifying me all through’ Jo Niederhoff, Seattle Book Review

‘Resembles something by Joyce or Samuel Beckett . . . A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world’s darkness’ Stephanie Cross, The Daily Mail

‘Before All the World leaves you breathless . . . [Rothman-Zecher] has found a way to teach us how to find out what is most important about ourselves by losing himself in this novel of ingenious daring imagination and allowing us to accompany him on his ride. It is a masterful accomplishment that remains with the reader long after finishing this brilliant work’ Elaine Margolin, Women in Judaism

‘An emotionally evocative exploration of the impossibility of escaping trauma, yet finding hope nevertheless when all seems destroyed’ Hannah Srour-Zackon, The Canadian Jewish News

‘At its core, Before All the World considers one essential question: what does it mean to remember the past while still imagining the future? . . . Its most striking accomplishment is its invitation to the reader to become a part of the novel’s chorus. What will you do, it asks, now that you’ve read this story?’ Adina Applebaum, Jewish Book Council

‘Original, daring, experimental, moving, poignant, engaging . . . With shades of Tony Kushner and Cynthia Ozick . . . Before All the World understands how our worlds are made by words, and in the altering of the latter we may as yet redeem the former’ Ed Simon, The Millions, ‘Most Anticipated Books of 2022’

‘Rich and engrossing . . . A powerful story, brilliantly told’ Publishers Weekly, starred review

‘A one-of-a-kind creation’ Kirkus Reviews

‘ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh’
‘I do not believe that all the world is darkness’

In the swirl of Prohibition-era Philadelphia, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket’s, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled to hear his native tongue spoken by this beautiful Black man from the Seventh Ward whose life he will come to share.

Leyb is haunted by memories from before he came to America, growing up in the shtetl of Zatelsk, where one day every last person – except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl, and he himself – was taken to the forest and killed.

Flowing with a surge of language and synchrony, Gittl and Leyb are reunited – surrounded by the murmur of angelic voices – and together with Charles they each grapple with how to face, and sieze, whatever future lies ahead.

Carried along by questions of survival and hope, Before All the World lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks, in the voices of its angels, the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?

‘Twists and turns a plenty!’ RED

‘My favourite debut of the year . . . utterly compelling’ LUCY CLARKE

‘Glossy, clever and unsettling’ ANDREA MARA

‘Thriller fans will lap up this tense tale’ PRIMA

‘One of the most chilling reads of the year’ M. W. CRAVEN

‘Totally gripping’ RACHEL ABBOTT
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THEY CALL ME THE LUCKY ONE. THEY DON’T KNOW I LIED.

Nine years ago, Charlie Colbert’s life changed for ever.

On Christmas Eve, as the snow fell, her elite graduate school was the site of a chilling attack. Several of her classmates died. Charlie survived.

Years later, Charlie has the life she always wanted at her fingertips: she’s editor-in-chief of a major magazine and engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry.

But when a film adaptation of that fateful night goes into production, Charlie’s dark past threatens to crash into her shiny present.

Charlie was named a ‘witness’ in the police reports. Yet she knows she was much more than that.

The truth about that night will shatter everything she’s worked for. Just how far will she go to protect it?
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THE GRIPPING DEBUT THRILLER OF 2024. A dark and deeply compulsive read that will keep you racing through the pages late into the night, perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Gillian McAllister and Girl A by Abigail Dean.

‘The breakout debut thriller of 2024’ CELIA WALDEN

‘A proper thriller with plenty of twists and turns’ S MAGAZINE

‘Knife-sharp and utterly immersive’ ANDREA BARTZ

‘Keep you turning the pages as you race to find out the truth’ DAILY EXPRESS

‘Guaranteed to keep you up past your bedtime’ LAURIE ELIZABETH FLYNN

‘Intoxicatingly sharp . . . I never wanted to stop reading’ CLEMENCE MICHALLON

‘Knife-sharp’ WOMAN’S OWN

‘Compelling and engrossing’ KATY WATSON

‘A nail-biting ride’ ASHLEY WINSTEAD

‘Dark and dazzling’ JENNIFER HILLIER

‘Propulsive’ KATHERINE ST. JOHN

‘Twists I did not see coming’ ASHLEY TATE

‘Grabs the reader from the very first page – and never lets go’ DAILY MAIL

‘Taut and properly disturbing. . . Impressive’ The Critic

EVERYONE HAS A PAST. . . YOURS IS COMING TO KILL YOU

Alex and Morven have a pretty perfect marriage. Still madly in love after ten years, they have no secrets from each other and their life in London with daughter Poppy is . . . happy.
Until one day it changes. Morven disappears, her car found abandoned. The police come around to Alex’s house to tell him things about his wife he never knew: her real name, her past life, the secrets she kept from him. And Alex realises he’s been loving a lie. He needs answers . . . and on the shore of a dark and remote lake in Wales he learns that the tragic events which shaped the past now threaten to rip apart the present.

Praise for I KNOW WHO YOU WERE

‘A gripping, twisty and beautifully written debut thriller that marks Curran as a writer to watch.‘ Irish Independent

‘Written with enormous panache and gentle empathy, it ratchets up the tension repeatedly before exploding into a grandstand heart-stopping finale’ Daily Mail

‘Oh boy, this is going to keep you up at night, or abandoning everything else to race through the pages’ Peterborough Telegraph

‘Throws out a great hook and then twists and turns its way to a heartstopping climax’ Stephen Gallagher

‘Not just a ruthlessly compelling novel of suspense but an unflinching examination of the repercussions of a crime. Disturbing, harrowing and moving, it signals the arrival of a new master of crime fiction.’ Ramsey Campbell

‘Taut, compelling, original. An emotionally charged story that will leave you thinking of the main character long after finishing the book. A true page-turner’ J A Corrigan

‘Curran’s debut is an absorbing, dark and suspenseful thriller. He is a writer to watch’ David Fennell

‘An utterly gripping Cobenesque mystery keeps you turning the pages fiercely to find out what’s happening’ Crime Podcast FM

Iris doesn’t remember the first time she met Nina. But she remembers the first time she paid attention to her. It was when he did.

The first year of high school brought Iris into a type of privilege she’d never felt part of. But then she found her place. The magic of performing in school musicals and the freedom of the stage opened her up to a new world. Her drama teacher gave her a glimpse of the adult she wanted to be. But, just like in the theatre, when the spotlight is off you, it can be a lonely and neglected existence. For Iris, jealousy and bitterness will grow. For Nina, something more dangerous. Reckless anger and rumours will come to a head. And, years later, there is a reckoning for them all.

A Light in the Dark is a compelling novel that distils the magic of theatre as the backdrop for an unforgettable examination of friendship, vulnerability, power and abuse.

‘Powerful’ THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WEEKLY

‘A love letter to the theatre, even as it simultaneously shines a light on its issues’ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

‘Truly detailed and passionate writing . . . Slowly and carefully unpacks how passion, creativity and abuse can be entwined, and how they can impact a person over the years. I loved it’ READINGS

‘An astute work . . . Allee Richards captures perfectly that teenage girl angst which many of us will remember . . . and tells a story from which we can all draw hope. There is indeed a light at the end of the tunnel as bright as the follow spot on the stage’ LIVING ARTS CANBERRA

Praise for Allee Richards’ Small Joys of Real Life

‘A painful, beautiful novel that is a welcome addition to Australia’s growing crop of women-centred millennial fiction’ BOOKS+PUBLISHING

‘An exploration and, in many ways, celebration of the untidy years of young adult lives, and all the tragic and surprising loss, love and wonder that entails’ THE AGE

‘It’s the little bursts of good in what could be described as a modern-millennial tragedy that makes Allee Richards’ debut novel the poignant work that it is’ THE GUARDIAN

‘Richards brilliantly navigates the trials and tribulations of your late twenties’ ARTSHUB

‘Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry makes magic of a Belfast that in other hands would make grim reading. The most exciting poet to come out of the north of Ireland in many years’ Louise Kennedy, author of Tresspasses

‘There is nothing else like this in Irish poetry. A lyrical savant of the highest level, and one of the most exciting writers in Ireland today, McKendry is utterly his own beast’ Michael Nolan, author of Close To Home

‘A distinctive and energetic voice’ Sunday Times Ireland

‘McKendry is a joyful liar, a storyteller… McKendry writes “life’s not synonymous with pain” and it’s this sense, of a kind of all-encompassing appetite, that marks him out as fine company’ Declan Ryan


Demons, geese, The Laughing Cow, marching bands, LSD and pistols smuggled home from the USSR. You’ll find all these in Scott McKendry’s GUB.

Rooted in the language of working-class Belfast, and slipping between eras and time zones, closing the gap between the real and the fantastical, the academic and the everyday, the parish and the polis, McKendry’s exhilarating debut collection comes to terms with generational trauma, social decay and the rituals of a place with a fraught history and an uncertain future.

Invoking the balaclava’d gunmen, urban warlords and explosions which gripped the decades either side of the Good Friday Agreement, GUB drags the language of ghettoised Belfast into serious Irish poetry. Wearing the lyrical influences of his ‘ugly city’ lightly – Carson, McGuckian, Longley – McKendry’s tightly-wrought structures weave an unprecedented verse of mourning, witness, alter ego, class alienation and aesthetic turmoil.

Noisy, dark and witty, GUB is an utterly new voice out of Belfast, but one posting bulletins across inner-city neighbourhoods everywhere.

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.

‘Banks is a phenomenon’ William Gibson

The “War in Heaven”, a simulated war game, rages between civilisations. Its virtual battles have been fought for decades, and the victors will decide the fate of the digital Hells – torturous artificial afterlives with horrors beyond imagination.

In the Sichultian Enablement, Y’breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit.

As the virtual war threatens to spill into the Real, Y’breq is willing to risk everything for her freedom – but she’ll need the Culture, and its help comes at a price. The Culture is going to war with death itself.

Praise for the Culture series:

‘Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution’ Independent on Sunday

‘Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future’ Guardian

‘Jam-packed with extraordinary invention’ Scotsman

‘Compulsive reading’ Sunday Telegraph

The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art

Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist

Also now available:
The Culture: The Drawings – an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks’ Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

An epic and unforgettable love story begins in Saving 6, the third book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh.

The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh’s extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book hangover.

The reader reaction to The Boys of Tommen says it all!

‘Absolute perfection. This book will ruin you’
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‘I have no words as to how heartbreakingly beautiful this book is and the talent of Chloe is unmeasured in my eyes‘
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‘Chloe Walsh is a genius when it comes to creating characters and writing, making you feel every emotion‘
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‘There’s not enough stars to rate this book it is simply outstanding!‘
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He’s a boy who’s lost. She’s girl who might just be the home he’s never had.

The second born son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of a family unravelling. When his older brother Darren skips town, twelve-year-old Joey finds himself thrown into the role of protector to his younger siblings and mother. Plagued by self-loathing, and furious with the world, he grapples with teenage life and his unwavering sense of duty to his family, while balancing precariously close to a life of addiction that threatens to swallow him whole. The only light in his sea of darkness is his boss’s firecracker of a daughter who refuses to back down. A girl who just so happens to be his classmate.

Aoife Molloy has never been backwards in coming forward. Her bubbly and self-assured nature has never led her astray. Until her first day of secondary school when she collides with a hot-headed boy who sparks a burning curiosity inside of her that only grows stronger by the day.

Falling into a complicated friendship with her father’s apprentice, Aoife works to unravel the secrets around Joey Lynch’s life – while he desperately fights to keep her out.
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Want more of Joey, Aoife and the rest of The Boys of Tommen? Read the rest of the series so far:
Binding 13
Keeping 13
Saving 6
Redeeming 6
Taming 7 – preorder Claire and Gibsie’s story now!

Fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Paola Santiago and the River of Tears will root for Omega Morales, in the second instalment of the Omega Morales series, as she learns to trust her newfound powers when she comes face-to-face with the Mexican legend El Cucuy.

After Omega discovers she has the unique ability to influence the emotions of supernatural creatures, she’s certain she’s strong enough to handle the feelings of others on Día de Muertos. But when darkness overwhelms her, it’s a sign that she’s still vulnerable-and even worse, there may be a new malicious presence in her hometown of Noche Buena.

When a child goes missing at the cemetery, panic ensues, prompting the new sheriff to open an investigation. But then another child is taken. And another. Soon, with the help of Carlitos, Clau, and a magical emotional support animal, Omega uncovers that El Cucuy-the boogeyman-is responsible for the disappearances. And it doesn’t take long for Omega to realize that, just like with La Lechuza, she may be the only one who can stop him. But at what cost?

This goose bump-raising sequel to Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza is packed with magic, myth, and a brave heroine who must confront her own fears to save her family….After all, what’s scarier than El Cucuy?

From Sunday Times bestselling author, Nora Roberts, the final thrilling instalment in the epic Dragon Heart trilogy.


‘If you’re after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she’s your woman’
The Guardian

It’s time for the final reckoning….

With Odran’s defeat at the Battle of the Dark Portal, his quest to rule over Talamh and Breen has stalled – for now. But the terrible battle and heart-breaking losses have taken their toll. It’s a time as painful as any Breen has ever known as she helps to treat the wounded, bring the dead home from blood-and ash-soaked battlegrounds and support her friends and family in their grief.

With the enemy cast out and the portal sealed it is a time to recover but there is little time to rest. Soon the enemy’s witches begin to appear to Breen in her sleep, practicing black magick, sacrificing the innocent, and plotting brutal destruction. It is time for Breen to seek out those in desperate need of rescue and confront the darkness with every weapon she has.

An epic battle is coming. A battle Breen cannot afford to lose….

FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES.

‘Terrific – every bit as good as an MR James collection’ ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN

Featuring new and original stories from:

Bridget Collins, author of The Binding
Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney
Jess Kidd, author of Things in Jars
Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory
Laura Purcell, author of The Silent Companions
Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora
Laura Shepherd-Robinson, author of The Square of Sevens
Stuart Turton, author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street

The tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the centuries. These twelve stories – authored by some of today’s most loved and lauded writers of historical and gothic fiction – are all centred around Christmas or Advent, boldly and playfully re-imagining a beloved tradition for a modern audience.

Taking you from a haunted Tuscan villa to a remote Scottish island with a dark secret,, these vibrant haunted stories are your ultimate companion for frosty nights.

So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of winters past . . .

‘I absolutely devoured The Winter Spirits. Every story is a gem’ LAURA SHEPPERSON
‘Another dazzling collection. Chilling, moving and incredibly satisfying’ AMANDA MASON
‘Eerily macabre, hauntingly propulsive’ JOANNE BURN

Discover and explore the gentle chaos within yourself with this journal based on the book Gentle Chaos by Tyler Gaca, AKA TikTok’s @Ghosthoney, exploring the magic inside each of us and the enchantment and comfort to be found in the weird, the dark, and the different.


– Embrace your inner magic: In this playful, inspiring, and enchanted journal, Tyler offers space to engage with yourself in a new way and embrace what makes you come alive.
– From the creative mind of Tyler Gaca: The prompts and messages in this journal are infused with the unparalleled playfulness and mystique that Ghosthoney brings to everything he creates, inviting you to tap into your own wonderful weirdness.
– Deluxe journal with gorgeous package: Rich, full-colour photographs and illustrations and luxurious woodfree uncoated paper in a durable, flexi binding give this journal an unmatched feeling.

From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok’s Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium of poems, images, personal stories, and vignettes that explore magic, queerness, Tyler’s unique story, and the enchantment and comfort to be found in the weird, the dark, and the different.

In this raw yet enchanting collection of poems, essays, photographs, and artworks, Tyler Gaca dreamily navigates themes of magic and queerness, offering readers an intimate look inside his mind and his worlds, real and imagined.

The writings in Gentle Chaos reflect on growing up queer and in love with magic, discovering yourself and your place in the world, and daring to seek out love and hope. The artworks are dedicated to salvaged antique photographs, haircuts, dead moths, the creatures we dream up, and much more. The result is a whimsical, vulnerable, and transporting journey into the gentle chaos within us all.

Seven strangers. One terrifying journey into the heart of darkness.

‘Full of action and suspense, Red River Seven is Apocalypse Now meets Resident Evil‘ RJ Barker

A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of who or where he is. He’s not alone – there are six others, each with a unique set of skills. None of them can remember their names. All of them are armed.

When a message appears on the onboard computer – Proceeding to Point A – the group agrees to work together to survive whatever is coming.

But as the boat moves through the mist-shrouded waters, divisions begin to form. Who is directing them and to what purpose? Why can’t they remember anything?

And what are the screams they can hear beyond the mist?

Internationally bestselling fantasy author Anthony Ryan – writing as A. J. Ryan – delivers a nerve-shredding thriller in which seven strangers must undertake a terrifying journey into the unknown.

‘Bursts onto the page like a riveting ride into a monstrous heart of darkness, starting out as a locked-room mystery and steadily stomping the gas to become an edge-of-your seat thriller’ Craig DiLouie

‘A madly entertaining amalgam of locked-room mystery, heart-racing thriller, and terror-inducing horror show that will keep you up late into the night and darken your dreams long after you turn the last page’ Philip Fracassi

‘Soaked in terror and shrouded in fog, this book demands to be gulped down in one sitting’ Andy Merino

‘A frenetically paced, galvanizing read that will equally excite and terrify you’ FanFiAddict

Books by Anthony Ryan

Raven’s Shadow
Blood Song
Tower Lord
Queen of Fire

Raven’s Blade
The Wolf’s Call
The Black Song

Draconis Memoria
The Waking Fire
The Legion of Flame
The Empire of Ashes

The Covenant of Steel
The Pariah
The Martyr
The Traitor

Writing as A. J. Ryan

Red River Seven

‘Immersive from the start and satisfying to the finish, a faultless tale from one of our best writers of historical crime fiction’ JESS KIDD

In the darkness, her face glimmered like polished bone, white, but with a bluish tinge. Her lips were dry and cracked. I saw them move; a black tongue pass over them as if she was trying to speak, but she made no sound.

A plague is coming to London. Dreaded more than the Devil himself, cholera – the ‘blue death’ – spares no one. As fear grows across the city, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain are called to the bedside of a dead man, murdered, and with his throat torn out, in the back room of a brothel. When an innocent man is taken to Newgate, Jem and Will have until execution day to save him. The search for the identity of the corpse, and the killer, takes them to the gates of Blackwater Hall, home to the secretive, and corrupt Mortmain family. With the approach of autumn, no one is safe, for the fog brings with it an evil and poisonous sickness – the perfect shroud for murder.

When family secrets are prised out into the open, people begin dying. But who, or what, is the cause? Searching for answers, Jem and Will are driven underground, to the passages and tunnels beneath the city’s teeming streets. Here, their adversary proves to be more elusive, and more deadly, than ever.

PRAISE FOR UNDER GROUND

‘From the outset every image, every metaphor and simile reflects the central themes of corruption and disease, poverty and decadence.The plot is complex and substantial and the final denouement has a feeling of perfect inevitability’ ALIS HAWKINS

‘I LOVED it. Fantastic characters – I never guessed! So good … Underground is brilliantly steeped in the lore of Victorian London, i couldn’t take my eyes off it!’ SARA SHERIDAN

‘Immersive’ SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

PRAISE FOR E.S.THOMSON

‘Another gripping page-turner, add Nightshade to your reading list now.’ Edinburgh Evening News

‘Vivid, pungent and perilous’ CHRIS BROOKMYRE on Beloved Poison

‘Evocative…brilliant plotting’ REBECCA GRIFFITHS on Beloved Poison

‘A dark gripping atmospheric thriller’ Dundee Courier on Nightshade

‘Superb’ Sunday Express

‘Gothic. Gory. Glorious . . . E. S. Thompson’s Jem Flockhart books are the best I’ve read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart, complex, and unapologetically queer’ Kirsty Logan, author of The Gloaming

‘Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London and brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this!’ Rebecca Griffiths, author of The Primrose Path

‘Complex, harrowing and highly enjoyable’ Daily Express

‘A marvellous, vivid book’ Janet Ellis

‘Jem Flockhart is a marvel . . . This vivid journey into the dark side of the human soul is a thoroughly engrossing tale’ Mary Paulson Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker

Experience a connection that defies death in this captivating novel in Christine Feehan’s No. 1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series.

Safia Meziane has trained since birth to protect her tribe, the family she holds so dear. All along she told herself the legends she was raised with were simply that. But now, she must call upon all of her skills to fight what lies ahead. Evil has come to their small town on the cost of Algeria, evil that Safia can feel but cannot see.

She is terrified she will not be able to protect the ones she loves. As her family’s ‘chosen one’, she has always believed she would face this task alone – until her family reveals she has been promised to a warrior who will join her. An outsider. A Carpathian . . .

Petru Cioban is one of the oldest Carpathians in existence, and he has spent all that time without the soothing presence of his lifemate. For two thousand years he has waited for this woman to be reborn, only to find her in the sights of a monster he has fought before, a vampire risen again to finish a battle started centuries ago.

Now, Petru must face his greatest enemy and his greatest shame. He has no hope that Safia will forgive his betrayal once the memories of her past life return to her. But he will not make the same mistake again, even if he has to sacrifice everything for the woman who has claimed his immortal soul.

Praise for Christine Feehan:

‘After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon, Christine Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper’ Time

‘Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels’ Publishers Weekly

‘The erotic, gripping series that’s defined an entire genre! Must reading that always satisfies!’ J.R. Ward

From the acclaimed author of Senlin Ascends comes the first book in a wildly inventive new fantasy series where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve them: The Hexologists.

‘Bancroft is a wonder as ever! The Hexologists was a joyous delight on every page – buoyantly inventive, witty, poignant, gripping, and deeply satisfying’ Madeline Miller, author of Circe
The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case.

But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake – going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven – the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent antiroyalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people.

Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for whatever springs from the alleys, graves, and shadows next.

‘Fantastic! The Hexologists fizzes eloquently with wit and elegance, but also has marvellous worldbuilding and an excellent plot – and a central pair of characters who I quite simply love. A cocktail of a book made with the very best champagne’ Genevieve Cogman, author of The Invisible Library

Embrace the seductive call of the latest novel in Christine Feehan’s No. 1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. . .

Vasilisa Sidkorolyavolkva is a Lycan of royal blood. She knows what’s expected of her, but all she wants is to be out from under her family’s watchful eyes. There is a fire inside her that is building. A restlessness coupled with a sense of growing dread. Every day she feels the weight of the legacy passed down through generations. The prophecy that says a man will come to claim her as his mate and that she will guard his soul. She knows nothing about him, except that he is hers. But nothing seems real until the night she meets him in the flesh….

Afanasiv Belan is a Carpathian, and an ancient one. In all the centuries of his existence, no one has ever affected him like Vasilisa. He can see into her mind and feel what’s in her heart. They are so alike, warriors bound by honour and plagued by secrets. They both know they must reveal the darkest parts of their souls if they hope to survive and protect the ones they love.

But if they claim each other as lifemates it will change them down to the bone. They will become something more-something both of their kinds fear….

Praise for Christine Feehan:

‘After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon, Christine Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper’ Time

‘Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels’ Publishers Weekly

‘The erotic, gripping series that’s defined an entire genre! Must reading that always satisfies!’ J.R. Ward

‘The queen of paranormal romance’ USA Today

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‘A compelling story of magic and survival against the odds.’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Uplifting . . . a welcome escape from our turbulent times.’ GUARDIAN
‘An enchanting story of love, loss and survival’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Full of hope and bravery‘ PRIMA

Brought together by magic.
Torn apart by war.
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Europe, 1938. Even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the World of Wonders – a travelling circus that traverses the continent in a luxury steam engine. Brilliant and curious, Lena yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, despite the limitations she feels in her wheelchair. But when a young French orphan, Alexandre, comes aboard the circus train, Lena’s life is infused with magic and wonder for the first time.

But outside the bright lights of the circus, darkness is descending on Europe. War is about to shatter Lena’s world, and take away everything she holds dear. And to recover what she has lost, Lena will have to believe in the impossible.

A must-read for fans of Water for Elephants, The Circus Train will take readers on a heart-wrenching two-decade journey across a continent in which great beauty and unimaginable horror live side by side.

‘I Meant It Once explores longing, belonging and the big emotions that can make us feel small with unusual elegance and depth’ Coco Mellors, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein

‘Gorgeously written and staggeringly honest . . . It will bewitch you’ Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch

‘I Meant it Once signals the arrival of a major talent and voice’ Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize Finalist Real Life

‘I was enraptured by these stories… Perfect for fans of Greta Gerwig’ Edel Coffey

With this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships – with friends, roommates, siblings – while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In “That Is Shocking,” a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation, one that skirts the parallel story of a friend she betrayed. In others, young women long for friends who have moved away, or moved on. In “Cinnamon Baseball Coyote” and other linked stories about siblings Helen, Evan, and Grace, their years of inside jokes and brutal tensions simmer over as the three spend a holiday season in an amusing whirl of rivalry and mutual attachment, and a generational gulf widens between them and their parents. Throughout, in stories both lyrical and haunting, young women search for ways to break free from the expectations of others and find a way to be in the world.

Written with crystalline prose and sly humour, the stories in I Meant It Once build to complete a profoundly recognizable portrait of early adulthood and the ways in which seemingly incidental moments can come to define the stories we tell ourselves. For fans of Elif Batuman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood, and Melissa Bank, these stories about being young and adrift in today’s world go down easy and pack a big punch.

‘Perceptive, funny, forthright, and often alarmingly relatable, I Meant It Once is a tremendously good debut’ Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

A passionate and powerful romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee.

‘A sensual love story about art and passion . . . emotional and heart-aching’
ASHLEY POSTON

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‘Filled with passion, sacrifice, and heartwarming moments . . . for those who appreciate profound romance’
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‘I feel like 5 stars isn’t enough! . . . I absolutely urge any and all to read this book and I dare you to not love it as much as I do!’
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Doesn’t love mean being truly yourself?

Elisheva Cohen has returned to New York after a decade away. Her past holds wounds, but four years of sobriety and a scholarship to study photography with art legend Wyatt Cole are signs of good things. Even better, her first night in the city leads to a mind-blowing hookup. But when Wyatt Cole walks into the classroom, Ely realizes the man she just spent the night with is her teacher.

The art world is obsessed with the immensely talented, notoriously reclusive Wyatt Cole. But Wyatt’s past is a painful memory. After coming out as transgender, Wyatt was dishonourably discharged from the military and disowned by his family. Since then, her has worked hard for his sobriety and flourishing career. He can help Ely with her photography, but he cannot fall in love with her.

Through the lens of her camera, Ely must confront the reason she left New York: the Orthodox community that raised her, then shunned her because of her substance abuse. And as Wyatt’s walls begin to break down, each artist fights for what’s right in front of them – a person who sees them for all that they are and a love that could mean more than they ever imagined possible.
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‘Victoria Lee aims straight for the heart, and pierces the centre without restraint’
KOSOKO JACKSON

‘A moving portrait of queer love, religion, recovery, art, and community’
MACKENZI LEE

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The second novel in the Wheel of Time series – one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published.

For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of the Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of . . .

Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages.

And it is stolen.

In pursuit of the thieves, Rand al’Thor is determined to keep the Horn out of the grasp of The Dark One. But he has also learned that he is The Dragon Reborn?the Champion of Light destined to stand against the Shadow time and again. It is a duty and a destiny that requires Rand to uncover and master extraordinary capabilities he never imagined he possessed.

The Wheel of Time turns, and an epic adventure continues.


‘Epic in every sense’ Sunday Times

‘With the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal’ New York Times

‘[The] huge ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre’ George R. R. Martin

‘A fantasy phenomenon’ SFX

The Wheel of Time series:
Book 1: The Eye of the World
Book 2: The Great Hunt
Book 3: The Dragon Reborn
Book 4: The Shadow Rising
Book 5: The Fires of Heaven
Book 6: Lord of Chaos
Book 7: A Crown of Swords
Book 8: The Path of Daggers
Book 9: Winter’s Heart
Book 10: Crossroads of Twilight
Book 11: Knife of Dreams
Book 12: The Gathering Storm
Book 13: Towers of Midnight
Book 14: A Memory of Light
Prequel: New Spring

Look out for the companion book: The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time

Also look out for The Complete Wheel of Time Box Set, a box set containing all fifteen novels in this monumental series, presented in a sturdy box with a wood-finish effect.

Prepare to turn the Wheel of Time – with this stunning complete box set containing all fifteen novels in one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. Exclusively available via the Orbit UK Bookstore.

With a sturdy case printed with an impressive wood-finish effect, there is no better way for fans to present the entire Wheel of Time collection. The case contains all fifteen books in this monumental series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson – the perfect collector’s item for any dedicated fan.

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‘EPIC IN EVERY SENSE’ Sunday Times

This box set contains:
Book 1: The Eye of the World
Book 2: The Great Hunt
Book 3: The Dragon Reborn
Book 4: The Shadow Rising
Book 5: The Fires of Heaven
Book 6: Lord of Chaos
Book 7: A Crown of Swords
Book 8: The Path of Daggers
Book 9: Winter’s Heart
Book 10: Crossroads of Twilight
Book 11: Knife of Dreams
Book 12: The Gathering Storm
Book 13: Towers of Midnight
Book 14: A Memory of Light
Prequel: New Spring

*Please note that the box is made of a sturdy, rigid board printed with a wood-finish effect*

*Exclusively available via the Orbit UK Bookstore*

When their village is attacked by terrifying creatures, Rand al’Thor and his friends are forced to flee for their lives. An ancient evil is stirring, and its servants are scouring the land for the Dragon Reborn – the prophesised hero who can deliver the world from darkness.

In this Age of myth and legend, the Wheel of Time turns. What was, what may be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

‘WITH THE WHEEL OF TIME, JORDAN HAS COME TO DOMINATE THE WORLD THAT TOLKIEN BEGAN TO REVEAL’ New York Times

‘[THE] AMBITIOUS WHEEL OF TIME SERIES HELPED REDEFINE THE GENRE’ George R. R. Martin

‘A FANTASY PHENOMENON’ SFX

‘Utterly absorbing and deliciously erotic’ Angela Knight

‘Hot, sexy, unique, intriguingly wicked’ Christine Feehan

In the next Prison Camp instalment, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward pens a heart-wrenching tale of love and betrayal in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world . . .

Framed for the grisly murder of his shellan , Kane is condemned to the notorious prison camp – unaware of the dark truth behind his arranged mating. Centuries later, when he is horribly burned while attempting to save others, he prays he’ll finally be reunited in the Fade with his mate . . . not knowing what revelations await him.

Nadya is a self-taught nurse who does what she can to ease the suffering of the prisoners. When Kane comes under her care, she cannot help but empathise with his condition for very personal reasons – and as the guards take him away one last time, she fears he is facing a terrible death.

After a daring rescue, Kane is offered a treatment that will change his very nature. Choosing life, for the time being, he goes back for the female who took such good care of him – but his duty to Nadya sets him on a collision course with his own past. When long-buried secrets are exposed, his self-destruction is inevitable . . . unless true love can save his soul.

Find out why readers are OBSESSED with the Black Dagger Brotherhood . . .

Insanely good! . . . Intensely romantic and straight up flipping steamy, violent and gruesome, heartbreaking and deep. Her addictive writing tells a story like none other’ Goodreads reviewer

‘I can’t get enough of these sexy, tough, intriguing vampires’ Amazon reviewer

‘Emotional by epic proportions’ Kobo reviewer

‘The Black Dagger Brotherhood is a twisting, often surprising, but always awesome read’ Amazon reviewer

‘A must read’ Goodreads reviewer

‘The story had me captivated the whole way’ Kobo reviewer

‘Each and every character is compelling’ Amazon reviewer