Adult Consumer Catalogue Jan-June 2026

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Eight Million Ways to Happiness

Wisdom from the Heart of Japan

Hiroko Yoda

An immersive journey through Japan's ancient spiritual traditions, and how they can help bring us comfort and happiness today

Everything has a spirit. The heavens above, the ground below, the mountains afar. That is the fundamental essence of Shinto: a millennia-old Japanese philosophy that is closely attuned to the natural world. Shinto tells us that while we may feel alone, or subject to forces beyond our control, we are also part of a much bigger story. And that can make us very strong.

Within the pages of this transformative book, Hiroko Yoda guides us through the furthest reaches of Japan, unveiling the profound ways in which you, too, can introduce Shinto traditions into your daily life. Together you will journey far and wide. You will trek into the mountains with practitioners of Shugendo, learning how to develop the art of a positive outlook. You will come face to face with Japan’s most furious kami in downtown Tokyo, to learn the power of acknowledging anger. And you’ll discover that forging your own spiritual path means never journeying alone.

Hiroko Yoda is a certified Shinto cultural historian, an experienced Miko shrine-dancer and a lifelong practitioner of Shinto. She served as the Tokyo editor for the lifestyle site CNNGo, and over two decades has assisted countless Japanese creators in the video game, manga, anime, toy and film industries. She has written for the New Yorker, and has also contributed to Vice. She lives in Tokyo.

January 2026

Hardback 9781526672162 • £18.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Tonic

We Are Movement

Unlocking Your Physical Intelligence

Wayne McGregor

World-renowned choreographer and director Wayne McGregor teaches us how to unlock the intelligence of our physical bodies

How much do you know about your body? How much does your body know about you?

Sir Wayne McGregor is renowned for his innovations in performance, which have radically defined dance in the modern era. Over the past three decades, he has discovered that our intelligence lies not only in our brains, but in our bodies too. In We Are Movement, McGregor argues that mastering our physical intelligence allows us to experience new forms of creativity and connection.

Drawing on his research with elite performers, neuroscientists and anthropologists, he shows how we can all become more physically fluent. Using simple steps, from being aware of our body language to conquering fear, we can become better communicators, more creative thinkers, and ultimately live fuller lives.

Elegant, cutting-edge and practical, We Are Movement is a user-friendly guide to priming your physical intelligence that will revolutionise how you live your life.

Sir Wayne McGregor CBE is a multi-award-winning choreographer and director. He is the Founder of Studio Wayne McGregor, Resident Choreographer at The Royal Ballet and Director of Dance for La Biennale di Venezia. He is also the choreographer of ABBA Voyage, the revolutionary avatar concert. We Are Movement is his first book. January

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market

Bloomsbury Tonic

This is Where the Serpent Lives

Daniyal Mueenuddin

Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving: a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature

Moving from Pakistan’s sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station.

Yazid rises from abject poverty to become a trusted servant to an affluent gangster; Saqib, an errand boy, is eventually trusted to lead his boss’s new farming venture, where he becomes determined to rise above his rank by any means necessary. Saqib’s boss, the wealthy landowner Hisham, reminisces about meeting his wife while she was dating his brother; and Gazala, a young teacher, falls for Saqib and his bold promises for their future before learning about his plans to skim money from the farm’s profits.

In matters of business and the heart, Mueenuddin’s characters struggle to choose between the paths that are moral and the paths that will allow them to survive.

Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought up in Pakistan and Wisconsin. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and The Best American Short Stories 2008 selected by Salman Rushdie. His collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He lives between Norway and his farm in Pakistan’s South Punjab.

January 2026

Hardback 9781037200052 • £18.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada/India/Pakistan)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Publishing

Vigil

George Saunders

A triumphant new novel from bestselling, Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders, set at the deathbed of an oil company CEO

Not for the first time – in fact, for the 343rd time – Jill ‘Doll’ Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man is not quite like the others.

For powerful oil tycoon K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it… isn’t it?

But as death approaches, a cast of worldly and otherworldly visitors arrive, all clamouring for this difficult man’s reckoning.

In this electric novel brimming with explosive imagination, George Saunders confronts the biggest issues of our time with his trademark humour and warmth, spinning a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the inevitable question: who else could we be but exactly who we are?

George Saunders is the author of thirteen books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize in 2017, and five collections of stories. Three of his books were chosen for the New York Times’ list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

January 2026

Hardback 9781526624307 • £18.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Publishing

Gordon Brown

Power with Purpose

James Macintyre

A compelling new biography of former prime minister Gordon Brown, a dominant figure in the Labour Party for five decades

Over fifteen years since he left Downing Street, Brown continues to wield significant influence among the current generation. Polls regularly suggest he is the most popular living former prime minister. Yet his short time in Number 10 ended in bitterness and election defeat.

In James Macintyre’s fascinating new biography, he provides a definitive portrait of a true political giant. Based on unique access to Brown’s personal archive and interviews with his family, friends, colleagues and political rivals including Tony Blair, David Cameron and Alastair Campbell, among many others Macintyre reveals the private man behind the public figure. We gain unprecedented insight into his family life, his faith and what it is that still motivates him.

Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose not only outlines Brown’s formidable legacy but shows how there is still a powerful purpose in all he does that can inspire anyone seeking to create meaningful change.

James Macintyre is a British journalist and author. He was senior producer of BBC1’s Question Time political correspondent for the Independent and New Statesman, and politics editor of Prospect magazine. He is co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader, and has written for a range of publications including the New York Times and Guardian.

February 2026

Hardback 9781526673411 • £25.00

TERRITORY: Commonwealth/UK/Open Market Bloomsbury Publishing

On the Future of Species

Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence

Adrian Woolfson

A ground-breaking exploration of the emerging field of genome writing and its implications for healthcare, the environment and the global economy

Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are living, clothing has opinions, and disease is a thing of the past. To achieve this, we must transform biology into a programmable material by decoding DNA: the language of life itself. We will then be able to author genomes – and, if we choose, even rewrite our own.

We are at the cusp of a technological revolution, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. Currently at the scribbling phase – writing the genomes of viruses, bacteria and yeast – we will eventually author the genomes of extinct and never-before-realised species.

While offering extraordinary opportunities, this power also carries great risk and it is vital for everyone to understand what the future might hold. Woolfson provides a bold and visionary guide to how we should navigate this astonishing new world safely, wisely and ethically.

Adrian Woolfson is the co-founder of Genyro, a California-based biotechnology company specialising in synthetic genome design and construction. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Life Without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics. He has authored over 160 scientific papers, book chapters, reviews and patents.

Red Dawn Over China

How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

Frank Dikötter

From renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter – ‘the historian of China’ (Spectator) – a new history of China’s path to Communism

In April 1927, soldiers and detectives descended upon the Russian Embassy in Beijing revolvers drawn. Soon they emerged with a trove of documents, some of them partly damaged by Russians who tried quickly to destroy them. In these singed papers was proof that Moscow, despite agreeing three years earlier not to ‘propagate communistic doctrines’, had, in fact, sent what amounts to millions in today’s dollars, along with shiploads of arms and advisors to support nothing less than a revolution in China.

These findings are hardly ever mentioned by historians – until now. The history of modern China has long been framed as an organic enterprise, wherein Communists mobilised the ‘peasants’, redistributing land from the rich to the poor. Drawing on the Beijing raid as well as several overlooked archives, Dikötter reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union; a brutal war of occupation by Japan; severe miscalculations by the United States; and an unflinching will to conquer at all costs.

Frank Dikötter reveals how what began with thirteen delegates led to a red flag being raised over the Forbidden City in 1949, altering history for a quarter of humanity and shaping the global balance of power of today.

Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao.

February 2026

Hardback 9781526670700 • £30.00

TERRITORY: World English (excluding Canada/USA) Bloomsbury Publishing

Railsong

A Novel

Rahul Bhattacharya

A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways amid the political upheavals of twentieth-century India

In a newly independent India incandescent with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects in her town. She flees the claustrophobic domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay. As India moves from steam to diesel locomotives, through drought and famine, a great strike and state repression, Charu dares to imagine and demand a different future for herself.

Unfazed by the everyday discriminations around her, she becomes an unlikely hero: a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open —sometimes guilelessly — to her nation’s vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of grit, optimism and the force of character that enables one remarkable woman to thrive in a country full of contradictions.

Rahul Bhattacharya is a writer, journalist and editor. His first novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. He was born in Bombay and lives in Delhi with his wife and two daughters.

February 2026

Hardback 9781526691729 • £18.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Belize/Canada)/Europe/Open Market (excluding Caribbean/Mexico/South America) Bloomsbury Publishing

Laws of Love and Logic

Debra Curtis

A decades-spanning epic of first loves and second chances from an unforgettable new voice

‘Sweeping and intimate… a gorgeous meditation on roads not taken’ SHELBY VAN PELT, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures

1976, Rhode Island.

Lily has two loves.

There’s the boy, in whom she finds a kindred spirit. And then there’s Jane, her brilliant but troubled younger sister and best friend.

Lily has a plan.

She’ll graduate, go to college, marry her high-school sweetheart and start a family of her own, her future unfolding before her as a bright, clear path.

But the laws of love and logic are not as simple as Lily thinks.

When one fateful night throws Lily’s life on an entirely new course, she’ll discover just how fragile the futures are that we so carefully plan and imagine for ourselves. Because the universe has a plan of its own – and what seems to be the end of one great love story might just be the beginning of another…

Debra Curtis is a retired professor of cultural anthropology at Salve Regina University, where she specialised in gender and sexuality. This is her first novel. She is the mother of grown-up twin girls and lives in Rhode Island with her husband and her English bulldog, Harry, who is the star of much of her TikTok content.

February 2026

Hardback 9781526683502 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market

Bloomsbury Publishing

Lean Cat, Savage Cat

Lauren J. Joseph

‘Lauren J. Joseph is a wit and an assassin from one sentence to the next’ Torrey Peters

Charli has finished art school and now has no idea what to do with her life. She’s broke, disillusioned and her flatmates hate her. One night at a bar in Soho, however, everything changes when she first encounters the charismatic musician Alexander Geist. Androgynous, glamorously handsome, mysterious and just a little sinister, he feels something like a soul mate; and so when he heads off to Berlin, Charli follows.

There, at the centre of the city’s febrile party scene, Charli and Alexander embark on their great project: to make Alexander into the biggest star since David Bowie. But Alexander is elusive, mercurial; and Charli is in over her head before she realises just how selfdestructive her life has become under his spell.

Lauren J. Joseph was born in Liverpool and lives in London. Her film and performance work has been shown internationally. Joseph’s debut novel At Certain Points We Touch was selected as a book of the year by Stylist, Sheerluxe and Foyles, and she was named one of the Observer’s debut novelists of the year.

Baldwin: A Love Story

Nicholas Boggs

A ground-breaking biography from one of the world's most prominent James Baldwin scholars

Drawing on newly uncovered archival material, original research and interviews, this is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades. It reveals how profoundly the writer’s personal relationships shaped his life and work through exploring his most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin’s last great love is explored in these pages for the first time. Nicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships and alchemised them into novels, essays and plays that speak truth to power.

Richly immersive, Baldwin: A Love Story magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century.

Nicholas Boggs is a writer and independent scholar, whose writing has been anthologised in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin and James Baldwin Now. He is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, as well as residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. Born and raised in Washington, DC, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

March 2026

Hardback 9781526615626 • £30.00

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Circus

The Daffodil Days

Helen Bain

A mesmerising debut about two writers in a small Devonshire town, as brought to life by the community around them

In the early 1960s in a small Devonshire town, the church bells ring. The people of North Tawton go about their days, wandering in and out of the frame of each other’s lives.

There’s Dr Webb, the GP who knows more about his patients than he’d like. There’s Jenny, the sales assistant at Kestrels, who understands that ladies often come to the boutique in search of a feeling more so than a new outfit. There’s Bill Nicholls, who rings the church bells, their rippling notes fall over the rooftops, signalling the close of another week. Amidst these lives, a young couple come into focus. New to the town with two young children, they have fled London hoping for a quieter life.

The Daffodil Days is the story of a town, and a portrait of this enigmatic couple refracted through the rich inner lives of a community caught in their light.

Helen Bain works as a sub editor at the Financial Times (formerly at the Guardian, Vogue and Red), and holds two MA degrees from Birkbeck University in creative writing and modern/contemporary literature. She lives in Sussex but has spent much time in North Tawton, bell-ringing and beekeeping as part of her research. The Daffodil Days is her first novel.

March 2026

Hardback 9781526697714 • £18.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Fullness of Time

Marking the Day by Birdsong, Blooms, Shadows and Stars

Cathy Haynes

From a luminous new voice comes a joyful exploration of how nature marks time, and a call to notice the daily wonders of the natural world

As a society we rely on clocks as our primary timekeeper. But what about the cues evident in the natural world – the sound of animal calls, the folding of petals, the movement of the stars?

In this spellbinding debut, Cathy Haynes goes in search of the many lost ways – so familiar to our ancestors – that nature marks time. From the honeysuckle flower whose sweet-sharp aroma intensifies at dusk, to the fiddler crab that matches its rhythms to the lunar and solar cycles.

On this journey, we’ll discover that to devote an evening to tracing the stars might help us savour the fullness of the moment; and to notice that the daily routines of swallows and blackbirds could bring us forms of companionship that lift us out of narrow human concerns.

Charming, gentle and wise, The Fullness of Time is a chance to realign ourselves with the daily rhythms of the natural world and a reminder to pay attention to the wonders before us – if only we look around.

Cathy Haynes is a curator, writer, artist and educator who has been developing a creative practice on aspects of time for two decades. She has been Timekeeper in Residence at UCL's Petrie Museum, Artist in Residence at the Chisenhale Gallery, Curator for Art on the Underground at Transport for London and a founder faculty member at Alain de Botton's School of Life.

Joyful, Anyway

Kate Bowler

'A deeply moving everyday masterpiece. I loved it' ELIZABETH GILBERT

Life aches. Joy is the cure.

After surviving a stage-four cancer diagnosis, Kate Bowler knew she was supposed to be grateful. Alive. Blessed. But she still ached – for more connection, more surprise, less resentment on an ordinary day.

So she went looking for joy. Not the toxic positivity kind. Not a five-step plan. But the type that sneaks in unexpectedly, seemingly out of nowhere.

In Joyful, Anyway Bowler takes us on a hilarious and tender journey through big questions and small delights. With wry wit and deep honesty, she explores how joy can surprise us even in the middle of pain, boredom and longing.

This is not a book about fixing your life. It is about how we can all find more and feel more, by making room for small extraordinary moments.

For anyone who has ever felt stuck, who is aching for meaning, who feels undone by loss, who feels that joy is just out of reach, who wants, simply, to have more fun, Joyful, Anyway is a delicious, insightful tour through the questions that sit in the deepest part of our souls. It proves that for every time we ask: Is this it? Joy will answer: there is more

Kate Bowler is the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason, among other books. Her TED talk on the topic has over 9 million views to date. She hosts the popular podcast ‘Everything Happens’ and has previously appeared on NPR, Today, the New York Times Washington Post and Time. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

March 2026

Hardback 9781526665133 • £22.00

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Publishing

Jill Dawson

From Whitbread Prize and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson comes a sweeping and vivid novel about publisher, illustrator and occultist Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith

It’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her.

After the deaths of her beloved mother and her troubled but well-intentioned father, Pixie finds herself in the complex, political world of fin-de-siècle art, trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for herself in life. Across Jamaica, Devon, London and Brooklyn, Pixie is a novel of epic proportions, a tale of the twists and turns, séances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young woman’s talent, grit and determination.

In Pixie, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, artist, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, in arrestingly vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until know, eluded popular imagination.

Jill Dawson is the author of eleven novels, one poetry collection and the editor of six anthologies of poetry and stories. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a Costa Judge, and taught creative writing in many different settings. She lives in Cambridgeshire. March

April 2026

Hardback 9781037202568 • £18.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Bloomsbury Tonic

Mario Vargas Llosa

Gerald Martin

Acclaimed biographer, Gerald Martin, chronicles the life of Latin America's greatest living writer, Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa is unchallenged as not only the greatest living writer from his continent but as the most influential intellectual in the entire Hispanic world. He has never stopped writing and travelling and has never been far from controversy.

Handsome, elegant and debonair, Vargas Llosa is not only a giant of literature but he has been on a political journey that has taken him across the spectrum. In addition to this compelling public story, his personal life has also been filled with intrigue. This captivating biography will shed new light on the mystery surrounding the personal, literary and political relationship between Vargas Llosa and his contemporaries, including Gabriel García Márquez.

With privileged access to Vargas Llosa’s archives, Gerald Martin brings the same meticulous research and narrative verve to bear on a life that holds equal fascination with that of his fellow Nobel Prize winner García Márquez.

Gerald Martin is Professor of Modern Languages Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and a former president of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. He has written multiple biographies to critical acclaim, including Gabriel García Márquez: A Life. He has visited or resided in all the nations of Latin America and currently lives in Hampshire, UK.

July 2026

Hardback 9781408825273 • £35.00

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

Walking Shadow

Love, Loss and Shakespeare

Greg Doran

A compelling blend of memoir, travelogue and investigation, Walking Shadow sheds new light on the past while Doran emerges from the darkness of loss

After the death from cancer of his husband, Antony Sher, Greg Doran stepped down from his role as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, and inspired by the surprising history of the company’s own copy, he set out see how many of these important volumes he could find.

Walking Shadow relives the months leading up to Sher’s death, told via the two men’s raw and loving diaries. It also maps Doran’s quest to track down folios worldwide, each with their own unique features and remarkable tales. By his journey’s end, Doran had seen more than 200 First Folios – over 90 per cent of all the surviving copies – including one whose existence was previously unknown. He had also gained a greater understanding of Shakespeare and his times, as well as his impact on the world.

Greg Doran joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as an actor in 1987 and was its artistic director from 2012 to 2022. He has directed and/or produced every play in the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays at Stratford-upon-Avon. He was awarded the Sam Wanamaker Prize for pioneering work in Shakespearean theatre in 2012, and knighted for services to the arts in 2024.

into the wreck

Susannah Dickey

From a rising literary star and multi-award-winning poet, comes a hilarious and sharp novel exploring the knotty complexities of one family's relationships

How do you mourn someone you never really knew?

Three siblings – Anna, Gemma and Matthew – will have to work that out quickly. Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father’s funeral, and for the first time in a long while they are under one roof with their mother, imperious Yvonne, awaiting the arrival of their aunt Amy, an award-winning poet.

Yet, as the funeral looms, their everyday concerns refuse to diminish: will newly sexobsessed Gemma work out what she wants from life, beyond her mother’s expectations? Can Anna maintain the fine balance between desire and nonchalance with the sort-of, notquite-exclusive boyfriend, back in London? Will Amy’s past explode the relationships of the present? And, crucially, will Yvonne pull off her grand, post-funeral family dinner, the solution to what she fears may be an unsolvable problem?

Told from five different perspectives, into the wreck worries at the knotty complexities of one family’s bonds, written with Susannah Dickey’s trademark empathy and wit.

Susannah Dickey is a writer from Derry. She is the author of two novels, Tennis Lessons (2020) and Common Decency (2022), which was an Irish Waterstones Book of the Month. Her debut poetry collection, ISDAL, was a Guardian and Irish Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the John Pollard Prize. She lives in Hertfordshire.

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding

Market

Bloomsbury Circus

See You on the Other Side

Jay McInerney

The final Calloway novel brings Russell and Corrine’s story to a close, in a New York on the cusp of irrevocable change

The celebration of the thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Russell Calloway’s best friend, Washington Lee — the least likely monogamist of his acquaintance somehow having become over the years a model husband and father — at the Odeon in the Spring of 2020 sparks an at once funny and moving autumnal reckoning with mortality as the spectre of the Covid-19 virus spreads. In this moment of unprecedented upheaval, the Calloways find themselves and their marriage tested in ways they could never have anticipated as fatal consequences ensue.

Once again brilliantly combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us the stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting final volume in the tetralogy charting the marriage of Russell and Corrinne Calloway, now in their sixties, against the backdrop of various crises that have bedeviled our society in the past forty years.

Jay McInerney came to prominence in 1984 with his first novel Bright Lights, Big City He is the author of seven further novels, a collection of short stories, and three collections of essays on wine. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.

April 2026

Hardback 9781037200755 • £20.00

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Publishing

How to Fly

Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans

Simon Barnes

A unique, all-encompassing exploration of the wonders of flight and how different species have evolved different solutions to the problem –including humans.

Flight fascinates us. We thrill to birds, we adore butterflies and we can hardly believe in pterodactyls. We love the idea of flight so much we invented machines that at last allowed us to fly. Many died to make human flight possible.

In How to Fly, bestselling writer Simon Barnes brings together all aspects of aerial life –evolution, technology, mythology, religion, nature and imagination – in a celebration of the wonders of flight. Barnes looks at the physics of flight and how it has evolved quite separately four times over. He examines how these creatures do it, from the nocturnal agility of bats to barely competent pheasants. He also explores how the great poets, mystics, saints, musicians and athletes have all, in their different ways, succeeded in getting high and getting us high.

Sweeping in scope and packed with fresh insights, How to Fly is a book for the eagle within us all.

Simon Barnes is a writer and journalist who was the chief sportswriter and wildlife columnist for The Times until 2014. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling Bad Birdwatcher trilogy, Rewild Yourself and, most recently, Spring is the Only Season. In 2014, he was awarded the Rothschild Medal for services to conservation. He lives in Norfolk with his family.

Hardback 9781526687548 • £22.00

TERRITORY: Commonwealth/Europe/Open Market Bloomsbury Publishing

April 2026

Hardback 9781526691712 • £16.99

Canada)/Europe/Open

The Quest for El Dorado

Sir Walter Ralegh and the City of Gold

David Gibbins

A new history of one the greatest feats of exploration – Walter Ralegh’s search for El Dorado, the legendary City of Gold

In 1594, English adventurer Sir Walter Ralegh heard the story of a lost city in South America from a Spanish conquistador. Setting out from Plymouth in February 1595, Ralegh reached the mouth of the Orinoco River and travelled over 400 miles inland to find it. Along the way, he captured galleons full of treasure, fought the Spanish and befriended the indigenous peoples.

Hoping to win favour with Queen Elizabeth I, he was convinced that a gold-rich empire lay just beyond reach. He vowed to return so he could finally earn fame and fortune. But, after he was imprisoned by James I, with a death sentence hanging over him, his hopes were put on hold for years until he was granted a chance to try again…

Based on Gibbins’ own researches as a maritime archaeologist, The Quest for El Dorado tells a story of exploration and plunder, shedding new light on Ralegh’s famous voyages.

David Gibbins is the internationally bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks as well as thirteen archaeological and historical novels. His books have sold over three million copies and are published in thirty languages. After taking a PhD from Cambridge University he taught archaeology in Britain and abroad, and is a leading authority on shipwrecks and maritime archaeology.

Give Me Everything You've Got

Imogen Crimp

An electrifying, sultry and deliciously dark exploration of sex, power and art – a queer Rebecca for the twenty-first century

Ruby has spent her twenties scraping by in unfulfilling jobs. But now she’s tasting her first success as a film director – and she’s caught the eye of Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist filmmaker, critical darling and Ruby’s idol.

When Ellen invites Ruby down to her sprawling country house and offers to mentor her through writing her next film, Ruby can’t believe her luck. Arriving in the middle of an oppressive heat wave, she is overawed by the glamour of the house – and finds herself quickly drawn into the middle of a dangerous dynamic between Ellen and her elusive daughter Lara.

Because Ellen and Lara, it seems, like to play games with promising young women. As tensions escalate, Ruby begins to ask herself: why was she brought here, and what exactly do these two women want from her?

Imogen Crimp’s debut novel A Very Nice Girl was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize, selected for Malala Yousafzai's Fearless Book Club and chosen as a book of the year by the Sunday Times and Grazia She lives in London.

May 2026

Hardback 9781526688941 • £22.00

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

The Wind Beneath the Stone

My Quest to Unearth a Piece of Ireland's Folklore

David Keohan

A compelling and heartwarming journey across Ireland to revive the lost tradition of stone lifting

When world kettlebell lifting champion David Keohan heard about old tales of stone lifting, he was captivated. So he embarked on a quest to see if he could rediscover any of these famous stones, and whether he could match the feats of the heroes of the past by lifting them.

As he travelled around Ireland, Keohan met those who recalled the stories and the legends attached to the stones. Soon, others were joining him as he took on the challenge of lifting them – the heaviest of which weighed over 200 kilograms – and he realised this was more than a personal challenge. Stone lifting had become a way for Irish people to reclaim their lost heritage, to come together to celebrate what made their homeland special.

The Wind Beneath the Stone is an inspirational story of hope, togetherness and community, revealing how a simple challenge can take on a life of its own.

David Keohan is an avid musician, with a degree in Fine Art and a world championship title in kettlebell sport. His efforts to unearth and reanimate Ireland’s lost tradition of stone lifting has garnered him national and international recognition a lot of attention, with features in GQ and Mr Porter magazines as well as TV, podcasts, documentary appearances.

May 2026

Hardback 9781526691811 • £18.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Cast Away

or, the Surprising Adventures of Alexander Selkirk

Francesca de Tores

The true-life story of Alexander Selkirk, a sweeping tale of isolation and tenacity, asking: Who is a man, when everything is stripped

1704: Alexander Selkirk is abandoned by his crew on a deserted island. An intelligent yet disagreeable and arrogant man, he only has himself to blame for his fate. But in this new unforgiving reality, explanations and reasons why become inconsequential.

Selkirk must use his grit and ingenuity to survive the harsh landscape of the island as trials abound. As time stretches on, the mental toll of isolation takes Selkirk to the brink of sanity, distorting his perception of reality.

reimagines in mesmeric detail and sparkling prose the real-life years

Alexander Selkirk spent as a castaway on a desert island, the inspiration for the classic novel Robinson Crusoe His story asks us who we are – and who we become – when no one is around.

Francesca de Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of five previous novels, published in over 20 languages, including Saltblood, which won the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is published widely in journals and anthologies. She grew up in Lutruwita/Tasmania and, after fifteen years in England, is now living in Naarm/Melbourne.

May 2026

Hardback 9781526661395 • £16.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing

Edmund Richardson

From Professor Edmund Richardson comes a revelatory new biography of Alexander the Great, based on startling new archaeological discoveries

Aged twenty, Alexander inherited a tumbledown kingdom, a pile of debts and an army who answered to nobody. Desperate to hold on to power, he led the army into the heart of the Persian Empire and inadvertently began the greatest military campaign in history. The young man went from a king to a hero to a living god, only to die suspiciously at thirty-two in Babylon. For centuries, historians have told his story, yet the legendary figure has remained a mystery – until recently, when a series of remarkable discoveries emerged from the remains of Alexander’s cities.

Based on over a decade of cutting-edge research, Edmund Richardson brings readers closer than ever to Alexander’s world, revealing intimate details of the young man’s life and the price he paid to become history’s greatest conqueror. Alexander is a cinematic work of non-fiction: a revelatory retelling of one of the past’s most elusive stories.

Edmund Richardson is an Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University. He published Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City in 2021 and Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity in 2013. Richardson was named one of the BBC and AHRC’s ‘New Generation Thinkers’ in 2016.

June 2026

Hardback 9781526658173 • £25.00

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Montgomery: Unbeatable, Unbearable

The story of Britain’s most talented and feared WW2 general

Gary Mead

A definitive biography capturing the motives, spirit and psychological complexities of the man dubbed Britain’s last great soldier.

Bernard Law Montgomery, known to all as ‘Monty’, oversaw the British Army’s single greatest social change: its democratisation. The self-proclaimed ‘cad’ of the army also controversially promoted contraception among frivolous troops, and employed disastrously outdated tactics in the Second World War, but still secured famous wins in North Africa. Now, over 50 years since his death, Montgomery remains a highly controversial figure, vilified and adored in equal measure.

This balanced, accessible and fresh account of one of Britain’s most notorious war heroes looks beyond the battlefield. Delving into Montgomery’s belligerent Victorian boyhood, his family’s legacy of financial precariousness, his love-hate relationship with Churchill and his dubious romances, Gary Mead asks what life experiences and personal secrets influenced this man’s volcanic emotional life, and ultimately, his multifaceted and disputed legacy.

Definitive and profound, Montgomery: Unbeatable, Unbearable captures the motives, spirit and psychological complexities of the man dubbed Britain’s last great soldier.

Gary Mead was a journalist for the Financial Times for ten years and has worked extensively with the BBC. He is the author three books on military history.

Sun Country

Writing My Way Home

Howard Cunnell

A beautifully written and courageous journey from sorrow to acceptance, from loss to hope, shimmering with coastal light and hard-won wisdom

His mother, Gillian, was the only parent Howard Cunnell ever knew, and her death compelled him to examine how her experiences shaped both her life and his. Moving from grief, isolation and solitude to a gradual re-engagement with the things that made their lives, Cunnell writes about their life on the Sussex coast, the gifts of the natural world, about work, community and family, and about love and selflessness.

Cunnell tells stories of working class lives that are rarely heard, through his own family, while also honouring the writers and artists who have celebrated these communities and landscapes. Above all, Sun Country is a love letter to a land of coastal light and changing sea, and the people who inhabit it. Cunnell’s descriptive power – so widely praised in his previous memoir Fathers & Sons – reaches a breathtaking new level, marked by a simplicity born only from the finest craft and poetry.

Howard Cunnell is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, which was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and two novels. A former scuba instructor and dive guide, he is the contributing editor of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road -The Original Scroll, which the New York Times called ‘the living version for our time.’ He lives in Sussex.

June 2026

Hardback 9781526691606 • £16.99

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This Little World

A New History of Tudor and Stuart Britain Nandini Das

From the British Academy Book Prize-winner comes a breathtaking, 150-year history of Britain on the cusp of empire challenging our understanding of how British identity was forged

This Little World is a new history of early modern Britain. It tells the story of a country on the cusp of nationhood and empire, from the perspective of the people crossing its borders. This is far from an inward-looking story. From Flanders and Lisbon to Nagasaki and Virginia, what emerges is a history of global entanglements, with a reach that goes beyond the fate of any single country.This was when some of our most fundamental ideas – about nationhood, identity, faith, race – first took shape.

Weaving together the incredible lives of individuals throughout Britain and beyond from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, Nandini Das paints a vibrant portrait of a world undergoing enormous shifts. From itinerants and spies, portraitists and pirates, Das reveals stories like that of Levine Teerlinc, probably the only painter to be employed by not one but four Tudor monarchs and Elizabeth Key, daughter of an enslaved mother and white settler father in Virginia who successfully claimed English citizenship for herself and her son.

Nandini Das OBE is professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture in the English faculty at the University of Oxford. Her debut, Courting India, won the British Academy Book Prize in 2024. In 2025, she was awarded an OBE for services to Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and to Public Engagement.

June 2026

Hardback 9781526669650 • £30.00

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June 2026

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Nothing to My Name

Kangkang Kovacs

A sweeping, multi-generational family saga that explores how women survive the tsunamis of history

1948, Zhoushan, China. Twelve-year-old Ah Xue watches her mother earn a living combing the hair of the wealthy women in their small fishing village, as reports of civil war and the rising Communist revolution grow closer to home.

Years later, Mimosa grows up in the shadow of her parents’ struggles, while the looming tension of the Cultural Revolution threatens to pull her family apart.

And Fei, raised as a boy by the activist father she can’t help but idolise, grapples with her identity in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Nothing to My Name braids an unforgettable story of the ordinary women caught in the tides of societal upheaval, but bound by an insuppressible instinct to survive. From an astonishing new writer, it explores with remarkable tenderness the enduring repercussions of trauma, the search for stability in disorder, and the often contradictory nature of familial love.

Kangkang Kovacs grew up in Nanchang, China and came to the United States for her graduate studies. After earning a PhD in nuclear physics at the University of Virginia and teaching math and physics at UC Santa Barbara, Kangkang decided to pursue her passion for writing. Nothing to My Name is her first novel.

June 2026

Hardback 9781526687272 • £18.99

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The Inner Clock

Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms

Lynne Peeples

How the groundbreaking science of circadian rhythms can help you sleep better, feel happier and improve your overall health.

How the groundbreaking science of body clocks can help you sleep better, feel happier and improve your overall health

At this very moment, a symphony of tiny timepieces is ticking throughout your body – in your stomach and skin, in your liver and lungs, even in your legs. Orchestrating this roundthe-clock production is a master timekeeper in your brain. What happens when these circadian rhythms are out of tune?

In The Inner Clock, journalist Lynne Peeples discovers the ways in which our circadian clocks affect our lives. Speaking to biologists, professional athletes, surgeons, astronomers and software developers, she reveals the cutting-edge research about the powerful sway circadian rhythms have on our bodies and cultures.

Threats to our body clocks abound - but we can also harness our internal rhythms to our advantage – learning the optimal time to take medication, schedule a job interview or eat dinner. The time has come to reckon with the effects of circadian cycles on our minds, bodies and societies.

Lynne Peeples is a freelance science journalist, specializing in the environment, public health and medicine. She holds a M.S. in Biostatistics from Harvard and an M.A. in Science Journalism from New York University. Her writing has appeared in Huffington Post, Nature, Scientific American and The Atlantic, amongst others. A 2020-2021 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow and a finalist for the 2018 National Association of Science Writers long-form reporting award, she lives in Seattle, Washington.

Lynne Peeples is a freelance science journalist, specializing in the environment, public health and medicine. She holds a M.S. in Biostatistics from Harvard and an M.A. in Science Journalism from New York University. Her writing has appeared in Huffington Post, Nature, Scientific American and The Atlantic amongst others.

Starwatchers

A History of Discovery in the Night Sky

Joanne Baker

An unforgettable journey through space that invites readers to marvel at the universe’s dual nature – both terrifying and enchanting.

What draws us to space and how can we make sense of it? Joanne Baker, driven by a lifelong quest, grapples with these questions, inviting readers to confront the universe’s dual nature – both terrifying and enchanting.

This unique synthesis of science, culture and personal reflection takes readers on an extraordinary journey through space and delves into the heart of our fascination with the cosmos. It charts the evolution of humanity's cosmic perceptions and draws fascinating parallels, for example, between the solitude of stargazing on a remote mountain and the contemplative practices of Tibetan monks and spiritual Hawaiians. Joanne Baker also includes her own first-hand experiences, from watching a total solar eclipse in Idaho to visiting ancient observatories in Poland – unveiling a mosaic of research that transcends borders and traditions.

Vast and captivating, Starwatchers invites us on an unforgettable journey through space that interrogates the boundaries of our earthly existence.

Joanne Baker is a writer and editor based in London. She holds a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Sydney and master’s degrees in natural sciences and landscape architecture. She has been a NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of California and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

January 2026

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Bloomsbury Tonic

Moral Ambition

How to Find Your Purpose

Rutger Bregman

The life-changing new book from a global sensation, on how you can use your talents to change the world

‘Gives us hope, humour and guidance at a time when all are in short supply’ TIMOTHY SNYDER

Every day we’re bombarded with methods, mantras and life hacks that promise us wellness and prosperity – while time and talent remain some of our most squandered resources.

What if you want to do something more with your limited time on the planet?

Internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman shows us that with moral ambition –the will to make the world a wildly better place – we can be both idealistic and successful, and change the world along the way. Looking to the great change-makers of history, he shows how we too can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to inequality to the next pandemic. With moral ambition, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can make history itself.

Rutger Bregman, a historian and writer, is one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers. His books Humankind and Utopia for Realists were both Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers. His work has been translated into 46 languages and has sold over two million copies. He lives in the Netherlands.

January 2026

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The Loves of My Life

A Sex Memoir

Edmund White

From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.

With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old ‘paterfamilias of queer literature’ (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so many of his masterpieces: sex.

Documenting everything from covert fumblings in the repressed American Midwest of the 1950’s to the Arcadian gay debauchery of New York in the 1970’s; through the terror of HIV and the age of sex on the apps, White has seen – and experienced – it all.

Unyieldingly honest, outrageously raucous and arrestingly touching, The Loves of My Life can but further cement White’s unquestionable role at the apex of the gay canon.

Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story. His nonfiction memoirs, literary biographies and essays. He has received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He lives in New York.

January

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January 2026

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Good Girl

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025

Aria Aber

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025: ‘A must-read … Dark, breathtaking, profound, so fresh’ (Guardian)

Born in Germany to Afghan parents, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice. Now in Berlin’s techno-filled warehouses, their walls still scarred by the ravages of the last century, she has found her tribe.

Then Nila meets American writer Marlowe. As she is sucked into his seductive but controlling orbit, and ugly racial tensions begin to roil through Germany, she is forced to ask herself the question she’s been running from: who does she want to be?

Aria Aber was born in Germany. Her debut poetry collection Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a 2020 Whiting Award, and her fellowships include the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and New Republic Good Girl is her first novel.

January 2026

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Another Man in the Street

Caryl Phillips

‘A masterful stylist writing at the top of his powers’ Anthony Joseph

In the early Sixties, Victor ‘Lucky’ Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist.

Shadowing Victor from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile – and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation.

Another Man in the Street is an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience – epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate; and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London.

Caryl Phillips is a novelist, playwright and essayist, currently Professor of English at Yale University. Born in St Kitts, he came to Britain at four months old. His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award. His work has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

January

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Maya's Notebook

Isabel Allende

A startling novel of suspense from the literary legend Isabel Allende, about a young girl who loses her way

‘Isabel Allende enchants in Maya’sNotebook’ Vanity Fair

Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in Berkeley with her grandparents. When her grandfather dies of cancer, Maya's life collapses, and she finds herself in a downward spiral that eventually bottoms out in Las Vegas.

Lost in a dangerous underworld, she is caught in the crosshairs of warring forces. As she tries to make sense of the past, she unravels mysterious truths about life and about her family, and embarks on her greatest adventure: the journey into her own soul.

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California.

January 2026

Paperback 9781526693044 • £9.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Inés of My Soul

Isabel Allende

From literary legend Isabel Allende, a passionate epic of love, freedom, and conquest, based on historical events

It is 1538 in Spain, and Inés’ shiftless husband left her years ago. He had travelled to Chile, determined to be a part of the new colonies; but what he didn’t expect is that Inés would be bold enough to follow him.

When she arrives in Chile, she discovers that her husband has, once again, slipped out of reach. But in this new land she meets a conquistador, Pedro de Valdivia – and finds a love that not only changes her life, but the course of history.

Based on historical events, Inés of My Soul is an epic tale of how one woman’s determination and passion shaped the future of a country.

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California.

January 2026

Paperback 9781526693242 • £9.99

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Island Beneath the Sea

Isabel Allende

The moving story of a woman determined to take control of her destiny, in a society that makes this impossible

‘A magical storyteller’ Daily Mail

It is 18th century Saint Domingue, and Tété never knew her parents. All she knows is that her mother was a slave, and that her white father’s identity will forever remain a mystery.

As a child she is sold to the plantation-owner Toulouse Valmorain, and finds herself subjected to his unwanted attentions. Still, in spite of everything, she finds community and comfort among the other slaves. And as a revolution gains momentum and opportunities surface, she can’t help but wonder: will freedom, one day, be in reach?

Powerful and moving, Island Beneath the Sea is a story of courage and hope, even in the cruellest of circumstances.

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California.

January 2026

Paperback 9781526693099 • £9.99

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The Infinite Plan

Isabel Allende

An enthralling tale of one man’s search for love, and his struggle to contend with the deprivation that shaped him

‘Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade’ Boston Globe

Growing up in 1940s Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves’ outlook on life was always guided by two beliefs. The first: his fear of death was something to be conquered. The second: his father’s radical religious doctrine, ‘The Infinite Plan’, was immutably true.

But when he leaves the barrio where he spent his youth for Berkeley, San Francisco, both beliefs are called into question. Soon he has graduated from college, and finds himself in the thick of the Vietnam War. And when he returns, how can he possibly think of life and death in the same way?

Following one man’s journey through the twentieth century, The Infinite Plan asks: how much can the American reality shape one’s pursuit of the American Dream?

33 Place Brugmann

The international bestseller

Alice Austen

‘A beautiful and deeply engaging novel’ (Ann Patchett); an unforgettable exploration of love, resistance and courage in all their forms

Charlotte Sauvin has always seen the world differently. At home on 33 Place Brugmann, in the heart of Brussels, her father and her closest friends and neighbours – the Raphaëls from the fourth floor, and Masha from the fifth – have ensured her secret is safe. But when the Nazis invade Belgium, and Masha and the Raphaëls disappear, Charlotte must navigate her new world alone.

Who can Charlotte trust in this world – where everyone is watching, and everyone is harbouring their own secrets? As the months pass, and the shadow of war darkens, Charlotte and her neighbours must face what, and who, truly matters to them most – and summon the courage to fight for more than just survival.

Alice Austen is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and playwright. She cofounded the Harvard Human Rights Journal and was the first American to receive a fellowship to the European Court of Human Rights. Austen studied creative writing under Seamus Heaney and has two films going into production with Alfonso Cuaròn and Steven Soderbergh respectively. This is her debut novel.

January 2026

Paperback 9781526678720 • £9.99

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The Blood in Winter

A Nation Descends, 1642

Jonathan Healey

A taut, thrilling history about the circumstances that caused the English Civil War, from the author of The Blazing World

England, 1641. Ostensible peace emerges after a plague-ridden and politically unstable summer. Parliament will continue to sit. Nonetheless, King Charles I is set on revenge.

Evolving ideas about democracy abound and new religious groups seek to gain power. Ireland explodes into revolt. All this spurs Charles to plot a restoration to his absolute rule. So begins England’s winter of discontent. Marching on Westminster, he seeks to arrest and impeach five Members of Parliament – precipitating a series of events that will lead to bloodshed and war, changing England forever.

The Blood in Winter recounts the English people’s great political awakening. Using meticulous archival research, Jonathan Healey recounts the circumstances surrounding Charles’s decision to march on his own government and its aftermath which brought England to the brink. This is a rich tapestry of a society in profound distress as the prospect of civil war looms.

Jonathan Healey is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He writes history from the bottom up, focusing on ordinary people – their lives, loves, culture and politics. He is Associate Professor in Social History at the University of Oxford. In 2012 he was picked as a winner of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers Competition.

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California. January

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February 2026

Paperback 9781526672346 • £12.99

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The Shape of Things Unseen

A New Science of Imagination

Adam Zeman

Imagination isn’t the exception in our daily lives; it’s our default setting

We use our imagination all the time: in planning, anticipating, daydreaming, reminiscing and being able to enjoy other people’s stories. In fact, we don’t live in the here and now as much as we might think.

From hallucinations to sleepwalking, from REM sleep to delusions, neurologist Adam Zeman brilliantly guides us through the latest scientific discoveries in the world of the imagination. Imagine looking at a cube and your eye will trace the contours of the cube as if you were actually seeing it. Imagine inhaling and the airflow through your nose will increase. And yet some people have no visual imagination at all but still lead fulfilling, even highly creative, lives.

From how infants perceive the world to how we can anticipate the thoughts of other people, The Shape of Things Unseen dazzles and delights in its insights into the workings of the human mind.

Adam Zeman is Honorary Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Professor of Neurology at the University of Exeter. He grew up in London and trained in Medicine at Oxford University, after a first degree in Philosophy and Psychology. His earlier books include Consciousness A Portrait of the Brain and Epilepsy and Memory

February 2026

Paperback 9781526609748 • £12.99

Hardback 9781526609731 • £25.00

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Minority Rule

Adventures in the Culture War – the instant Sunday Times bestseller

Ash Sarkar

The explosive debut from political commentator Ash Sarkar exposes how the power of ordinary people is under attack by elites

Minority rule (noun): an irrational fear fuelled by right-wing pundits, lobby journalists and billionaires, that minority groups are displacing majority populations.

We all know that the modern world is in crisis. But it’s not just a crisis for the climate, or of living standards – it’s a ‘blame crisis’. Whether it’s infighting on the left or the demonisation of immigrants on the right, there’s always a new talking point distracting us from making real, systemic change.

Now is the time to realise that we have been duped into fighting with each other; now is the time to redirect our outrage towards those who deserve it.

In Minority Rule, political commentator Ash Sarkar offers a sharp and lively reality-check. Whether it’s exposing the origins of the ‘white working class’, or examining how ‘nonevents’ have taken over journalism, this book will help you break the blame cycle for good.

Ash Sarkar is a writer, lecturer, journalist and political commentator. A contributing editor of Novara Media, she has been called one of ‘the internet’s best left-wing thinkers’ by the Spectator, and was named Media Personality of the Year by the Asian Media Awards in 2019. Minority Rule is her first book.

The Far Edges of the Known World

A New History of the Ancient Past Owen Rees

A bold revisionist history of the ancient world, shifting focus from Greece and Rome to long-ignored societies on the borders. What was it truly like to live on the edges of the Greco-Roman empires, on the boundaries of the known world?

Thanks to archaeological excavations, we now know that the borders of the empires we consider the ‘heart’ of civilisation were in fact thriving, vibrant cultures – just not ones we might expect. The boundaries of ‘civilised’ and ‘barbarians’ were more nebulous: normally juxtaposed cultures intermarried and nomadic tribes built their own cities.

Taking us along the sandy caravan routes of Morocco to the freezing winters of the northern Black Sea, from Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the rain-lashed forts south of Hadrian’s Wall, Owen Rees explores the powerful empires and diverse peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome. In doing so, he offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.

Owen Rees is an ancient historian. He held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Nottingham before becoming a Lecturer in Applied Humanities for Birmingham Newman University. He is the founder and lead editor of BadAncient.com, a website bringing together a growing network of specialists to fact-check common claims made about the ancient world. He lives in Manchester.

February 2026

Paperback 9781526653727 • £12.99

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Unsafe

Karen McCarthy Woolf

The third collection from firebrand poet, essayist and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf whose volumes Bittersweet and Kin introduced a generation of readers to Black British Poets in the Nineties

A disenchanted walk on foot through the afterlives of colonialism, Unsafe illuminates the effects of gentrification on those who live at its sharp end.

Situated in the midst of a reckoning with the colonial past that has shaped the UK and its ally the US, Unsafe pulls us into the processes of gentrification, police brutality and class division with an immediacy that makes them impossible to ignore. An urgent contribution to the decolonial project, drawing on the work of John Clare, blending tradition and inheritance with originality and innovation in equal measure as a call-to-arms for the twenty-first century.

A moving, critical and fiercely intelligent epic weaving together poetry, documentary and images, Unsafe is a testimony to the remaining spaces we can call free, an interrogation of what it means to be a citizen, corporeality and enclosure – and a rallying cry for minoritised people everywhere.

Karen McCarthy Woolf is the author of two poetry collections and the editor of six literary anthologies. Her début An Aviary of Small Birds was shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis and Jerwood Prizes, and was an Observer Book of the Year. Her latest, Seasonal Disturbances, was a winner in the inaugural Laurel Prize for ecological poetry and excerpted in the Financial Times and Guardian

February 2026

Paperback 9781526648280 • £10.99

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Paperback 9781526666994 • £12.99

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Bloomsbury Poetry

It Comes from the River

Rachel Bower

An unforgettable, uncanny debut about violence, resilience and hope –and the power of women when they work together

‘A gritty and captivating tale of resilience, violence and the power of female solidarity’ HARPER'S BAZAAR

From the river it comes. To the river it always returns.

Alex, Lauren and Nancy are three women each trapped in their own lives, swept along by forces beyond their control. Alex is isolated in her abusive marriage, and struggles to keep her growing family together; Lauren is doing what she can to provide for her two boys; and Nancy dreams of escaping the care home that her son abruptly moved her into.

But there’s another character in this story. Beckoning, menacing, hiding within bushes and behind shadows. What unites these women? And can they break free from the cycles holding them back?

Rachel Bower is an award-winning writer from Bradford. She is the author of two poetry collections and a non-fiction book on literary letters. Bower won the London Magazine Short Story Prize and the W&A Short Story Competition in 2020. She lives in Sheffield, and It Comes from the River is her first novel.

February 2026

Paperback 9781526672636 • £9.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

The instant Irish Times top 5 bestseller

Colum McCann

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction –from ‘one of our greatest storytellers’ (Elif Shafak)

Anthony Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world’s information across the ocean floor – and what happens when they break. So he has travelled to Cape Town to board the George Lecointe, a cable repair vessel captained by Chief of Mission John Conway. Conway is a talented engineer and fearless freediver – and Fennell is quickly captivated by this mysterious, unnerving man and his beautiful partner, Zanele.

As the boat embarks along the west coast of Africa, Fennell learns the rhythms of life at sea. But as the mission falters, tensions simmer – and Conway is thrown into crisis by a terrible, violent tragedy unfolding in the life he has left behind on land.

Then Conway disappears; and Fennell must set out to find him.

Colum McCann’s seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages. He received the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin in 2009, and TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. His novel Apeirogon was an international bestseller, and was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Spring is the Only Season

Simon Barnes

Each year, the period of darkness gracefully yields to a season of light, joy and renewed life. When the Earth tilts at 23.5 degrees and awakens from winter’s slumber, the exhilarating restlessness of spring permeates even the heart of our bustling cities.

In Spring is the Only Season, Simon Barnes deftly marries scientific insights and personal reflections to capture the essence of the season of rebirth and celebrate the universal delight it brings. His prose is rich and considered, reciting the changes that accompany the emergence of spring, ranging from its influence on agriculture and sports to its effects on mental health and the arts. It also challenges conventional perceptions of spring's unbridled joy and addresses the threats posed by climate change.

Spring is the Only Season is an ode to the resilience of life and a call to consider our role in preserving the delicate balance of nature.

Simon Barnes is a journalist and the author of the bestselling Bad Birdwatcher trilogy. He is a council member of World Land Trust, trustee of Conservation South Luangwa and patron of Save the Rhino. Simon was awarded the Rothschild Medal for services to conservation. He lives in Norfolk with his family and horses, where he manages several acres for wildlife.

March 2026

Paperback 9781526667359 • £10.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Zbig

The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Cold War Prophet

Edward Luce

An intimate and perceptive biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski –one of America’s greatest and most influential geopolitical thinkers

Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political strategist who rose to prominence as an intellectual architect in US foreign policy during the Cold War. As National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Brzezinski’s expertise helped shape global strategy at critical moments - most significantly as a key figure in the downfall of the Soviet Union.

Brzezinski’s nuanced understanding of the importance of ‘speaking the enemy’s language’, coupled with his close friendship with Pope John Paul II was instrumental in preventing a Soviet invasion of Poland. Beyond the Cold War, Brzezinski continued to influence foreign policy, notably in shaping the nation’s response to the 9/11 attacks. Yet his legacy remains underreported, leaving gaps in our understanding of Cold War history and its aftermath.

Through a sweeping narrative that spans much of the 20th century, Zbig restores Brzezinski’s rightful place in history and narrates a compelling re-examination of the end of the Cold War.

Edward Luce is the Financial Times’s chief US commentator and columnist. He is the author of three acclaimed books: The Retreat of Western Liberalism Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent and In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India. He appears regularly on CNN, NPR, MSNBC’s Morning Joe and the BBC.

March 2026

Paperback 9781526637802 • £10.99

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Don't Forget We're Here Forever

A New Generation's Search for Religion

Lamorna Ash

With compassion and luminous prose, Lamorna Ash explores why young people are turning to faith in an age of uncertainty.

Lamorna Ash was raised with as much Christianity as most people in Britain: some knowledge of hymns and prayers received at a Church of England primary school; occasional brushes with religious services. But once she started writing about her two friends’ unexpected conversions, she began encountering a recurring phenomenon: in an age of disconnection and apathy, a new generation was discovering religion for itself.

In Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, Ash embarks on a journey across Britain to meet those wrestling with Christianity today. Through interviews and her own deeply personal journey with religion, and from Evangelical youth festivals to Quaker meetings, a silent Jesuit retreat along the Welsh coastline to a monastic community in the Inner Hebrides, she investigates what drives young people in the twenty-first century to embrace Christianity.

Written with lyrical beauty and sensitivity, this is a reminder of our universal need for nourishment of the soul.

Lamorna Ash is a writer and freelance journalist based in London. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

March 2026

Paperback 9781526663122 • £10.99

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The Dream Hotel

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025

Laila Lalami

A terrifying speculative mystery about privacy, freedom and survival –from the Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize-nominated author

Sara is at the airport, travelling home from a work conference. Out of nowhere she’s pulled aside by agents from the Risk Assessment Administration. Their algorithm has determined that she’s an immediate threat to her husband, and must be kept under observation at a retention centre for twenty-one days.

The evidence? Data collected from her dreams.

When she arrives at the centre, she discovers that each slight deviation from their strict and ever-changing rules – loitering in the hallway, a ‘non-compliant hairstyle’ – results in her stay being extended. Desperate to return to her family, Sara must make a choice. Does she play by their rules, or risk taking matters into her own hands?

Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor's Account which won the American Book Award, Arab American Book Award and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. She lives in Los Angeles.

Theft

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: ‘A novel steeped in heartbreak – that ultimately refuses despair’ Guardian

Badar’s story truly begins on the day when, aged fifteen, he is brought to Mistress’s great house in Dar es Salaam – where he proves a quick learner, and gains the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house.

But then a false accusation sees Badar banished from the place he has come to call home. Exiled, to a run-down hotel on the coast of Zanzibar, Badar must build a new life for himself. And when Karim comes to see his old friend in his new life, he is captivated by temptations that will test the two young men’s friendship to a breaking point.

Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Black African winner for 35 years. He is the author of ten previous novels, and his work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Orwell Prize, the Whitbread Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Canterbury.

March 2026

Paperback 9781526680143 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526688224 • £18.99

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Death Takes Me

from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Cristina Rivera Garza

Translated by Sarah Booker & Robin Myers

The dazzling, award-winning novel from one of Mexico’s greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time

beware of me, my love beware of the silent woman in the desert…

These are the words the Professor finds, scrawled in nail polish, above the mutilated corpse of a man.

She reports the crime to the police and becomes the first informant in an investigation led by the Detective, who has a newfound obsession with poetry. As the bodies of more men are discovered alongside cryptic lines of verse, it becomes clear that this is only one in a string of crimes – all connected, all with literary clues.

As the Professor becomes wrapped up in the murders, the boundaries of story – and of genre – break down. Can the Detective decipher the meaning of the poems in time to stop the spread of violence?

Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome and The Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir Liliana’s Invincible Summer won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir and Autobiography and was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she teaches at the University of Houston.

March 2026

Paperback 9781526649454 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526649430 • £16.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Portrait Artist

Dani Heywood-Lonsdale

From an exciting new voice in historical fiction comes a lush and imaginative novel full of gossip, art and intrigue

From an exciting new voice in historical fiction comes a lush and imaginative novel full of gossip, art and intrigue

One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. It’s clearly by Timothy Ponden-Hall, an artist whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty but for the rumours behind them: they were believed to immortalise the soul of their subjects. But the mysterious explorer and artist has been thought dead for the last 50 years – so what does this new portrait mean? The Gallery brings in renowned art historian Solomon Oak to investigate. But as he races against time with his daughter Alice sometimes helping, and sometimes hindering him, they find that exposing Ponden-Hall’s legacy will prove more controversial than they could have imagined for Victorian society.

Set between London and Oxford, The Portrait Artist is a beautiful historical novel exploring race, fame and long-kept secrets.

Dani Heywood-Lonsdale has paternal roots on the tiny island of Molokai, Hawaii –referred to as the Sandwich Islands throughout The Portrait Artist - and maternal roots in the Philippines. She is a Faber Academy alumna and teaches English Literature in Oxfordshire.

March 2026

Paperback 9781526670007 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526669957 • £16.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Broken Republik

The Inside Story of Germany’s Descent into Crisis

Chris Reiter & Will Wilkes

A compelling and comprehensive account on how Germany, so long the powerhouse of Europe, is crumbling from the inside out

For many years, the post-war recovery of Germany was an inspirational story; all of Europe looked on with admiration and envy as the nation rebuilt itself and set the standards for the rest to follow. Companies such as Mercedes Benz, Siemens and Bayer were global titans, while the nation’s political leaders were respected around the world.

But now the picture has become clouded. The scandalous revelations of Volkswagen’s emissions fraud tainted its industrial reputation; after a tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, Germany became dangerously reliant on Russia for its fuel; and the nation’s decades-long political consensus began to break down with the rise of the farright AfD party.

Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes tell the compelling story of how it all went wrong. As vital elections loom in 2025, Broken Republik is an essential snapshot of a nation at a crossroads that has huge implications for us all.

Chris Reiter is a senior editor in Berlin, reporting on issues that intersect between business, energy, technology and politics. He has a Master’s degree in Social and Political Thought from the University of Warwick. Will Wilkes is a Frankfurt-based reporter covering some of Germany’s biggest corporations. He studied modern foreign languages at UCL and Università degli Studi Roma Tre.

The Sun Rising

A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and the emergence of the British Empire.

1603. Elizabeth I dies, marking the end to the Tudor dynasty. Arriving in London in an opulent procession from Scotland, James I claims the throne and the first ‘united’ kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales is born.

The newly established ‘Great Britain’ and its ambitious king strove to catch up with the other European imperial superpowers, which were exploiting the Americas for profit. As the East India Company emerged, ships departed London for America, Russia, Persia, India and Japan, and the seeds to the future British Empire were sown.

The Sun Rising provides a unique global retelling of the reign of the first King of Great Britain, shedding crucial light on the often overshadowed Jacobean period – an epoch of huge cultural, political and global significance.

Anna Whitelock is a historian, broadcaster, and media commentator. She is Professor of the History of Monarchy at City, University of London and has written for History Today, the Guardian and the New York Times. Her debut, Mary Tudor, was published to critical acclaim, and was followed by her prize-winning Elizabeth's Bedfellows. She lives in Cambridge.

April 2026

Paperback 9781408863534

Haunting the Black Air

Anthony Joseph

From the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author of Sonnets for Albert comes a dextrous and versatile new collection spanning the emotional spectrum of unabashed joy and crippling grief

With musicality and verve, beloved poet and musician Anthony Joseph undertakes a bold new work, spanning the complex spectrum of human emotion. Across London, Los Angeles, Trinidad and beyond, whether a funeral in New Cross or a house party in Mount Lambert, Joseph brings heart, soul and verbal ingenuity to the beautiful fragments of humanity contained within Haunting the Black Air

Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Poetry. He is the author of four poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. He lives in south London.

April 2026

Paperback 9781526683380 • £12.99

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Bloomsbury Poetry

James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain

Anna Whitelock

The Pretender

‘A frontrunner for historical fiction book of the year’ – THE TIMES

Jo Harkin

‘Funny, moving, filthy and original … Frontrunner for historical fiction book of the year’ The Times

Kill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill.

The year is 1483 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. For ten-year-old John Collan, living in a remote village with his widowed father, these matters seem far away.

But history has other plans for John. Stolen from his family, exiled, and apprenticed to a series of unscrupulous political operators, he finds himself groomed for power; not as John Collan, but as Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick and rightful heir to the throne.

Seething with revenge, sparkling with wit, and roaring with bravado, The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens.

Jo Harkin studied literature at university. She daydreamed her way through various jobs in her twenties before becoming a full-time writer. Her debut novel Tell Me an Ending was a New York Times Book of the Year. She lives in Berkshire, England.

April 2026

Paperback 9781526678362 • £9.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

The Wildelings

‘A deliciously dark psychological mystery’

IRISH TIMES

Lisa Harding

‘Arrives to fill The Secret History-shaped hole in your lives’ Observer, Books to look out for in 2025

Jessica and Linda are closer than sisters. Jessica has always been the lead; Linda, the supporting role. When they arrive at Wilde, an elite university at the heart of Dublin, it seems like nothing will change.

But then Mark enters the picture: an older, brooding, compelling philosophy student. When he and Linda start dating, tensions between Jessica and Linda spill over. And as the true extent of Mark’s control is uncovered, tragedy becomes inevitable – and eventually strikes.

Years later, Jessica is still grappling with her role in what happened. But when an opportunity to set the record straight arises, can she make things right?

Lisa Harding is a writer, actress, playwright and the author of two novels. Her previous book Bright Burning Things was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was named as a book of the year by the Observer, Grazia Irish Times and the Irish Independent She lives in Dublin.

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Our Beautiful Boys

Sameer Pandya

An incisive novel about a group of teenage boys whose lives are changed forever by one disastrous evening

‘Timely and timeless ... A book about the lies we knowingly or unwittingly tell ourselves’ New York Times Iknowmyson.Iknowwhatheisandwhathe’snotcapableof.

Revelling in the triumph of a high school football win, MJ, Vikram and Diego find themselves at an ill-fated party, on a night that ends with the school bully in hospital. When no one comes forward with the truth of what actually happened, all three teenage “all stars” are suspended for the rest of the season, their futures suddenly uncertain.

As their families gather to assess the damage, each parent is confronted with their own inner turmoil and the question none of them want to face: how well can you ever truly know your own child?

Sameer Pandya is the author of the novel Members Only and the story collection The Blind Writer, longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. His cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books. A recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship, he is currently an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

April 2026

Paperback 9781526676979 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526676924 • £16.99

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Breaking Awake

My Search For A New Life Through Drugs

P. E. Moskowitz

In August 2017 a car ploughed into a crowd of peaceful marchers. For P.E. Moskowitz it was a shattering near-death experience, followed by a nervous breakdown. As they willed themselves back to life using a variety of drugs, both prescription and illegal, they started to wonder: why do we need drugs to quell the pain of modern life?

In Breaking Awake, Moskowitz takes us on a kaleidoscopic voyage through the twentyfirst century’s mental health crisis and the drugs we take to cope with the gnawing bleakness of our present moment. We meet a team handing out free heroin on the streets of Vancouver and a young mother in Chicago who has been on SSRIs since childhood, ravers in Brooklyn taking drugs to push the limits of human consciousness and ordinary people leading ordinary lives on a constant cocktail of medication.

Breaking Awake explores the global mental health and drug use crises whilst searching for answers to find a path to healing.

P.E. Moskowitz is a writer born and raised in New York City. Their writing has appeared in New York magazine GQ, The Nation, and many other places. They run a popular Substack newsletter about psychology, psychiatry and culture called Mental Hellth. When they’re not writing, they’re probably playing tennis, chilling with friends across the city, or watching the Mets lose again.

May 2026

Paperback 9781526658098 • £9.99

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Chasing Jessop

The Mystery of England Cricket's Oldest Record

Simon Wilde

In 1902, Gilbert Jessop played arguably the greatest innings in the history of cricket, turning what looked like certain defeat into what became an incredible victory, and doing so at such speed that he set a record for the fastest Test century for England that still stands more than 1,000 Test matches later.

The precise circumstances of Jessop’s astonishing performance have long been shrouded in mystery. The original scorebooks are missing and the accepted truth that he took 76 balls to reach his century has rarely been scrutinised.

Drawing on long-forgotten contemporary sources, Simon Wilde reconstructs one of England’s most famous matches in an attempt to establish what really happened. How many balls did Jessop face? Might he have actually got to his hundred even faster? Jessop’s relentless big hitting and fast scoring chimed with a speed-obsessed era which saw the start of the modern Olympics and the first mile-a-minute trains, and the public adored him. As C.B. Fry said of him: ‘No man has ever made cricket so dramatic an entertainment'.

Simon Wilde has been cricket correspondent of the Sunday Times since 1998 and has reported on around 330 England Test matches and numerous World Cups. He has written twelve books, three of which were shortlisted for the William Hill sports book of the year. His most recent works have been the acclaimed England: The Biography, a history of the men’s national team, and The Tour, which won the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year award.

May 2026

Paperback 9781526694256 • £10.99

Hardback 9781526692535 • £22.00

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Bloomsbury Publishing

The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle

Richard Vinen

Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown together by war. Their ultimate victory over Hitler has ensured their achievements will never be forgotten. But that is only a part of a complex story.

De Gaulle – tall, gauche and incorruptible – exhibited qualities often associated with the English. Churchill – short, charming, witty and a bon vivant – resembled the quintessential politician of the French Third Republic. Their working relationship was rarely smooth, but they appreciated each other’s stature: de Gaulle said Churchill was ‘the great artist of a great history’, while Churchill recognised de Gaulle as ‘l’homme du destin’.

Written with extraordinary narrative verve, The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle offers a fresh exploration into the lives of de Gaulle and Churchill. By bringing their two stories into one, each man is seen afresh and we gain new insights into their achievements and their legacy today.

RICHARD VINEN is an author, historian and professor of history at Kings College London. Previously he was a Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and lecturer at Queen Mary College. He has written for the TLS, London Review of Books, Independent, Boston Globe, Financial Times, New York Times and Nation magazine. He has appeared on radio and television, on the subject of contemporary British politics.

Aftertaste

Feast upon this year's most delicious debut novel: 'A fun romp through New York's food scene' Sunday Times

An unforgettable, imaginative and darkly comic debut novel about food, ghosts and the New York culinary scene

‘A hauntingly evocative journey through the realms of pain, pleasure and the power of food’ NIGELLA LAWSON

A food story to binge. A ghost story to devour. A love story to savour.

When dead-end dishwasher Kostya discovers the ability to summon spirits through the food he cooks, he embarks on a journey to open a New York City restaurant that serves closure – something he’s craved for as long as he can remember.

There are just three problems:1. Kostya has some ghosts of his own. 2. His advancing menu of spirit cuisine is threatening the stability of the Afterlife itself. 3. He’s falling in love with Maura, a party psychic with her own secret connection to the Afterlife – who also happens to be the one person who knows he must be stopped.

A bittersweet cocktail of humour and heart, Aftertaste is an imaginative odyssey through food and love, life and death.

The Single Neighbour

Senta

Rich

A new neighbour reveals all the issues in Izzy and Tristan’s marriage, calling into question the integrity of their relationship.

Tristan and Izzy are on the brink of marital breakdown. The arrival of their new neighbour may just be their salvation: or, will she be their undoing?

Viv piques both Tristan and Izzy’s interest, her appearance in their lives offering them diversion from their faltering marriage and a window into the people they might have been.

But as Viv becomes an ever-increasing presence in their lives, the couple are forced to confront the long-ignored truths about themselves, each other and their pasts. At this fork in their marriage, they will face the most difficult decision: to cleave together for the sake of their union, or to walk away.

A story about how the ripples in a relationship can become waves, The Single Neighbour holds a mirror up to the promise of domestic bliss, and asks whether an extinguished spark can ever be relit.

Paperback 9781526683991 • £9.99

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Daria Lavelle is a speculative fiction writer. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and raised in the New York metro area, her work explores themes of identity through magic and the uncanny. Her short stories have appeared in The Deadlands Dread Machine, and elsewhere, and she holds degrees in writing from Princeton University and Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New Jersey. May 2026

Senta Rich wrote radio plays and magazine articles, before moving into the world of screenwriting. She now writes for film and TV. She lives in Dublin with her husband and son. Hotel 21 her debut novel, was published in 2023 and has been translated into multiple languages, with TV rights pre-empted by MGM. The Single Neighbour is her second novel.

May 2026

Paperback 9781526650627 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526650641 • £16.99

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

Daria Lavelle

Electric Spark

The Enigma of Muriel Spark

Frances Wilson

Baillie Gifford Prize-longlisted author Frances Wilson decodes one of the best-loved – and most-misunderstood – authors of the twentieth century.

Muriel Spark’s life was both public and elusive, full of weird accidents and unexplained events. The word most commonly used to describe her is ‘puzzling’: Spark is a puzzle, and so too are her books. Electric Spark aims to crack her code.

Spark’s early life has remained in shadow. Biographers have failed to capture her essence; some have even ended up part of Spark’s game themselves. Frances Wilson now provides us with the first truly objective glimpse into her formative years, recounting an escape on a troop ship from a disastrous marriage in Africa, madness, murder, espionage, poverty, skulduggery, blackmail, affairs and a major religious conversion. These years were the seeds that nourished her fiction.

In a journey from the tenements of Glasgow to the stately homes of Rhodesia to a shabby yellow-brick in Camberwell, Electric Spark uses a wealth of archival material to unlock the woman behind the enigma.

Frances Wilson is a critic, journalist and author. Her work includes The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, and Burning Man: The Ascent of D.H. Lawrence, which won the Plutarch Award and was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize.

April 2026

Paperback 9781526663078

Hardback 9781526663030 • £25.00

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Unknown Enemy

The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich

Charles Dick

Charles Dick tells for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a brutal engineering organisation overseen by Hitler.

Hitler described the Organisation Todt as ‘the greatest construction organisation of all time’. British intelligence credited it with having carried out ‘the most impressive building programme since Roman times’. Hitler enlisted the nation’s leading engineers and architects to build his empire – and to bring about the deaths of millions.

Unknown Enemy reveals for the first time the full extent of the Organisation Todt. Its operations relied mainly on Germany’s slave labour, the largest such exploitation since the end of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in which millions lost their lives. Charles Dick takes us inside the OT’s vast projects throughout German-occupied Europe, from the Arctic Circle to the Balkans and deep into the Third Reich’s ‘eastern Lebensraum’, demonstrating how engineers and builders perpetrated unimaginable war crimes.

Utilising extensive new research, first-person accounts and survivor testimony, Unknown Enemy unearths the dark story behind the Organisation Todt.

Charles Dick is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He was a journalist for Reuters News Agency (later Thomson Reuters) in North Africa, Bonn, Paris, Vienna and London over a 35-year career.

Strong Roots

A

Ukrainian Family Story of War, Exile and Hope

Olia Hercules

From the bestselling Ukrainian cookery writer comes a profound meditation of the hopes and fears across generations amid political upheaval

Olia Hercules spent a decade travelling across Ukraine collecting precious recipes and traditions from her home country. For nearly as long, she's wanted to share the tales from three generations of her extraordinary family: their resilience and suffering, as well as their joy and food.

Hercules confronts the lineage of Ukrainian history through the perspective of her grandparents who endured near starvation and forced emigration; her own childhood during the collapse of the Soviet Union; and the reality of her career success at a time when Ukraine is fighting to retain its identity in the face of conflict.

Strong Roots brims with hope and fear. It lays bare the compromises and betrayals of generations living with, while attempting to recover from, the burden of political upheaval, but is also an uplifting reminder of how much the human spirit can endure when born from a land rich with strong roots.

Olia Hercules was born in the South of Ukraine. She studied Italian language and International Relations at the University of Warwick. After spending a year in Italy, Olia settled in London, pursuing a career in journalism. She would dedicate her life to researching food culture and culinary traditions of countries less explored. Hercules is the author of three award-winning cookbooks.

February 2026

Paperback 9781526662934 • £10.99

Hardback 9781526662927 • £20.00

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Bloomsbury Publishing

The Red Brigades

The Terrorists who Brought Italy to its Knees

The explosive story of a left-wing terrorist group - the Red Brigadeswho kidnapped the former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and brought Italy to a standstill

In 1978, the Red Brigades shocked the world by kidnapping former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in the heart of Rome, killing his bodyguards and driver in the process. They would go on to hold Moro for 55 days before assassinating him and leaving his body for dead in the boot of a car.

But how did this group rise to become the most formidable post-WW2 left-wing terrorist organisation in Western Europe? Targeting industrialists, politicians, and law enforcement, they left a trail of violence that paralysed Italy’s justice system and instilled fear across the nation. This book delves into the gripping saga of this radical faction, exploring their ascent to power and eventual downfall.

Fascinating and explosive, The Red Brigades sheds light on the shadowy world of the Red Brigades—a group whose actions left a legacy of conspiracy, distrust, and bitterness in Italy and reshaped the political landscape forever.

John Foot is the author of eight books, including Blood and Power and The Archipelago. Seven of his books have been translated into Italian. He has written for the Guardian, Independent on Sunday and the TLS and is a regular contributor to the Italian magazine Internazionale. He is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Bristol.

June 2026

Paperback 9781526645739 • £12.99

Hardback 9781526645715 • £25.00

TERRITORY: World All Languages (except Italian) Bloomsbury Publishing

John Foot

To the Moon

Jang Ryujin

Translated by Sean Lin Halbert

The South Korean bestselling phenomenon – a compulsive story about friendship, freedom, and what we’ll risk for the future of our dreams

In Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane office jobs at a snack manufacturer. Eun-sang, the eldest of the group, is always looking for ways to earn extra money, but faces trouble at work after she opens a mini mart at her desk. Jisong dreams of a perfect romance with her Taiwanese boyfriend and spends her low salary on trips to Taipei. Meanwhile, Dahae is struggling to support her injured mother, and searches endlessly for a better apartment she can actually afford.

One day over lunch, Eun-sang announces a plan to make enough money to quit her job, by investing her life’s savings in cryptocurrency. What’s more, she thinks the others should join her. All they need to do, she says, is hold on tight and wait for the price to skyrocket – to the moon. But as the market begins to fluctuate and spiral out of their control, the fate of their friendships – and their futures – soon hangs in the balance.

Jang Ryujin has a BA in Sociology from Yonsei University and later studied Korean Literature at Dongguk University. She worked in the IT industry for eight years before writing full-time. In 2018, she won the prestigious Changbi Prize for new Figures in Literature with her acclaimed short story The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, and her 2019 debut collection went on to sell over 140,000 copies in Korea. To the Moon is her first novel.

June 2026

Paperback 9781526685735 • £9.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Bloomsbury Publishing

My Name is Emilia del Valle

Isabel Allende

Translated by Frances Riddle

The extraordinary new historical novel from a literary legend; an unforgettable tale of love and war, discovery and redemption

‘Isabel Allende is a literary treasure’ KRISTIN HANNAH

Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things.

Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenthcentury San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man’s name.

When Emilia lands a position as a journalist for the Daily Examiner, her unwavering sense of adventure leads her to seize the chance to cover a brewing civil war in Chile, alongside another talented reporter.

But the assignment offers Emilia more than just an opportunity to prove herself as a writer. Before long she embarks on a treacherous, life-changing journey in a homeland she never knew, to uncover the truth about her father – and herself.

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California.

The Pentecost Papers

Ferdinand Mount

Financial corruption, environmental destruction, danger and murder: the irresistible new novel by bestselling author and sharp social satirist Ferdinand Mount dissects the murky world of the super-rich Timothy ‘Timbo’ Smith, part-time healer and self-styled security analyst, travels down the dark canyons of global capitalism, from short-selling scams in the City to the depleted rainforests of Brazil.

His accomplices in this irresistible safari through the late modern world are two reformed alcoholics, the lovely and brilliant Lee ‘Lethal’ Thorold, and her husband Professor Luke Deverill, lecherous Oxford philosopher and caustic computer wizard. Their misadventures are followed at a distance by the played-out diplomatic correspondent Dickie Pentecost, who is always one step behind the Machiavellian actions of those who precede him.

Readers who loved the author’s earlier stinging satire, Making Nice, will find this novel an even more telling takedown of the way we live now but pretend we don’t.

Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement. As a political figure, he was head of the Number Ten Policy Unit. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to the Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London.

June 2026

Paperback 9781526682772 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526682727 • £18.99

TERRITORY: World English Bloomsbury Publishing

BLOOMSBURY GENERAL

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NEW TITLES • JANUARY–JUNE 2026

Forbidden Waters

'Master of the stone-cold twist' Janice Hallett

Rob Parker

A nailbiting Norfolk-set serial killer thriller for fans of Elly Griffiths, Peter James and Ann Cleeves.

It starts with the knife. Found at the bottom of a hidden lake in the Norfolk Broads, covered in blood and heart tissue so fresh the water hasn't yet washed it all away. What salvage diver Cam Killick has found is a murder weapon from a very recent crime - but how do you solve a murder without a body?

The remoteness of the setting is itself a clue. Only a handful of people know the location of the lake, let alone how to access it. But no sooner have Cam and DS Claire Rogers started working through this ready-made suspect pool than one of them disappears.

The ripples from Cam's discovery have disturbed a dangerous predator, one who knows the water even better than Cam himself. The question now is what they want and how many more people will die before Cam can stop them?

Rob Parker is the author of twelve novels including Far From The Tree, the No.1 bestselling Audible Original, and The Troubled Deep and Forbidden Waters, the first two books in a Norfolk-set crime series starring special forces officer-turned-salvage diver Cam Killick. Rob lives in Warrington with his wife, three children and their dogs.

January 2026

Hardback 9781526683694 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Raven Books

Les Normaux Volume 2

Janine Janssen

The second installment in the chart-topping and iconic LGBTQ+ Webtoon phenomenon. Lore Olympus meets Heartstopper in this celebration of love and coming of age.

Re-join Seb and Elia as they fall further in love, getting to know themselves as well as each other.

Sébastien and Elia are finally together, and love is in the air this springtime!

But the more they find out about each other, the more they learn about themselves: Sébastien is figuring out his demisexuality and struggling with the guilt of leaving home behind. Juggling the new relationship with all that and keeping up grades at a magical university is not easy.

Similarly, the new relationship is making Elia question his true persona outside of work and his public image: Seb makes him feel like he could be anything…. So what will it be?

Alongside their diverse found family of friends, in the dazzling city of Paris, Seb and Elia’s lovestory is full of cosy fantasy sweetness and slice-of-life honesty. A beautiful expression of romance and selfhood, this follow up will sweep you up and away.

Janine Janssen has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil, resulting in a BA in illustration and an MA in animation. She loves telling stories about oddballs in society, and has been sharing them online as webcomics since 2013.

Janine lives in the Netherlands.

The Odds of You

The irresistible new opposites attract rom-com from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Kate Dramis

'Funny, moving and relatable. The perfect romance read' Bianca Gillam

'The best kind of romcom with off-the-charts chemistry' Nicolas DiDomizio

Once is chance. Twice is fate.

Sage Collins was a data analyst until she decided to follow her dreams. Now, she’s a bestselling author with a second book to write.

On a flight to Comic Con, she is distracted from her laptop by Theo Sharpe. To Sage, he is the infuriatingly charming British guy who won’t stop talking. To everyone else, he’s the newly world-famous breakout actor. When the paparazzi mistake her for his girlfriend, Theo’s fans make it clear they’re not happy.

Desperate to escape the backlash and overcome her writer’s block (and her crush), Sage flees to the Isle of Skye. Except, when she arrives, she finds it’s much harder to pretend someone doesn't exist when they are standing right in front of you.

The odds of bumping into Theo on the other side of the world were slim, but the odds of falling in love? That's Sage’s biggest miscalculation yet.

Kate Dramis is a bestselling author of romance and fantasy, including the # 2 Sunday Times hit, The Curse of Saints Kate finds joy in tormenting her readers with slow-burn romances filled with whip-smart banter. The Odds of You, Kate’s debut contemporary romance, came to her while she was funneling horrible airline coffee on her way to Comic Con.

January 2026

Paperback 9781526687999 • £9.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Bhutan/Canada/Egypt/Eswatini/Hong Kong/Israel/Jordan/Malaysia (Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak)/Maldives/Mozambique/Rwanda/Singapore/Sudan)/UK/Open Market Bloomsbury Publishing

The 10:12

Anna Maloney

387 passengers. One split-second decision. A journey that will change her life forever.

Claire Fitzroy was just trying to get home her when her train to London from Manchester was hijacked by a group of armed men. In one terrifying moment she faced the starkest of choices: to stand back. To fight back. And maybe to die either way.

Claire chose to fight back. The middle-aged art lecturer led a squad of passengers who, against all odds, overcame the hijackers and saved hundreds of lives. But what looks like heroism in the heat of the moment can play out very differently in the courts and the eyes of the public. Especially when you have the blood of two men on your hands.

Selfless and quick-thinking. Attention-seeking vigilante. Unrepentant murderer. Whichever she is, Claire is finally now sharing her story of that morning on the 10:12.

But is it the whole story?

Anna Maloney has written for TV (one BAFTA win), film and radio, taught screenwriting and worked as a script consultant. Previously, she worked in factual TV, journalism and PR as well as being a qualified children's playleader and sometime usherette. Anna lives in London and can often be found swimming at her local lido while working on a plot problem.

January 2026

Hardback 9781526682291 • £22.00

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market

January 2026

Hardback 9781526689160 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market

Raven Books

Bloomsbury Archer

A Theory of Happiness

Lessons from a 100 year old Korean Philosopher THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Hyung-Seok Kim

What does real happiness look like? How can we find true purpose, meaning and connection in our finite time on Earth?

Revealing key aspects of ancient Korean philosophy and sharing stories from over a century of living, Professor Kim shows us how to lean into the world with more softness, gratitude, openness and sincerity – especially when confronted with life’s challenges. He invites us to discover the everyday lessons we can take from Korean values, giving us deeper insight into:

how to find the happiness that currently exists in our daily lives how to cultivate happiness through hard work and growth how happiness shines brighter in precious relationships how to enjoy happiness that will never fade as we age and mature.

Professor Hyung-Seok Kim is a 105-year-old first-generation Korean philosopher. A former Harvard research professor, he has found true happiness in life, having overcome adversity from a young age, and is committed to spreading joy and helping others through his work. He was born in and grew up in the North Korean province of South Pyongan before leaving to study philosophy at Choson University in Japan. To this day, he remains engaged with lecturing, broadcast and writing.

February 2026

Hardback 9781526697691 • £14.99

A Cottage in the Country

The new heartwarming romance from the beloved #1 Sunday Times bestselling author

Katie Fforde

'The queen of uplifting, feel-good romance' AJ Pearce 'A force to be reckoned with' Daily Express

She’s found her dream home but can she make her dreams a reality?

Hattie finds other people their dream homes for a living.

Surely she, of all people, has the knowledge to find her own forever home? Instead, she baffles those closest to her by choosing to pack up and move every few months from one housesitting job to the next.

Of course, that’s because she knows where she wants to live. It’s a beautiful house owned by a lovely old woman who’d simply love for Hattie to have it.

But nothing is ever that simple.

TERRITORY: World All Languages (excluding all languages except English in Afghanistan/Indonesia/Iran/Iraq/Japan/Jordan/Malaysia/Myanmar/Saudi Arabia/South Korea/Syria/Thailand/Uzbekistan/Vietnam/Yemen) Bloomsbury Publishing

There’s Clive who refuses to listen to his great-aunt’s wishes about her house. There’s Luke, Hattie’s oldest friend, who just wants to see her happy. And there’s Hattie herself. It might take a difficult client, an awkward teenager and a couple of dogs to help her see what really makes a house a home.

Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family. Each of her books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to life. She believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories.

Off Script

The must-read new second chance romance perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Abby Jimenez

Bianca Gillam

The unputdownable forced proximity, second chance romance from Bianca Gillam.

Can they rewrite their ending for a second chance?

Lara Francis has finally landed her big break. After years of bar jobs and awkward auditions, she’s been cast in her dream role – the Hollywood adaptation of her favourite book.

There’s just one catch… her co-star.

Avi Kumar is a global phenomenon. He’s an action superstar and now he’s taking the indie movie scene by storm too. But, he also happens to be the man who broke Lara’s heart.

On set, Lara is determined to prove that she’s moved on and won’t let anything, or anyone, keep her from the role of a lifetime. But when this leads to the Director encouraging them to work on their chemistry, Lara’s walls start to crumble. She’ll do anything to make sure they don’t fall.

In front of the camera, they're investigating a murder. Behind the scenes, it’s starting to look a lot more like a romance...

Bianca Gillam is a London-based author and armchair expert on 80s and 90s rom-coms. Her poetry has been published in a variety of publications. She formerly worked in publishing, where she had the joy of editing a wide variety of brilliant authors; she was inspired by the books she published to write her own.

February 2026

Paperback 9781526676481 • £9.99

TERRITORY: World All Languages (excluding Canada/USA) Bloomsbury Publishing

The Waiting List

Matilda Wilding

A gripping read about motherhood, love, family and betrayal. How far you would go for the people you love most?

Liv wants to be the mother she never had. But what if she can't be here for her son?

Liv has always dreamt of the moment she will hold her own baby. But just at the moment her new life should be starting, it looks like it may be ending. A newly diagnosed heart condition, worsened by her pregnancy, has thrown her whole future into doubt. If she doesn't receive an urgent transplant, she won't live much longer.

As she grows weaker, her determination to raise her baby grows stronger. Slowly Liv begins to ask herself a terrible question: she needs someone's healthy heart to replace her failing one. For that to happen, an accident would have to befall someone else. But what if she could engineer that accident herself? What if she could choose someone to die in order that she could live?

Matilda Wilding studied English at the University of Cambridge and now balances writing with working full time as a Film and TV executive. The Waiting List is her debut novel, which she wrote while on maternity leave. She and her partner and son live in East London.

February 2026

Hardback 9781526692184 • £18.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market Raven Books

Murder Like Clockwork

Nicola Whyte

An empty house. A vanishing victim. An impossible crime? The sequel to 10 Marchfield Square for fans of Janice Hallett.

Every Thursday at midday Audrey Brooks cleans the Petrov house. Mr Petrov is never home, but still she mops, polishes, and carefully winds each of the dozens of beautiful clocks that decorate the elegant London mansion.

Until the morning she finds a corpse in the back bedroom, the pristine walls and floor covered in blood, and flees the house in panic.

Fifteen minutes later, the police arrive... and find nothing. No body. No blood. Nothing out of the ordinary, except that the clock in that room is now running four minutes slow.

The police chalk the whole thing up to Audrey dreaming, but she knows better. A man has been killed, and an impossible feat of cleaning performed, and she’s going to prove it –with a little help from her annoying neighbour Lewis. But how do you solve a murder without a victim?

Nicola Whyte worked as a bookseller and in the digital department at Waterstones for many years and now runs a small digital agency. She was shortlisted for the 2023 Comedy Women in Print Prize while her debut novel 10 Marchfield Square was named runner up in the 2023 Daily Mail First Novel Award. Nicola lives near Stonehenge with her family.

March 2026

Hardback 9781526673121 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Raven Books

Femme Feral

Sam Beckbessinger

A stylish, dark and witty fem-gore debut with real teeth that will make you howl with laughter.

Hyper-competent tech CEO Ellie find herself beset by strange physical changes: hair sprouting in new places, running hot, trouble sleeping, losing time, rage, howling at the moon. There’s a new power in her, one which is terrifying, but thrilling too. Suddenly the trials in her life – the troublesome new hire at work, the creep stalking her daughter –look… bitesize.

But the beast within isn’t easy to control once released. With an obsessive hunter on her trail and a growing fear of what she's becoming, Ellie has to find a way to yoke her fury before she tears through the people she loves.

Sam Beckbessinger is South African by birth but now lives in London. Her previous work includes the bestselling MANAGE YOUR MONEY series for Jonathan Ball and the YA horror novel, GIRLS OF LITTLE HOPE, which she wrote with Dale Halvorsen, published in UK by Titan. FEMME FERALE is her debut adult novel. (www.sambeckbessinger.com)

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market

Bloomsbury Archer

Night Fire

Richard Strachan

In the skies above war-torn Europe, Stanley Wake and his fellow aircrew at Bomber Command risk their lives on incredibly dangerous missions. Stan is beginning to suspect that either their plane is haunted or that he may be haunted by his part in bringing about death and destruction to so many.

On the ground in Lincoln, Abby Sallow is desperately trying to keep her own ghosts at bay and struggles to escape the nightly visions of her dead only son. While Stan longs to live, Abby seems intent on bringing about her own death.

And for superstitious Harry Culpepper, one of Stan’s crewmates, only the Fates can keep him alive. He has crafted a talisman that he is convinced will guarantee his safety.

But as the bombing intensifies all three characters will discover whether the ghosts that haunt them can ever truly be laid to rest.

Richard Strachan is a former bookseller who lives in Edinburgh with his family. His short fiction has been published in various magazines including The Dark and Interzone and by Galley Beggar Press in their digital singles list. His debut novel, The Unrecovered, was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut prize.

April 2026

Hardback 9781526670601 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Raven Books

Our Later Years

Shared wisdom on ageing powerfully together

New Ground

Nestled in North London is New Ground: A co-housing community made up of 26 pioneering older women who have worked tirelessly to redefine what ageing well can look like. Thanks to the founders' indefatigable campaign to make this place exist, they have thought deeply about ageing. Here, we discover these women’s incredible personal stories alongside their answers to:

how can we live well in old age? is it possible to avoid falling into aging tropes? can we transform ageist attitudes? how do we share our knowledge with those generations below us and pave the way for them?

can we live in a sustainable, forward-thinking way? . can we be old and happy?

A wonderful celebration of the spirit of New Ground, this book will inspire anyone who wants to be as happy as possible in their later years.

The women of New Ground are a community of older women, aged 50-92, who have carved out a radical new vision for ageing well. In this book we hear their stories about how choosing to get older together has transformed their attitudes towards what getting older and embracing community can mean.

May 2026

Hardback 9781526692283 • £14.99

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

The Good Listener

Holly Watt

A heart-stopping thriller about a mother who must trust an anonymous stranger if she is to find the truth

The Good Listeners are for everyone who needs to talk.

When the phone rings, a Good Listener has no idea who could be at the other end. The woman cheating on her husband, the man who has lost yet another job, the teenager struggling at school...

And Clara is prepared for every kind of caller. Except this one.

Because the woman on the other end of the line has just told her ‘I think my husband killed a little girl.’

And two years ago, Clara’s own daughter was murdered and her killer never caught.

The police have no leads. This is Clara's only chance of justice. But when the caller is anonymous, what chance does she have of finding them?

A former investigative journalist, award-winning thriller writer Holly Watt now lives in Devon with her family.

@holly_watt

From Me To You

Escape to Cornwall with Ali McNamara this summer

Ali McNamara

Seven letters. Seven lives. One story of hope and healing. What if a letter could change your life for ever?

Iris is used to being alone. In fact, she prefers it that way. The only place she feels at peace is sitting on a bench in the graveyard where her beloved husband Mark is buried.

But when seven letters mysteriously arrive at her house, addressed to seven strangers, Iris' comfortable solitude is disrupted. Each letter seems to be for a person who is also suffering loss. She immediately feels the need to deliver the letters to them.

She tries to post the letters on, but they keep being returned. So she invites the recipients to a beautiful house in Cornwall. Her plan is to present the letters herself, then allow each person the time to read them alone in the peaceful setting.

But with a change of scenery, new friends and maybe even a little romance on the cards, Iris finds she might want to stay a little longer at the house than she’d first planned.

Ali McNamara's debut novel From Notting Hill with Love... Actually, the first of three Notting Hill books, was published to much acclaim in 2010 and became an instant bestseller. Ali lives near Cambridge in the UK, with her family and her beloved dogs. She has the chronic illness M.E. and is a disability & invisible disability advocate.

May 2026

Hardback 9781526694577 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Raven Books

I Hear A New World

Alan Moore

A continuation of The Great When; a dark and beguiling tour through the streets of London – fictional and real – by a legend of modern fantasy

Praise for The Great When: the first book in a new series by Sunday Times-bestseller and icon, Alan Moore.

'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying' Iain Sinclair

‘Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative’ Adam Curtis

'A weird book and a complete joy' Mariana Enríquez

‘A masterful step from one of our very best, uncompromising storytellers; Moore peels back the layers of London and reveals not only the history we know, but the histories that could have been, and, underneath it all, both the dark and beautiful truths about who we are as a nation.’ Heather Parry

Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is also the author of the bestselling Jerusalem He was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.

May 2026

Hardback

9781526643292 • £20.00

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market

Bloomsbury Archer

June 2026

Paperback 9781526687104 • £9.99

TERRITORY: World English Bloomsbury Publishing

BLOOMSBURY GENERAL PAPERBACKS

NEW TITLES • JANUARY–JUNE 2026

Intentional Living

Eight steps to leading an infinitely fulfilling life

Jayne Wallace

Have you lost touch with your intuition? Do you struggle with confidence and boundaries? Are you keen to learn more about manifestation? Do you want to connect with your inner goddess?

You are exactly where you need to be.

A passionate believer in soulful connection and the power of tapping into our spiritual selves, Jayne Wallace shares her grab-bag of tools to help us find inner peace and feel more grounded every day.

She guides us through 8 intentions that we can apply to day-to-day life to help us move away from stress and anxiety, encouraging us to unlock our inner confidence and step into our power.

Jayne Wallace is an internationally acclaimed wellness entrepreneur. She is the owner of the wellness brand, Psychic Sisters which is based in Selfridges, London and featured on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den in 2023. Her work has featured in Marie Claire The New York Times, The New Statesman, OK Magazine, The Sun and The Mirror Jane’s high profile celebrity clients include Tracey Emin, Kim Kardashian, Rita Ora, Kid Cudi and Kate Hudson, among many others. She is based in the UK.

January 2026

Paperback 9781526682857 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526682833 • £16.99

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

The Honesty Box

A Memoir

Lucy Brazier

A funny, heartfelt, uplifting quest for unlocking happiness in tough times during life's big transitions from marriage to motherhood, and from mental health to mindfulness.

‘Lucyisunashamedaboutshowinghervulnerabilityandwhatitistobehuman,awoman, a wife and a mum in the 21st century. Heart-breaking and heart-warming, but the ultimatemessageisoneofhope:nevergiveupontheoneyoulove.’ Veronica Henry

"On National Divorce Day, my husband Steve and I decide to break up. After years of depression and mood swings (him) and hope and defeat (me) enough is, quite frankly, enough.

Until a chance remark triggers a chain of events leading to Steve’s later-in-life diagnosis of ADHD and autism. What follows is a year of discovery, denial, medication and salvation as we, our teenagers and even our beloved Golden Retriever, Margot, adjust to the ups and downs of this new reality set against the backdrop of the changing seasons of life in the countryside.

I guess you could call it a love story too.”

Lucy Brazier is a ghostwriter and author. She began her career at the BBC before becoming a talent agent at PFD (now United Agents) representing actors and presenters. After twenty years, she and her young family left London and moved to Dorset where she worked with the broadcaster, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, before becoming a full time ghostwriter in 2017. She swims in the sea most mornings, but doesn’t like to go on about it…

The Dark Mirror

The million-copy bestselling series from the author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE

Samantha Shannon

From the author of The Priory of the Orange Tree – the soaring fifth novel in the bestselling Bone Season series.

Everything is about to change.

Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade –but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory.

As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret – one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals. Before she can return to London, she must help the Domino Programme unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist.

And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover her memories –Arcturus Mesarthim – might also hold the key to saving Italy.

Lyrical, touching and action-packed, The Dark Mirror drives the bestselling Bone Season series forward, showing Samantha Shannon at the height of her powers.

Samantha Shannon is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Roots of Chaos series. Her work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. She lives in London. samanthashannon.co.uk / @say_shannon

January 2026

Paperback 9781408879368 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526690975 • £22.00

TERRITORY: World English Bloomsbury Archer

10 Marchfield Square

'Cosy and classy in equal measure' Janice Hallett

Nicola Whyte

The Maid meets Only Murders in the Building in this cosy mystery set in the smallest residential square in London

Elderly heiress Celeste Van Duren intended Marchfield Square to be a haven. A place for those who need somewhere safe from their pasts, or who could otherwise not afford to stay in the city they call home. That was the plan. One of her tenants being murdered in his own kitchen, and the police trying to pin it on his long-suffering wife, was not.

So Celeste does what anyone with a lot of money, a strong sense of justice and a bad hip would do: she recruits two of her tenants to track down the real killer. Her cleaner, Audrey, knows everyone and is liked by all, while failed crime writer, Lewis, is quite the opposite.

Despite their differences the two soon discover a surprising range of suspects and motives – but have they missed something closer to home? After all, how well do you really know your neighbours?

Nicola Whyte was shortlisted for the 2023 Comedy Women in Print Prize and her work has also been listed in the Cheshire Novel Prize (twice), the BPA First Novel Award, and Mslexia, while 10 Marchfield Square was named as first runner up in the 2023 Daily Mail First Novel Award. Nicola runs a small digital agency and lives near Stonehenge.

January 2026

Paperback

9781526673008 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526672957 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Bloomsbury Publishing

January 2026

Paperback 9781526673091 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526673053 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Raven Books

Coram House

A twisty, dark and chilling page-turner

Bailey Seybolt

A brilliantly atmospheric page turner that sees a disgraced true crime writer investigate the history of a former orphanage

Everyone has heard the rumours. But who knows the real story of Coram House?

True crime writer Alex Kelley is struggling after her last book tanked her career. Her reputation in tatters, she accepts a commission to ghost-write a book about Coram House, a former orphanage by a lake in Vermont that is now being turned into luxury condos. Could this be the fresh start she needs?

Years before, it was revealed that children at the orphanage were being abused; the church settled the case, but rumours persist about one of the other allegations made: that a small boy was deliberately drowned in the lake by someone in charge. Those in authority insist there was no such murder, but when Alex makes a shocking discovery only days after her arrival she realises that what began in the past is not going to stay there...

Bailey Seybolt is a Vermont-based-journalist-turned-tech-writer who holds a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University. Her work has been featured in such publications as Travel + Leisure and Headlight Literary anthology. Coram House is her first novel.

February 2026

Paperback 9781526681799 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526681775 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

The Kitchen Shrink: How

the food we eat is the key to how we love

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

Andrea Oskis

Me: ‘When did you know he didn’t love you anymore?’

My patient: ‘It wasn’t when we stopped having sex. No, it was when he stopped eating dinner with me.’

That was the lightbulb moment. That was when I discovered there is no better way to get inside people’s lives than through their personal stories about food.

Did you know that the food we eat reveals a lot about how we love?

Psychologist Dr Andrea Oskis shows us how we connect with each other and how we can change our relationship ‘recipes’ for the better. Along the way, she also reveals her own food story about love and loss.

Be prepared to never look at your plate in the same way again.

Andrea Oskis is a psychologist, a food writer and a professional cook. She is interested in the two things that are crucial for human survival: relationships and food. Her academic expertise is human relationships; how we connect, love and attach in couples and communities, and she has researched, taught and written about this for more than twenty years. Andrea is Greek Cypriot and so, perhaps not unsurprisingly, the kitchen has always had a natural pull. In 2018 she took an intensive course in classic cookery at Leiths School of Food and Wine. Andrea’s food writing has been published in Vittles, Pit Magazine and Gastronomica, The Journal for Food Studies. She is a member of the Guild of Food Writers and also a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Julie Chan is Dead

'diabolically fun' Monika Kim

Liann Zhang

A thrilling, horrifying, gloriously fun, edge-of-your-seat novel following Julie Chan stealing her wildly successful twin's life

Julie Chan didn’t mean to steal her identical twin’s life. She meant to call the police when she found the body.

Except when she unlocked Chloe’s phone to make that call, she also unlocked Chloe’s emails, gaining access to her estranged sister’s sponsorship deals, her followers, her wealth, her whole life.

And Julie’s not prepared to give it back. Not yet. After years of struggling to pay her rent, and stealing food from her miserable supermarket job to eat, it's time to have anything she wants.

All she has to do is keep her head down and blend in with the beautiful Belladonnas, the tribe of influencers who had welcomed Chloe in to their inner circle before she died.

So Julie's going to curate each post. Filter each picture. Spend whole days filming unboxing videos. Create the perfect caption.

But someone knows that even identical twins have their differences.

Liann Zhang is a writer, plant lover and ex-skincare blogger with a degree in Psychology and Criminology from the University of Toronto. As a Chinese-Canadian, her work is informed by themes of identity, class and race. Though usually heartfelt and humorous, her stories of late verge into horror. Julie Chan is Dead is her debut novel.

March 2026

The House of Barbary

The fierce, feminist retelling of Bluebeard

Isabelle Schuler

A smart historical fiction novel of revenge and power set in seventeenth-century Bern from the author of Lady MacBethad

Beatrice has been lied to her whole life.

Beatrice Barbary has been raised to believe that while education will set her mind free, there are some questions better left unanswered.

Her life is in disarray.

But when her father, one of the most powerful men in Bern, is brutally murdered in their own home, she is left reeling, unprotected and vulnerable.

Her future uncertain.

Plunging head first into the mysteries surrounding her father and her own upbringing, Beatrice discovers The Order of St. Eve and the violent secrets they have been hiding her entire life.

It's time for her to take control.

Will she be able to right the wrongs of her father, or will the Order silence her first?

Isabelle Schuler is a Swiss-American actress, writer and former Waterstones bookseller. She has a BA in Journalism and her screenplay Queen Hereafter was longlisted by the Thousand Films Screenwriting Competition in 2019. In 2020, she adapted Queen Hereafter into her debut novel, Lady MacBethad. She lives in Hertfordshire.

March 2026

Paperback 9781526647320 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526688743 • £16.99

TERRITORY: World All Languages

Raven Books

The Three Lives of Cate

The perfect holiday read for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid

Kate Fagan

A Reese's Bookclub pick. As heard on Woman's Hour. For fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Cate Kay is the most famous author on the planet. Except no one knows who she is…

To the small town she grew up in, and the best friend she left behind, she's Anne-Marie Callahan.

To the life she ran away to, and the woman she's about to fall in love with, she's Cass Ford.

To the rest of the world she's Cate Kay, author of everyone’s favourite novels and somehow completely anonymous. Until now.

Only she knows the truth about who she really is, or was: a girl with a big dream who made a terrible mistake all those summers ago.

But she can't outrun her past forever.

And when her secret is out and there are no more names to hide behind, who will Cate Kay finally choose to be?

Kate Fagan is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of What Made Maddy Run, which was a semi-finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. She is a former professional basketball player, and spent seven years with ESPN. Kate lives in Charleston with her wife.

The Return of Moriarty

A Moriarty Mystery

For lovers of Anthony Horowitz and Tom Hindle starring the globally recognised arch-villain

Sherlock Holmes is dead. James Moriarty is severely wounded. Fleeing to recover, desperate to rebuild his empire, Moriarty must assume a new identity.

Months after Sherlock's death, aspiring doctor Clara Mendel returns to Schloss Alber after a six-year absence. The vast estate is home to the noble Alber family. A priceless sword, on which the family's wealth and reputation depends, has been stolen from the grave of the intended heir, Clara's step-father.

Lord Alber has placed his trust firmly in his esteemed new friend, a Mr Hugo Strahm, to find the sword and prevent the family's ruin.

But Clara isn't naïve. She knows the secrets a great house like Schloss Alber can hide. And as she spends more time in Mr Strahm's company. She begins to suspect him of hiding his true identity. Can she really trust him to find the missing sword?

Jack Anderson is the author of the viral internet serial 'Has Anyone Heard of the Left/Right Game?', which has since been adapted into a hit QCode podcast and The Grief Doctor The Return of Moriarty is the first book in the Moriarty Mystery series. He lives with his family in Sheffield.

April 2026

Paperback 9781526682628

Hardback 9781526682024

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Publishing

A Case of Life and Limb

a charming and immersive historical mystery perfect for summer reading

Sally Smith

The second in The Trials of Gabriel Ward series

Winter, 1901. The Inner Temple is even quieter than usual under a blanket of snow and Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case. All is calm, all is bright - until the mummified hand arrives in the post...

While the hand's recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully shaken, Gabriel is filled with curiosity. Who would want to send such a thing? And why? But as more parcels arrive - one with fatal consequences - Gabriel realises that it is not Sir William who is the target, but the Temple itself.

Someone is holding a grudge that has already led to at least one death. Now it's up to Gabriel, and Constable Wright of the City of London Police, to find out who, before an old death leads to a new murder.

Sally Smith spent all her working life as a barrister and later KC in the Inner Temple. The Trials of Gabriel Ward series is inspired by the historic surroundings of the Inner Temple in which she still lives and works and by the rich history contained in the Inner Temple archives.

May 2026

Paperback 9781526686411 •

A Dance of Lies

#1 Sunday Times bestselling romantic fantasy

Brittney Arena

The #1 Sunday Times bestselling romantic fantasy

Vasalie Moran was once a dancer in King Illian's court - until he framed her for murder. Two long years in shackles leaves her broken, until she's suddenly called to face her king. He offers her a deal: spy on his enemies at the royal Gathering, and he'll grant her freedom.

But as Illian's orders grow bloody and dangerous, Vasalie discovers the monster she serves may be aligned with an even greater evil and help from Illian’s rakish brother Anton – the King of the East – only complicates things more.

The rivalry between brothers escalates with Vasalie caught in the middle. If she is to survive, she must decide who to trust, who to fight for, and how much of her soul she's willing to damn in the process.

May 2026

Paperback 9781526681447 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526696663 • £16.99

TERRITORY: English Language Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market/ World All Other Languages Bloomsbury Archer

Jack Anderson

Nicola Martin

Bella Mackie meets the Eras tour in this pageturning, darkly comic thriller, perfect for summer reading.

Kirby Turner is on her last chance. With her girlband career dead in the water alongside the band's lead singer, Hailey, she's been drifting for years. But then came the call. Arena tour. Had a last-minute dropout. Want a girl drummer.

When she finds out who the artist is, it feels like fate. Silver might now be the most famous singer on the planet, but Kirby knows her as Alice Taffer, her former bandmate. From before Hailey drowned, and Kirby was blamed, and she slid into the gutter while Alice shot towards the stars.

As Kirby plays in front of fans again for the first time in years, it feels like coming home. But then she starts to wonder: how exactly did Silver rise to the top so fast? And now that Kirby's got everything she ever wanted - what would she do to hold on to it?

Storybook Ending

The heartwarming and irresistible tale of finding love in a bookshop

Moira Macdonald

Moira Macdonald's debut novel is about a love triangle of sorts - a tribute to love, bookshops and Nora Ephron.

'I so enjoyed Storybook Ending. It's the perfect balance of cosiness and originality - warm, comforting, with a hilarious mix-up at its heart that I couldn't wait to see unravel' Beth O'Leary

April is lonely. Since she started working from home, she's lost herself a little. So, to break out of her funk, she leaves an anonymous note inside a book for the hot guy at her neighbourhood bookstore.

Laura is a busy single mum. By chance, she's the one who finds April's note, thinking it's from the attractive man who served her at the bookstore. A little flirtation might be just what she needs.

Nicola Martin is an award-winning author of psychological thrillers, short stories and nonfiction. She lives in Bristol and is happy to bore you to tears telling you what a great city it is. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her poking around an art gallery, in the audience for a piece of weird theatre, or playing board games with friends. June 2026

The Break-In

Paperback 9781526672513 • £8.99

TERRITORY: World All Languages

Katherine Faulkner

The latest addictive must-read from international bestselling author of Greenwich Park and The Other Mothers

You know who. But you don't know why

Alice didn't mean to kill the intruder. She only meant to stop him hurting her daughter when he burst into her kitchen and grabbed a knife.

The police agree that she acted in self-defence, but wracked with guilt, Alice sets out to apologise to Linda, the mother of the young man she killed. But nothing unfolds as planned. Alice can't bring herself to tell Linda who she really is and the more Alice learns about Ezra and why he was at her house, the more she starts to wonder whether she has the full picture about what happened that terrible day.

Katherine Faulkner is an award-winning journalist turned full-time writer. She wrote her debut novel, Greenwich Park, while on maternity leave with her first daughter and her follow up, The Other Mothers while juggling family life and work. She lives in London with her husband and three children.

June 2026

Paperback 9781526675453 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526675439 • £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Raven Books

Meanwhile Westley, handsome but not so perceptive, is too distracted by a movie filming at the shop to notice either woman's furtive glances as they leave notes for each other amid the books.

Can these three characters create a storybook ending of their own?

Moira Macdonald is the longtime arts critic for The Seattle Times Storybook Ending is her first novel.

• £16.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open

Bloomsbury Publishing

BLOOMSBURY LIFESTYLE

ORIGINALS

NEW TITLES • JANUARY–JUNE 2026

Plant Fuel

80 easy and energising recipes packed with protein and fibre

Jeffrey Boadi

Former athlete and plant-based health coach Jeffrey Boadi shares 80 delicious, protein-packed, plant-led recipes

This is the ultimate guide to simple, nutritious, satisfying meals that fuel your body and support a healthy, active lifestyle.

Packed with protein-rich, plant-based recipes, Plant Fuel is your go-to resource for easyto-make dishes, perfect for anyone seeking to boost their plant-powered nutrition. Whether you're a fitness enthusiast, busy professional or simply looking to eat more sustainably, these recipes will help you stay energised, build muscle and feel great.

From hearty breakfasts to comforting dinners and energy-boosting snacks, Jeffrey shows you how to use readily available, whole-food ingredients that are perfect for meal prepping, quick weeknight dinners or grabbing on the go. Ideal for vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, this book provides balanced meals that are as delicious as they are nourishing.

With protein and fibre counts for every recipe, Plant Fuel will support your fitness goals and benefit your sleep, energy and focus for a healthier every day.

Jeffrey Boadi's semi-pro football career took him around the world. To maximise his performance on the pitch, he adopted as best a diet as possible and understood the countless benefits of proper nutrition. Soon, he began to apply his research to a plantbased lifestyle and is now dedicated to transforming lives through the power of whole foods and healthy, mindful living.

The Tomato Grower's Handbook

Everything you need to know, from seed to harvest and beyond

Holly Farrell

A beginner-friendly guide to growing tomatoes, covering different varieties and methods of growing according to your space.

Growing tomatoes is easier than you might think, and can be done in a variety of spaces. TheTomatoGrower’sHandbook covers everything you need to grow your own and enjoy your plants year on year, no matter what space you’re working with, including:

- Preparing the soil

- Sowing seeds

- Transplanting young plants

- Watering and feeding

- Pruning and propagating

- Tips and tricks to boost your harvest

- Troubleshooting advice for when things don’t go to plan

There is information on different varieties to try, as well as simple recipes and ideas for preserving a glut, such as passata, green tomato jam, a tomato salad and even a whole tomato pasta that makes use of the fruit, leaves and stems.

January 2026

Hardback 9781526675385 • £22.00

TERRITORY: World All Languages

Bloomsbury Publishing

Beyond Infidelity

How to Turn The End of Your Relationship into the Beginning of Your Life

Lauren LaRusso

This book transforms intimate betrayal into a powerful journey of healing, leading you step-by-step to a life beyond your dreams.

'Written with empathy and honesty — an invaluable guide for anyone in shock after discovering betrayal.' Julie Metz, New York Times bestselling author of Perfection

When psychotherapist Lauren LaRusso discovered her husband’s affair, her world collapsed. Finding no guide to navigate infidelity’s aftermath, she created her own. Now, as The Affair Consultant, Lauren helps others transform betrayal into profound personal growth.

In Beyond Infidelity, Lauren shares her powerful seven-step roadmap for surviving and thriving after an affair. Through personal stories, client experiences, and expert guidance, she offers practical tools to navigate grief, overcome shame, examine relationship patterns, and break free from defences that block healing.

Whether you’re in the midst of betrayal or rebuilding your life, this compassionate guide will empower you to turn pain into strength and reclaim a life better than you imagined.

Lauren LaRusso is a psychotherapist specialising in infidelity, helping individuals and couples heal after betrayal. A contributing expert for Psychology Today, she also writes the advice column “Letters to Lauren” on Substack, reducing the stigma of infidelity and empowering others to transform pain into personal growth. With over 170,000 followers, she is the leading voice those navigating infidelity.

@laurenlarusso

A Year of Cut Flowers

Colour and Joy for All Seasons

Sarah Raven

Everything you could possibly wish to know about growing and arranging your cutting garden from the queen of cut flowers.

Sarah shares the secrets she has evolved over decades at Perch Hill to keep cut flower production nearly constant, from the start of the growing year to the end. With her unparalleled expertise up your sleeve, you’ll have a house full of flowers conditioned to last well in a vase, and an abundant garden always brimming with colour.

With plenty of cut-flower inspiration and practical advice such as: How to choose high, medium and low productive cut-and-come-again plants so you can enjoy bountiful vases of home-grown blooms. Which plants should form the backbone of any cutting patch or garden, large or small. Plant rotation, with a selection of plant groups coming in and out of the same patch of soil.

March 2026

Hardback

9781526683427 • £30.00

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

Holly Farrell is an award-winning garden writer and author of books including Healing with Plants: The Chelsea Physic Garden Herbal; RHS Plants from Pips; Growing Herbs (Kew Gardener's Guides); and Garden Media Guild Award finalists RHS Gardening for Mindfulness and The Jam Maker's Garden. She is a frequent contributor to The Simple Things magazine and an RHS Wisley-trained horticulturalist. February 2026 Hardback 9781526697523 • £14.99

A year-round plan to achieve efficient cut flower production and ensure highest possible production from minimal space.

Sarah has led the way over the last three decades in introducing a new kind of productive gardening. She is a teacher, broadcaster, has a popular gardening podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange and runs a plant nursery and online store sarahraven.com. She is the author of many books, most recently the Sunday Times bestseller A Year Full of Flowers.

TERRITORY: World All Languages

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Swedish Cookbook

Lagom flavours for the modern kitchen

Niklas Ekstedt

Niklas Ekstedt makes Scandinavian classics accessible to home cooks everywhere in this mouth-watering journey through the heart of Swedish cooking

Lagom [lo-gawn] (noun) Swedish, meaning ‘just the right amount’ or ‘in balance’

Join Niklas as he captures the essence of simplicity in the Nordic way of cooking, empowering home cooks to confidently create delicious and perfectly balanced Swedish dishes in their own kitchens, all with a special touch of lagom.

Recipes include traditional Scandinavian delights such as Gravlax Swedish meatballs pickled herrings, Danish open-faced sandwiches and potato gratin, as well as new ideas, giving everyday ingredients and classic recipes a modern twist, such as cabbage salad with blueberries and shaved frozen feta cheese. There is also a chapter dedicated to the art of Fika a coffee break with a lagom twist; think cinnamon vanilla or saffron buns and Swedish pancakes, almond biscuits or caramel cookies

These are fuss-free recipes handed down through generations, full of nourishment and sure to become family favourites.

Niklas Ekstedt is a Michelin-star chef, well-known for experimenting with traditional methods of cooking over fire. In 2011, he opened ‘Ekstedt’ in Stockholm, where it was awarded a Michelin Star in 2013. Niklas opened ‘Ekstedt at The Yard’ in London in 2021 to great critical acclaim. He has appeared on Saturday Kitchen MasterChef and Channel 4's Crazy Delicious @niklasekstedt

Medesque

Georgina Hayden

120 recipes from across the MED from bestselling cookery writer

Georgina Hayden

MEDesque is a celebration of the very best of Mediterranean food done Georgina's way. Inspired by flavours from the coastlines of Italy, Spain, the Baltics and beyond, these are vibrant and easy recipes to be cooked at home by anyone and everyone. Bring a touch of the Mediterranean to your table, whether it be a weeknight dinner after work, a midafternoon snack or a weekend feast with friends and family, with iconic dishes including.

Pear, olive oil and yoghurt loaf

Slow cooked lamb shoulder with charred salsa rosso

Cauliflower, gorgonzola and chilli pithivier

Crispy sea bass fillets with capers butter

Amalfi lemon wedding cake Basil vienetta

Just like her bestseller Greekish these recipes are thoroughly researched and distinctively Mediterranean, but with Georgina’s twist.

Georgina Hayden is a multi-award-winning cook and food writer. She writes for various publications, and in 2021 won the Fortnum & Mason Best Cookery Writer Award.

Nistisima (2022), was a Sunday Times bestseller and was voted Best Cookbook at the OFM and Fortnum & Mason Awards. Greekish (2024), became another Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.

April 2026

Hardback 9781526679703 • £26.00

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

Lateral Cooking

Niki Segnit

The ‘method’ companion to its bestselling predecessor, The Flavour Thesaurus – and just as useful, ingeniously organised and enjoyable to read

The book is divided into 12 chapters, each covering a basic culinary category, such as ‘Bread’ or ‘Custard’. The recipes in each chapter are then arranged on a continuum, the transition from one recipe to another amounting to a tweak or two in the method or ingredients. Which is to say, one dish leads to another: once you’ve got the hang of flatbreads, for instance, then its neighbouring dishes on the continuum (crackers, soda bread) will involve the easiest and most intuitive adjustment. The result is greater creativity in the kitchen: Lateral Cooking encourages improvisation and the knowledge and confidence to cook by heart.

Lateral Cooking is essentially a practical book, but like The Flavour Thesaurus it’s also a highly enjoyable read. Entertaining, opinionated and inspirational, Lateral Cooking will have you torn between donning your apron and settling back in a comfortable chair.

Niki Segnit was inspired to write her bestselling first book, The Flavour Thesaurus, when she noticed how dependent she was on recipes. Her background is in marketing, specialising in food and drink, and she has worked with many famous brands of confectionery, snacks, baby foods, condiments, dairy products, hard liquors and soft drinks. She lives in central London with her family.

April 2026

Hardback 9781526691408 • £26.00

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

The French Skincare Bible

Marine Vincent

The ultimate guide to French skincare by Dr Marine Vincent, French pharmacist and founder of The French Pharmacy

Let me tell you a secret: you don’t need to spend a fortune to get that Parisian glow.

Do you feel overwhelmed by multiple-step skincare routines, intimidated by long lists of ingredients or just exhausted by the sheer number of products available? Do you just want a simple routine that’s going to lead to incredible skin? Well, look no further.

In these pages, Dr Marine Vincent distils her expert knowledge to:

- Show you how to build your own skincare routine, no matter your skin type, budget or age

- Give you her top recommended French skincare products

-Provide tailored routines for specific skincare conditions such as rosacea, acne and eczema

-Talk you through the science of skincare and what the different ingredients actually mean

The French Skincare Bible will show you how to embrace your individuality and cultivate self-confidence, àlafrançaise

Dr Marine Vincent is a French pharmacist and entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience in skincare and healthcare. With a unique perspective that bridges French and British healthcare, Dr Marine is known for making expert advice accessible and championing the very best of French pharmacy culture.

April 2026

Hardback 9781526685520 • £16.99

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

DoodleLand

A Colouring Book

Enter the whacky world of Mr Doodle in this creative colouring book for adults and kids alike.

Welcome to the world of DoodleLand. In this creative and quirky colouring book, you will have a chance to see into the mind of everyone's favourite social media artist: Mr Doodle. Jam-packed with his signature maze-like illustrations, each page is adorned with playful characters, quirky creatures and endless patterns waiting for you to unleash your imagination. From the Marshmallow Mountains to the Bubblegum Beach, artists will find intricate and exciting worlds to bring to life with colour.

With single-sided pages, DoodleLand is sure to be a hit for fans of adult colouring books and anyone who needs a mental health break through a creative escape.

Have a doodley day!

Mr Doodle’s works transcend beyond the canvas, invading furniture, rooms, clothing, cars, buildings and more. He has also explored a number of collaborations with iconic brands, including Fendi, Puma, Samsung, Disney, Pac-Man, Redbull and MTV. But where Mr Doodle separates himself is in his sense of purpose: a deep and obsessive compulsion to expand and share his vision of DoodleLand.

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK Bloomsbury Publishing

A Culinary Celebration Anissa Helou

An evocative journey through Lebanon, full of fascinating insights, cultural history and over 160 sumptuous recipes.

The only book you will ever need on the country’s cuisine.

Alongside Anissa’s accompanying stories, memories and cultural insights, you’ll find techniques and staple ingredients to make delicious recipes including…

MEZZE: Savoury Hand Pies, Sumac Aubergine Spread and Falafel

SOUPS & STEWS: Lemony Swiss Chard Soup and Spinach, Fresh Coriander and Lamb Stew

GRAINS & LEGUMES: Winter Tabbüleh and Cannellini Beans, Bulgur Wheat and Greens

VEGETABLE DISHES & SALADS: Fava beans and Swiss Chard with Coriander and Stuffed Aubergine Fatteh

FISH & POULTRY: Fish in Tahini Sauce and Roast Chicken with Rice and Nuts

MEAT DISHES: Shawarma and Lamb in Yoghurt Sauce

SWEETS: K’nafeh, Baklawa and Date Pastries

From colourful small plates and ivory dips to luscious stuffed vegetables as well as more elaborate preparations for impressing, this is a comprehensive collection of recipes which make up Lebanon’s rich tradition of cooking, suitable for any occasion.

Anissa Helou is a chef, food writer and journalist.. Born in Lebanon to a Syrian father and Lebanese mother, she is the author of numerous award-winning cookbooks, including Feast which was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the 10 best cookbooks of the century so far.

High Fibre Heroes

How to turn 12 everyday vegetables into 100 joyful, health-boosting recipes

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Join Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he puts plants centre stage, turning 12 of the most humble veg into delectable plant heroes

Many of us aren't getting enough fibre in our diets, but Hugh shows us how simple – and delicious – it can be with 100 easy recipes.

Peas – Carrots – Cabbage – Tinned beans – Cauliflower – Leeks – Mushrooms –Tomatoes – Lentils – Spinach – Sweetcorn – Broccoli

Getting the most out of these 12 plant superstars doesn’t need to be complicated –many of the recipes use only one pan and can be on the table within half an hour. In this book, Hugh gets the very best out of these often underestimated veggies, serving up completely delicious, health-boosting, sustainable, plant-friendly recipes every time. This is food that’s good for you and for the planet, too.

May 2026

Hardback 9781526639004 • £26.00

Twitter and Instagram @anissahelou

Untitled: Sapphic guide to

With a focus on whole, unprocessed plants, these plant-forward recipes are thrifty, thoughtful dishes, but exciting and delicious too, proving that plant-based flavour is yours for the taking.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy and the André Simon Food Book of the Year. Hugh’s additional broadcasting, like the influential Fish Fight, has earned him a BAFTA as well as awards from Radio 4, Observer and the Guild of Food Writers.

@hughfearnleywhittingstall / @rivercottage

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

A wlw celebration helping you to live your best sapphic self, covering key information such as finding community and dating, as well as advice from queer elders to their younger selves.

Calling all dykes, divas and non-binary cuties!

The difference between a black cat and a golden retriever? How to tell if she’s flirting or just giving you a compliment? Why a £950 pair of Diesel boots alone does not make you a ‘diesel dyke’? (Something

If not, don’t worry, as luckily breakout star of BBC’s I Kissed a Girl – and everyone’s favourite lesbian big sister – Amy Spalding is on hand to answer all these queer conundrums and more, to help you to live, laugh and love all things lesbian.

Whether you’re just embarking on your sapphic journey, are a fully-fledged member of the queer community, or fit somewhere in between, this is the ultimate guide to navigating queerness in the modern age and being absolutely DYKEONIC, daaarling.

Amy Spalding is known as the breakout star from BBC’s ground-breaking queer reality show I Kissed a Girl Since the show she has been heralded by the likes of Dazed as one of the figureheads of the Lesbian Renaissance. Amy is known for her tongue and cheek humour, quick wit and style and is a digital powerhouse in her space.

May 2026

Hardback 9781037202018 • £12.99

TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Publishing

Stronger Than You Think

Four Pillars for a Stronger, More Resilient You

Sherry Hamby

In this groundbreaking book, trauma researcher, survivor, and professor Dr. Sherry Hamby offers powerful insights into how we bounce back from trauma, and prepare for future hardships with strength and clarity.

Drawing on years of research and lived experience, Dr. Hamby introduces the concept of the "resilience equation": by increasing our 'strengths dosage', we can offset our 'trauma dosage'. In other words, adding more positive experiences can help us heal from the negative ones. It’s possible to thrive, even after significant trauma, and piece together a meaningful, fulfilled life.

This book empowers you with three core steps to cultivate resilience:

1. Find connection

2. Master your emotions and behaviours

3. Leverage your resources

Sherry Hamby, PhD is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and a leading expert on trauma and resilience. The founding editor of the APA Journal of Psychology of Violence. Hamby’s research has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, CBS News, and Psychology Today. Her TEDx talk, Trauma is Everywhere, But So is Resilience has been viewed nearly 100,000 times.

May 2026

Trade Paperback 9781526683922 • £14.99

TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Bloomsbury Tonic

Dinner Time

Deeply delicious meals in the time you want

Zena Kamgaing

85 deeply delicious dinners on the table when you want by chef and star content creator, Zena Kamgaing.

Big, bold and vibrant, no one does flavour quite like Zena Kamgaing. Dinner Time is packed with deeply delicious and easy meals, using flavours from across the world. The extra magic? They will be on your table in the time you want.

Structured by time in 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, there’s a meal for any day at any time. With recipes including:

15 minutes or less:

Curry Butter Prawns

Triple Sesame Noodles with Cucumber and Chicken

30 minutes or less:

One-Pan Thai Curry Salmon with Coconut and Rice

Steam-fried Teriyaki Aubergine

45 minutes or less:

Caramelised Mushroom Shawarma

Creamy Nduja Risotto

60 minutes or less:

One-pan Crispy Roast Chicken with Lemon Garlic Potatoes

Saucy Pork Adobo

Chef and star content creator Zena is flavour-driven, finding cheap and easy ways to transform good dishes into hero standouts.

Zena is a passionate home cook and recipe creator, based in London. Her social channels include her Instagram and TikTok @zenaskitchen, where she shares both authentic and innovative renditions of international culinary classics. For Zena, it’s all about honouring and celebrating culinary traditions from around the world.

The Rejection Cure

Sophie Jones

Let Them for the Women Don’t Owe You Pretty generation, The Rejection Cure is a guide to losing fear, embracing rejection and living louder.

What if rejection wasn’t something to fear – but something to run towards?

In The Rejection Cure, viral sensation and self-worth advocate Sophie Jones rips the power out of rejection and hands it back to you.

With over 600,000 followers hanging on her every word on TikTok and Instagram, Sophie turned a 30-day rejection therapy challenge into a full-blown movement — and a mindset revolution. Part-memoir, part-manifesto, this book is your permission slip to stop playing small, start showing up, and say yes to things that scare you (and no to shrinking yourself ever again).

Through personal stories, practical tools, and the four mindset-shifting steps of rejection therapy, Sophie shows you how to turn “no” into fuel, bounce back louder, and build unshakable confidence — whether it’s in dating, career, friendships, or everyday life.

Because the cure for rejection isn’t avoiding it. It’s facing it. Owning it. And letting it set you free.

Sophie Jones is a popular online voice with over 500k followers across Instagram and TikTok, where she shares rejection therapy content, and perspectives on the power of rejection for increased confidence and growth.

June 2026

Hardback 9781037202056 • £16.99

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The Walking Cure

The life-changing science of how landscape improves our health, mind and mood

Annabel Streets

Unlocking the science behind the incredible impact of walking on our health, mind and mood in 20 different landscapes.

‘A trove of scientific research devoted to the benefits of walking’ – the Guardian

The right place, walked at the right time, can heal, energise, restore and inspire. Instead of ambling the same old track, find a route to match and mend your mood … and prepare to be astonished.

We know the physical benefits of walking, but how does it change the way we think, feel and experience the world around us? Drawing from compelling scientific research, Annabel Streets unlocks the curative impact of landscapes – from rural to urban – and finds the perfect place to walk for the states of mind and emotions we face in life.

Whether it is a canal path to spark creativity or the coast to heal grief and insomnia, The Walking Cure is a guide to the remarkable health benefits of everyday landscapes, beginning with the one on your doorstep.

Annabel Streets is an award-winning writer, with her first walking book, 52 Ways to Walk, being a bestseller. As Annabel Abbs, she wrote Windswept: Why Women Walk and as Annabel Streets she co-authored The Age-Well Project: Easy Ways to a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life. She has written for a range of newspapers and is a Fellow of the Brown Foundation.

April 2026

Paperback 9781526676368 • £10.99

Hardback 9781526676320 • £14.99

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A Wilder Way

How Gardens Grow Us

Poppy Okotcha

Ecological horticulturalist Poppy Okotcha maps a year in her wild garden, sharing the joys of reconnecting with the natural world

A Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with an ever-changing garden, of setting down roots, and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as individuals, but can also help to grow a better world.

From her wild little garden in Devon, Poppy Okotcha shares the inspiring and magical moments that arise from tending the land through the seasons, and what it can teach us about living more sustainably.

She shows us how the small joys of engaging with the natural world are imperative for our physical and emotional well-being. How the folklore of our ancestors can help us see the world with fresh eyes. And how the more we look around us, the more we learn and the more we care. As we move through the year, she shares practical notes on sowing and growing, wild ingredients to be found and delicious seasonal recipes, inspiring us to live a little more wildly.

With original illustrations from Frances Whitfield

Poppy Okotcha is a trained horticulturist and regenerative grower, passionate about inspiring people to engage with and connect to the natural world. Poppy has been featured on BBC2's Gardeners' World and is a regular contributor to the Royal Horticultural Society podcast. She was also the ecological expert on Channel 4's The Great Garden Revolution

Instagram: @poppyokotcha

Completely Normal and Totally Fine

The Highs, Lows and In-Betweens of Living with Bipolar

Rosie Viva’s uplifting memoir of living with bipolar disorder and how we can all make peace with our minds.

In 2018, model Rosie Viva was arrested after she caused Stansted Airport to evacuate all its waiting passengers following a psychotic episode. After the incident, she was hospitalised, sectioned and diagnosed with bipolar disorder - a dramatic moment that would alter the course of her life.

In this moving memoir, Rosie opens up about the unique experience of being 'normal' and 'fine', whilst dealing with the delusions, mania and depression that bipolar brings. Navigating love, work and life while in recovery, she shares how she learned to embrace a ‘new normal’ and left the world of modelling behind to become a mental health advocate.

Completely Normal and Totally Fine shines light on living with a complex mental health condition that's often misunderstood and underdiagnosed, inspiring us to shed the stigma around mental health and open up about our messy minds too.

Rosie Viva is a model, documentary filmmaker and activist passionate about encouraging and helping people talk about neurodiversity. 2023 saw Rosie become the subject of a Channel 4 digital documentary, Modelling, Mania and Me, charting her day-to-day experiences of living with bipolar, amassing over 100,000 views since May. Channel 4 want to make Rosie their next ‘face of mental health’.

May 2026

Paperback 9781526679437 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526679420 • £16.99

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