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FICTION
A Curse of Crown and Root
They Cry
Bradley P. Beaulieu
Glen Cook
The grand finale of award‐winning author Bradley P. Beaulieu's Book of the Holt series, an epic fantasy trilogy charting the rebirth of a forgotten divine contest and the mortals caught in its wake. Set in a world of dragon legions, living forests, and capricious gods who treat humanity like pieces on a board.
From international bestseller Glen Cook comes the second book in an all‐new arc in the legendary Chronicles of the Black Company — the series that forever changed the face of fantasy.
In the great forest known as the Holt, a deadly game threatens to reignite a conflict that nearly destroyed the world a thousand years ago.
Arkana and Shukrat return to An Abode of Raven imbued with a powerful magic that they've barely begun to grasp. Though their powers allow them to do things they’ve never imagined, it has also opened them up to a whole host of plots — both political and supernatural.
Inquisitor Lorelei, looking for a way to stop it, journeys to the fabled city of Gonsalond, but the trees that once granted her visions of the past have gone silent, forcing her to deal with a necromancer who may kill her before revealing the secrets of the game. Meanwhile, dragon singer Rylan, hoping to prevent all‐out war, plans to steal a paragon to prevent their awakening, but it won’t be easy.
Meanwhile, the only thing keeping the demigod‐once‐known‐as‐Croaker anchored to his remaining humanity are the misadventures of his adopted daughters, and the scheming Soulcatcher, doing all she can to escape her prison, or failing that, annoy him into releasing her. Something dark and dangerous is brewing on Hsien, with powerful forces making moves against the Black Company that would change the balance of power on this plane and beyond. The future of the Black Company has never been more uncertain.
Warrior mage Rhiannon is convinced that the only way to prevent widespread destruction is to find Yeriel, the lone player in the game who seems to care what happens to the Holt when the contest is finally over. But as the game nears its end, the empire’s dragon legions, a goddess reborn, and the game itself threatens to bring ruin upon the Holt and everything within it... Bradley P. Beaulieu's novels have garnered many accolades and most‐anticipated lists, including two Hotties – the Debut of the Year and Best New Voice – on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, a Gemmell Morningstar Award nomination for The Winds of Khalakovo. Brad's influences include J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Glen Cook. He currently lives in Racine, WI with his wife, kids, and a smattering of pets.
07 January 2027 Hardback 9781803285160 • £25.00 EBook 9781803285146 • £7.99
Since 1971, Glen Cook has published a large number of Science Fiction and fantasy novels, including the occult‐detective Garrett novels, and the very popular Black Company sequence that began with the publication of The Black Company in 1984. After working many years for General Motors, Cook now writes full‐time. He lives near St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Carol.
The Ring and the Ruin
Fever Island
Michael Livingston
Martin Edwards
The thrilling conclusion to Michael Livingston's historical fantasy trilogy THE SHARDS, which reveals the clandestine celestial conflict that shaped history.
'A true master of British crime writing.' RICHARD OSMAN A cursed island. A macabre party. An impossible crime.
The Ark of the Covenant has been spirited out of Egypt to Petra, along with the last of its guardians. But dark forces are in pursuit.
Five years after film star Godiva Lee died under suspicious circumstances, Boris Unthank gathers everyone connected to her death for a ‘party’ on the isolated Fever Island.
Three demons, inadvertently unleashed by Juba of Numidia and the daughter of Cleopatra, are in league with Tiberius, son and heir of Augustus Caesar. They've seized two of the fabled Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of God, and are desperately hunting the rest.
A reluctant Rachel Savernake is invited for one reason: Unthank believes she can solve the impossible crime. She agrees to attend for another reason, however: he knows something that could ruin her.
Through war and assassination, from Rome to the fabled Temple Mount of Jerusalem and on to the very gates of Heaven itself, the forces of good and evil will collide in a climactic battle that threatens the very fabric of Creation. Michael Livingston is the author of the bestselling audiobook Black Crow, White Snow and the Seaborn Cycle series it inspired, as well as the Shards of Heaven historical fantasy series. An acclaimed conflict analyst, he has twice won the Distinguished Book Prize from the international Society for Military History. Currently, he serves as the Citadel Distinguished Professor at The Citadel.
07 January 2027 Hardback 9781035929870 • £25.00 EBook 9781035929894 • £7.99 Audio Book 9781035929900 • £14.00
As storms rage and the island is cut off from the outside world, old scandals resurface as hidden identities are revealed. With suspicion running rife, Rachel must unravel the deadly mystery or risk exposing an even greater secret: who she truly is...
14 January 2027 Paperback 9781035919390 • £10.99 EBook 9781035919369 • £7.99 15 January 2026 Audio Book 9781035926312 • £16.00
Martin Edwards is an award‐winning author and life‐long fan of books and mysteries, puzzles and games. He is the President of the Detection Club, a position previously held by crime‐ writing royalty Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie, and he is the editor of the British Library’s bestselling Crime Classics series.
28 January 2027 Hardback 9781035910793 • £22.00 EBook 9781035910779 • £6.99 Audio Book 9781035929047 • £14.00
Dead Man's Journey
Guns and Sorcery
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Lavie Tidhar
Archaeologist Nora Kelly is back in this chilling supernatural thriller from the New York Times bestselling authors.
In award‐winning author Lavie Tidhar's 21st‐century homage to pulp fantasy, guns clash with sorcery, faith with addiction, and love with betrayal.
On a construction site in Santa Fe, New Mexico, workers have uncovered a row of ancient skeletons buried upside down. It is revealed that this was the work of the Spanish Inquisition, who in 1676 condemned six women as witches and executed them, burying them head downwards to speed their way to hell.
Gorel of Goliris was born a prince. Now he’s a mercenary, a killer‐for‐hire, and a slave to the Black Kiss — the narcotic distilled from the blood of gods. His kingdom is gone, his family slaughtered, and his only obsession is to find the path back home. But in a world where gods walk and magic infects the land, the road home is paved with betrayal, blood... and bullets.
Archaeologist Nora Kelly soon makes a further shocking discovery – a fresh inverted burial in the same place. As more murders and bizarre burials start mounting up, Nora and FBI Special Agent Corrie Swanson team up once more as they find themselves in pursuit of a mass killer who possesses a terrifying, ancient power defying human understanding.
From the scorched deserts of Meskatel to the drowned temples of Falang‐Et, from necropolises where the dead refuse to sleep to cities ruled by frog‐gods and hybrid spawn, Gorel’s journey is a brutal odyssey of hallucinatory wonders and horrors. Only one thing’s for sure: by the time this is over, there will be blood.
'Get ready for the ride of your life' David Baldacci on Preston and Child Douglas Preston writes about archaeology for internationally renowned magazines, as well as novels and nonfiction works (such as The Lost City of the Monkey God). Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has written several bestselling novels such as Full Wolf Moon and Deep Storm. Together, they write bestselling thrillers including the Agent Pendergast series.
28 January 2027 Hardback 9781035915798 • £22.00 EBook 9781035915781 • £7.99 Audio Book 9781035915774 • £16.00
Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama and Six Lives), cross‐genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom prize winner Central Station (2016). He has also written comics (Adler, 2020) and children's books such as Candy (2018) and the forthcoming A Child's Book of the Future (2024). He is a former columnist for the Washington Post and a current honorary Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at the American International University in London
The Grave of Perfection
You Reap...
The Concluding Volume in the Tyrant Philosophers Quintet
Michael Wendroff Two young police officers hunt a kidnapper in this dark, twisty thriller from the author of What Goes Around.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
A series of kidnappings has terrified a small town. The police are baffled, for there is no pattern: the missing children and their families appear to have nothing in common. As the number of victims grows, so does the fear that time is running out.
A return to Ilmar, a decade after our story began. Has the Palleseen campaign to impose ‘perfection’ reached breaking point?
With the police department stretched to its limits, bitter rivals Jill Jarred and Jack Ludlum are drawn into the investigation. For Jill, the case hits close to home, reopening the wounds of a family tragedy she’s never escaped.
It’s almost ten years since the Gownhall Rising. Landmarks like the Mahanic Temple and even the Gownhall itself have been torn down to be replaced by Palleseen edifices. The Grove, gateway to the infinite wood and all the worlds beyond, is scheduled for destruction. Only the haunted Reproach remains too much for even the Pals to extinguish.
Searching for the children is only the beginning, for the kidnapper has a deeper purpose than anyone realised. And the closer Jill and Jack get to the truth, the more dangerous the hunt becomes.
Yasnic the ex‐priest, the conjurer, the beloved of Hell, has come home to find his city under threat not just from the Palleseen, but other sinister sources. Meanwhile the factory demons are working to rule, the old Gownhall site has been occupied by a familiar band of foreign soldiers, and the Palleseen Commission is schisming into mutually‐opposed factions. As Palleseen control of the city fractures, the destinies of disparate groups and individuals are set to collide in a war for the future of Ilmar, and of the whole Palleseen Sway. Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British SFF author known for a wide variety of work including the Children of Time series, as well as standalone books such as Doors of Eden. Children of Time has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.
04 February 2027 Hardback 9781035928996 • £20.00 EBook 9781035929016 • £7.99 Audio Book 9781035929023 • £14.00
A gripping, emotionally charged thriller exploring the complexities of human nature, obsession, and the consequences of a past that refuses to stay buried. 11 February 2027 Hardback 9781035915040 • £22.00 EBook 9781035914999 • £10.99 Audio Book 9781035915033 • £18.00
Michael Wendroff is an author and marketing consultant, and has an MBA from NYU. His background is running marketing and advertising for Fortune 500 companies. Michael has homes in New York City and Sarasota. You Reap... is his second novel.
25 February 2027 Hardback 9781035928613 • £22.00 EBook 9781035928637 • £4.99
The Missing
The Twice-Cursed Heir
C.J. Box
Venetia Constantine
Joe Pickett must track down two missing children in this gripping crime thriller from the New York Times bestselling author.
The second instalment in Venetia Constantine's epic romantic fantasy trilogy. Every sceptre demands sacrifice. Every tear betrays secrets. Every truth cuts deeper.
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is back at work despite lingering issues from the wounds he sustained in a brutal attack. His daughter Sheridan steps in to help on Joe's current case when he is called away to assist the FBI search for two missing children.
Following the events on the Astral Mountain, the Quaternity is driven into Xylia’s diseased forests, where the Sickening spreads as fast as suspicion. Leilani is torn between Astrophel and Blayze, betrothed to one and bound to the other by a shared telepathy, while Arden’s memories haunt her: taunting her with the possibility her own bloodline seeded Arcelia’s ruin.
The siblings went missing from a hunting lodge in Star Valley, an insular community run by religious elders, while their parents were absent. With a cast of potential suspects but no obvious motive, Joe must use all his expertise to track down the children in the crucial hours before their trail goes cold. 'Raining here, but I've got a cup of hot tea and a Joe Pickett novel, so who has it better than me?' Stephen King
Marked by dangerous Shadow Magic, Leilani finds herself increasingly isolated. As they race to claim the Healing Bough before Endellion, old loyalties splinter, and Leilani’s new powers threaten to consume her. She must master them, or risk yielding to darkness and reducing the realms to ash.
C. J. Box is the author of over 30 novels including the Joe Pickett series and Cassie Dewell series. He has won Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe and Barry Awards, as well as numerous other awards for literature. Two television series based on his novels have been produced. He and his wife Laurie live on their ranch in Wyoming.
Venetia Constantine read English at King’s College, Cambridge and holds a PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute. She paused a cherished career in the art world to pursue her dreams of becoming an author, swapping galleries for an enchanted windmill, where she now writes full‐time. Venetia lives in London with her husband and their three children.
25 February 2027 Hardback 9781035918867 • £22.00 EBook 9781035918911 • £9.99 Audio Book 9781035918881 • £14.00
The Little Bookshop at Honeycombe Bay
Romance Me Not Bex Goos
Lilac Mills
A sexy, swoonworthy own‐voices rom‐com, where a bestselling romance author learns that true love doesn't only exist in books.
She’s a hopeless romantic, and he’s sworn off love. Bestselling romance novelist Leigh Tate has second book syndrome. Her unusually vivid imagination normally makes light work of crafting her fantasy tales, only this time her villain‐turned‐romantic hero refuses to materialise.
Despite being unlucky in love, Charlie Palmer knows that Mr. Right is out there somewhere, and while she waits for him to show up, she is perfectly content to lose herself in a good romance novel. But when Charlie moves to the quaint seaside town of Honeycombe Bay, her love of romance has her butting heads with the grumpy owner of the local bookshop.
Enter Griffin Foley: florist extraordinaire. Despite a troubled past, Griffin is kind, gorgeous, and incredibly good with his hands. He is everything Leigh wants fictional love interest to be – and maybe everything she wants for her real‐life love interest, too. After an awkward first meeting, the pair quickly discover how perfectly they fit together.
Flynn Montgomery doesn’t like romance—not in any shape or form—and he certainly won’t have any romantic fiction in his bookshop. But the more time he spends with Charlie, the more he finds his heart softening.
But with a meddlesome mother trying to sabotage her career and her own relationship anxieties threatening to consume her, can Leigh and Griffin have the kind of love you only find in stories?
But can Flynn declare his feelings to Charlie, especially when there may be another (more romantic) man in the way? Lilac Mills lives on a Welsh mountain with her very patient husband and incredibly sweet dog, where she grows veggies (if the slugs don't get them), bakes (badly) and loves making things out of glitter and glue (a mess, usually). Lilac also writes under the pseudonyms Liz Davies and Etti Summers
04 March 2027 Hardback 9781035914524 • £20.00 EBook 9781035914494 • £12.99 Audio Book 9781035914487 • £16.00
09 March 2027 Paperback 9781035931385 • £9.99 EBook 9781035931392 • £3.99 Audio Book 9781035931422 • £14.00
Rebecca “Bex” Goos was born and raised in Los Angeles, studied English literature in Syracuse, and currently resides in North Dakota. When she’s not reading and writing romance novels, Bex enjoys learning new languages, meeting people’s dogs, doing glass art, starting random hobbies at the whims of her ADHD, and being absolutely ridiculous both on social media and in person. Her debut novel, Falling for the Protagonist, was published in 2026.
11 March 2027 Paperback 9781035919116 • £9.99 EBook 9781035919093 • £5.99 Audio Book 9781035919109 • £14.00
Shadow Game
Weeb
Nick Petrie
Lin King
This explosive thriller from award‐winning author Nick Petrie sees veteran Peter Ash save a hiker then stand accused of murder
A razor‐sharp, darkly funny novel about identity, appropriation and the cost of belonging, from the translator of the International Booker Prize‐winning Taiwan Travelogue.
'Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Nick Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal' Lee Child
A recent graduate calling herself ‘Rina’ moves to Tokyo, ostensibly to begin her academic career, but really to pursue a far more private ambition: her obsession with Kagami, the enigmatic hero of her favourite animé.
In the mountains of Tennessee, Marine Corps veteran Peter Ash is hiking the 2200‐mile Appalachian Trail when he meets a mysterious older hiker being threatened by two men. Peter intervenes, but soon finds himself at the wrong end of the older man's pistol.
Fluent in Japanese and attentive to every nuance, Rina carefully constructs a version of herself that might almost pass as Japanese. She curates her name, her history and her ambitions, drawing ever closer to the industry surrounding her idol – and to the middle‐aged voice actor, Fujimoto Fumitaka, who brings him to life.
Before the day is out, Peter will be wanted for murder, for he has unwittingly ended up in a decades‐old story of espionage, betrayal, and homicide.
As she burrows deeper into Tokyo’s entertainment world, Rina becomes entangled with a cast of performers and outsiders, including a Taiwanese idol trainee, a child influencer she tutors, a fan artist and a perceptive hairdresser. Gradually, her carefully assembled identity begins to fracture.
Along with his friend Lewis and a pair of retired spies, Peter must dodge killers and solve this mystery himself or spend the rest of his life in prison. If he survives the day... Nick Petrie holds an MFA from the University of Washington and won a Hopwood Award for short fiction. His story ‘At the Laundromat’ won the Seattle Review Short Story Contest. His debut novel The Drifter, featuring Peter Ash, won multiple honours, including the 2017 International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel.
'Language, obsession, sex ... I loved it.' Kaveh Akbar 11 March 2027 Paperback 9781804541746 • £10.99 EBook 9781804541708 • £4.99 Audio Book 9781035931545 • £16.00
Once Upon A Dream
Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction has appeared in numerous publications, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is the translator of Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang‐Zi which won the International Booker Prize 2026.
Guardian of Rome Incendium
The stunning new fairytale-inspired small-town fantasy romance
A Gripping Historical Mystery-Adventure Set In Ancient Rome
Katherine Reilly
Matthew Harffy
A cosy, magical seaside romance where dream‐walking, high‐stakes love, and fairytale twists collide in a charming, interconnected series. Briar Hawthorne thought she had left Storywood behind for good.
A former soldier investigates a series of grisly murders in Imperial Rome in this thrilling historical mystery‐adventure.
Back in her hometown, she spends her days working as a nurse at the local hospital, determined to ignore her magic. But when an old friend urges her to explore her ancestry, Briar uncovers secrets that were never meant to stay hidden.
He fought wars for the Roman Empire. Now he must survive the streets of Rome. Marcus Ulpius Bellator survived the brutality of battle on Rome's frontiers. Civilian life is proving more difficult and his drinking and gambling are taking a toll on his marriage to Tillia.
Then she finds an unconscious man along the beach. In the hospital, Briar slips into his dreams, a place where Henry is vivid and charming. As her powers awaken, so do unsettling questions. Henry's dreams are filled with cryptic clues about his accident, drawing Briar deeper into a mystery tied to Storywood itself. But in the waking world, Henry has a fiancée waiting by his bedside, and Briar cannot shake the feeling that someone, or something, is watching her. As magic stirs and old secrets surface, Briar must decide whether to trust her heart, her gift, or neither. Katherine Reilly is a pseudonym for journalist and author Katy Birchall. She writes romantic fiction for young adults under the pen name Ivy Bailey, romantic comedy under the name Katrina Logan, and romantic sports fiction, including Match Point, Ride the Wave and Polo Fever, for adults under Katherine Reilly. Katy lives in Suffolk with her husband, daughters and rescue dog.
22 April 2027 Hardback 9781035931705 • £18.99 EBook 9781035931736 • £13.29 Audio Book 9781035931743 • £14.00
08 April 2027 Paperback 9781035932016 • £9.99 EBook 9781035932023 • £4.99 Audio Book 9781035932030 • £14.00
Everything changes the night Bellator arrives home to find their tenement ablaze, Tillia trapped inside. To ensure her death was not in vain, Bellator becomes a Vigile, a Watchman of Rome, to prevent similar tragedies. He soon discovers the fire was no accident. A killer is on the loose, striking seemingly at random. Bellator must seek a pattern in the madness as he hunts the murderer through the streets of Rome. Matthew Harffy grew up in Northumberland where the rugged terrain, ruined castles and rocky coastline had a huge impact on him. He now lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and their two daughters. Matthew is the author of the critically acclaimed Bernicia Chronicles and A Time for Swords series, and he also presents the popular podcast Rock, Paper, Swords!
08 April 2027 Hardback 9781035916580 • £22.00 EBook 9781035916603 • £7.99 Audio Book 9781035916573 • £16.00
Omega Authority
One Last Favour
Brad Taylor
Charlie Gallagher
When a new bioweapon is stolen by hostile forces, the Taskforce must prevent worldwide devastation.
The gripping new thriller where a good deed goes horrifically wrong, perfect for fans of Mark Edwards and KL Slater.
American AI company Romulus Solutions has created a biomedical AI model that can target bacteria: a potential game‐changing healthcare solution. When a cyber‐attack from North Korea obtains the model, nobody is too worried, because of the unbreakable encryption.
No good deed goes unpunished. Jan Hughes prides herself on being helpful. An ordinary woman with an ordinary life, she processes background checks for people who want to work with the vulnerable. It feels good to be useful, to smooth things along, to say yes.
That is, until a mole inside Romulus vanishes with the keys to break the encryption, and with them, the power to engineer a devastating bioweapon.
So when someone asks her for a small favour – a name, an address – Jan tells herself it’s nothing. She just wants to be helpful.
Pike Logan and the Taskforce are ordered to recover the keys. Their mission will take them through Japan and into the shadow world where the Yakuza and North Korea converge. With an enemy determined not to surrender, Pike and the team must recover the keys at all costs… even if it risks war on the Korean Peninsula. Brad Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of the Taskforce series, with over 3 million copies sold. He channels his experience as a Special Forces Commander in the US army into his thrillers. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters.
Until a news report shows a family has been found dead in the very house she identified. Now Jan is an unwitting accomplice, and the person who drew her in hasn’t finished yet. They want another favour – and this time Jan knows exactly what her answer could cost.
22 April 2027 Paperback 9781035930203 • £10.99 EBook 9781035930210 • £4.99 Audio Book 9781035930227 • £16.00
Charlie Gallagher has been writing for twenty years. For thirteen years, he was also a serving UK police officer, working as a response officer, a member of a specialist tactical team, a detective and in a regional counter terrorism unit. Charlie now lives on the south coast of the UK with his wife and two daughters.
All About You
The Baker
Chloe Ford
Tim Sullivan
The second instalment in an exciting interconnected romance series following four former bandmates of a global pop sensation.
'One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century.' DAILY MAIL Murder is both a science and an art.
It’s been nine years since Amelia Anderson last spoke to her ex, renowned playboy and gorgeous popstar Jax Riva. Since then she’s moved to London, landed a coveted job at a celebrity PR firm, and (semi) successfully avoided all mention of his band, Just4Summer. So when her boss’s new client is none other than Jax himself, she knows her luck has officially run out.
Brian Fothergill co‐owns a thriving Bristol bakery with two close friends that was built on a shared dream: to use their success to give something back, offering opportunities to those most often overlooked. Brian has always believed in doing good, in giving people second chances.
Tasked with helping Jax repair his public image, Amelia decides to set up a fake relationship with another client of hers, a nepo‐baby actress who needs to get her name out there. Between chaperoning dinner dates and cheering from the sidelines of charity fun‐runs, Amelia realises that a lot can change in nine years. Jax isn’t the boy who broke her heart at nineteen anymore. And she doesn't like seeing another woman on his arm.
So how has he ended up head down and lifeless at the bottom of an industrial dough mixer? Even in a place built on kindness, pressure can build. But who turned up the heat? DS George Cross is back to find out.
But one wrong move could ruin both their reputations… Chloe Ford grew up in rural Sussex but is now based in South Gloucestershire. She has an affinity with all things country, from riding horses to muddy walks. Her love for writing began at secondary school when her English teacher would set a writing task for the whole hour. An avid reader, she started sneaking Mills & Boon books out from under her mum's bed as a teenager and hasn't stopped devouring romance books ever since.
22 April 2027 Paperback 9781035928668 • £10.99 EBook 9781035928675 • £4.99 Audio Book 9781035928682 • £14.00
22 April 2027 Paperback 9781035922284 • £9.99 EBook 9781035922277 • £3.99 Audio Book 9781035922307 • £14.00
Tim Sullivan is an award‐winning crime writer whose series featuring the brilliantly persistent DS George Cross has sold over a million copies. The Bookseller was an Indie Book of the Month pick and he is also the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library 2026.
22 April 2027 Hardback 9781035931231 • £18.99 EBook 9781035931262 • £5.99 Audio Book 9781035931293 • £14.00
Love and Lattes at the Bookshop Bakery
What Birds Have Vanished Ken Liu
Jennifer Page
Award‐winning author Ken Liu returns with the electrifying sequel to ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM.
A single parent second chance romance set in Applethwaite’s bookshop bakery. Perfect for fans of Laurie Gilmore and Lily Chen.
What price is too high in our war against death? This isn’t the distant future. It’s tomorrow — just one breath away.
Anna loves her life in Applethwaite. Between working at the Sugar and Spice Bookshop Bakery and raising her daughter, Robyn, she's always busy, with little time to think about herself.
Every street corner watches. Every camera feeds a stream. Every stream ends in an AI. Nothing escapes their regard. Everything is captured, ingested and dissected.
When an accident on a walk in the Yorkshire hills brings mountain rescuer Sam into her life, Anna can't help but notice the handsome single dad. As Sam searches for ways to help his son, Noah, discover a love of reading, the pair find themselves drawn together time and again.
From this torrent of data, new realities are conjured, indistinguishable from truth. The line between real and virtual isn’t blurred.
But with family responsibilities taking priority and both carrying the scars of the past, neither is looking for romance. As Anna begins to pursue a long‐buried dream and Sam slowly lets down his guard, could they finally find the courage to put themselves first?
Julia Z walks this vanished line. She understands the ebb and flow of information, she can see the world as the AIs see it. Like a priest of old, she can work with the new gods.
Jennifer Page wrote her first novel – a book about ponies – when she was eight. These days she prefers to write romance. She has worked as a television producer, a music teacher and has even run a children's opera company. She now lives near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire with her husband and his large collection of games.
It’s gone.
06 May 2027 Paperback 9781035924486 • £9.99 EBook 9781035924479 • £2.99 Audio Book 9781035924462 • £14.00
But she is not alone. Others walk the same path. And for some of them, humanity is not sacred, it is substrate — raw material to be exploited.
06 May 2027 Hardback 9781035916016 • £20.00 EBook 9781035915989 • £8.99 Audio Book 9781035915996 • £14.00
Ken Liu is the author of the epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, as well as short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and other top genre awards around the world for his fiction.
A Most Remarkable Forgery
August After All Annabel Monaghan
A Lady Holmes and Hudson Investigation
A woman falls (back) in love with her best friend's ex‐husband over one complicated, exuberant beach house summer.
Mattea Orr
She loved him first. Summer, 2011. Millie meets August on the train to Montauk. She’s never known anyone like him before, someone who drinks her every word up like she’s a tall glass of water and he's parched. It’s a rush when they exchange numbers, something she never does. But August is worth breaking her rules for. She’s still reeling when she steps off the train, her best friend Tess there to greet her. Until Tess barrels straight into August’s arms.
Lady Holmes and Mrs Hudson return in this cosy sapphic historical mystery which reimagines the Sherlock universe. 'Please, Inspector, we never let our sensibilities stand in the way of facts'.
Summer, 2027. Millie, now a rising star architect, is heading back to Montauk to design a mega‐star’s luxury home. She doesn’t know what to expect, but finding August there, the artist whose painting they're designing the house around, is a huge surprise. She’s barely seen him since he and Tess divorced, and she feels disoriented. Because suddenly he looks like the boy she first met on that train.
Katy Hudson and Lady Violet Holmes have settled into life at Musgrave Hall — solving Sherrinford’s odd crimes, arguing through each case, and avoiding the tension simmering between them. But when a stranger arrives with a warning meant for Katy, the pair are plunged into a conspiracy which brings them dangerously close to a criminal league who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Katy’s brother is abducted and a man wearing her dead husband’s face appears in London, Katy and Violet follow a trail of ciphers, impostors, and betrayal that leads them back to Musgrave Hall — and to a truth more shocking than either imagined. Now Katy must decide who she trusts, what she’s willing to risk, and which version of her future she’s brave enough to claim. Fast, clever, and emotionally rich, The Remarkable Forgery is perfect for fans of The Mitford Murders, Miss Clara Vale, and Miss Austen Investigates. Mattea Orr holds a Master’s in English Literature from Binghamton University. Her most recent short stories appear in the anthologies Transcendent from Transmundane Press, Toil & Trouble Literary Magazine, and Witch House Magazine. She lives in upstate New York with her partner, three children, and any number of cats, where the natural landscape and lore inspire her writing.
20 May 2027 Paperback 9781035929566 • £10.99 EBook 9781035929559 • £4.99 Audio Book 9781035929542 • £14.00
Annabel Monaghan is the New York Times bestselling and Library Reads Hall of Fame author of Dolly All the Time, It’s A Love Story, Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh‐out‐loud essays about family life. She lives in Florida and Connecticut with her family.
03 June 2027 Paperback 9781035927265 • £9.99 25 May 2027 EBook 9781035927258 • £4.99 25 May 2027 Audio Book 9781035927241 • £14.00
An Invitation Home
The Seer and the Threads of Chaos
Faith Hogan
Breanne Randall & Mackenzie Gold
A warm, emotionally resonant novel about the strength of childhood friendship, from the million‐copy bestselling author Faith Hogan.
CHAOS RISING is GAME OF THRONES meets SHADOW AND BONE: a thrilling crossover debut full of politics, romance, and magic.
Return to Pin Hill Island in acclaimed and bestselling author Faith Hogan's new novel about four women and the night that changed their lives forever.
Chaos is rising. And conquest is ours.
Once four young girls were inseparable, forged by a childhood friendship on Pin Hill Island shaped by secrets, laughter and the certainty they would always belong together. Then a single night at university ended in tragedy, and their bond fractured forever.
Centuries ago the fey, led by the God of Chaos, instituted themselves as deities, only to be banished. Now, the six kingdoms of Feyne are on the brink of another war.
Twenty years later, three of the women find themselves at unexpected crossroads. When Bridget invites her old friends to a party, it becomes more than a reunion. As memories resurface and long‐held truths emerge, the women must face the night that changed everything for them — and decide whether a broken friendship can ever be rebuilt.
Chaos marches, seeking to release the primordial god of Chaos and get revenge on those who stood against them. Tyree Truthborn wants nothing to do with politics. But when his adoptive mother is murdered in an attempt to break him, he’s forced into the palace of the Love Court, where he learns that he possesses a rare kind of magic, a curse that marks him as a key player in the coming war.
An uplifting and heartwarming story about the friendships that shape us long after we think that we have let them go. Faith lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, four children and two very fussy cats. She has an Hons Degree in English Literature and Psychology, has worked as a fashion model and in the intellectual disability and mental health sector.
03 June 2027 Hardback 9781035906628 • £20.00 EBook 9781035906604 • £4.99 Audio Book 9781035932009 • £14.00
Ty must navigate unlikely alliances with the Queen’s cunning spymaster and the arrogant crown prince, and learn to master his magic before the battle trumpet sounds—or it will mean the downfall of the whole realm.
03 June 2027 Hardback 9781035915460 • £22.00 EBook 9781035915422 • £4.99 Audio Book 9781035915446 • £16.00
Breanne Randall is the instant NYT and USA Today bestselling author of THE UNFORTUNATE SIDE EFFECTS OF HEARTBREAK AND MAGIC (HoZ/Alcove Press). She is obsessed with marketing and witchy vibes, and her go to phrase is, “I did some research...”. Mackenzie Gold is a queer yogi who loves gardening and immersing himself in fantasy worlds. Mac is obsessed with audiobooks and re‐watching his favorite shows, and his go‐to phrase is, “I’ve run the numbers...”.
The Tide and the Tempest
Fifty First Deaths
Ian Green
L.M. Chilton
Killian Heroneye crossed Burner’s Run, defied ancient gods, and carved a bloody path across the Crown Isles to repay his debts and find his sister, and it ended in disaster. Now Killian must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice for revenge.
A thriller about a woman’s chance to escape a man who refuses to let her go, this is Groundhog Day meets You. Practice makes perfect...
With his crew captured, his enemies rising, and the forces threatening the Isles emerging stronger than ever, Killian is craving revenge.
Everyone thinks Maggie has hit the jackpot with Pete. He's charming. Successful. And seems to know exactly what she needs before she does.
But the Crown Isles are changing. The Cil‐Marie are expanding their empire across the thousand isles, wielding a terrifying new magic. Their ships burn ports, their enemies gather, and at the heart of it all stands Marion, Killian’s hated enemy, with Silver, the mage he once loved, at her side.
But when her ex‐boyfriend dies Maggie becomes the police's number one suspect. As her life begins to unravel, unsettling questions emerge. How does Pete always know what's going to happen? Why does every lead point back to her? And why does it feel as though someone is always one step ahead?
As Killian searches for his lost crew, he is drawn into schemes far larger than his own grudges. His sister Arlock calls for war, while old enemies and new powers close in.
To clear her name, Maggie must uncover the truth about the man she trusted most. Before his next move is her last.
To save his crew, Killian must choose where he stands, and whether revenge is worth sacrificing everything he fought to build. Ian Green is a writer from Northern Scotland with a PhD in epigenetics. His biopunk eco‐ terrorism thriller Extremophile was one of Financial Times’ Best Science Fiction Books of 2024 and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Dragon Awards. His debut fantasy trilogy The Rotstorm began with the Sunday Times bestseller The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath. His short fiction has been widely published and he won the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition, the Futurebook Future Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the British Fantasy Awards. Find out more at www.ianthegreen.com
8 July 2027 Hardback 9781804545942 • £22.00 EBook 9781804545928 • £7.99 Audio Book 9781035933976 • £16.00
Praise for L.M. Chilton 'Kept me guessing' BRITNEY SPEARS 'Utterly compelling' KATY BRENT 'Funny, twisty, bloodthirsty' JULIE MAE COHEN L.M. Chilton is a journalist with fifteen years experience working on TV shows for major broadcasters and reporting for national newspapers and magazines across the world. He is the author of Don't Swipe Right, Everyone in the Group Chat Dies and I Think We Should Kill Other People.
01 July 2027 Paperback 9781035920815 • £9.99 EBook 9781035920839 • £3.99 Audio Book 9781035920822 • £14.00
The Roman Adrian Goldsworthy The thrilling story of the early Roman Empire, told through the fictional memoirs of a former senator from Ancient Rome. Marcus Egnatius Ruso was cast out of the Senate by the Emperor Augustus, accused of acts unworthy of Rome. Now exiled to his estate near Pompeii, Ruso sets the record straight on a life lived at the heart of Roman history. Rising from humble beginnings to rub shoulders with the most celebrated names in Rome, Ruso served Julius Caesar, Cato and Crassus, and even participated in the greatest rebellion of the age: the slave revolt led by Spartacus. A hero? A malfeasant? Or just a man in the right places at the right times? Dear reader, that is for you to decide... A powerful, evocative and darkly humorous fictional memoir perfect for fans of I, Claudius and Robert Harris' Cicero. Adrian Goldsworthy studied at Oxford, where his doctoral thesis examined the Roman army. He went on to become an acclaimed historian of Ancient Rome. He is the author of numerous works of non‐fiction, including Caesar, The Fall of the West, and Hadrian's Wall, and critically acclaimed historical fiction including the Vindolanda trilogy. Follow Adrian at adriangoldsworthy.com
03 June 2027 Hardback 9781035920532 • £22.00 EBook 9781035920556 • £7.99 Audio Book 9781035920501 • £16.00
NON-FICTION
The Infectious Mind
The Last Days of Himmler
How Social Contagion Makes Us Ill
The End of Terror in Nazi Germany
Matilda Gosling
Wendy Lower & Jonathan Petropoulos
A gripping investigation into one of the strangest frontiers of human behaviour.
The untold story of how HImmler, the architect of the Holocaust, tried to save himself as the Third Reich collapsed around him.
From the dancing plagues of medieval Europe to the ‘cat‐concerts’ of seventeenth‐century convents, from mass laughter in 1960s Africa to the Pokémon episode that reportedly hospitalised thousands, social contagion – illnesses that can spread mind to mind as infectiously as a cold – has shaped collective health and hysteria for centuries. Today, platforms like TikTok and YouTube are driving a new wave, from functional tics to dissociative identities, with distressingly similar symptoms that spread at startling speed.
In April 1945, with Adolf Hitler trapped in his bunker and Nazi Germany facing destruction, Reichsführer‐SS Heinrich Himmler embarked on a desperate and astonishing campaign for survival. Drawing on extensive archival research and newly uncovered evidence, historians Wendy Lower and Jonathan Petropoulos reconstruct the final weeks of the Reich through the movements of its most powerful surviving leader. From Hitler's last birthday in the Führerbunker to his secret plan to save his own life, the book reveals Himmler attempting to reinvent himself as a statesman while denying and concealing the crimes he had helped orchestrate.
Drawing on history, neurology, psychology and culture, social scientist Matilda Gosling shows how our brains and bodies absorb the emotional currents around us, and how distress finds new forms of expression in each era. This is a book about why symptoms spread, why some become epidemics, and how we can protect ourselves in an age of mass connectedness. Matilda Gosling is an author, social scientist and researcher. She is the author of Evidence‐ Based Parenting and Teenagers: The Evidence Base. She has worked for governments, charities, foundations and private‐sector organisations internationally, and overseen field research in over 60 countries. An experienced speaker, she has delivered talks at the House of Commons, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Harvard University and more.
This is at once a suspenseful narrative of pursuit and escape, a chilling portrait of power at the point of collapse, and a profound examination of genocide, responsibility and memory. 28 January 2027 Hardback 9781035924271 • £20.00 EBook 9781035924264 • £14.00 Audio Book 9781035924240 • £14.00
Wendy Lower is one of the world's leading historians of the Holocaust. She is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Hitler's Furies and The Ravine, which was published by Head of Zeus. Her work has transformed understanding of Nazi occupation, genocide and the experiences of both perpetrators and victims.
25 February 2027 Hardback 9781035933488 • £30.00
Jonathan Petropoulos is a distinguished historian of Nazi Germany and the Second World War. An internationally recognised authority on the Third Reich, wartime looting and Nazi elites, he has written numerous influential books.
Making Tracks
The Last Recruits
A Journey Through the Itinerant History of Britain
Dad's Army in the SAS during WWII
Charlie Connelly
Andrew Chatterton
Bestselling author Charlie Connelly uncovers the itinerant history of Britain, highlighting those who lived on its roads, waterways and margins.
The remarkable story of how unlikely SAS recruits laid the foundation for France's liberation during the Second World War.
In 1927, near the River Dart, a passer‐by noticed a cup hanging from a stick. Inside was a poem commemorating Weary Rosser ‐ a former soldier turned itinerant. That fragile roadside memorial opens the door to a Britain we rarely see: a country shaped not only by those who settled, but by those who never stopped moving.
On 16 June 1944, 58 men from 1 SAS parachuted into occupied France. Landing hundreds of miles behind German lines, their mission was to disrupt the supply chains of weapons and troops to the front in Normandy – but these were not battle‐hardened special forces soldiers. In fact, they had been recruited just a few months earlier.
Bestselling author Charlie Connelly brings into focus the drovers, pilgrims and pedlars, showpeople, canal families and herring lassies who made lives on Britain's roads, waterways, and margins. Their footsteps became tracks and roads, their labour underpinned economies, their cultures left marks still etched into the landscape.
In The Last Recruits, Andrew Chatterton traces the remarkable stories of four men who had been trained to counter a possible Nazi invasion of Britain, but found themselves recruited for the SAS and deployed far behind enemy lines. These unlikely members of the SAS were the men of the Auxiliary Units, who, despite their lack of battle experience, were ruthless and highly‐trained.
Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award‐winning broadcaster. His many books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast, which has sold over a quarter of a million copies, In Search of Elvis, and And Did Those Feet. Three of his books have featured as Radio 4's Book of the Week.
11 March 2027 Hardback 9781035918294 • £25.00 EBook 9781035918331 • £17.50 Audio Book 9781035918317 • £14.00
Andrew Chatterton brings to life this dramatic final chapter of the Second World War, using newly uncovered accounts and fresh research to explore a brutal period which not all would survive. Andrew Chatterton is a historian, PR professional and leading expert on the Auxiliary Units. He is the author of Britain's Secret Defences and Fortress Britain 1940, and has written for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and Daily Mail. He has appeared on the BBC, Yesterday, Channel 5, National Geographic and Radio 4, and is a regular on podcasts.
25 March 2027 Hardback 9781035919000 • £25.00 EBook 9781035918966 • £17.50 Audio Book 9781035918973 • £12.00
Too Foreign A Place
Our Man
The Troubled Journeys of an Anglo-Irish Family
Graham Greene and the Violent Cold War
Bruce Clark
Maurice Walsh
A blend of investigative journalism and personal narrative, interweaving familial tragedy with the political histories of Russia and Northern Ireland.
The life and times of Graham Greene, and his unique perspectives on the world that shaped him.
Two sons are born into a prominent Northern Irish Unionist family. Their father, Wallace Clark, is a pioneering sailor and maritime historian. The brothers, Miles and Bruce, both inherit their father’s questing spirit. They also grow up during the darkest years of Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
From the end of the First World War to the end of the Cold War, Graham Greene chronicled the world in his journalism and in his novels, bringing news of a tumultuous world to his readers. As The Times remarked in 1991, ‘No serious writer of the century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination.’
In 1993, less than a year sailing around Europe via the waterways of Russia, Miles commits suicide. Bruce, working as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, sets out to reflect on the tragedy – to place his brother’s suicide within a wider context. In Too Foreign a Place, he combines memoir with a journalistic impulse to grapple with the separate, and often conflicting, quests of a father and his two sons.
In Our Man, Maurice Walsh challenges the narrative that reduces Greene’s life and milieu to the private afflictions of an upper middle class English Catholic convert, and places him in the volatile world he sought out so veraciously. In doing so, Walsh shows that Greene can provide a unique prism on how the world was shaped, from the era of fascism and world wars to the Cold War and decolonisation.
Bruce traces the brothers’ gilded childhood; explores the potentially unsettling discoveries Miles made on his expedition; and considers the contrasting impulses that led these two brothers on journeys around a fracturing and volatile Russia. Bruce Clark writes on culture and religion for The Economist. He has been diplomatic correspondent for the Financial Times, Moscow correspondent for The Times, and Athens correspondent for Reuters. He is the author of An Empire's New Clothes, Twice a Stranger and Athens: City of Wisdom. Twice a Stranger won the Runciman Award in 2007.
01 April 2027 Hardback 9781035910915 • £25.00 EBook 9781035910946 • £17.50 Audio Book 9781035929221 • £16.00
Part biography, part history and part travel writing, Our Man brings Graham Greene’s world vividly to life. Maurice Walsh is an Irish author, journalist and documentary maker. He reported from Dublin, Belfast and Central America for the Irish Times, a n d w a s t h e BBC Foreign Correspondent for Latin America. Walsh is the author of Bitter Freedom and The News from Ireland. His essays, reviews and reportage have appeared in Granta, the London Review of Books and New Statesman.
Dancing Stars and Farting Camels
Talking, Loving, Writing, Painting
A History of Philosophy in 500 Quotations
The Lives of the Bloomsbury Group
Anthony Cheetham
Matthew Dennison
The 500 most interesting ideas from the world's greatest thinkers
The fascinating lives and legacies of the Bloomsbury Group – including tales of intellectual brilliance, sexual dalliances and groundbreaking politics.
A History of Philosophy in 500 Quotations gathers together some of the most brilliant ideas from the world’s greatest thinkers. Spanning centuries of thought, this collection of memorable and thought‐provoking pieces of wisdom offers a sweeping introduction to philosophy and its major themes.
Matthew Dennison’s vivid group biography shifts deftly between eight overlapping lives of iconic Bloomsbury figures, focusing particularly on the domestic and material surroundings of the group and on their literary, painterly and critical output. Matthew tells a tale of profound intellectual engagement, tangled emotional and sexual bonds, and a deep and lasting cultural legacy.
Each quotation is paired with a brief, insightful commentary that unpacks its significance, places it within a wider intellectual tradition, and introduces the philosopher behind it. Readers will encounter beloved figures such as Socrates, Karl Marx, Simone de Beauvoir, and lesser‐known philosophers from different global and historical contexts. Accessible, informative, and endlessly browsable, this is the ideal companion for anyone who enjoys exploring big ideas – perfect for dipping into, quoting and mining for inspiration. Anthony Cheetham read history at Balliol College, Oxford. A founder of Century, Abacus, Orion and Quercus, he has worked in the publishing industry for more than fifty years.
08 April 2027 Hardback 9781786694836 • £30.00 EBook 9781786694829 • £21.00 Audio Book 9781035909025 • £14.00
15 April 2027 Hardback 9781035927845 • £14.99 EBook 9781035929719 • £10.49 Audio Book 9781035929726 • £9.00
Members of the group promoted modernism in literature and painting, rebellion against Victorian attitudes in politics, the law, church and military; pacifism, feminism, sexual permissiveness and toleration of homosexuality decades before it was legal. The Bloomsbury Group continues to influence literary, aesthetic, critical and economic thinking and to colour attitudes towards feminism and sexuality. This is the definitive popular account of a cultural grouping that exerted a decisive impact on twentieth‐century British culture and society. Matthew Dennison is the author of ten critically acclaimed works of non‐fiction, including The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter, Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia, The Twelve Caesars, Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions, and short biographies of Beatrix Potter, Kenneth Grahame and Roald Dahl. Matthew's books have been published in over 20 languages.
06 May 2027 Hardback 9781788545945 • £30.00 EBook 9781788545938 • £21.00 Audio Book 9781035931750 • £16.00
The Greatest Day
Untitled Diana Souhami Memoir
The Day the Royal Air Force Won the Battle of Britain, 15th September 1940
Diana Souhami
David Price
Evocative biography of growing up and learning to love in queer postwar London from the author of award‐winning biographies
A thrilling hour‐by‐hour account of the events of 15 September 1940, the critical turning point in the Battle of Britain.
Diana Souhami entered the world under falling bombs, born into a 1940s London of blackouts, sirens and scarcity. Her childhood was a lesson in watchfulness, shaped by her mother’s unpredictable moods and the suffocating rules of class and femininity. Longing for escape, she found refuge in books and the intense, private attachments she formed with women – teachers, nurses, heroines – long before she understood the nature of her own desire.
This is the story of how the Luftwaffe’s all‐out attempt to destroy the Royal Air Force with an armada of bombers was thwarted by the Spitfires and Hurricanes of RAF Fighter Command. Now celebrated as ‘Battle of Britain Day’, 15 September 1940 is widely recognized as the critical turning point of that battle, a day whose outcome led Hitler to abandon his plans for an invasion of Britain – and allowed Britons to dare to hope that the Nazi war machine might be defeated. Drawing on official records and accounts of the time, as well as on previously unpublished letters, diaries and the photograph albums of airmen’s families, David Price pieces together the events of a momentous day to create a narrative that is as rich in evocative detail as it is in touching human stories. David Price's early interest in aviation was inspired by days exploring deserted RAF airfields in his native Cumbria. He has written for many newspapers and magazines on military aviation and is the author of A Bomber Crew Mystery. The Crew, the story of an Avro Lancaster crew during the Second World War, and How to Build a Spitfire.
Souhami's memoir traces a jagged path from a repressed postwar girlhood to the liberating chaos of literary London in the 1960s. It’s a story of finding oneself in the margins: of sexual confusion and discovery, of surviving harassment, and of finally recognizing herself as a lesbian at a time when visibility was a radical act. With the same sharp insight and obsessive curiosity that defines her celebrated biographies, Souhami tells us of a fascinating life forged in secrets and survival. 13 May 2027 Hardback 9781035902217 • £25.00 EBook 9781035902194 • £17.50 Audio Book 9781035909414 • £16.00
Diana Souhami was brought up in London and studied philosophy at Hull University. She has published biographies of Gluck, Gertrude Stein, Alice Keppel, Radclyffe Hall, Romaine Brooks and Edith Cavell. Her biography of Alexander Selkirk, Selkirk's Island won the Whitbread Biography Award, and her history of twentieth‐century cultural pioneers, No Modernism Without Lesbians, won the Polari Prize.
Seasons and Castles
Napoleon
Tracing the Lost Gardens of Europe
The Shadow of the Revolution
Peter Davidson
Bart Van Loo
Beautifully crafted interconnected tales of visits to extraordinary gardens and palaces in Europe throughout the four seasons of the year.
Translated by Nancy Forest-Flier
Peter Davidson’s Seasons and Castles is a beautifully realised, elegiac account of visits made in each of the four seasons of the year to some of the most extraordinary – and unfamiliar – gardens and palaces of Europe, from the shores of the western Baltic to the Atlantic coast of Andalusia.
A gripping biography of the infamous Napoleon Bonaparte, from the bestselling author of The Burgundians. How did a young officer from an island barely integrated into the French state convince the French that he was their man of destiny? What lies behind the great stories of a man who inspired the Civil Code that still governs French life, who caused the deaths of millions and who was finally brought low on a dreary, muddy field at Waterloo?
Davidson expertly guides readers through a plethora of exquisite locations, including the Villa Buonaccorsi in Italy’s Marche region, conceived by the botanist Giovanni Battista Ferrari, the allegorical garden designed for a miniature city by Count Franz Anton von Sporck, the castle garden of Valdemars Slot, used by Resistance fighters to escape Nazi occupiers, and Rex Whistler’s haunting mural at Plas Newydd on Anglesey. This is a collection of journeys of aesthetic delight, intellectual exploration and historical fascination, opening up unexpected vistas of beauty, fragility and transience, each of them lovingly savoured for their hues, scents and seasonal character. Peter Davidson is a Senior Research Fellow in Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Curator of the Campion Hall Collection at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He is the author of The Universal Baroque, The Idea of North, Distance and Memory, and The Last of the Light.
27 May 2027 Hardback 9781800249424 • £25.00 EBook 9781800249448 • £10.39 01 January 2098 Audio Book 9781837938438 • £14.00
This is the life of Napoleon as you’ve never seen it before. 03 June 2027 Hardback 9781801101219 • £25.00 EBook 9781801101233 • £17.50 Audio Book 9781035929191 • £14.00
Bart Van Loo’s captivating narrative captures the creation of the man and the myth. He traces the origins of Napoleon’s legendary status to the turbulent events of the French Revolution, offering a powerful and lucid panorama of those sanguinary and glorious imperial years. Van Loo reveals to us the paradoxes of this epoch anew through its most iconic figure. He posits, ultimately, that Napoleon can be reinterpreted as nothing more than the shadow of the Revolution. Bart Van Loo is the author of the universally praised France Trilogy, the bestseller Chanson: A sung history of France, and The Burgundians, which was the first of his books to be translated into English and selected by The Times as a book of the year.
10 June 2027 Hardback 9781035926893 • £30.00 EBook 9781035926916 • £21.00 Audio Book 9781035926947 • £16.00
The Kremlin History's Bloodiest Citadel
Alan Philps The intriguing history of the Kremlin, from its construction to its role in modern‐day Russia and the war against Ukraine. Alan Philps crafts a portrait of the Kremlin from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin, revealing the palace to be an embodiment of Russia's imperial identity for tsars and commissars alike. Philps brings readers inside the Kremlin at key points in history: to meet Napoleon brooding over his march on Moscow, to witness Stalin charming Churchill, and Putin rising the political ranks. Each chapter focuses on an event or location in the Kremlin ‐ and highlights how some rulers sought to embed themselves in the Kremlin, whilst others distanced themselves from the ghosts that stalked its corridors. Taking the narrative up to the present day, The Kremlin explores how the Moscow fortress has kept alive the spirit of the Russian empire, and sheds new light on the rise of the Russian state and the roots of the centuries‐old rivalry between Moscow and Kyiv that led Putin towards war in 2022. Alan Philps is an expert on Russia, its people and its politics. As a senior reporter, he lived and worked in Moscow for decades, including in the 1980s under leaders Mikhail Gorbachev, and in the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin. He is the author of The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War.
24 June 2027 Hardback 9781035914111 • £25.00 EBook 9781035914159 • £17.50 Audio Book 9781035914128 • £14.99