July-Dec 2025 Bloomsbury Catalogue

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The Graces

The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court

Breeze Barrington

A spellbinding work of history uncovering the lives and work of Maria of Modena and her ‘graces’, the extraordinary women of the Jacobite court

In 1673, fifteen-year-old Maria d’Este travelled from Italy to marry James, the future King of England, a man twenty-five years her senior. Thrust from a pious life on the path to become a nun, at the debauched court of Charles II she set about recreating the world she’d left behind – a world where women were highly educated, exercised power and celebrated art and artists with concentrated patronage.

A spellbinding narrative, drawing from her re-discovered correspondence, The Graces resurrects the life of Maria, later known as Mary of Modena – one of the most cultured people, man or woman to sit upon the English throne – and those of the astute, gifted young women she surrounded herself with at the Restoration court.

This tumultuous era in England’s history is defined by invasions, depositions and Civil War. But behind well-known stories, there existed another world: one of female friendship, learning and artistic endeavour. The Graces is that story.

Breeze Barrington is a cultural historian specialising in the artistic cultures of the seventeenth century, with particular focus on women’s history and female artists. As an arts writer and critic, she has written for outlets including the Financial Times and the TLS. She teaches literature at Cambridge and is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

July 2025

Hardback 9781526663788 • £25.00

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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.

Here and Beyond

Six hundred humans journey into the darkness of space in search of a new home in this mesmerising speculative debut

After the collapse of life on Earth as it once was known, 600 people are selected for passage on Shipworld, a spacecraft charting a 360-year voyage to a new planet. Their mission will see generation after generation born, living and dying on board – until one day their descendants finally step foot on the ‘Super Earth’ that might offer the last chance for humankind’s survival.

But life aboard Shipworld is far from a waiting game. The spacecraft promises a world of its own, a harmonious system free of class distinctions and wealth accumulation. Yet with each wave of passengers, new challenges arise – from an outbreak of disease that could eradicate their population and a traumatic encounter with a mysterious space phenomenon, to rebels who threaten the unity of the mission and all they’ve been living for.

Hal LaCroix lives outside Boston with his wife, Elahna. He has worked as a journalist at newspapers in New England, a reporter and editor at Harvard Medical School, a conservation writer for non-profits and an instructor at Boston University. Here and Beyond is his first novel.

July 2025

Hardback 9781526678256 • £16.99

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My Sister and Other Lovers

Esther Freud

A captivating coming-of-age novel about love, sisterhood, secrets and betrayal; ‘slender, perfect and sparkling’ (Meg Mason)

For as long as Lucy can remember she’s been caught between love for her rootless, idealistic mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. From their unsettled childhood to their restless teenage years – hitchhiking through rural Ireland, the move to a communal house – she’s been forced to make a choice.

But as the girls come of age and embark on their own experiments – in love, drugs, work, motherhood – Bea is in danger of drifting further and further away. Can their loyalty to one another transcend the damages of a past that has become almost too dangerous to examine?

With scalpel-sharp insight, Esther Freud excavates the most intimate relationships of our lives, laying bare the fear and longing, the secrets and mistrust. My Sister and Other Lovers is an irresistible exploration of love, family and freedom in all its forms.

Esther Freud is the author of nine previous novels, and her work has been translated into thirteen languages. Her first novel Hideous Kinky was made into a film starring Kate Winslet, and she was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists 1993. Her other novels include The Sea House Mr Mac and Me, and I Couldn’t Love You More She lives in London.

July 2025

Hardback 9781526685209 • £18.99

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Hal LaCroix

Groundwater

Thomas McMullan

By the winner of the Betty Trask Prize – an atmospheric and powerfully menacing story about family, secrets and violence

‘A ruthless and minutely observed reckoning with the places we make to shelter from fear’ Amber Husain ‘This is a novel that gets right under your skin’ Ella Frears

John and Liz have left the city behind to move to a remote house on the shores of the lake. Though the house is barely unpacked, Liz’s sister, with her children and her husband, have come to visit for the August bank holiday weekend.

Over the course of a hot, slow weekend, tensions simmer; things go unsaid – between the two couples, between the two sisters. Their time together is punctured by visits from Jim, the solitary local warden; and a group of students camping nearby draw closer and closer, finally infiltrating the house – and bringing their own tensions and hierarchies with them.

As the weekend draws to a close, the landscape reveals a violence that has long lain hidden – and the summer builds to its harrowing climax.

Thomas McMullan’s debut novel, The Last Good Man, won the 2021 Betty Trask Prize. His writing has appeared in Granta, 3:AM Magazine and Best British Short Stories; his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian and BBC News. He has also worked with theatre companies and games studios, including Punchdrunk and Roll7.

July 2025

Hardback 9781526678027 • £16.99

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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.

A Life and a Half

The Unexpected Making of a Politician

Chris Bryant

The gripping, funny and sometimes upsetting story of an idealistic young boy’s determination to change the world he saw around him

Before he was a politician, Chris Bryant was an Anglican priest, baptising babies and holding the hand of parishioners as they died. Before that, he acted in the National Youth Theatre, and before that, he was the scarred son of an alcoholic mother and an estranged father.

All of this has made him the man – and the minister – he is today.

Bryant has seen – and experienced – it all. Held aloft at the home of Welsh rugby on the day of his birth, he spent his early years in Spain under Franco and at a unique boarding school in Scotland. Later came the shanty towns of Peru and protest marches in Argentina, where he shed his conservatism and the first buds of his socialism began to form, followed by a claustrophobic Oxfordshire theological college, where he trained for the priesthood. Spells as a curate, a chaplain and a Hackney councillor have made him equally at home behind the altar, in sweaty gay nightclubs, on the hustings or the stage. Bryant tells a story of bishops and actors, saucy drag queens and pushy candidates, stuffed with moments of joy and hilarity and sorrow and abuse. All while tracking the landscape of late-twentieth-century British politics, from Thatcher to the birth of New Labour.

Chris Bryant is an acclaimed historian of Parliament, an expert on parliamentary procedure and a Sunday Times-bestselling author. He has been the MP for the Rhondda since 2001 and was Shadow Minister for Creative Industries and Digital. Between 2020 and 2023, he chaired the Committees on Standards and Privileges.

August 2025

Hardback 9781526680914 • £25.00

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Island at the Edge of the World

The Forgotten History of Easter Island

Mike Pitts & Mike Pitts

A brilliant new account of one of the world’s most remote, mysterious and misunderstood places: Easter Island.

Easter Island is one of the most inaccessible places on the planet, made famous by its thousand huge statues. For too long, people have imposed their own theories on how the inhabitants came to live there and what happened to them.

Thor Heyerdahl, after his famous Kon-Tiki expedition, claimed the island had been discovered by light-skinned people from South America, believing only they were capable of travelling there and building the statues. Erich von Däniken took it to greater extremes, saying the statues had been carved by aliens. More recently, Jared Diamond’s theory of ecocide – that Islanders destroyed their world by cutting down all the trees – has become popular as a vital message about the need to conserve our planet’s resources.

With new research and local indigenous histories, archaeologist Mike Pitts creates a fascinating portrait of Easter Island – and reveals how the truth is even more remarkable than the fiction.

Mike Pitts is an archaeologist, journalist and author of multiple books on archaeology. He has been a regular contributor for The Times Telegraph, Sunday Times Guardian, New Scientist BBC History Magazine, among others, and continues to conduct original archaeological research. Mike is also the editor of Britain’s leading archaeology magazine, British Archaeology and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

September 2025

Hardback 9781526667250 • £25.00

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The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle

Richard Vinen

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

De Gaulle – tall, gauche, charmless and incorruptible – exhibited qualities often associated with the English. Churchill – short, charming, a bon vivant and fond of money – 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.

August 2025

Hardback 9781526668936 • £25.00

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Moonlight Express

Around the World By Night Train

Monisha Rajesh

From the author of Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new globetrotting celebrating the magic night trains

The wonder of the night train: headlamps ablaze, passengers boarding after sunset and leaving before sunrise, slipping in and out of compartments unseen. For Monisha Rajesh, the singular thrill of sleeper trains inspired a new journey around the world – one filled with moonlit landscapes, cosy compartments and quirky companions.

From Austria’s Nightjet to Scotland’s Caledonian Sleeper, Rajesh invites us on an adventure aboard the world’s most wondrous night trains. She samples reindeer stew in Norway, sips on pisco sours while riding the Andean Explorer – and considers a game of cricket down a carriage on the Shalimar Express.

As people search for slower and more environmentally friendly ways to travel, night trains are in the midst of a renaissance. By turns romantic and hilarious, Moonlight Express brings us along for the ride – and drops us back at the platform before sunrise.

Monisha Rajesh has written for Time, the New York Times the Guardian and the Telegraph. Her first book, Around India in 80 Trains, was named one of the Independent’s best books on India. Her second book, Around the World in 80 Trains, was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award and won the National Geographic Traveller Award. She lives in London.

Opt Out

Carolina Setterwall

Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner

A smart, unsentimental and addictively readable novel about the dissolution – and the ensuing fallout – of a marriage

Everything will be fine. That is what Mary and John promise when they tell their two children that they are getting a divorce.

But John is quickly scooped up by a new woman, while Mary is forced to realise that being a single adult woman is not an uncomplicated matter. As John moves on with the children’s trust and his personal finances intact, Mary – who has spent her life living for the approval of others – must reevaluate herself, her choices and her life.

Smart, intimate and emotionally astute, Opt Out is a story about family and love – for better or for worse – and the difficulties of breaking away from the constraints of one life in pursuit of another.

Praise for Carolina Setterwall and Let’s Hope for the Best

'I've read it twice now ... Utterly compulsive' Marian Keyes 'I think the world should read it' Lisa

Carolina Setterwall was born in Sala, Sweden, and is the author of Let’s Hope for the Best. After studying Media and Communication in Uppsala, Stockholm, and London, she has worked within the music and publishing industries as an editor and writer. Setterwall lives in Stockholm with her son.

August 2025

Hardback 9781526608116 • £16.99

Bloomsbury Circus

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Breaking Awake

A Reporter's Search for a New Life, and a New World, 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.

September 2025

Hardback 9781526658067 • £20.00

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Taddeo

All the Way to the River

Love, Loss and Liberation

Elizabeth Gilbert

An essential, universally resonant new memoir from the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: the two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?

All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love – or to any other passion, substance or craving – and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of many internationally bestselling books, most recently the novel City of Girls She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. She lives in New Jersey.

September 2025

Hardback 9781526654564 • £20.00

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Still Bobbi

Bobbi Brown

Bobbi Brown, iconic and innovative makeup maven and entrepreneur, shares her story of invention and reinvention in her captivating memoir

When cosmetic trends were about covering, contouring, and transforming, Bobbi Brown blazed her own path, creating makeup that accentuated natural beauty and natural makeup, revolutionising the makeup industry. This philosophy is part of who she is and the way she lives her life. Real is better than fake. Simple is better than complicated. Family comes first. When life throws obstacles in your path, don’t wallow; figure it out. And this hard-earned, deceptively simple wisdom is at the center of Still Bobbi

The one thing Bobbi has never written about is her life. For the first time, Bobbi shares with her millions of fans where she comes from, how she navigated her childhood, formed her concept of beauty, built a billion-dollar worldwide business, left her own brand, and built another one. In sharing her practical wisdom, tips, and business savvy, Bobbi’s transformational stories give you the tools to reach for your own dreams and jump into life-changing action.

Bobbi Brown is a beauty industry titan, world-renowned makeup artist, bestselling author, sought-after speaker, serial entrepreneur, and the founder of her eponymous beauty brand and Jones Road Beauty. Born in Chicago and a graduate of Emerson College, Bobbi was named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in 2021 and in 2022, was named one of Forbes “50 Over 50” Most Influential Women.

Buckeye

Patrick Ryan

A warm and emotionally affecting novel about marriage and family, connection and community, set in a small Midwestern American town

‘Funny and tender ... Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers’ ANN PATCHETT

‘I love this novel with my entire heart … Wise and heartbreaking’ ANN NAPOLITANO

In the small Ohio town of Bonhomie, Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt come together in a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe. Cal’s wife, Becky, is a seer who helps families connect with those whom they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship.

But in a small town, nothing stays buried forever, and the consequences of that encounter will ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to re-examine what the future might hold.

Full of compassion, humour and charm, Buckeye is a dazzling portrait of an unforgettable community: of hopes and fears, loves and losses, and above all an indomitable longing for connection.

Patrick Ryan is the former associate editor of Granta, current editor-in-chief of One Story and author of three novels for young adults. His short story collection The Dream Life of Astronauts was longlisted for The Story Prize, and his debut collection, Send Me, was selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover New Writers program. He lives in New York City.

September 2025

Hardback 9781526689283 • £16.99

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Under the Blue

Suzannah V. Evans

From the multi-award-winning poet: a new collection of soaring lyricism and desire, exploring the act of care and the consequences of loving

Under the Blue is an arresting, deeply candid exploration of both the shimmering beauty of life and the realities of care.

Through a series of glittering fragmental prose poems and evocative postcards, Suzannah V. Evans has produced a kaleidoscopic meditation grounded by profound humanity and empathy – about intimacy and togetherness, sickness and pain, what can be said and what remains unsayable.

Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher and educator. She is the author of Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language, and the editor of All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue Her poetry has been awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and a Northern Writers’ Award. She lives in Bristol, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Under the Blue is her debut collection.

September 2025

Paperback 9781526677723 • £12.99

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Will There Ever Be Another You

Patricia Lockwood

Emotionally profound and fiendishly funny, this is the hugely anticipated new novel from Patricia Lockwood

'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale

The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, and ‘WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME’ plays over and over in her ears. ‘I’m sorry not to respond to your email,’ she writes, ‘but I live completely in the present now.’

But tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection beckons from the other side – and with it, the chance for a blinding reemergence into the world.

From one of our most original and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times.

Patricia Lockwood is the author of four books, including No One Is Talking About This, an international bestseller which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and translated into twenty languages. Lockwood's work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker and London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.

September 2025

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9781526689207 • £16.99

Bloomsbury Circus

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Pick a Colour

Souvankham Thammavongsa

From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour and class

Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer’s day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound complexity. A woman enthralled by the intricacy and rhythms of her work, but also haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost. A woman navigating the complex power dynamics among her fellow Susans, whose greatest fears and desires lie just behind the gossip they exchange.

As the day’s work grinds on, the friction between Ning’s two identities – as anonymous manicurist and brilliant observer of her own circumstances – will gather electric and crackling force, and at last demand a reckoning with the way the world of privilege looks at a woman like Ning.

Told over a single day with razor-sharp precision and wit, Pick a Colour confirms Souvankham Thammavongsa’s place as literature’s premier chronicler of the immigrant experience, in its myriad, complex and slyly subversive forms.

Souvankham Thammavongsa’s fiction has appeared in the New Yorker Harper's, Granta the Paris Review and more. Her collection of short stories, How to Pronounce Knife, won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, and her poetry has won numerous prizes.

September 2025

Hardback 9781526610485 • £12.99

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Mavericks

Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One

Nick Higham

We think we know the story of the First World War – a grim tale of brave soldiers led to slaughter on the Western Front, pawns in a brutal and senseless conflict. For countless young men who served their country, this is tragically true. Yet beyond the familiar narratives lies a forgotten chapter of mavericks and misfits who defied the odds and carved their own paths through history.

In Mavericks Nick Higham introduces us to a small band of British soldiers, diplomats, spies and adventurers dispatched to the shores of the Caspian Sea amidst the revolutions of 1917. While their contemporaries fought in the trenches, these men – enterprising, fearless and often reckless – embarked on a hastily devised mission: to block the Turks and mitigate a murky struggle between the rising Bolsheviks and their enemies.

Drawing on personal diaries, memoirs and once-secret government archives, Mavericks brings to life a cast of eccentric heroes who survived against all odds to tell their extraordinary tales.

Nick Higham is a writer and former journalist who spent nearly 30 years as a BBC correspondent. He also presented 'Meet the Author' on the BBC News Channel. An accomplished television and radio performer, he is also a regular interviewer at literary festivals.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526677013 • £22.00

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The Library of Lost Maps

James Cheshire

At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library packed with thousands of maps and atlases. After Professor James Cheshire stumbled upon it, he spent three years sifting through hundreds of drawers to see what was there. He was stunned to uncover some of the most significant maps and atlases from the last two

The Library of Lost Maps we discover atlases for the masses that expanded nineteenthcentury horizons and maps that were wielded by those in power to wage war and negotiate peace; charts that trace the icy peaks of the Himalayas and the deepest depths of the ocean; and pioneering maps produced to settle borders in central Europe or the wealth of those in inner-city London. Maps have vitally shaped our scientific knowledge of the world, and they have also guided politicians, encouraging both beneficial reforms and horrific conquests.

Beautifully illustrated throughout and brimming with astonishing discoveries, The Library of Lost Maps reveals how map-making has helped transform our understanding of the world around us.

James Cheshire is Britain’s only Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography. A world-leading map maker, his cartographic creations have been enjoyed by millions. He is an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has been recognised with many prestigious awards from the likes of the Royal Geographical Society and the British Cartographic Society. His co-authored book Atlas of the Invisible won the American Association of Geographer’s Globe Award.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526676610 • £30.00

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Every Day I Read

53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

Hwang Bo-reum

Translated by Shanna Tan

From the internationally bestselling author of Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life.

Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?

Rarely do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our relationship to the joy of reading.But in this gentle, philosophical collection celebrating books, reading and language, HwangBo-reumdoesn’t just tell us, but shows us what living a life immersed in reading means.

Every Day I Read provides many quiet moments for introspection and reflection,encourages book-lovers to explore what reading means to each of us. While this is a book about books, at its heart is an attitude to life, one outside capitalism and climbing the corporate ladder. Readers and non-readers will take away something from it, including a treasure trove of book recommendations blended seamlessly within.

Hwang Bo-reum is the author of the bestselling Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop (tr. Shanna Tan, Bloomsbury, 2023) and has authored several essay collections

Shanna Tan is a Singaporean translator working from Korean, Chinese and Japanese into English. She was selected for two emerging literary translator mentorships in 2022, where she was mentored by Anton Hur and Julia Sanches.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526692801 • £14.99

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Carol Patricia Highsmith

Soon to be a major Studio Canal film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteenyear-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...

First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.

Patricia Highsmith is the author of classics such as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Born in Texas, she spent much of her life in England, France and Switzerland. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526693921 • £20.00

Paperback 9781408808979 • £9.99

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Jesus Christ Kinski

Benjamin Myers

A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prizewinning Cuddy

November, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night.

Klaus Kinski, Germany’s most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands.

After years of making movies abroad, he has returned to the stage for a much-publicized one-man performance about Jesus Christ. As the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened, it is also very nearly his last. After this week, he will never perform on stage again.

Exactly fifty years later, a hypochondriac writer, housebound by winter snowstorms, becomes fixated with video footage of Kinski at his most manic.

In this forensic analysis, he strays into the darker corners of modern culture, and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection.

Benjamin Myers is the author of ten books, including Cuddy, which was awarded the Goldsmiths Prize 2023; The Offing, which was an international bestseller and selected for the Radio 2 Book Club; and The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize and was adapted for a BBC series by Shane Meadows with A24. He lives in West Yorkshire.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526663429 • £16.99

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Bread of Angels

Patti Smith

A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.

‘God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper’, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.

The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into iconic recordings such as Horses and ‘Because the Night’. She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan.

As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

Patti Smith is a writer, performer and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Her books include Just Kids (winner of the National Book Award in 2010), Witt Babel, Woolgathering The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence M Train and Year of the Monkey She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Smith resides in New York City.

November 2025

Hardback 9781408867723 • £25.00

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The First Celebrity Chef

Ian Kelly

Carême weaves together recipes and biography in a history of Regency-era Europe fit for kings to unveil the life of the first celebrity chef: Antonin Carême

Tracing the fairytale-like rise of Antonin Carême from Parisian orphan to a household name synonymous with culinary luxury, Carême offers a below-stairs perspective on one of the most momentous, and sensuous, periods in European history: First Empire Paris, Georgian England, and the Russia of War and Peace.

Carême’s ability to intuit the tastes of European royalty was an unendingly useful and astounding tool: he knew the favourite dishes of King George IV, the Rothschilds and the Romanovs; he knew Napoleon's fast-food requirements, and why Empress Josephine suffered halitosis.

Blending the incredible aetiology of Carême’s stardom and recipes he curated which once graced the dining tables of monarchs of old and remain classics of French cuisine, Ian Kelly offers a window into a sumptuous world of casseroles and kings.

Ian Kelly is an actor and writer. He has lived and worked in France, Russia, South America and the United States, and writes frequently about food and travel for many British publications, including The Times and the Guardian.

January 2098

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El Generalísimo

Franco: Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness

Giles Tremlett

From a scrawny, overlooked military graduate to the youngest general in Europe, Francisco Franco was known for his ambition, talent and calculated risk-taking. Yet his reputation remains a topic of fierce debate. Did he destroy Spain and stifle its democracy or rescue the nation from left-wing tumult? In this compelling biography, Giles Tremlett unravels the complex life and legacy of the enigmatic dictator who shaped twentiethcentury Spanish history.

The narrative of El Generalísimo follows Franco's ruthless leadership during the Civil War, his alignment with Hitler and Mussolini and the subsequent Cold War era that brought him international rehabilitation. Tremlett interrogates Franco's transformation of Spain through a lens that challenges the conventional view of him as a bumbling leader. Instead, arguing that Franco was a pragmatic dictator who wielded terror to maintain an iron grip on power, and whose lasting contribution was the period of peace that allowed Spain to challenge the absolutist spirit he embodied.

Nuanced and comprehensive, El Generalísimo offers a fresh perspective that reveals the intricate interplay of ambition and fearlessness of Francisco Franco; and examines his enduring legacy that continues to shape Spain's political and cultural landscape.

Giles Tremlett is a prize-winning historian, author and journalist based in Madrid, Spain. He has lived in, and written extensively about, Spain almost continuously since graduating from Oxford University thirty-five years ago. He is Visiting Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre at the London School of Economics, writes opinion and long form reportage for the Guardian and is a former Madrid correspondent for the Economist.

Maryville

Joelle Taylor

From the T.S. Eliot and Polari Prize-winning author of C+NTO & Othered Poems comes an innovative collection exploring the scars, hopes and potentialities of dyke counterculture & the queer underground.

With a vividly sketched cast of characters, award-winning poet Joelle Taylor uses the Maryville butch bar as a lens through which to consider the underground histories of queer London. The violence and pain of oppression and the beauty and intimacy of community are rendered in awe-inspiring high definition in a collection as filmic as it is familiar. A hybrid chronicle, magic trick, prayer, & insurrection Maryville conjures ghosts back to their bodies, a community to their feet.

Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring.

November 2025

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The Seven Rules of Trust

And Why It Is Today's Most Essential Superpower

Jimmy Wales

Internet pioneer and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales shares his clear, actionable rules for building trust in business, leadership and life

When Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia more than two decades ago, he changed the landscape of knowledge forever – although almost no one realised it at the time. Now, in a ‘post-truth’ era where facts are increasingly malleable, he reminds us that it’s more important than ever to return to the problem at the heart of it all. Because without trust, we have no knowledge. And without knowledge, we can’t fight back.

In The Seven Rules of Trust, Wales shares the fundamental pillars of his work – principles that transformed a website from which information was once spurned into a universally trusted source for facts. This book will help you break away from being subject to trends. If you want to build something, start something, or just get back to work in the most resilient way possible, this is how to begin.

Jimmy Wales is an internet entrepreneur who is best known as the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, he was acknowledged by the World Economic Forum as one of the top 250 leaders across the world. Born in Huntsville, Alabama, he lives with his family in London.

November 2025

Hardback 9781526651952 • £30.00

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October 2025

Hardback 9781526665010 • £22.00

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Convent Wisdom

How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life

Ana Garriga & Carmen Urbita

When we think of nuns, we picture hands clasped in prayer, solemn shuffles down cloistered halls, and that iconic habit silhouette. In reality, these women were no onedimensional martyrs. 16th- and 17th-century nuns were resourceful, rebellious, and refreshingly relatable--and their lives hold surprising lessons for us today.

Convent Wisdom is your guide to navigating everything from patriarchal bureaucracy to an all-consuming friend crush with help from history's most fascinating nuns. Struggling with money? Saint Teresa and her fellow Carmelites have recession-proof advice. Scrolling social media and drowning in FOMO? Mary of Jesus of Ágreda's miraculous ability to engage in bilocation might help you cope.

Blending rigorous research with tongue-in-cheek takeaways and weaving pop culture and personal anecdotes throughout, Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita lift the veil on monastic life so you can better conquer today's anxiety-ridden, hyper-connected world.

Ana Garriga is a scholar of early modern Spain and Latin America. She earned her PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2017, where she received the extraordinary PhD award. She joined the graduate program of Hispanic Studies at Brown University in 2016 supported by a Presidential Fellowship. She has published extensively in academic journals and presented at conferences including Renaissance Society of America.

Carmen Urbita earned her PhD from Brown University in 2025. Prior to joining the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown, she completed her BA in comparative literature at King's College London and was granted a scholarship to pursue a Master of Studies at the University of Oxford. She has presented at conferences such as the Renaissance Society of America and has published in academic journals such as Romanic Review. In 2016, she met Ana Garriga, and four years later, they launched the podcast Las hijas de Felipe.

November 2025

Hardback 9781526680709 • £16.99

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The Matchbox Girl

Alice Jolly

A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a young girl’s battle for survival and search for the truth in occupied Vienna

Adelheid Brunner does not speak. She writes and draws instead and her ambition is to own one thousand matchboxes. She makes herself invisible, hiding in cupboards with her pet rat, Franz Joseph, listening in on conversations she can’t fully comprehend.

Then she meets Dr Asperger, a man who lets children play all day and who recognises the importance of matchboxes. He invites Adelheid to come and live at the Vienna paediatric clinic, where she and other children like herself will live under observation.

But the date is 1938 and the place is Vienna – why are the clinic's children disappearing, and where do they go? Adelheid starts to suspect that some of Dr Asperger’s games are played for the highest stakes. In order to survive, she must play a game whose rules she cannot yet understand.

Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her writing has been awarded the PEN/Ackerley Prize, an O Henry Prize and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, and been longlisted for Ondaatje Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. She teaches on the Creative Writing Masters at Oxford University.

November 2025

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Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

Gillian Anderson

A revelatory and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality, compiling the anonymous fantasies of women around the world

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous?

When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet for many reasons – some complicated, some not – so many of us don’t talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key.

Here’s the key.

In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of self-identifying women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter). Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous.

Gillian Anderson is an award-winning film, television and theatre actor. Among other honours, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Evening Standard Theatre Award. In 2016 Anderson was appointed an honorary OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her services to drama. She lives in London.

July 2025

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A Mudlarking Year

Finding Treasure in Every Season Lara Maiklem

From bestselling-author of Mudlarking comes another thoughtful examination of a year exploring the most overlooked, yet exclusive part of London

For over two decades, Lara Maiklem has been scouring the banks of the tidal Thames looking for objects – lost or discarded – that tell forgotten stories. In this book, Lara widens her search beyond the river and reminds us that it’s possible to draw meaning in the most unlikely of places.

As she searches the foreshore through the changing seasons, she is at times aided by the illumination of the falling winter sun or hindered by bright summer skies. Yet, by working in harmony with the unpredictable terrain, she finds solace in aligning with the elements and uncovering the treasures that are bestowed by the tide. From medieval pilgrim badges and Tudor love tokens, to Georgian wig curlers and Victorian pottery, each passing day unearths ordinary and extraordinary objects that tell the rich story of London’s past and its inhabitants.

A Mudlarking Year is a gentle ode to nature, history and the simple art of looking.

Lara Maiklem moved from her family's farm to London in the 1990s and has been mudlarking along the River Thames for over two decades. She now lives with her family on the Kent coast within easy reach of the river, which she visits as regularly as the tides permit. Her first book, Mudlarking, was a critically acclaimed bestseller.

Goodbye to Russia

A Personal Reckoning from the Ruins of War

Sarah Rainsford

The BBC's former Moscow correspondent who was expelled from Russia brings a human perspective to Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine

In 2021, Sarah Rainsford set out to write a book about how Russians who dared to think differently to the Putin regime were being labelled as enemies, foreign agents and even traitors. It was something she experienced when she was expelled from Russia as a supposed ‘security threat’. Then in February 2022 Putin began his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

This is the story of how Putin changed Russia so deeply that he was able to launch the biggest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Sarah’s focus is on the extraordinary characters she has encountered, from the Russians such as Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny who paid with their lives for challenging Putin, to the Ukrainians she found burying their dead in Bucha. It is also her own, personal reckoning with Russia.

The culmination of many years of on-the-ground reporting, Goodbye to Russia brings a human perspective to a story that is often faceless.

Sarah Rainsford is a BBC foreign correspondent whose reporting career in Russia has spanned Vladimir Putin's two decades in power. After stints as BBC correspondent in Istanbul, Madrid and Havana, she returned to Russia in 2014 and was based in Moscow until her expulsion as a 'security threat' on 31 August 2021. She is now the BBC's Eastern Europe correspondent.

July 2025

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The Striker and the Clock

Georgia Cloepfil

‘Riveting ... A paean to the beautiful game’ Los Angeles Times

‘A compelling debut’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Full of wisdom won not through adulation but persistence’ Washington Post ‘A unique and fascinating insight into the mind of a professional athlete’ Evening Standard

In The Striker and the Clock, Georgia Cloepfil tells the story of her life in football: the triumph, the exhilaration, the deep bonds between teammates, and also the years of selfdenial, exile and dedication, in which players try in vain to outpace a clock that ticks down toward an indeterminate ending.

What emerges is a profound meditation on what it is to have a body, and what it is to have the compulsion to push it to do the near impossible; and a love letter to the motivations, joys, pains and desires of a beautiful game.

Georgia Cloepfil is a writer and a women’s soccer coach. Cloepfil played on women’s professional and semi-professional teams all over the world, from Korea to Australia to Sweden. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Washington Post, as well as many other publications. The Striker and the Clock was shortlisted for the 2022 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize.

July 2025

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Are You Awake?

Sarah Crossan

A provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection, and all the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take in a lifetime.

On an ordinary morning in an ordinary house, a woman discovers a secret her husband has been keeping. It is a secret that explodes their marriage.

As Dolores grapples with her new reality, she unwillingly delves into her past to work out how she got here, unpicking the seams of the relationships that have built her. She’s a sister, a daughter, a wife, a teacher. How much does her past have to influence her present? Can’t she just forgive and forget?

And most importantly: what is a woman for, anyway?

Sarah Crossan grew up in Dublin and London. Her books for children and teenagers have won many prizes including the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal, the CBI Book of the Year, the YA Book Prize, and the CLiPPA Poetry Award. Her first novel for adults, Here Is The Beehive, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim. Sarah’s novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She currently lives in East Sussex.

July 2025

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Misrecognition

Madison Newbound

A smart, savage and hilarious debut exploring love, sexuality, purpose – and the delicious absurdities of online life

‘A brave and blazingly smart debut’ Garth Greenwell ‘Quick, playful, self-deprecating’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Fresh and bold. I was mesmerised’ Julia May Jonas

Elsa is struggling. The relationship that has consumed her twenties is over and now she’s working as a hostess in the small town where she grew up. Her one outlet is the internet: and she’s soon racking up hours of screentime in her childhood bedroom, falling down rabbit holes that promise a brighter, tidier, better future.

There’s one particular object of her obsession: an up-and-coming actor who starts to occupy her every thought. When the actor arrives in Elsa’s hometown, she finds her virtual and actual realities colliding. But as Elsa vies to infiltrate the young man’s circle, she finds a new and very real connection forming with one of his queer friends, forcing her to rethink her own identity and desires.

Madison Newbound is a writer and server living in Brooklyln, NY. Misrecognition is her first novel.

Rare Singles

'A book of rare charm by a writer who understands the magic of music' - IAN RANKIN

Benjamin Myers

A story of unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul music - by the winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize

Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, her one release comes at her town’s Northern Soul nights, where she gets to lose herself in the classics. Dinah has an especial hero: Bucky Bronco, who recorded a string of soul gems in the late Sixties and then vanished off the face of the earth.

Over in Chicago, Bucky Bronco has been down on his luck since the loss of his beloved Maybelle. The best he can hope for is to make ends meet, and try and stay high. But then an invitation arrives, from someone he’s never met, to come to somewhere he’s never heard of. Desperately in need of the cash, Bucky boards a plane.

And so he finds himself in rainy Scarborough, where everyone seems to know who is –preparing to play for an audience for the first time in nearly half a century...

Benjamin Myers is the author of ten books, including Cuddy, which was awarded the Goldsmiths Prize 2023; The Offing, which was an international bestseller and selected for the Radio 2 Book Club; and The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize and was adapted for a BBC series by Shane Meadows with A24. He lives in West Yorkshire.

July 2025

Paperback 9781526671912 • £9.99

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The Instrumentalist

The international bestseller

Harriet Constable

A top ten bestseller in The Times – by a major new talent in historical fiction

‘As tightly tuned as a thriller’ Telegraph ‘A marvel’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave ‘Compelling, vividly described magic’ Observer ‘Historical fiction as it should be written’ Mail on Sunday

Anna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent.

Her best hope lies in her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi. Soon she is his star pupil.

But as Anna Maria’s star rises, not everyone is happy. Because Anna Maria’s shining light is threatening to eclipse that of her mentor…

She will leave her mark, whatever it takes. And her story will be heard.

Harriet Constable is a writer and filmmaker based in London. Her work appears in the New York Times, Guardian and on the BBC, and she is a Pulitzer Center grantee. The Instrumentalist is her first novel. It became an international bestseller and was selected as one of the Observer’s top ten debuts of 2024, and has been translated into seventeen languages.

July 2025

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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak

Jamil Jan Kochai

A luminous new collection of stories from 'an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers' (New York Times)

In these arresting stories verging on both comedy and tragedy, PEN/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America.

Ranging from an American college student who starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine, to a government surveillance worker who becomes entrenched in an immigrant family’s life, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories is a moving exploration of characters grappling with the ghosts of war and displacementand one that speaks to the immediate political landscape we reckon with today.

Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His short stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and Los Angeles Times, among several other publications. Currently, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

July 2025

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The Autobiography Oleksandr Zinchenko

A fan favourite at Arsenal and previously at Manchester City, Oleksandr Zinchenko has been lighting up the Premier League with his fearless performances for many years. But his success has not come without its challenges. Having begun his career as a teenager at Shakhtar Donetsk, Zinchenko played amateur football when no club would sign him. But after he joined Manchester City in 2016 he would go on to experience exhilarating career highs, with four league titles in six years, before moving to Arsenal where he has played an integral part in their challenge for honours.

He has shown heroism of a very different kind through his extraordinary campaigning in support of his homeland during the ongoing war. After the invasion of Ukraine, he decided he could make the greatest difference by using his platform to spread awareness and raise money to support his country.

Written with candour and bravery, Believe is no ordinary tale of success on the pitch, but one of unwavering strength and integrity, tempered by sadness and anger. It provides unique insights into the methods of Pep Guardiola, Mikel Arteta and the machinations of elite football teams. It is the story of a selfless man who cares deeply for his homeland’s welfare, and always tries to deliver his best on and off the field.

Born in Radomyshl, Oleksandr Zinchenko was thirteen years old when he joined the academy of Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine’s most successful football club. Zinchenko began his professional career at Russian Premier League team Ufa before joining Manchester City in 2016. A versatile player, he started his career as an attacking midfielder, but eventually converted into a left back or wing back under Pep Guardiola, winning nine major honours at the club. He joined Arsenal in the summer of 2022, any by the start of 2024-2025 he has won 66 caps for Ukraine.

Scattered

The making and unmaking of a refugee Aamna

Mohdin

‘A brave, powerful, and deeply necessary book … A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon’ Afua Hirsch

‘A gifted storyteller’ Gary Younge

‘Fresh and important’ Guardian

‘An exceptional book’ Sally Hayden

When Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report from the frontlines of the refugee crisis, she was confronted by a reality she had been outrunning for two decades: that she had been a child refugee herself.

Determined to piece her scattered family history together, Mohdin set off on a mission. On her journey, she would not only confront the devastating legacy of displacement, but grapple with her own identity: as a Somalian; as a refugee; and as a Black British woman.

Scattered is a staggering investigation into the costs and consequences of displacement, written by a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience. But it is also an epic journey of returns and reunions, of facing the past and reckoning with trauma; and a defiant and joyful celebration of family.

Aamna Mohdin is the Guardian’s community affairs correspondent. Mohdin spent her early years in the Kakuma refugee camp, Saudi Arabia, Germany and the Netherlands, before arriving in the UK aged seven. Mohdin is the winner of the British Journalism Award 2022; her work has been shortlisted for the British Press Awards. She lives in London.

August 2025

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Go Lightly

'nails the chaos, panic and joy of being young'

Brydie

Lee-Kennedy

A funny and tender twenty-first century story of family, friendship, love – and how getting it wrong is sometimes the only way to get it right.

'Sharp and funny and humane ... Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit.' Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually

Why shouldn't a life be lived for pleasure?

Ada's answer to most questions is: yes. Every night is an opportunity to be thrilled and every morning a chance to recount it to her friends, so when she falls for Sadie and Stuart at the same time she sees no reason not to pursue them both. With each of them she’s a different person; with her family, too. But as the realities of modern life begin to catch up with her, and everyone wants Ada to define herself in relation to them, she feels the weight of the questions: which version of yourself is most true? And do other people enhance your best self, or distort it?

Brydie Lee-Kennedy is an Australian TV writer. She has written on shows for Netflix, Apple TV and Disney. In a former life she was a cabaret performer, kids party entertainer and sex columnist.

August 2025

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The thrilling new page-turner from Britain’s topselling true crime writer

Kate Summerscale

From Britain's top-selling true crime writer and author of Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER...

London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ago, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?

A nationwide manhunt is launched for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. The story becomes an instant sensation, and with the relentless rise of the tabloid press the public watches on like never before.

In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie’s victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime, and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century.

Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (525K TCM), winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her other books include The Queen of Whale Clay, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace and The Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has judged several literary prizes and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

September 2025

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The Last Dynasty

Ancient Egypt

from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra

Toby Wilkinson

A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra

When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt, he overthrew the hated Persian overlords and was welcomed as a saviour. After his death, a Macedonian general named Ptolemy seized the Egyptian throne, ushering in a new dynasty that would last for 300 years.

What followed was as dramatic and compelling as any period in Egyptian history. The unique blend of Greek and Egyptian cultures led to an unprecedented flowering of learning. Wars, incest, double-dealing, foreign empires and huge wealth all followed, but the rise of the Roman empire would eventually bring the Ptolemaic era crashing to a close.

Helped by the latest archaeological discoveries and using original papyrus documents, Toby Wilkinson uncovers a story that can only now be fully told. Filled with surprising insights, vivid descriptions and larger-than-life characters, and written in the author’s compelling narrative style, The Last Dynasty is an essential read.

Toby Wilkinson is an Egyptologist and the prize-winning author of fifteen books on the history and culture of the Nile Valley, ancient and modern. Lauded by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the foremost Egyptologist of his time’, his works include The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He studied Egyptology at the University of Cambridge.

September 2025

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Entitlement

The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind

Rumaan Alam

From the author of international bestseller Leave the World Behind, a compulsive tale of money, morality and madness

‘Aslow-burntaleofconnivanceanddeceitwithaknockoutending’ OBSERVER ‘These characters, their money and their morality come together in an absolutely devastatingthunderclap’KILEYREID Money talks. But what if it lies?

An ambitious young Black woman, plotting her way into the world of the one percent. An old white billionaire, facing his own extinction.

He’s attracted to her intelligence, her refusal to be deferential, maybe also her Blackness. She’s drawn to his power and money – and his apparent willingness to share both with her.

But how far is each prepared to go to get what they think they deserve?

Rumaan Alam is the critically acclaimed author of Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orwell Prize, and adapted for a major motionpicture.Alam’swritinghasappearedinpublicationsincludingthe New York Times, New Yorker and New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He lives in New York.

September 2025

Paperback 9781526674234 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526684776 • £16.99

Bloomsbury Publishing

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In the City by the Sea

Kamila Shamsie

For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a star

Hasan lives an idyllic childhood of abundance: of pomegranates and cricket and ostensible serenity. This illusory veneer of calm is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician in a land shackled by a militaristic regime, is charged with treason, under possible penalty of death.

Written with melancholic lyrical beauty and urgency, In the City by the Sea examines the loss of childhood innocence under political oppression.

Kamila Shamsie is the author of multiple novels, including Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Home Fire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018.

September 2025

Paperback 9781526679994 • £9.99

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Kamila Shamsie

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when was right here beside him?

Raised in the upper echelons of Karachi society, Karim and Raheen’s friendship is one of light and laughter. Their families, lives and destinies have been ostensibly intertwined since birth. However, as the spool of fate unwinds, a heavy silence grows between these two once-inseparable friends, culminating in a reckoning with the history of both their families and their country.

A masterpiece of mirth and tragedy, Kartography is an exhilarating meditation on the decaying nature of silence and the pain of detachment, and a reminder that the past is never quite as distant as it seems.

Kamila Shamsie is the author of multiple novels, including Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Home Fire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018.

September 2025

Paperback 9781526680013 • £9.99

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Salt and Saffron

Kamila Shamsie

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land.

Aliya finds herself constantly enraptured by her family’s unsettling legends. These are troublesome stories, tinged by the Dard-e-Dil’s fear that they are cursed by their ‘notquite’ twins. As she becomes romantically intertwined with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Aliya begins to see links between herself and her scandalous aunt Mariam, which may spell her undoing.

A tale of family lore, secrets and forbidden love, Salt and Saffron is an awe-inspiring novel written with compassion, wryness and glittering prose.

Kamila Shamsie is the author of multiple novels, including Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Home Fire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. September

Novel About My Wife

Emily Perkins

Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing everything, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives.

Novel About My Wife is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession.

Emily Perkins is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name, and four novels, including Lioness (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction). She co-wrote the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s novel The Rehearsal an adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and the original play The Made. She lives in New Zealand.

October 2025

Paperback 9781526693587 • £9.99

Bloomsbury Publishing

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The Forrests

Emily Perkins

'Funny, painful and utterly mesmerising' Independent on Sunday

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, Dorothy is swept along by time. In a narrative that shifts and moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests sings with colour and memory and speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing and loneliness, about heat, youth, and how life can change if 'you're lucky enough to be around for it'.

Emily Perkins is the author of Not Her Real Name a collection of short stories which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go, The New Girl and, most recently, Novel About My Wife, winner of the Believer Award. Emily Perkins lives in New Zealand.

October 2025

Paperback 9781526693570 • £9.99

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Time of the Child

Niall Williams

A heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about small towns and second chances from the international bestselling author of Four Letters of Love

'A beautiful writer' Hozier

'What makes this so enjoyable is Williams’s transparent love of his characters' Observer

Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in the little town of Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from his community. A visit from the doctor is always a sign of bad things to come.

His youngest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father’s shadow, and remains there, having missed her chance at real love – and passed up an offer of marriage from an unsuitable man.

But in the advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy’s lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care. As the winter passes, father and daughter’s lives, the understanding of their family, and their role in their community are changed forever.

Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. His critically acclaimed and bestselling fiction has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC Award. He has adapted his debut novel Four Letters of Love (which an international bestseller) for screen starring Helena Bonham-Carter, Pierce Brosnan and Gabriel Byrne. He lives in County Clare.

September 2025

Paperback 9781526675156 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526675163 • £16.99

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ORIGINALS

NEW TITLES • JULY–DECEMBER 2025

Right Place, Right Time

The must-read, feel-good book of the summer

Ali McNamara

Reader favourite Ali McNamara returns with a new love story, an antiques shop in Cambridge and a decades old secret.

Eve has always loved antiques.

She loves the way an item from the past can offer a glimpse of another world, of another time. It's why she painstakingly researches the stories behind every item in Rainy Day Antiques, her little Cambridge shop, to share with their new owners. It's her way of honouring the past and cherishing the present.

Adam is firmly focussed on the future.

He's only in town to sort his late grandfather's affairs. When he discovers that his grandfather hired Eve to manage his house clearance, he can only hope her methods don't delay his return to London.

What neither of them know is that Adam's grandfather chose Eve for a reason. It's finally the right place and the right time for the two of them to meet. But what did he have planned for them?

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.

June 2025

Paperback 9781526686183

Seven Rules For A Perfect Marriage

The funny and relatable summer read about longterm love and happy endings

Rebecca Reid

A funny and poignant celebration of long-term love, asking what happens when Happily Ever After doesn't always look so happy.

It looks like Jessica and Jack have it all. Their social media accounts show them glamorous, happy and sickeningly in love. They even landed a book deal to share their seven rules for a perfect marriage – an instant bestseller, of course.

But behind the scenes it's not so simple. Jessica is determined to make a success of her business and has stopped making time for Jack. Meanwhile Jack is learning that he hates the life of an Instagram husband.

In a bid to reboot their relationship, they decide to go back to basics and follow their own rules. But they're about to learn that there is simply no such thing as perfect, and, in fact, there might be a lot more to making a marriage work than just following the rules.

Rebecca Reid is a writer, commentator and former digital editor of Grazia. As a journalist she writes a column for the i and contributes regularly to the Sunday Times Glamour, Cosmo and Stylist. As a commentator, she regularly contributes to Woman's Hour, Jeremy Vine and Good Morning Britain. Her first play is due to open in London in 2026.

A Case of Life and Limb

a charming and immersive historical mystery perfect for summer reading

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.

Among the Burning Flowers

Take your first steps into the epic

Samantha Shannon

A standalone prequel novella from the world of the global bestselling fantasy phenomenon THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE.

With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, Among the Burning Flowers sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree

Take your first steps into the epic. Yscalin, land of sunshine and lavender, will soon be ablaze.

It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind.

September 2025

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

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. July 2025 Hardback 9781526668776 • £16.99

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Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso. Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name. Together, they intend to usher in a better world.

A better world seems impossibly distant to Estina Melaugo, who hunts the Draconic beasts that have slept across the world for centuries.

And now the great wyrm Fýredel is stirring, and Yscalin will be the first to fall . .

Richly illustrated with magical artwork by Rovina Cai (@rovinacai).

Samantha Shannon is the million copy 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

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Sally Smith

The second in The Trials of Gabriel Ward series

It's Not a Cult

Joey Batey

Darkly comic Northumbrian folk horror in which a terrible band accidentally start a death cult

Callum, Melusine and Al play in a band with no name, baffling audiences in terrible pubs across the north-east of England with their ‘sound’ and occasionally reaching the dizzy heights of 97 viewers on their livestreams. To say they are losers would be to imply they were in the race in the first place. But they believe in their music, and in each other.

Their songs tell the stories of the Solkats: fictional northern gods of small things, mishap and mayhem. However, when an act of violence at a pub gig goes viral they catch the eye of a disillusioned influencer and suddenly go from having a cult following to having a cult, following.

But gods and cults both demand sacrifices. And one way or another, they’re going to get one.

Joey Batey was raised in the North East of England. He has worked as an actor, director, musician and playwright, and is best known for his role in flagship Netflix show The Witcher. Joey writes and directs music videos, live sessions and short films for his altfolk group The Amazing Devil. It’s Not A Cult is his debut novel.

The Midnight Shift

Cheon Seon-Ran

Translated by Gene Png

A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness.

When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn’t understand why she’s the only one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at the police force dismiss the case as a series of unfortunate suicides due to the patients’ loneliness. But Su-Yeon doesn’t have the privilege of looking away: her dearest friend, Grandma Eun-Shim, lives on the sixth floor, and Su-Yeon is terrified that something will happen to her next.

As Su-Yeon begins her investigation alone, she runs into a mysterious woman named Wanda at the crime scene. Wanda claims to be a vampire hunter, searching for her exlover, Lily, and is insistent that a vampire is behind the mysterious deaths. Su-Yeon is skeptical at first, but when a fifth victim jumps from the window, her investigation reveals the body was completely drained of blood. Desperate to discover the cause of the deaths,Su-YeonconsidersWanda’sexplanation—thatsomethingsupernaturalisinvolved.

The Midnight Shift is a gripping mystery, overflowing with commentary about societal isolation and loneliness, the sharp knife of grief, and the effects of marginalization, perfect for readers of Cursed Bunny Woman, Eating and A Certain Hunger

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Cheon Seon-Ran is the award-winning author of several novels and short-story collections. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Dankook University and lives in Seoul.

Gene Png is a literary translator and illustrator based in Seoul. She was awarded the Grand Prize in Poetry at the 53rd The Korea Times' Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards and is a mentee of Anton Hur (translator of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki).

House of Splinters

the spine-tingling return to the world of The Silent Companions from the Queen of the Ghost Story

Laura Purcell

A brand new spine tingling tale from the award winning, Sunday Times bestseller, Laura Purcell.

Not every house is a home...

Belinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her controlling mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled. His death means she, her husband Wilfred and their children can relocate and finally begin to create their own happy home together. Their new home is not without challenges: the garden is a wilderness, the estate is struggling financially, there are whispers about the mysterious death of a servant many years before… When Wilfred's charismatic brother, Nathan, arrives from abroad, he brings much needed excitement. But he also brings rumours of a curse on the house.

WhathappenedtoNathanandWilfred’ssisterinchildhood?Whatledtothesuddendeath of her father-in-law? Are Belinda’s children safe?

And what part do the strange wooden figures around the household have to play in the events?

Laura Purcell is the author of five previous novels for Raven Books, including The Silent Companions a Radio 2 Book Club pick, and The Whispering Muse, the winner of The Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award. Her short stories have been included in The Haunting Season and The Winter Spirits anthologies, which were both instant Sunday Times bestsellers.

October 2025

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Revolve

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Spiral

Bal Khabra

The new, addictive slow-burn sports romance from the author of TikTok smash hits Collide and Spiral.

‘Bal Khabra is a master of banter, swoon and loveable characters’ HannahBonam-Young

Sierra Romanova was an Olympic figure skater before a life-altering accident left her with panic attacks every time she enters the rink. Now, back for her final year at Dalton University, she’s ready to reclaim the spotlight.

Kicked off his hockey team for reckless behaviour, Dylan Donovan has little to no chance of making it to the National Hockey League draft. But Dylan’s whole world revolves around the ice so, if hockey is forbidden, at least there’s figure skating.

When Sierra finds herself in desperate need of a new partner, the only person who can match her skill is none other than the cocky hockey player who refuses to cut her any slack.

On the ice, their chemistry is electric. But can they stand the heat off the rink?

Bal is a Canadian writer, romance enthusiast, and book lover. Before she decided to jump into the romance pool, she spent her time gushing about books on social media. Bal has been woven into the fabric of two cultures and finds herself creating characters that represent the beauty of both.

October 2025

Paperback 9781526677921 • £9.99

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Les Normaux Volume 2

Janine Janssen

Edited by Vicky Leech Mateos

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 andhispublicimage:Sebmakeshimfeellikehecouldbeanything….Sowhatwillitbe?

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.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526682291 • £22.00

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Monstrous Tales

Don't look behind you

This isle is full of noises...

From the Hebrides to the Welsh valleys, and the Cornish cliffs to the Anglian fens, Britain is home to many strange creatures of folklore. Some are ancient, as enduring as the forests and mountains they inhabit. Others live among us, in our cities, creating new legends as they scuttle through the shadows. And none of them are to be trusted.

In this deliciously chilling collection, award-winning and bestselling authors bring you tales inspired by the monsters that share our land. The perfect winter read for anyone who's ever spotted something slimy and unexplained in their peripheral vision, or seen eyes reflecting back in the forest where no eyes should be.

INCLUDES NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES FROM: Janice Hallett, Abir Mukherjee, Rosie Andrews, Stuart Turton, Dan Jones and more

As Many Souls as Stars

Natasha Siegel

A sweeping romantic epic, full of the joys of fantasy and yet brilliantly genre-defying reimagining of the Faustus legend. Set across three time periods, it follows Harding, a girl born under inauspicious stars, who is stalked by a demon determined to take her soul as her own.

Beginning in the 16th century in Suffolk, As Many Souls as Stars opens with a Faustian deal struck between the daughter of an alchemist and a shadowy demon-figure, summoned unintentionally by a spell rooted in a father’s arrogance. What follows is part star-crossed love story, part cat-and-mouse chase writ across generations and lifetimes. These two characters meet again and again through history becoming further entangled and forever changed.

Filled with legacies, curses and romance, this is a tale of magic and power dynamics – As Many Souls as Stars examines what we owe those we love, and what we as women inherit from those who came before us.

Natasha Siegel’s fantasy debut is full of transporting historical detail, with thrilling twists and an abiding, thought-provoking romance that feels at once epic and deeply personal. As Many Souls as Stars examines what we owe to ourselves and to those we love.

Natasha Siegel is a writer of historical fiction, fantasy, and romance. She was shortlisted for the Foyle's young poet of the year award. Her US debut, Solomon's Crown, was a New York Times editor's choice. As Many Souls As Stars is her UK and fantasy debut.

November 2025

Hardback 9781526684622 • £20.00

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Petty Lies

Sulmi Bak

Old Boy meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this Korean epistolary revenge thriller.

I'm writing to you regarding the murder of your son...

Some months ago, a young woman called Mira received an anonymous letter alleging that a neighbourhood teenager, Yuchan, was behind the murder of her mother and brother the previous year. In search of the truth, Mira took a job as the boy's tutor and now, her suspicions confirmed, it is her turn to write a letter.

Jiwon has always been unsure about her son Yuchan. But nothing can prepare her for the story that unfolds in a letter from his new tutor Mira - or for the threat it contains. Mira wants a life for a life.

But revenge is never this simple. And a mother's love might be unconditional, but it isn't blind. So while there are plenty of surprises in this story, be warned: they are not what you think.

Born in 1984, Sulmi Bak, who also goes by the name Park Seol-mi, majored in journalism and has worked as a writer for Korea's top gaming company. Petty Lies is her debut novel and was published first as an ebook and reissued by popular demand in paper in 2021, going on to sell 20,000 copies and winning several prestigious awards.

November 2025

Paperback 9781526694591 • £9.99

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The Return of Moriarty

A Moriarty Mystery

Jack Anderson

The first novel in the Moriarty Mysteries series starring the most globally recognisable arch-villain

Schloss Alber is situated at the top of a jagged cliff, looming over the nearby town: the ancient seat of an ancient family. Lord Alber, the head of the family, has a unique problem: a priceless sword, the inheritance for his eldest living son, is not actually legally his to bequeath. Its rightful owner is on his way to claim it. But now the sword has been stolen.

Meanwhile, Clara Mendel, daughter of the family's former governess, returns to Schloss Alber from her medical studies in Copenhagen. But as she returns to the family she is surprised to see a new face among them: Mr Hugo Strahm. But Hugo Strahm is not his real name. And there is nothing harmless about this man. He may be playing a detective, but he was once a criminal mastermind. Can Clara trust him? Or anyone at Schloss Alber?

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 Mysteries series. He lives with his wife in Sheffield.

November 2025

Hardback 9781526686398 • £18.99

Raven Books

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Dawn of the Firebird

Sarah Mughal Rana

Book one in a stunning new epic fantasy trilogy by an unmissable new voice in Fantasy.

With gorgeous prose and a captivating magic system, layered with morally grey characters, Dawn of the Firebird embraces rich Islamic culture and raises provocative questions about individual power, choice, and the cost of war.

Khamilla e-Zahr’s life has been built on a foundation of violence and vengeance. Every home she’s known has been destroyed by war. As the daughter of an overthrown emperor, she spent her childhood training to win him back the throne. But when her parents are assassinated by another rival empire, plans change. With her heavenly magic of Nur, Khamilla is a weapon even enemies would wield – especially those in the magical, scholarly city of Za’skard. Hiding her identity, Khamilla joins the enemy’s army full of jinn, magic, and martial arts, risking it all to topple her adversaries, avenge her parents, and reclaim her clan’s throne.

With a war brewing amongst the kingdoms and a new twisted magic overtaking the land, Khamilla is torn between two impossible choices: Vengeance or salvation.

SARAH MUGHAL RANA is a Muslim author who graduated from the University of Toronto and is now pursuing her MPhil in Asian studies at Oxford. She works at the intersection of human rights and Asian policy. She is a BookTok personality and the cohost of On the Write Track podcast. Outside of school, she falls down history rabbit holes and trains in traditional martial arts.

December 2025

Hardback 9781526674371 • £18.99

Bloomsbury Publishing

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NEW TITLES • JULY–DECEMBER 2025

The Days I Loved You Most

'If you need a big ol' love story in your life then make it this one.' Prima

Amy Neff

Every great love story deserves a great ending. This is the devastating and life-affirming debut novel from Amy Neff.

'Unfortgettable' Closer 'Deeply moving' Jodi Picoult

Joseph and Evelyn’s New England beach homes have been side by side for generations. And in the summer of 1941, on the shores where they were raised, these two childhood friends fell in love.

Now, more than sixty years later, Joseph and Evelyn gather their three grown children to share the staggering news: in one year’s time, they will end their lives on their own terms. She has received a diagnosis and he cannot – will not – live without her.

As the couple face their fate, they reckon with the joys and regrets that brought them to this moment and create new memories to cherish with each of their children.

But as their final days draw closer, they must confront the stark reality of everything they have put in motion. Will they – can they – go through with their plan?

Amy Neff's debut novel, The Days I Loved You Most is a love letter to the seaside town where her family has spent summers since the early 1900s. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two sons, and their rescue dog. Connect with her on social media, or find her online at www.amyneff.com

July 2025

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The Last Truths We Told

'Seriously good' Sarah Vaughan

Holly Watt

It's not the lies that kill you. It's the truth.

They predicted Ivo would become a tycoon They predicted Ayda would go on to become a hotshot lawyer They didn’t predict that Lily would be dead

Twenty years ago, nine university friends made a series of predictions about what would happen to each of them after college. Now they’ve all gathered together for the weekend. Not for a reunion but for a reveal.

Some of them have gone on to staggering success, others to more mundane lives. And one of them is missing.

Before her death Lily seemed agitated. Even scared. In the weeks before her death, she called Maggie, wanting to talk but then refusing to say what was frightening her. Now Maggie is beginning to realise that not everyone at the house this weekend is who they appeared to be.

And those who are lying are prepared to do anything to stop the truth coming out.

Holly Watt is an award-winning investigative journalist who worked at the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian before moving to Devon with her family to write fiction.

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The Troubled Deep

'The most brilliant Norfolk-set thriller since Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway books' Daily Mirror

Rob Parker

A gripping, propulsive and atmospheric crime thriller perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Peter James

Nobody ever knew what happened to the Brindleys.

Some said the family never made it home from the party; their speeding car thrown off the tracks and the four of them buried in the marshes. Others said they had simply moved on. For thirty years, the case remained as cold as the freezing waterways of the Norfolk broads.

Until salvage diver Cam Killick found the car.

An ex-SBS officer, Cam Killick’s PTSD has made the return to civilian life a living nightmare. The only place he can find peace is underwater.

But when Cam finally finds the Brindley car at the bottom of a remote lake, all four bodies are missing. And Cam will soon learn that some secrets, once submerged, are better off staying that way.

Paperback 9781526681928

Meet Me at Rainbow Corner

Celia Imrie

‘Walking in time with the beat, clapping her hands, clicking her fingers. How could anyone resist the urge to dance? Dot swirled her Red Cross cape in time with the rhythm.’

London, 1944. The air raid sirens are blaring, bombers are hovering. The war with Germany has been raging for four years and there’s no sign of peace coming.

Dot Gallagher is newly arrived from Liverpool and working as a nurse. During an airstrike she encounters an enthralling group of American GIs who tell her all about Rainbow Corner, a social club for US troops in Piccadilly – it’s a wartime oasis where they can forget their fears, fall in and out of love and dance the nights away.

It’s here that Dot finds a new friend in Lilly but they soon discover that the dark and difficult realities of the war are never too far away… They must face their fears, uncover secrets and discover the true meaning of love.

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Rob Parker is the author of Far From The Tree, the #1 bestselling thriller for Audible Original and the first instalment in the Thirty Miles trilogy, as well as eight novels for independent publishers. He is the host of both Crime Central Manchester, a monthly showcase of emerging crime writing talent and blockbuster bestsellers, and the Blood Brothers podcast. July 2025

Celia Imrie is an Olivier Award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress. She is known for her film roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee, Bridget Jones Absolutely Fabulous Finding Your Feet Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Good Grief She is currently filming for the TV adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club. Celia Imrie is also the author of her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer and the top ten Sunday Times bestselling novels in the Nice Trilogy – Not Quite Nice, Nice Work (If You Can Get It) and A Nice Cup of Tea Sail Away and Orphans of the Storm

August 2025

Paperback 9781526616395 • £8.99

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The Hidden Hand

'Brings true authenticity to her tale of intellectual thievery' Irish Independent

Stella Rimington

A gripping, timely spy thriller from ex-head of MI5 Stella Rimington, for fans of Charles Cumming and Tom Bradby

A historic institution is hiding a very modern threat.

The student

Li Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix’s College.

The scapegoat

Meanwhile, the centre’s newly recruited head stumbles on its more sinister purpose: recruiting Chinese and sympathetic British students to steal high-value research and intellectual property. Unsure who at the university he can trust, he turns to CIA agent Manon Tyler for help.

The spy who might be their only hope... But as Li and another Chinese-American student are drawn deeper into a deadly game, will Manon be able to penetrate the heart of St Felix’s secrets in time to save them?

Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General of MI5 in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She is the author of the bestselling Liz Carlyle series and Manon Tyler series.

August 2025

Paperback 9781526652713 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526652737 • £20.00

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The Great When

A Long London Novel Alan Moore

A dark and beguiling tour through the streets of a magical London by a legend of modern fantasy

The year is 1949, the city London. Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, on an errand to retrieve rare books, Dennis discovers that one of them does not exist. It is a fictitious book, yet it is physically there in his hands nonetheless. How? It comes from the Great When, a dark and magical version of the city that is beyond time. There, epochs blend and realities and unrealities blur. If Dennis does not take this book back to the other London, he will be killed.

So begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers, many of whom have their own nefarious intentions. Soon Dennis finds himself at the center of an explosive series of events that may alter and endanger both Londons.

Alan Moore is the Sunday Times bestselling 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.

The Unrecovered

A richly atmospheric gothic tale of madness, war and all-encompassing obsession set in Scotland

Richard Strachan

An unforgettable historical debut inspired by a real life legend from the coast of Scotland

The gloomy fortress of Gallondean lies on the Scottish coast. Local legend has it that if the heirs to the house hear the howling of a spectral hound nearby, their death will quickly follow.

Jacob its new owner, is already haunted by his own demons but as he uncovers details of his new home's past, the shadows only seem to be growing around him.

Esther, a young volunteer nurse serving nearby, dreams of being a poet as she assists the men around her, some of whom are struggling to come to terms with permanent, lifechanging injuries.

But it is Daniel, one of the soldiers who appears to have only a minor injury, whose life comes to intersect with both Esther and Jacob in horrifying and unexpected ways...

Danger stalks the woods and coast around them, but it soon becomes clear that the gravest threats are within.

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.

October 2025

Paperback 9781526670557 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526670533 • £16.99

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Bringer of Dust

The spellbinding second book in the internationally bestselling Talents Trilogy

J M Miro

Weaving history with magic, this second novel by acclaimed author J.M. Miro is a modern masterpiece of historical fantasy.

1883. Agrigento, Sicily. A city of spires, broken hopes and bodies…

With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only chance of rescue lies in a second orsine which might not even exist. But when a body is discovered in the Cairndale, the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they'd feared. For a new drughr has arisen – and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known as the Abbess, desires the dust for herself. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs - an evil which the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving, or destroying life forever.

Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a netherworldly house of twilight, the Talents must work together – if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.

J. M. Miro lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of Ordinary Monsters, the iconic first book in the Talents series.

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October 2025

Paperback 9781526651105 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526686596 • £20.00

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Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef

Slutty Cheff

The hilarious, gutsy account of misadventures in the kitchen and in the bedroom by anonymous chef Slutty Cheff.

‘It’s the two best things in the world: food and sex.’

Slutty Cheff is an anonymous London chef who knows what it’s really like to work in the capital's hectic restaurant scene.

From working sixty-hour weeks in windowless kitchens and being the only woman in the changing room to the thrill of a busy service, falling in love with chefs and cycling home through a city filled with potential, her misadventures in food and sex are about experiencing life to the fullest with pleasure and chaos included.

An exquisite broth of raw Anthony Bourdain-style honesty with a pinch of the sharp wit of Lena Dunham’s Girls, Tart Is THE book for those who like to eat and f**k.

‘I devoured this book like a ravenous customer and I love it wildly. It’s the most visceral food and sex writing out there – utterly delicious and utterly new.’ Lena Dunham

Slutty Cheff is a cook and writer who writes anonymously about sex, food and being a woman in the male-dominated restaurant world. She created the @SluttyCheff Instagram account where she posts her stories anonymously. She has her own column in British Vogue, has written for The Sunday Times (London) and been interviewed by the Evening Standard (London)and Interview Magazine

July 2025

Hardback 9781526682697 • £16.99

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French Classics

Easy and Elevated Dishes to Cook at Home

Matthew Ryle

This is the indispensable guide to classic French cookery from star chef Matthew Ryle.

With a foreword by Raymond Blanc

French food is having a real renaissance, in no small part due to Matthew Ryle's accessible and homely approach to this most classic of cuisines. This book is full of dishes that have stood the test of time, and deserve a place at your table. Dispelling myths as he goes, Matthew showcases mouth-watering, achievable recipes; it's food for big tables and made for sharing.

Whether you’re looking to make the perfect Croque Madame for lunch, batch cook some Beef Bourguignon for the freezer, surprise on date night with Steak Diane, or wow your family and friends with a 'Grande Bouffe’, FRENCH CLASSICS has you covered and will leave you wondering why you haven’t been cooking this food your whole life. With a 70/30 split of ‘Easy’ vs ‘Elevated’ dishes, there’s something for everyone, be they novice or expert

Matthew Ryle is a chef with over fifteen years of experience in renowned global restaurants including three Michelin starred Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester.

In 2020, he launched one of London's busiest restaurants, Maison François, which has received numerous accolades, including two AA Rosettes and a Michelin Plate. In 2024, he opened its sister restaurant, Café François to critical acclaim and he is Executive Chef partner across the restaurant group.

In his spare time, Matthew shares classic French recipes and culinary expertise with millions of followers on his hugely popular social media channels @matthewryle.

Speedy Comfort

Amazing Meals in Under 30 Minutes Jon Watts

Super easy recipes that are both comforting and speedy from hit chef Jon Watts

This book shares over 80 delicious and comforting recipes that are easy, affordable and fuss-free. From classics such as Mac and Cheese and One Pan Baked Butter Chicken to bold flavours like Popcorn Chicken Katsu and Spiced Salmon Traybake, as well as decadent puds like Baileys and Chocolate Mousse. While comfort food is traditionally slow to make, every recipe in Speedy Comfort will be on your plate in 30 minutes or less.

Chapters include: Family Feasts Old School (Nostalgia) Easy Dinners Weekend Treats Cosy Traybakes Healthy Comforts Puddings

Chef Jon Watts has become a no.1 bestseller with a huge following thanks to his recipes which cut out unnecessary steps and time for home cooks. In this book he takes his speedy recipes to the next level with cosy comfort food that takes no time at all.

Sentenced to 6.5 years in a young offenders’ institute as a teenager, Jon Watts was determined to turn his life around. Picking up cooking, he became the first person in custody to achieve all three Duke of Edinburgh awards and later worked at a Jamie Oliver restaurant before setting up on his own. He uses his story to inspire others.

August 2025

Hardback 9781526690517 • £22.00

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The Starspotter's Guide

Sheila Kanani

Travel across galaxies and cultures in this miscellany of the stars from one of the astronomy world's rising talents

Are we alone in the universe? What’s a red dwarf and what’s a brown dwarf? Do the pyramids really line up with Orion’s Belt? Which stars can you see from different hemispheres? Is the oldest star map really thousands of years old? How did we discover how much stars weigh? Did scientists ever fight about their discoveries?

Dr Sheila Kanani – astrophysicist and educator – has spent a lifetime pondering these questions, and now she’s sharing the answers (but even more questions) with you. The Starspotter's Guide is a miscellany travelling through time and across cultures, weaving mythology, history and science together to bring you mind-boggling stories from the frontiers of the universe and human imagination. Stretch your eyes and your mind in this armchair travel guide to the biggest unknown there is – space.

Dr Sheila Kanani MBE is a planetary physicist and science presenter. Sheila is currently the Education, Outreach and Diversity officer for the Royal Astronomical Society in London, regularly acts as a science ambassador and, in January 2018, hosted BBC One’s Wonders of the Moon. She was appointed MBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List for services to astronomy and diversity in physics.

August 2025

Hardback 9781526664594 • £18.99

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How to Love Your Afro

Your Natural Hair Care Companion

Paige Lewin

The ultimate natural hair care guide from the host of Texture Talks, Paige Lewin.

After years of wanting straight hair, Paige had a relaxer at fourteen years old, sparking her tumultuous relationship with her hair. As a result of long-term damage, she was forced to cut it all off. Finding that wigs and weaves weren't working for her either, Paige realised she needed to go natural and sought to learn all there was to know about managing and loving her afro.

With her personal experience and insights from experts, such as trichologists and psychologists, you too can know all there is to know on managing your hair and loving it in the process. You’ll learn:

* The best products, ingredients, practices and tools

* The importance of scalp health

* Actionable advice on self-acceptance

* Why a balanced diet is vital for good hair health

How to Love Your Afro is your holistic, natural hair care companion to help you along your journey.

Paige Lewin is a content creator and the host of Texture Talks, a podcast that embraces honest discussions and debates on the real ups and downs faced by those in the afro and curly-haired community which has reached over 100,000 people on YouTube, 10,000 audio downloads, and over 1000 engaged YouTube subscribers in under a year.

September 2025

Hardback 9781526686985 • £12.99

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Iconic Pasta at Home

Tim Siadatan

This is the ultimate book of pasta. With over 100 recipes, it is for pasta lovers everywhere.

There are recipes for simple weeknight store-cupboard pastas, such as Spaghetti with Garlic, Capers & Black Pepper and there are recipes for mastering fresh pasta from scratch, like Ravioli of Ricotta with Sage Butter

Padella are London’s most iconic fresh pasta restaurants. When they first opened in Borough Market in 2016 they put sensational pasta on the map thanks to iconic dishes like Beef Shin Ragu and Pici Cacio e Pepe These delicious recipes, paired with their buzzy ambience and stylish aesthetic, saw queues around the block.

This book brings the magic of Padella into home cooking. It includes all their best loved recipes along with many off-menu favourites shared in this book for the first time. Most importantly, it teaches the simple steps to take home-cooked pasta to the next level.

In 2016 Tim Siadatan and his business partner Jordan Frieda opened the first Padella in London's Borough Market, which led to non-stop queues since day one. It was the culmination of their long held dream to open a pasta bar serving fresh, hand rolled pasta with delicious sauces and fillings inspired by their trips to Italy.

Floating Home

Lessons from a life less ordinary

This book, born from years of nomadic adventure, will show you how to find freedom wherever you are. Whether you're seeking fulfillment or chasing joy, these lessons will help you build a sanctuary for your mind, body, and soul.

After five years of hitchhiking around the world, Adam Lind longed for a place to settle that would satisfy both his need for stability and his craving for adventure. He found this balance on Britain’s canal network, where he moved onto a narrowboat, making the waterways his home.

Adam's worldly travels and waterways adventures radically shifted his perspective on life, teaching him invaluable lessons. In this uplifting book, he shares these key principles, from embracing discipline and the importance of rituals, to making the mundane sacred and the art of acceptance, and how we can apply these lessons to our everyday lives.

Sharing not only his own experiences but also those he's met along the way - people who left behind conventional lives on land for the nomadic world of the canals Floating Home teaches us the importance of living a life of purpose, regardless of where we are.

ADAM LIND is a charismatic, wise soul who documents his daily life living full time on his 59ft narrowboat. Adam shares mindset tips and daily insights whilst cruising around the British waterways, and advocates for vulnerability and self-expression, having used his own challenges to excel in his career and personal life. He has unexpectedly built a large community of over 800,000 loyal and engaged likeminded souls who enjoy soaking up his passion to live a life of purpose.

September 2025

Hardback 9781526683526 • £18.99

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Poppy Cooks: Actually Delicious One Pot

Poppy O'Toole

Poppy Cooks brings you the ultimate one-pot cookbook, packed with recipes that are fuss-free, flavour-packed… and actually delicious!

No.1 bestselling author, Poppy O'Toole brings her delicious, creative magic to one-pot cooking.

From comforting oven bakes and hearty stews, to vibrant salads and mouth-watering pasta dishes (and, of course, a whole chapter dedicated to potatoes!), Poppy has you covered with 90 fuss-free, flavour-packed recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even dessert.

All gorgeously photographed, Poppy shows you how to make go-to favourites in one pot, pan or tray, that you’ll come back to time and time again. Think curries and stir fries with big, bold flavours, and simple, crowd-pleasing desserts that save you the time and energy of washing up, so that you can focus on enjoying every glorious meal.

Recipes include: Peri peri spatchcock chicken; Mexican black bean beef nachos; Candied bacon mac and cheese; Lamb donner with mint yoghurt and pickled red cabbage; Mixed seafood paella; Chickpea and tomato shakshuka; Crispy layered potatoes; Cookie Oreo skillet.

Poppy O’Toole is the self-titled ‘Potato Queen’ of the internet, where she has amassed over 5.5 million followers and more than 400 million views, with her judgement-free approach to cooking. A Michelin-trained chef with over ten years of professional experience, Poppy makes delicious food fun – without the faff. Poppy is a Sunday Times bestselling author, having written four cookbooks – she has earned praise from The Times as “the poster girl for TikTok cooks” and The Telegraph as “a first-class enabler” for aspiring home cooks everywhere. Poppy has appeared as a judge on BBC Three’s Young MasterChef ITV’s Cooking With The Stars and is a regular guest on Saturday Kitchen and This Morning

September 2025

Hardback 9781526689863 • £22.00

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Adam Lind

The History of Art in One

Sentence

500 Years of Art (But Funny)

Verity Babbs

A comic journey through 50 of the most important art movements through history, answering questions one sentence at a time.

What’s so special about Dutch paintings of cheese? When does Art Nouveau become Art Deco? Why were the Pre-Raphaelites obsessed with gingers?

Comedian and art historian Verity Babbs journeys through 50 key art movements across history, answering ten questions for each in one sentence. Within these fascinating, hilarious nuggets of art wisdom, Verity covers everything from who inspired the movement and its impact on history, to the key artists and artworks.

Spanning 500 years, this wonderfully illustrated book is for anyone who wants to learn more about art and also have a little giggle along the way. It won’t answer everything, nor will you be a genius by the end of it, but you will feel a little less lost next time you’re in a gallery or museum and will most likely become a lot more helpful on your pub quiz team.

Verity Babbs is a art critic-comedian and presenter from Northampton. She graduated with a History of Art Degree from the University of Oxford and has collaborated on projects with Tate, the National Gallery, Soho House, and more. She focuses on making the art world more accessible and bringing laughter into cultural spaces.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526686893 • £14.99

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The Language-Lover's Lexipedia

Joshua Blackburn

The ultimate compendium of the most interesting, entertaining and baffling elements of the English language.

What’s the difference between an Anagram and an Ananym? When did people start saying hello? Why is Tom Penn our favourite industry aptronym? Who’s Max Mustermann?

Word Sauce is a book for the linguistically-curious, the syntaxically-challenged and logophiles of all description. A warren of wonderful words for readers to disappear into; it is the ultimate compendium of the most interesting elements of the English language.

It will inspire, inform and awe word-lovers, who will come away armed with an arsenal of linguistic magic to impress and entertain.

Joshua Blackburn is a writer, designer and Maker of Things. He ran the creative agency Provokateur, until he grew tired of making things for other people and started making them for himself. As the inventor of League of the Lexicon, Joshua has become an accidental linguist and has appeared on The Allusionist Because Language and The Failing Writers Podcast.

Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain’s bestselling classic – the hearty, delicious recipes and provocative tricks of the trade from his famed French brasserie.

20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY FERGUS HENDERSON

Globally beloved chef Anthony Bourdain’s bestselling classic – the hearty, delicious recipes and provocative tricks of the trade from his famed French brasserie where he made his name.

Before stunning the world with his bestselling Kitchen Confidential, and hit TV show Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain spent years serving some of the best French brasserie food in New York. With its no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmosphere, Les Halles matched Bourdain's style perfectly: a restaurant where you can dress down, drink a little too much wine, and have a good time with friends. Now, 20 years after its original publication, Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook remains an audacious classic.

Bourdain teaches you everything you need to know to prepare classic French bistro food. While being guided through recipes like roasted veal short ribs and steak frites, you'll feel like he's in the kitchen beside you.

Savour

A guide to tasting and exploring whiskies of the world

Kristiane Westray

A complete guide to whisky, from how to taste it to the world's best distilleries, by expert Kristiane Westray.

Do you want to know how to really taste whisky? Do you know the difference between whisky and whiskey? Then this is the book for you.

Savour is a modern guide to one of the world’s most flavour-forward drinks: whisky. Gone are the days of the drink being only for a narrow group of people. Whether you’re a whisky lover who wants to deepen their knowledge or are new to it and don’t know where to begin, Kristiane Westray will take you on an immersive expedition through the spirit.

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Anthony Bourdain was the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and the author of the novels: Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories and Gone Bamboo His work appeared in the New York Times the New Yorker and Food Arts magazine. He was the host of the international CNN television series Parts Unknown October 2025 Hardback

Complete with a practical guide on how to taste whisky (disclaimer: you will have to drink a lot of it), how to build a capsule collection and a handy flow chart to work out what flavours align best with your palate, Savour is an incredibly useful compendium of modern makers, whisky bars, distilleries, bottle shops and communities from around the world.

Kristiane Westray fell in love with whisky in 2012 and hasn't stopped writing or talking about it since. A writer, educator, judge, consultant and presenter with a fascination with flavour, she’s a multidisciplinary communicator with a modern approach to spirits storytelling. Her work has appeared in Whisky Magazine, The Malt Whisky Yearbook, Club Oenologique, The Cocktail Lovers and many more.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526684707 • £9.99

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The Christmas Companion

Simple Recipes and creative ideas for a magical festive season

Skye McAlpine

An indispensable guide to the festive season. Includes recipes, crafts and gifts, and tips from planning to hosting.

The Christmas Companion is the indispensable guide to a cosy, relaxed and memorable Christmas, filled with recipes, crafts and gift inspiration. Skye McAlpine shares her tips for every seasonal moment, with creative projects such as homemade decorations and Christmas wreaths, edible gifts like Candy Cane Hot Chocolate Sticks, giftwrapping, advent calendars and stress-free hosting, from drawing up menus to navigating dietary requirements.

At the heart of the book are fabulous recipes, be for two or twenty, including: Cocktails and Canapes such as Amarena Amaretto Pomegranate Glazed Turkey and Camembert and Cranberry Pithivier from Meat and Vegetarian Mains Cakes and Puddings like Gingery Christmas Cake and Salted Caramel Pecan Pie

Not to mention recipes for festive breakfasts, winter salads, sauces, delectable sweet treatsand more.

From planning to hosting, The Christmas Companion brings the fanfare, magic and warmth of the Christmas season, all with Skye’s aspirational-meets-effortless style.

Skye McAlpine is a cookery writer and the author of three other books, A Table in Venice, A Table for Friends and A Table of Love writes a monthly column for The Sunday Times and has contributed to publications from around the world. In 2021 she launched her own curated range of homeware, Skye McAlpine TAVOLA. @skyemcalpine

Dog Affirmations

An Illustrated Journey Through Your Dog's Thoughts

Andrea Cáceres

A sweet book offering wisdom (and humour) from your dog's perspective to help you live your besthuman life.

"I'm brave. I'm strong."

"I'm worthy of all the treats."

"Today is going to be a good day."

New York-based artist Andrea Cáceres watches her dogs every day dozing, gazing, dreaming. Like her fellow dog owners, she often wonders, what are they thinking about?

In this delightful, fully illustrated book, Andrea takes us on an imaginative journey into the world of dogs, each page filled with positivity, humour, and a deep understanding of the special bond between humans and their canine companions. Dog Affirmations is a reflection of the unspoken, profound communication between dogs and their owners and a reminder to celebrate and appreciate everyday moments. (Remember, for them, every day you spend together is the best day!)

Enjoy this adorable, hilarious journey into your dog's world, and hold close the heartwarming affirmations and advice only man's best friend can give.

Andrea Cáceres is an author, illustrator, and art director. Her debut children's picture book My Dog Just Speaks Spanish was published by in 2023. Andrea's designs have appeared on products and marketing materials for companies including Microsoft, Snapchat, Barkbox, and Black Ambition, among others. She lives with her two dogs in New York City. IG: @andrecaceresg | TikTok: @petartbyandrea

October 2025

Hardback 9781526681577 • £28.00

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Gaucho

The Spirit of Argentina: A Cookbook

Anthony Ekizian

The first book from award-winning steak chain Gaucho, brimming with Chef Director Anthony Ekizian’s infectious passion for Argentine food, wine and culture. A beautiful and evocative cookery book to sit alongside bestselling titles such as Dishoom and Polpo.

The first book from award-winning steak chain Gaucho is an infectious and joyous celebration of the food of Argentina written by their Culinary Director Anthony Ekizian. Filled with beautiful location photography by Sam Harris intermingling with 80 wonderful recipes. These are Anthony’s deliciously achievable recipes to be made at home, all accompanied by Sam’s wonderful food photography. The recipes draw on Gaucho’s unrivalled reputation for exceptional fire-cooking. An opening chapter on how to choose and cook the right cut of beef with sauces and sides accompany each beef recipe, Chapters on chicken and fish follow, leading on to a joyous chapter on Argentinian street food, a seductive chapter on lazy Sunday fusion roasts and a concluding section on signature cocktails that shake up the bars in Buenos Aries. Beautifully produced, with delightfully quirky print and binding add-ons, the Gaucho cookbook is a delight for all who love to cook and collect beautiful cookbooks with a heart and soul.

Born in Provence, Anthony Ekizian began his culinary career at the legendary Club 55 in St Tropez. After working in Europe and the USA he moved to London working for Albert and Michel Roux. He then became Group Executive Chef for Bill Granger Restaurants before joining Gaucho as Culinary Director. His passion for the food and culture of Argentina is inspiring and innovative.

October 2025

Hardback 9781526688620 • £9.99

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