HarperCollins New Titles March 2025

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MARCH 2025 NEW TITLES

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RESISTANCE

Steve McQueen

A landmark work charting how acts of resistance have shaped Britain and the powerful role of photography as a catalyst for change, across the twentieth century, curated by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen.

Resistance presents a century of activism, from the radical suffrage movement in 1903 to key moments including anti-fascist resistance during World War II, Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the Black People’s Day of Action and the Miners’ Strikes; onto protests against environmental destruction; struggles for LGBTQ+ and disability rights; and on to the largest protest in Britain’s history: the march against the War in Iraq in 2003.

A wealth of photographs – from covert surveillance images to era-defining press reportage – are interwoven with firsthand accounts from those who witnessed these major historical moments and expert analysis of where these stories lead us today. Featuring an introduction by Gary Young and contributions from groundbreaking voices such as Steve McQueen, Paul Gilroy and Baroness Chakrabarti, among others, alongside powerful images from renowned photographers such as Vanley Burke, John Deakin, Tish Murtha, Humphrey Spender and Paul Trevor and more.

MAKING A KILLING

Cara Hunter

In 2016, eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanished from her Oxford home. Her disappearance made the national press and the final culprit shocked everyone. DCI Adam Fawley remembers the case well, he arrested Daisy’s mother for murder himself. But her body was never found.

Now, forensic evidence at a current murder scene calls the whole case into question. DCI Adam Fawley and the team are brought back in to investigate. And they all have one question on their minds.

What really happened to Daisy Mason?

PRAISE FOR MAKING A KILLING

“Chilling … Don’t miss it!” – Shari Lapena, No.1 bestselling author of Everyone Here is Lying "Trademark Cara Hunter – clever, twisty, addictive and hugely entertaining. A masterclass in plotting. A triumph, readers will love it" – Andrea Mara, No.1 bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing

“Another fiendishly clever and immensely satisfying thriller from the inventive mind of Cara Hunter. I flew through it!” – Lesley Kara

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SISTERHOOD

The instant Irish number one bestseller!

‘I really, really loved it. I think it's her best book so far, written with maturity and great compassion. The characters are very relatable, Lou was my favourite … I enjoyed this book so much’ MARIAN KEYES

'A burst of Sicilian sunshine … Cathy writes from the heart with great warmth and sincerity' ERICA JAMES

Lou never puts herself first. She always looks out for other people. Even at her own birthday party, all she does is worry whether everybody else is having a good time. Then a terrible secret upends the celebrations. And she decides to do the one thing that nobody ever expects: something for herself.

But she’s going to need her sister. Life has pulled Lou and Toni apart– yet now they set off on a journey, one that will whisk them from the windswept Irish coast to sun-baked Sicily. Where will their journey end?

February 27, 2025

02 27 2025

THE FOREST IS THE PATH

Gary Lightbody

You’re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you. The numbness had set in long before I sat at your bedside. But even with senses impaired as the flight touches down at Belfast City I can somehow still feel the screeching of wheels on tarmac scorching something deep into me. So begins Gary Lightbody's phenomenal companion book to the latest Snow Patrol album of the same name. While you don’t have to read it to understand the album, you may have to give the album a wee listen for some parts of the book to make sense. There are references to the record with song lyrics dotted around within it. The book explores a few of the main themes of the album, time, love, etc. It is also a prequel to the record which tells the story of his dad, Jack’s, death and the numb journey it sent him on, the end of which seemed to unlock a part of him that had been numb and dormant until he started to write songs again. Not to give away the ending or anything, but just so you know this book is not one of wallowing. There is a purpose to it.

HOW TO SPEAK OASIS

Professor Mads Forrit

If you want to be a rock and roll star, you’ve got to talk like a rock and roll star… ‘Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back’ Liam Gallagher ‘All I would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.’ Noel Gallagher Do you know the difference between being mad for it and buzzing? Reckon you know mint from bangin’? If you’re not sure what your Newtons are, or don’t know the right Salfords to wear with your keks, then you need to learn to speak Oasis. Buy it for our kid, buy it for your bezzies. Nice one. Top One. Sorted. Sound. From the songs to the interviews, the Gallagher brothers took the Manchester sound – and Manchester slang – to the world. Who needs philosophers, poets or politicians when you’ve got Liam and Noel to tell you how to roll with it?

ISBN: 9780008752309

November 21, 2024

11 21 2024

THE OASIS ACTIVITY BOOK

Nathan Joyce

The ultimate celebration of the ultimate rock ’n’ roll band, filled with trivia, fun stories, puzzles and quizzes for Oasis fans and aspiring rock stars.

With a frontman who will go down in history as one of the greats, unmistakeable style and swagger, and songs that have entire stadiums singing along word-for-word – Oasis – the selfproclaimed ‘greatest rock ’n’ rock band in the world’, put British rock music (and Manchester) firmly on the map when they emerged in the 1990s. From their early days in King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, where their talent was spotted by Creation boss Alan McGee to the iconic gigs at Knebworth and Glastonbury, this book covers it all in a fun, playful and celebratory style.

Re-live the key moments of the band’s career – the thrills, the spills, the guitar riffs and the sibling tiffs. Test your knowledge of the on-stage fights between the Gallagher brothers, the setlists from historic gigs and the iconic albums that became instant chart-toppers. Think you know your b-sides from your bootlegs? Take the Ultimate Oasis Quiz to find out!

ISBN: 9780008748470 £9.99

November 05, 2024

11 05 2024

BLUE SISTERS

Coco Mellors

'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE 'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR 'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANI

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN

'It will make you laugh, cry deeply, and want to call your siblings’ Cosmopolitan 'Even better than Cleopatra and Frankenstein' Grazia

The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different.

Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever.

Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she's been working as a bouncer in LA –until a reckless act one night threatens to drive her out of the city. And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her.

Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling.

When, a year later, the three of them must reunite in New York to stop the sale of their childhood home, they find that it's only by returning to each other that they can navigate their grief, addiction and heartbreak and learn to fall in love with life again.

ISBN: 9780008623036 £9.99

January 30, 2025

Paperback / softback

Fourth Estate

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

THE SURF HOUSE

Welcome to The Surf House

Where everyone’s escaping something…

High on the cliffs of Morocco, far from the city lights and the souks, stands The Surf House: a sanctuary for travellers chasing sunshine and waves. But the idyll hides a dark mystery. And when Bea washes in, seeking refuge after a dangerous encounter in Marrakesh, she soon gets caught in the current.

A woman her age – who stayed in the same area, walked the same beaches, met the same guests – disappeared one year earlier, vanishing without trace. Somewhere inside The Surf House lies the truth – but there’ll be a price for uncovering it… February 27, 2025 02

DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC!

Elijah Wald

One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival.

On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at the Newport Folk Festival. Backed by an electric band, he roared into a blistering version of “Maggies Farm,” followed by his new rock single, “Like a Rolling Stone.” The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, boos, and scattered cheers. It was the shot heard round the world Dylans declaration of musical independence, the end of the folk revival, and the birth of rock as the voice of a generation and one of the defining moments in twentieth-century music.

In Dylan Goes Electric! Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political, and historical roots and impact of this seminal event. He delves deep into the folk revival and its intersections with the civil rights movement, the rise of rock, and the tensions between traditional and groundbreaking music to provide important insights into Dylans artistic evolution, his special affinity to blues, his complex relationship to the folk establishment and his sometime mentor Pete Seeger, and the ways he reshaped popular music forever.

ISBN: 9780062366696

February 27, 2025

02 27 2025

Paperback

HarperCollins US Biography

SLUG LIFE

Moesha Kellaway

His name isn’t “Yuck!” or “Ew!”, it’s Stevie, the world’s grumpiest slug. It’s time for slime. Being called rude names by humans has made slug Stevie super-grumpy, so his mum sends him to Slug Self-Esteem Class. Stevie discovers why he and his slimy kin are actually kind of amazing: they can regrow bits of themselves, their slime is liquid crystal and their climbing skills are better than Spiderman. The first in this series about creatures humans often try to squash!

Bookmark & Signed Bookplates Window cling + activity

ISBN: 9781915395283

January 30, 2025

01 30 2025 Paperback HarperCollins US Biography

INVISIBLE DOGS

When you start school, sometimes you need a best friend (or two).

Ida is so noisy at home, but at school she is so quiet she doesn’t make any friends. Luckily Grandpa knows the best game to cheer her up: invisible shops. Little does he know that Ida will buy two invisible dogs, and those dogs are going to cause chaos!

"This is a humorous yet touching picture book, especially for those embarking on new adventures like starting school. It celebrates the power of imagination and the comfort of invisible friends, providing both entertainment and reassurance to young readers and their parents."

– Matt Tobin, Books for Keeps January 30,

FICTION

DREAM COUNT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A publishing event ten years in the making — a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — betrayed and brokenhearted — she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America – but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve. In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations on the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.

ISBN: 9780008685737 £20

March 04, 2025

03 04 2025

Hardback

Fourth Estate

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

Dream Count POS pack options: standard, large and deluxe packs available

For bookmarks and badges only: 9780007998258

For bookmarks, badges and an A3 poster: 9780007998241

For a deluxe POS pack with bookmarks, badges, A3 poster and a hanging mobile:

9780007998517

COUNTERATTACKS AT THIRTY: A NOVEL

Won-pyung Sohn, Sean Lin Halbert

Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary in her thirty years of life. Even her name Jihye is one of the most ordinary in Korea. And just like every ordinary person, she’s not one to make waves by pointing out the absurdities of Korean bureaucracy or the small acts of injustice around her. But when Gyuok Lee, a new intern, joins the Academy, Jihye recognizes him as the man who once publicly accused a professor there of plagiarism. But this Gyuok seems different from that angry young man Jihye once encountered. In the office, he seems to be just another hard-working employee… until he shows his true colors.

A pacifist version of V in V for Vendetta, Gyuok recruits likeminded people to carry out plans for minor revenge. All four “rebels” he’s recruited in their office have their own reasons to resent society at large. Together, these four rebels begin to protest the older generation in the form of harmless antics: graffiti, throwing eggs, anonymous exposé, and more. But as their attacks increase, they (and the reader) will discover that even these tiny protests can make change in a world where everyone’s been too busy just getting by.

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DEEP CUTS

Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak. The biggest debut of 2025.

'Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song' COCO MELLORS 'Clever and heart wrenching and addictive' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER

'An incredibly special book' BETH O'LEARY

'So relatable and enjoyable' GILLIAN MCALLISTER

The first time Joe plays Percy one of his songs in his college room in 2000, she instantly realises three things:

One, she is watching a star in the making.

Two, she can shape his music into something extraordinary.

Three, she will always be on the sidelines.

She swallows her jealousy and throws herself into collaboration, transforming Joe’s songs into indie hits with her blistering critiques.

But there’s an undercurrent to the music they’re making – something undeniably electric, hurtling toward love. And then, almost inevitably, towards heartbreak.

As Joe steps into the spotlight, can Percy bear to watch on in silence? And can he exist there without her?

Deep Cuts is an irresistible novel about passion and obsession, love and longing and, above all, our need to be heard. It's perfect for readers who loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, One Day, Daisy Jones and the Six or High Fidelity.

ISBN: 9780008695828 £16.99

March 13, 2025

Hardback

The Borough Press

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

THE PRINCE WITHOUT SORROW

Maithree Wijesekara

The fantasy debut sensation of 2025

WELCOME TO THE RAN EMPIRE.

Where winged serpents fly through the skies. Giant leopards prowl the earth. And witches burn blue as they die.

A prince born into violence

Prince Ashoka is considered an outcast for opposing his father Emperor Adil Maurya’s brutal destruction of the Mayakari witches.

A witch seeking revenge

Shakti vows retribution for the murder of her aunt and annihilation of her village at the hands of the emperor, even though she is bound by the Mayakari’s pacifist code.

A curse that will change the world

In her anger Shakti casts a violent curse, the consequences of which will leave both her and Ashoka grappling for power. Do they take it for themselves and risk becoming what they most hate? Or do they risk losing power completely as the world around them is destroyed?

Drawing on inspiration from the Mauryan Empire of Ancient India, debut author Maithree Wijesekara plunges readers into the first amazing book of the Obsidian Throne trilogy.

FAITHBREAKER

Hannah Kaner

THE EPIC FINALE TO THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING FALLEN GODS TRILOGY

In the epic finale to the #1 internationally bestselling Fallen Gods trilogy that started with Godkiller, the fate of Middren hangs in the balance as mighty gods and mortal heroes clash in a final battle for supremacy.

War has come. The fire god Hseth is leading an unstoppable army south, consuming everything in her path. Middren’s only hope of survival is to unify allies and old foes against a common enemy. Elo navigates an uneasy alliance with Arren; his friend, his enemy, and his king. Now they each must decide how much they're willing to sacrifice to turn the tides of war.

Meanwhile, Inara joins her mother on their ship, the Silverswift, to seek aid. Still grappling with her powers, Inara must reconcile who she is and where she belongs, while Skediceth has to question if their bond will be enough to keep them safe.

Kissen has no allegiance to the old ways of Middren. But, as she tries to find her family, she is forced to question what, and whose, future she is fighting for.

In Faithbreaker, Hannah Kaner delivers a powerful conclusion to the Fallen Gods trilogy, masterfully weaving together love and sacrifice, loyalty and betrayal, and the true meaning of faith.

PRAISE FOR THE FALLEN GODS TRILOGY

‘Godkiller will have you in its grasp from the first pages’ Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

‘Devastating and triumphant’ Tasha Suri, award-winning author of The Jasmine Throne

‘Violent, bawdy, beautifully imagined, and intensely felt, Godkiller is a bone-rattling fantasy thriller that flies by in a breathtaking rush’ Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman

ISBN: 9780008521561

March 13, 2025

Hardback

HarperVoyager

Fantasy

£20

SOFT CORE

Brittany Newell

'A beautiful fever dream, a slippery, captivating pleasure' KRISTEN ARNETT, author of With Teeth ‘Drew me in like a whirlpool – a wild spin into loneliness and desire’ Nicola Dinan, author of Bellies 'Brittany Newell is truly one to watch!' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of Animals

A blazing novel following a young woman on a wild, hallucinogenic quest for love and selfhood in San Francisco’s seedy underground.

Baby is a dancer at a strip club and at the age of 27, she’s feeling lost. It seems that only Dino, her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend can keep her afloat. So, when Dino disappears without so much as a kiss goodbye, she plunges headfirst into San Francisco’s shady erotic underground to find him.

Baby searches through dive bars and old haunts, at the club and at the sex dungeon where she has a part-time dominatrix gig. She encounters clients like Simon, a recluse paying her for increasingly bizarre “favours” and a philosophizing suicide fetishist named ‘Nobody’, as well as coworkers like Emeline, the balletic new hire who seems to want to steal Baby’s whole identity, starting with her underwear.

It’s not long before she starts to find cryptic notes hidden in her belongings and realises her search is attracting the wrong kind of attention. With her grip on reality loosening and the clock ticking, will Baby manage to put together the pieces and find the only man she’s ever loved? Or might her past catch up with her first?

Manically smart, brutally funny and deeply sexy, Soft Core is a book about desire, fantasy, and true love – like no other.

ISBN: 9780008670382

March 13, 2025

Hardback

Fourth Estate

£16.99

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945) Proofs available! Email us at

GRAFFITI GIRLS

Elissa Soave

A sharp, empowering novel about a group of women who refuse to go quietly when society tells them they’re no longer valuable beyond the age of 40, from the author of Ginger and Me. Amy, Carole, Lenore and Susan have been best friends since school. Back then they couldn’t wait for the future, for the amazing lives they’d have. But things haven’t worked out how they expected. Now in their forties, they’re fed up with being taken for granted by their families, being passed over for promotions at work and being told that they’re past their best. And they’re not going to go quietly anymore.

Fuelled by female rage and their charismatic leader Amy, the four embark on a campaign of graffiti in their hometown of Hamilton, scrawling feminist slogans on the walls of local buildings. But is Hamilton ready for the feminist revolution the Graffiti Girls have in store?

Praise for Graffiti Girls:

'A rebellious and uplifting tale of punkish, middle-aged, feminist defiance, told with wit, warmth and energy. I was rooting for Soave’s tenderly drawn characters on every page.' Lucy Ribchester, author of Murder Ballad

'A delicious tale of female rebellion and a glorious tribute to female friendship. Warm, funny, and uplifting with genuine insight into women's lives. I adored every page.' Caron McKinlay, author of The Storytellers

ISBN: 9780008673314 £18.99

March 13, 2025

Hardback

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Cristina Henriquez

‘A gorgeous, sweeping epic’ ANN NAPOLITANO

'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST

‘One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY

‘Spectacular’ JOANNE SEFTON

‘I didn’t want it to end’ SARA SHERIDAN

A breathtaking historical novel following the incredible construction of the Panama Canal and casting light on the unsung people who lived and laboured in its shadow – by acclaimed author Cristina Henríquez.

It is said that the Canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. Ada Bunting, a bold sixteen-year-old from Barbados, arrives alone in Panama as a stowaway alongside thousands of other West Indians seeking work in the grand building project of the Canal. Francisco, a local fisherman, resents the foreign nations clamouring for a slice of his country, but nothing is more upsetting for him than his son Omar’s decision to work as a digger. For Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection and independence. Scientist John Oswald has come from further afield. He has journeyed to Panama in pursuit of one goal: eliminating malaria. But everything hangs in the balance as his wife Marian falls ill herself.

ISBN: 9780008608026

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Fourth Estate

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

£9.99

LULA DEAN’S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED

BOOKS

Kirsten Miller

‘Clever and astute … a cracking read’ The Belfast Telegraph ‘One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways’ Hello Magazine

From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.

IT’S TIME TO RISE UP

In Troy, Georgia, local woman Lula Dean has campaigned to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All the ‘disgusting’, ‘pornographic’ and downright ‘un-American’ books have been removed from public spaces. Now, the townspeople are only allowed to read ‘appropriate’ books from Lula’s personal lending library.

But a small group refuse to be told what they can and cannot read and, unbeknownst to Lula, her personal collection is slowly restocked with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, spell books, and more.

One by one, each person who borrows the books from Lula’s library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. And as they begin to reveal their new selves, it’s clear that a showdown is fast approaching – one that will change the town of Troy forever …

Praise for Kirsten Miller:

‘Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too’ JAMES PATTERSON

A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change

‘A roar of rage … I loved it’ MARIAN KEYES

‘I couldn’t put it down’ ERIN KELLY

‘Bewitching and satisfying’ THE INDEPENDENT

ISBN: 9780008654306 £9.99

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

HQ

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

Limited Lula Dean pin badges available for bookshops who order +5 copies of the book to giveaway to customers as a gift with purchase (while stocks last)

LULA DEAN’S LITTLE

LIBRARY BOOKMARKS (PACK OF 20)

ISBN - 9780007998548

EVERYONE I KNOW IS DYING

'I hope the lights are on when we finally have sex so he can see how young I am compared to his wife.’

'Sharp and uncompromising… Everyone I Know is Dying is a book that demands to be read' Joe Gibson, author of Seventeen

'I read every page obsessively… sharp and witty and so delicately crafted' Elvin Mensah, author of Small Joys

When she’s having sex with her boss, Iris likes to have the lights on so he can see how much younger she is than his wife. She likes watching her colleagues eat unhealthy lunches at their desk while her stomach aches with emptiness. She likes coasting at work knowing she’s going to land a big promotion anyway.

So why when it arrives does she find herself sprawled on her hallway floor, crying uncontrollably? Why, instead of a sense of triumph, does a crippling depression threaten to overwhelm her? Why does the support and stability of her family and friends feel so suffocating? And why, torn between her flatmate George – good, kind, reliable George – and cold, indifferent Patrick, does she only seem capable of making choices that cause her pain?

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young women, and toxic sexual and romantic relationships from one of the most exciting new literary voices. Perfect for fans of Sorrow and Bliss or Cleopatra and Frankenstein.

ISBN: 9780008629106

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

THE FOUR Ellie Keel

'A dark, compelling and beguiling novel of revenge, guilt and love – Ellie Keel is a dazzling new voice’ Kate Mosse

‘An intensely gripping, thrilling and darkly beautiful debut. I was hooked’ Karin Slaughter 'Sharp, powerful, tragic, addictive' Chris Whitaker ‘Impossible to put down’ Lucy Clarke

We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms

The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege. It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed Genevieve out of our bedroom window that day. Certainly, it would have been tragic. She would have died instantly. But Marta didn’t push her then, or – if you choose to believe me – at any other time. If she had, all of what we went through would not have happened.

I’ve told this story as clearly as I could – as rationally as I’ve been able, in the circumstances, to achieve. I don’t regret what we did. And I would do it all again.

Reader reviews:

'A shockingly powerful debut… raw and unflinching, not for the faint of heart' 'Beautifully written and utterly brutal' 'Complex and heart wrenching and oh so gripping' Praise for The Four:

'Suspenseful… an engrossing read' The Sunday Times

‘Addictive debut… sharp, compelling’ Adele Parks, Platinum 'Darkly disturbing and deeply atmospheric' Heat

‘One warning: clear your diary before you pick up this novel, as once you’ve read a handful of pages you will be hooked' I News

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ISBN THE FOUR POS PACK (STANDEE AND PACK OF 20 BOOKMARKS

Emma Pattee

'A swift, exhilarating punch to the gut' Lydia Kiesling 'I couldn't put it down' Helen Phillips Annie is nine months pregnant. She’s shopping for a crib at IKEA. That’s when the massive earthquake hits. There’s nothing to do but walk.

Annie is 37 weeks pregnant, standing in IKEA, finally about to take home the crib she should have bought months ago. That’s when it happens – the long-anticipated Cascadia Earthquake, dismantling Portland and the entire Pacific Northwest in a matter of minutes. Propulsive, disruptive, funny, terrifying, Tilt is a novel about how the foundations of our lives are built and shaken. About a woman trying to walk back to the husband she’s long been pushing away. About put-off dreams and inevitability and what makes us keep moving forward.

March 13, 2025 Hardback

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

Jen Mouat

ISBN: 9780008737245

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

Adult & Contemporary Romance

£9.99

It’s never too late to rewrite your story…

The Lamplighter’s Bookshop

Sophie Austin

ISBN: 9780008664121

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Historical Fiction

£9.99

Emily Cotton has always dreamed of owning a bookshop, but when her dreams finally become a reality, she realises she’s going to need some help. So after a couple of glasses of Merlot, she emails her childhood best friend, Kate Vincent.

Kate jumps at the chance to return to scenic Wigtown and to see Emily and the Cotton clan again. But after a six-year absence, the happy family she once thought of as her own has changed. Kate has one summer to help save the bookshop and bring the fractured Cotton family back together. But with so much left unsaid between the two best friends, will they have to save their friendship first? This charming and uplifting tale of friendship, family, and love will whisk you away to Scotland’s picturesque book town.

Already sold in Feb!

Every book tells a story. Every heart hides a secret.

The Lost Bookshop meets The Lost Apothecary in a beguiling novel full of secrets…</h2>In the shadowy aisles of The Lamplighter's Bookshop, secrets lie as thick as the dust…

When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide.

There she meets the enigmatic and prickly William Morton, an aspiring writer keeping secrets of his own. But when the walls of Evelyn’s carefully built defences start to crumble, there is only one person she can turn to.

As the layers are brushed away, Can Evelyn and William find the courage to write the next chapter of their story?

Proofs coming soon! Email us on independentthinking@harpercollins.co.uk with your name and shop address to request

The Book that Broke the World

Mark Lawrence

March 13, 2025

The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN.

We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true. Evar and Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each other's reach. Evar is forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover her book if she's to return to her life. While Evar's journey leads him outside into the vastness of a world he's never seen, Livira's destination lies deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written.

And all the while, the library quietly weaves thread to thread, bringing the scattered elements of Livira's old life – friends and foe alike – back together beneath new skies.

Long ago, a lie was told, and with the passing years it has grown and spread, a small push leading to a chain of desperate consequences. Now, as one edifice topples into the next with ever-growing violence, it threatens to break the world. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.

The Library Trilogy is about many things: adventure, discovery, and romance, but it's also a love letter to books and the places where they live. The focus is on one vast and timeless library, but the love expands to encompass smaller more personal collections, and bookshops of all shades too.

The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

ISBN: 9780008713348

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

One More Chapter Adult & Contemporary Romance

Fall in love with the brand new spring romance set in Dream Harbor, from the bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Cafe and The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

‘A charming break from reality’ Publishers Weekly

As a renowned chef, single-dad Archer never planned on moving to a small town, let alone running a pancake restaurant. But Dream Harbor needs a new chef, and Archer needs a community to help raise his daughter, Olive.

Iris has never managed to hold down a job for more than a few months. So when Mayor Kelly suggests Archer is looking for a nanny, and Iris might be available, she shudders at the thought. But in need of money she reluctantly agrees.

As Archer and Iris get used to their new roles, is it possible that they might have more in common than they first thought, or is Olive just determined to play match-maker…

Tropes

• Single Dad

• Forced Proximity

• Slow Burn

• Found Family

The Owl Was a Baker’s

Daughter

Grace Tiffany

ISBN: 9780063380530

March 13, 2025

Hardback

Historial Fiction

£16.99

The Book Game

ISBN: 9780008679255

March 13, 2025

Hardback

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

£16.99

For readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller, a deeply engrossing work of historical fiction— a tale about a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger.

At the age of sixty-one, Judith Shakespeare, a midwife-apothecary and twin of the long-dead Hamnet, must flee provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid arrest for witchcraft. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and child who have been displaced by civil war the bloody seventeenthcentury strife between Royalists and Roundheads. Judith is also leaving her marriage, which has foundered since the wrenching loss of two adult sons to the plague.

The sequel to the author’s My Father Had a Daughter, a tale of Judith in her youth, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter revisits this character for the ages Shakespeare’s sharp-tongued, witty youngest child, no less feisty in her maturity. Four-hundred years after Judith’s death, Grace Tiffany brings her back onto center stage. Judith’s latest tale offers profound insights into friendship, motherhood, marriage, religious extremism, and war which remain resoundingly true today.

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A group of old friends reunite for an idyllic week-long retreat. By Friday, their lives will never be the same again…

In August, eight friends gather at a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a week -long writers' retreat.

There is reading by the pool or writing in the shady corners of the garden and inside the spectacular 18th-century home. In the evenings, there are communal drinks, dinner outdoors, midnight swimming, games.

But someone is playing a game the others don't understand, meddling with their work and appearing to lurk on the edges of the retreat. As tensions rise over the seven days, desire and deceit rise to the surface and all their lives will change forever…

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The Hedge Witch

Cari Thomas

March 27, 2025

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

ISBN: 9780008702243

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Modern & Contemporary

Fiction (post C 1945)

£9.99

An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle. Rowan is visiting her aunt – Winne the hedge witch – in the Welsh countryside, to get back to nature and hone her skills, as well as taking a break from her annoying sisters and enjoying some peace and quiet. However, Rowan soon comes to realise that hedges are a serious business and this isn’t quite the opportunity to rest and escape she thought it might be.

Not only that, but mysterious events around the town are causing panic in the secret magical community and cowans – non-magical folk – are starting to take notice.

Can Rowan hone her hedge craft, try to make some friends and solve the riddle of the mysterious goings-on, or is magic about to be revealed to the world … or at least Wales? Pre-order the stunning sequel SHADOWSTITCH now – coming June 2024.

‘A boisterous romp that spotlights serious social issues’ DAILY MAIL

'A Down Under Demon Copperhead… it's more than feel -good, it's feel-everything. What a triumph' A. J. FINN

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, this is the irresistible new novel from the internationally bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?’

A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat.

The girl has no name, but she has a dream – for a life of love, as an artist, outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld and its drug queen 'Lady' Flora Box.

There's only one person who can help make her dreams come true: Lola. To find her, the girl with no name must do one of the hardest things we can. She must look in the mirror

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, LOLA IN THE MIRROR is the irresistible new novel from the international bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES

ISBN: 9780008555306

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

£9.99

'Funny, inspiring and uplifting' Nina Stibbe

'Raging, outrageous and joyous' Nikki May

'A must-read for all people-pleasers! … Explosive, funny, thought-provoking' Good Housekeeping

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a fierce, joyful and uplifting novel about putting life on pause – just for one day.

After a morning that starts with a terrible migraine, an accidentally strong concoction of painkillers, and a bump on the head, Clover Hendry is not quite herself.

And as she walks out of work at 9.47am, for once Clover isn't worrying about anything. She is taking some much-deserved me-time, and everyone else had better get out of her way.

As she crashes from once incident (a deliciously illicit swim) to the next (art theft), Clover is on a onewoman mission to do exactly as she pleases – consequences are for tomorrow!

It's a day of joyful recklessness, but behind the chaos, a plan is afoot. Will her new-found freedom uncover long-buried secrets?

ISBN: 9780008658717

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

£9.99

‘Exhilarating’ THE TIMES

'Uproarious' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Merciless and funny' ECONOMIST

'Outrageous' SPECTATOR

'Funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my blood was running cold' JOHN CLEESE

What if calling someone stupid was illegal?

In a reality not too distant from our own, the worst thing you can call someone is 'stupid'. Everyone is equally clever, and discrimination based on intelligence is 'the last great civil rights fight'. Exams and grades are discarded and you don't need a qualification to be a doctor. When best friends Pearson and Emory find themselves on opposing sides of this new culture war, their relationship begins to fracture. And soon, Pearson’s determination to cling onto the 'old, bigoted way of thinking' begins to endanger her job, her safety and even her family…

One Blood

Denene Millner

ISBN: 9780008441944

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

£9.99

The Hotel at the Heart of the Lakes

Ellie Wood

ISBN: 9780008626334

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

£9.99

Behind every strong woman are the women who raised her.</h2>‘A powerful family saga’ OBSERVER ‘Heartbreaking, hopeful, and resilient… a masterpiece’ TARA M. STRINGFELLOW, author of Memphis THREE WOMEN. ONE BLOOD.

A birth mother

Grace, growing up in segregated Virginia, is only a teenager when her baby is taken from her in the ultimate act of betrayal.

An adoptive mother

Lolo, who takes the baby in, has dreamed of having a family her whole life. She will do whatever it takes whatever it takes to keep her dream intact. The daughter to both

Pregnant with her first baby, Rae dis discovers that she is adopted. Now she must face an important reckoning about her two mothers…

Sometimes a holiday can change your life…</h2>Welcome to the Lake Island Hotel, on a small island in the centre of beautiful Derwentwater, offering an escape from it all like no other destination. With a 360-degree view of the hills, and the water lapping at your feet on the private shore, you can’t help but be enchanted.

Anna bought the hotel with her husband five years ago, and has lovingly transformed it from a near-ruin to a must-visit luxury destination, with its seven stylish rooms and a sister restaurant to the renowned Hesta.

The guests who come here to unwind see only the stunning views and the five-star service – but behind the scenes are the team who work hard to make relaxing seem easy. On an island this small, it’s inevitable that tempers will fray, hearts will break, romances will bloom – and above all, if you think you’ve got a secret, it won’t stay that way for long…

Cat Among the Pigeons

Agatha Christie

ISBN: 9780008737986

March 27, 2025

Hardback

Classic Fiction (pre C 1945)

£14.99

Could a murder at an English school be Hercule Poirot’s toughest assignment? Can he find the ‘cat’ before this most feline of killers strikes again? This brand new Special Edition hardback is a book no cat-loving Agatha Christie fan will want to miss. Schooldays can be tough. Who will learn the fatal lesson?

Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light while the rest of the school sleeps. In the sports pavilion, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart from point-blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the ‘cat’ strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot’s help, she will be the next victim….

Dumb Witness

Agatha Christie

ISBN: 9780008737979

March 27, 2025

Hardback

Classic Fiction (pre C 1945)

£14.99

Hercule Poirot has beaten thieves and murderers. But has he finally met his match with Bob the dog? This brand new Special Edition hardback celebrates Poirot's famous canine mystery, perfect for dogloving Agatha Christie fans.

A simple accident? Or attempted murder?

Everyone blamed the dog. When a wealthy spinster trips on the stairs, it seems only natural to assume it was an accident – a rubber ball left there by her lively terrier.

And yet the more Emily Arundell thought about it, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. Seeking answers, she writes to the famous detective, Hercule Poirot. Only, by the time her letter arrives, Miss Arundell is dead.

Major

J. R. R. Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger, Pauline Baynes

ISBN: 9780008737672

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

Myth & Legend Told As Fiction

£8.99

A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publication of The Lord of the Rings.

What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to suggest an early work by P.G. Wodehouse. Composed almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings, and when his lifelong occupation with the ‘Silmarillion’ was winding down, Smith of Wootton Major was the product of ripened experience and reflection. It was published in 1967 as a small hardback, complete with charming black and white illustrations by Pauline Baynes, and would be the last work of fiction to be published in Tolkien’s own lifetime.

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien

ISBN: 9780008628802

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Diaries, Letters & Journals

£12.99

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the languages and history of Middle-earth as recorded in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, was one of the most prolific letter-writers of this century. Over the years he wrote a mass of letters – to his publishers, to members of his family, to friends, and to 'fans' of his books – which often reveal the inner workings of his mind, and which record the history of composition of his works and his reaction to subsequent events.

Galaxy Raiders 1 Abyss: Galaxy Raiders

Ian Douglas

ISBN: 9780063205741

03 13 2025

Paperback / softback

£12.99

The Hidden Queen

Peter V. Brett

ISBN: 9780008309879

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

War & Combat Fiction

£9.99

The riveting and deeply immersive first installment in a new military sci-fi series pitting amortal humans against a mystifying alien intelligence in a galaxy-spanning conflict from New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas.

Centuries in the future, the Galactic Authority reigns over millions of advanced civilizations throughout the cosmos. From deep within the Galactic Core, the Authority’s principal Mind has won the allegiance of myriad nations, offering security, connection, and access to a network of interstellar Gates in exchange for compliance.

While technological advancement has brought interstellar travel and life-extending procedures to Earth, humans are struggling to maintain their sovereignty and cultural identity. The Galactic Authority’s presence and technological prowess looms large, eliciting both awe and apprehension from a human society that finds itself at a crossroads: yield to the allure of advanced alien technologies, or preserve their autonomy in an increasingly fractious cosmic landscape.

The second book in the Nightfall Saga, the stunning new epic fantasy series set in the world of the Demon Cycle, from New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett. Humanity thought the war with demonkind was over. Now, after less than a generation to rebuild, the demon corelings have returned with a vengeance. The Spear of Ala the fortress that stands at the gates of the demon’s hive is the last bastion against the horde, and reports say it may already have fallen.

Olive Paper is expected to take the vanguard in the fight. Only an heir of Kaji can wield the artifact that opens the gates of the Spear of Ala, and as Ahmann Jardir’s child, Olive seems destined for a role as leader and savior. But Olive does not wish to follow in her father’s footsteps any more than she did her mother’s.

When Shadows Fall

Neil Lancaster

ISBN: 9780008551377

March 27, 2025

Hardback

Crime & Mystery

£16.99

Don't miss Book 6 in the DS Max Craigie Series! Available to pre-order now!

A TRAGIC DEATH

When the body of Leanne Wilson is found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, it is classified as a tragic accident. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.

A RISING BODY COUNT

Then DS Max Craigie discovers that five other women in the last year have died by falling off mountains, and something feels very wrong. They were all experienced climbers and alone when they died. This can only mean one thing: there’s a killer on the loose.

A KILLER IN THE SHADOWS

The more Max investigates, the more he believes that they are dealing with something much bigger than a lone serial killer. With five victims and conflicting clues, how do you catch someone committing the perfect crime?

Sorrow Spring

ISBN: 9780008656409

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

Thriller / Suspense

£9.99

'An instant folk horror classic' Erin Kelly 'Clever and chilling' Susi Holliday 'An atmospheric, creeping tale' Syd Moore.

Chilling and uncanny folk suspense in a novel of twisted sisterhood and dark secrets. Does a shocking secret flow through its dark waters?

An isolated village. A twisted truth …

When Rina Pine is sent to live with her elderly aunt in the secretive community of Sorrow Spring, she finds herself trapped amongst a sisterhood of women who worship the protective powers of the local spring.

The residents believe that their village is blessed, but when a child goes missing and a young mother is killed, Rina suspects that it may be cursed.

As she is drawn into the dark and sinister truth at the heart of their beliefs, Rina is about to learn what it truly means to be a daughter of Sorrow Spring

A Broken People’s

Chimeka Garricks

ISBN: 9780063268197

03 13 2025

Paperback / softback

£10.99

A crackling, interlinked story collection introducing a vital new voice in African literature inspired by an eclectic playlist of beloved songs.

“Beautifully woven. . . . Garricks is a supreme storyteller, and he manages to take us on an absorbing tour of joy and loss. . . . A magical delight.” Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears

Consisting of twelve music-inspired tales, A Broken People’s Playlist is a literary soundtrack vibrating with life, a symphonic blend of flawed people loving, hurting, and finding healing in the most unlikely places. In these loosely interlocked stories, Garrick's centers his native city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and its inhabitants through raw, evocative language and a cast of indelible characters whose experiences their dreams and mistakes, betrayals and heartbreaks will tug at your fragile heart. There is the teenage wannabe-DJ eager to play his first gig even as his family disastrously falls apart, the woman in a toxic relationship who runs into her childhood sweetheart and decides to give love another chance, the man who throws a living funeral for his dying brother, three friends who ponder one’s peculiar erectile dysfunction, and many more characters looking for meaning and redemption. Infused with the author’s rhythmic storytelling, sublime wit, and insight, each page will spark something in you and like a favorite song long linger in the heart and mind.

My Name Was Eden

ISBN: 9780008586966

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Thriller / Suspense

£9.99

‘A compulsive, didn’t-see-it-coming thriller’

ABIGAIL DEAN, international bestselling author of Girl A

One twin vanished. One twin reappeared.

*A Reader's Digest most anticipated book of the year*

‘A fantastic debut – unpredictable, tense and absorbing’ ROSE CARLYLE, #1 international bestselling author of The Girl in the Mirror

‘Dark and creepy . . . in the most compelling way. A proper page-turner’ KATY BRENT, bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away with It

*

When Eden is rescued from the lake, her mother Lucy has a second chance.

No one knows why the 14-year-old Eden almost drowned on her way home from school. But now she’s safe, Lucy can start being a good mother. The mother she should have always been, before the loss of Eden’s twin during the pregnancy consumed Lucy, all those years ago.

But when Eden wakes up in hospital, she claims that Eden isn’t her name. That her name is Eli – the name Lucy had reserved for the unborn twin.

Could it be that all this time, Lucy’s grief has been misplaced?

Eden, it seems, is the twin who’s really disappeared . . .

ISBN: 9780008668822

March 27, 2025

£16.99

'Old-school creepy… a five-star horror novel' STEPHEN KING on Ascension

'A vivid, unputdownable story, about love and loss and all it means to be human' SUNYI DEAN, Sunday

Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters

‘An outstanding puzzle box of a novel … thrilling, intelligent sci-fi with a touch of horror' GARETH BROWN, internationally bestselling author of The Book of Doors

In this staggeringly mind-bending speculative thriller for fans of Blake Crouch and Ted Chiang, a woman dives into her husband’s memories to uncover a decades-old threat to reality itself… Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It’s the loneliest she’s ever felt in her life.

Dead Ends

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Jeffery Deaver

ISBN: 9780008354862

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback Short Stories

£9.99

A devious collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, featuring appearances from Lincoln Rhyme and Colter Shaw.

Amongst the dead ends …

A murder at a crime writers' conference. The method is entirely literary, the motive seems obvious – but can the detective who was first on scene puzzle out what's between the lines?

Amongst the misdirections …

An intelligence analyst has the chance to get out from behind the desk and do some real spy work. But as he enters the field, he begins to realise just how out of his depth he is … Somewhere lies the truth.

A brilliant sleuth, obsessed with Sherlock Holmes’s mysteries, turns his attention to a serial killer targeting women in New York's Central Park.

City in Ruins

Don Winslow

ISBN: 9780008507916

March 13, 2025 Paperback /

Crime & Mystery

£9.99

The Burial Place

Stig Abell

ISBN: 9780008643669

March 27, 2025

Hardback

Crime & Mystery

£16.99

Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow’s epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career.

'A gangland trilogy to equal THE GODFATHER. If you like SCARFACE and GOODFELLAS, this is where it's at.' STEPHEN KING Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich.

The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman –a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far.

The perfect mystery to relax and curl up with – beautifully written and deeply immersive!

A beautiful landscape…

It began as the project of a lifetime – a group of archaeologists, uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement on a beautiful hill in the glorious English countryside.

A looming threat…

But, the idyll is shattered when they begin receiving threatening letters. Former city detective Jake Jackson, now enjoying a quieter life in the local village, is pulled in to investigate.

A killer closing in…

Soon, threatening letters are the least of their problems, when a murderer strikes. And now the race is on for Jake to find them, before they kill again…

What Monstrous Gods

Rosamund Hodge

ISBN: 9780008650704

March 13, 2025

£9.99

A rich and romantic fantasy loosely inspired by the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Perfect for fans of These Violent Delights and The Shadow Queen.

Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting the royal family into an enchanted sleep and silencing the kingdom's gods.

Born with a miraculous gift, Lia's destiny is to kill Ruven and wake the royals. But when she succeeds, she finds her duty is not yet complete, for now she must marry into the royal family and forge a pact with a god or die.

To make matters even worse, Ruven's spirit is haunting her.

As discord grows between the old and new guards, the queen sends Lia and Prince Araunn, her betrothed, on a pilgrimage to awaken the gods. But the old gods are more dangerous than Lia ever knew and Ruven may offer her only hope of survival.

As the two work together, Lia learns that they're more alike than she expected. And with tensions rising, Lia must choose between what she was raised to believe and what she knows is right and between the prince she is bound to by duty … and the boy she killed.

The Plot Twist

ISBN: 9780008656591

March 13, 2025

/ softback

£9.99

This love story is a work in progress…

When romcom author Allie Edwards crosses paths with bestselling crime novelist – aka publishing dinosaur – Martin Clark at a party, they discover they both have crippling writer’s block, overdue manuscripts and precisely zero words to show to their respective editors.

With deadlines looming, Allie and Martin decide to switch plots and tell each other’s stories. In the writing process, Allie not only gains a father-figure in Martin, but also meets gorgeous events caterer Will, the answer to the leading man-shaped hole in her life and her lack of spicy material.

Caught between love and her career, what could possibly go wrong?

ISBN: 9780008716219

March 13, 2025

£16.99

‘Ask him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath’

St. Joseph, patron of departing souls – pray for me.’

Liverpool, 1979: new CID recruit Leigh Borrowdale is seconded to a disturbing murder inquiry: a mysterious death in a decaying building, where the remains of a young man have been found. Tasked with looking into missing persons’ cases to track down the identity of the victim, Leigh comes into contact with the disappeared of a city living through its darkest days of the winter of discontent. As she faces her own family demons and battles the male-dominated world at work, Leigh discovers a connection to two boys feared drowned in the Mersey and links to the murky Liverpool underworld. Through it all her only ally is her colleague, DS Des Chung, who knows what it means to be an outsider in the police force, albeit one who takes a very different approach.

The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

ISBN: 9780008706708

March 27, 2025 Paperback / softback

£9.99

From the million-copy bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop

Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there existed a bakery unlike any other. Rumours were whispered through the town that its pastries offered a taste of magic, chasing away the darkest of sorrows. Just one bite of a croissant might bring luck, unlock a precious memory or reveal hidden longings.

But dark clouds were looming on the horizon…

For Edie Lane, a recipe for disaster doesn’t require that many ingredients. Take an unhealthy amount of wishful thinking and a sprinkle of desperation and that’s how Edie left everything behind in Ireland for her dream job at a bakery in Paris. Except the bakery isn’t in Paris – and neither is Edie. This might not be where Edie intended to be but she soon realizes it's exactly where she needs to be…

His Truth Her Truth

Noelle Holten

ISBN: 9780008694036

March 13, 2025

£9.99

A brand new psychological thriller for fans of Freida McFadden and John Marrs

An anonymous call raises the alarm. Two bodies found as a result of a home invasion. Then the police see the knives.

One in his hand.

One in hers.

Joe and Beth appeared to have the perfect relationship. But there are two sides to every story. His truth. Her truth. And the actual truth.

In this web of lies, only one person can be telling the truth, can’t they?

The Love We Found

ISBN: 9780008737313 March 18, 2025

£16.99

TEN YEARS. TWO LOVES. ONE LAST CHANCE.

'Santopolo is a true master of matters of the heart’ Taylor Jenkins Reid

'No one writes about love, in all its beautiful mess, the way Santopolo does' Carley Fortune

FATE BROKE HER HEART …

It’s been ten years since Lucy Carter Maxwell lost her soulmate. Having hidden from love ever since, she’s stunned to find it pulling at her when she discovers an old, forgotten box of Gabe’s photographs. Desperate to find the hope she has been searching for, Lucy begins to unravel the secrets that Gabe left behind.

… CAN NEW LOVE SET HER FREE?

The journey leads Lucy to Italy and into the path of Dr. Dax Armstrong. The pain in his sad, intense eyes, matches Lucy’s own – his touch reignites her in a way that no one has since Gabe. Afraid of these newly awakened parts of herself, Lucy can feel the comfort of her old life tugging at her. But with an earth-shattering secret waiting in the shadows, can Lucy ever embrace love, if she doesn’t embrace the truth?

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Blood Traces

Simon Toyne

ISBN: 9780007551781

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback Classic Crime

£9.99

From the author of the Sanctus series comes a brilliant new serial killer thriller featuring forensic specialist Dr Laughton Rees and Detective Inspector Tannahill Khan

‘The ending is genuinely one of the most jaw-dropping ones I’ve read in a long time. Absolutely superb.’ M.W. Craven

‘Unnerved me to my core’ Sam Holland

‘Scared the bloody daylights out of me. The very definition of haunting’ Helen Fields

‘In the spirit of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta… Everything here suggests that Rees merits a long series run.’ Publisher’s Weekly

Women are going missing

Something deadly lurks in the forest around Cinderfield. Locals put the unusually high number of disappearances down to transients or runaways; some even blame the Cinderman, a figure of local legend rumoured to haunt the woods looking for unsuspecting victims.

Ruthless Vows

Rebecca Ross

ISBN: 9780008588267

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Fantasy Romance

£9.99

TORN APART BY WAR. REUNITED BY LOVE?

The epic conclusion to the intensely romantic and beautifully written story that started in Divine Rivals. Two weeks have passed since Iris returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over.

Roman is missing, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris. Hoping his memories return, he begins to write again – but this time for the enemy.

When a strange letter arrives through his wardrobe door, he strikes up a correspondence with a penpal who seems at once mysterious… and strangely familiar.

As their connection deepens, the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war.

The Deathly Grimm

ISBN: 9780008588380

March 27, 2025 Hardback

£16.99

The spellbinding sequel to Kathryn Purdie's Sunday Times bestselling dark fairytale, where our main characters must return to the forest – and its monsters</h2>After surviving the Forest Grimm and defeating the Wolf, Clara and Axel have made it back to their village, the one place they can be safe behind the forest's borders. But when the forest itself begins luring in more villagers, it's clear that Clara and Axel have only treated the symptoms of the forest's curse, not the cause – and it's getting worse. Burdened with visions of the past and learning to navigate her fragile new relationship with Axel, Clara finds herself entering the forest with Axel yet again to discover the truth once and for all: the identity of the murderer who caused the curse. As they fight murderous woodsmen with incomprehensible riddles, ladies who will drag you into an eternal dance, and ghosts with the power to wield the forest against them, Clara and Axel realize the stakes are higher than ever. If they don't survive the dark, deadly twists of the forest once more, not only will they never escape, they may also no longer have a home to escape to.

ISBN: 9780008710149

April 24, 2025 Paperback / softback

£9.99

The brand new fantasy romance debut launching in 2025. For fans of Sarah A. Parker and Rebecca Yarros.

The dragons are gone, and the kingdoms are falling. Not even the gods can save them now… Arla Reinhart, personal assassin to the King of Hadalyn, doesn’t believe in the gods and their dragons who once served the people – not after they abandoned her when she needed them most. But when shipments start going missing and the kingdoms begin to crumble, they may be the only ones who can help.

Forced into working with the arrogant – yet unmistakably handsome –ambassador of the kingdom that killed her parents, Arla must place her hatred for Hark Stappen to one side as they journey across kingdoms, dining with royalty and fighting in taverns, and make an alarming discovery that shatters her heart and forces her to question everything – and everyone – she knows. As feelings and friendships get in the way, Arla must decide which is more important, her heart or her sword…

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Shannon Pufahl

ISBN: 9780008749590

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

£9.99

*Set in 1950’s America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart.

Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers, the ex -jockeys and trainers of the Del Mar racetrack.

When she begins, secretly, to bet on the horses and, shockingly, to win, she feels strangely unready to share her good luck and its origins with her husband Lee. Instead it is Lee’s brother, Julius, a thief and Korean War veteran – and someone she has only met once – whom she longs to tell, and who has struck a spark of promise and possibility inside her quietly ordered life.

Corrupted Kingdom: The complete Cartel Trilogy

ISBN: 9781460765258

March 27, 2025

Paperback / Softback

HarperVoyager

£8.99

A group of old friends reunite for an idyllic week-long retreat. By Friday, their lives will never be the same again…

In August, eight friends gather at a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a week -long writers' retreat.

There is reading by the pool or writing in the shady corners of the garden and inside the spectacular 18th-century home. In the evenings, there are communal drinks, dinner outdoors, midnight swimming, games.

But someone is playing a game the others don't understand, meddling with their work and appearing to lurk on the edges of the retreat. As tensions rise over the seven days, desire and deceit rise to the surface and all their lives will change forever…

THE LAST GUY YOU KISS

UNLIKELY NEIGHBOURS

AMY DAWS

ISBN: 9781335425881

03 27 2025

TRADE PAPERBACK (US)

£9.99

PAM JENOFF

ISBN: 9780778307983

03 13 2025 HARDBACK

£20

KATIE GARNER

ISBN: 9780778334460

03 13 2025

TRADE PAPERBACK (US)

£10.99

CARLA DE GUZMAN

ISBN: 9780263397475

MARCH 27, 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£9.99

RENEE DANIEL FLAGLER

ISBN: 9780263397468

MARCH 27, 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£9.99

ROBERT WHITLOW

ISBN: 9781400344475

03 13 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£10.99

MELISSA FERGUSON

ISBN: 9780840716880

03 27 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£10.99

GRACE HELENA WALZ

ISBN: 9781400345632

03 27 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£10.99

P. RAYNE

ISBN: 9780063412484

03 27 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£9.99

NANCY JOHNSON

ISBN: 9780063157514

03 27 2025

ROUGH FRONT

£20

THE EARL MEETS HIS MATCH

TJ ALEXANDER

ISBN: 9780008716332

MARCH 11, 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£9.99

TRUTH OR DATE

PORTIA MACINTOSH

ISBN: 9780008757601

MARCH 13, 2025

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THE OBVIOUS SUSPECT

DIANE JEFFREY

ISBN: 9780008735579

MARCH 13, 2025

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£9.99

CAROLINE FROST

ISBN: 9780063265493

03 18 2025

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JACK WANG

ISBN: 9780063081833

03 27 2025 HARDBACK

£20

AVA RANI

ISBN: 9780063413641

03 13 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£9.99

LORRAINE HEATH

ISBN: 9780063384453

03 13 2025

MASS MARKET (RACK) PAPERBACK

£8.99

£11.99

THE LIGHTHOUSE DAUGHTERS OF PUFFIN ISLAND

ISBN: 9780008708030 03 13 2025 PAPERBACK

£9.99

THE FULL NEST FIONA GIBSON

ISBN: 9780008494476

MARCH 13, 2025

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£9.99

THE RUNNER LLOYD DEVEREUX RICHARDS

ISBN: 9780008679866

MARCH 27, 2025

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£9.99

SOUL HATE

HANNAH KINGSLEY

ISBN: 9780008707521

MARCH 13, 2025

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£9.99

JULIE TIEU

ISBN: 9780063245235 03 13 2025

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BRIGITTE GIRAUD, CORY STOCKWELL

ISBN: 9780063346727

03 13 2025 HARDBACK

£16.99

A BRUSH WITH DEATH

JENNIFER CHIAVERINI

ISBN: 9780063080805

03 04 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£10.99

SHARA MOON

ISBN: 9780063213425

03 27 2025

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£10.99

SARAH RUIZ-GROSSMAN

ISBN: 9780063305434 04 10 2025

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J.M. HALL

ISBN: 9780008606961

MARCH 13, 2025

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THE HIGHLAND GIRLS REPORT FOR DUTY HELEN YENDALL

ISBN: 9780008603311

MARCH 13, 2025

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STEAL MY HEART LAURA PAVLOV

ISBN: 9780008753511

MARCH 20, 2025

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REGALLY BLONDE MEGAN CLAWSON

ISBN: 9780008727086

MARCH 27, 2025

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WHEN SALLY KILLED HARRY

LUCY RATH

ISBN: 9780008740290

MARCH 27, 2025

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KELLY IRVIN

ISBN: 9780840709486

03 13 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

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NON - FICTION

HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS

Jimmy Barnes

From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales of the imagination, Highways and Byways is a collection of stories taking readers on an enthralling tour (complete with the odd detour) through the raucous, well-lived life of one of this country's most successful and beloved artists.

Told with Jimmy's signature verve and flair, and richly coloured by his distinctive voice and wit, Highways and Byways sees him sharing a 1970s Texas stage with a dream line-up of US musicians; flirting with disaster in a Hawaiian high-rise; discovering a life-changing cassette tape; unearthing shattering family secrets in Glasgow; encountering charismatic and not-so-endearing superstars, ghosts of the recent and distant past, superfan traffic cops and shady salesmen; and confronting his own mortality - while pondering the more amusing effects of hospital medication. Charming, personal and poignant, Highways and Byways is a collection that celebrates Jimmy's Scottish heritage, family, friends, music and the adventure of a grand life.

QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER PRIME

MINISTERS

Anne Somerset

It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong. In Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers, Anne Somerset masterfully traces Victoria’s political evolution, from headstrong teenager to seasoned octogenarian. This book demonstrates her passionate involvement in state affairs, and casts fresh light on her relationships with her ten prime ministers.

Victoria herself acknowledged that when it came to ‘likes and dislikes’ of her prime ministers, ‘she had them very strongly’. She showed girlish adoration for her first Prime Minister, the worldly-wise Lord Melbourne, whose delightful conversation and kindly guidance enchanted her. Later in her reign, Benjamin Disraeli – who flattered her shamelessly, tirelessly praising her sagacity and judgement and filling her life with ‘poetry, romance and chivalry’ – became her favourite. While she developed a powerful bond with several of her Prime Ministers, in other cases the relationship fell little short of mutual detestation. Victoria’s keenest antipathy was reserved for Disraeli’s great rival, the Liberal William Gladstone. When he became prime minister for a fourth time at the age of 82, Victoria declared it ‘a bad joke’ that this ‘dangerous old fanatic’ should be ‘thrust down her throat’.

Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers charts the bitter clashes and affectionate interactions Victoria had with her ten premiers in often hilarious detail. Drawing extensively on unpublished sources such as material from the Royal Archives and never-before-seen prime ministerial papers, it casts a fresh and highly illuminating perspective not just on Victoria, but on the exceptionally able politicians who served her in government

ISBN: 9780008106256

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

William Collins

Biography: Royalty

HER NAME IS ALICE

Caroline Litman

When my third child was born, I was told I had a boy. The baby was given a boy’s name and raised in that gender. But when she died, twenty years later, she died as my daughter, and will forever be remembered that way.

Alice Litman died by suicide in May 2022, aged just twenty years old, having already waited almost three years for her first appointment at a gender identity clinic. In stunningly beautiful prose, Caroline Litman captures the realities of an often-messy journey navigating both her daughter’s transition and the days, weeks and months after Alice’s death. Searing, urgent and utterly unique, Her Name is Alice is the raw, human story of a mother’s love and grief for her child – and of a young trans woman who is impossible to forget and who must be remembered.

THE CIA BOOK CLUB

Charlie English

The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and wall, tank traps, minefields, watchtowers and men with dogs, stretched for 4,300 miles from the Arctic to the Black Sea. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the conflict would be fought in the psychological sphere. It was a battle for hearts, minds and intellects.

No one understood this more clearly than George Minden, the head of a covert intelligence operation known as the ‘CIA books programme’, which aimed to win the Cold War with literature. From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden’s global CIA ‘book club’ would infiltrate millions of banned titles into the Eastern Bloc, written by a vast and eclectic list of authors, including Hannah Arendt and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell and Agatha Christie. Volumes were smuggled on trucks and aboard yachts, dropped from balloons, and hidden in the luggage of hundreds of thousands of individual travellers. Once inside Soviet bloc, each book would circulate secretly among dozens of like-minded readers, quietly turning them into dissidents. Latterly, underground print shops began to reproduce the books, too. By the late 1980s, illicit literature in Poland was so pervasive that the system of communist censorship broke down, and the Iron Curtain soon followed.

March 13, 2025

Hardback

William Collins

The Cold War

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POS pack: 9780007997992

Badges, Bookmarks and Standee

LITERARY LANDSCAPES: DUBLIN

Publishing to coincide with St Patrick’s Day, we arrive in Dublin with the next installment in the Literary Landscapes series. Take a photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary locations and authors’ watering holes of Dublin’s top tourist destinations.

“When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart”, James Joyce once said.

There are few cities in the world that care so deeply about the written word as this historic capital. Walk down canals, stroll through Georgian squares, and cross the river, and you’ll find heritage plaques dedicated to famous writers, bridges named after them, and literary place names aplenty.

Dubliners can spot statues of literary legends: like George Bernard Shaw at the National Gallery; Oscar Wilde reclined in Merrion Square; and Brendan Behan watching over the Royal Canal.

Dublin’s creative outpourings are well documented in excellent museums and galleries around the city. The Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) features exhibitions on Ireland’s most influential writers and poets alongside unique literary artefacts, including the first ever copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Picking out one theatre above all others in Dublin is tricky – the Gaiety, the Gate and the Olympia have hugely enriched the city.

ISBN: 9780008716097

March 13, 2025

Hardback

Pavilion Books

Fiction Companions

£22

THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MEANINGS

RuPaul

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance.

A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.

Central to RuPaul’s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and super mogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.

Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breath taking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.

ISBN: 9780008614980

March 13, 2025

AMPHIBIOUS SOUL

Craig Foster

An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster “Amphibious Soul is an important book. . . . This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rather a guide to recognizing and reconnecting with the wild in and around us. It is a book that will inspire hope.” – Jane Goodall

An adventure story, love story, travelogue, naturalist memoir, and spiritual guide, Craig Foster's Amphibious Soul is a scientist and adventurer’s perspective on “rewilding” developing a deep connection to our animal selves that can reinvigorate our lives. Told in Craig’s warm and passionate voice, this extraordinary book will change not only the way we interact with the natural world, but the way we fundamentally see ourselves.

A decade ago, living in a city and feeling exhausted and empty, Craig decided to return to his birthplace the Cape of Good Hope and dive into the great African Sea forest each day. His daily oceanic adventures not only helped him “rewild”, but helped him come to see his own “amphibious soul” as a powerful metaphor for the human condition. We homo sapiens are by nature wild animals attempting to exist in a docile world. So how can we reclaim our wildness in a world that wants us to stay so tamed?

An extraordinary literary work, Amphibious Soul is a riveting narrative filled with meticulous descriptions of an adventure in the natural world that speaks to readers on an intimate level, challenging us to consider our personal relationship to nature, and inspiring us to realign our daily practices to help save the global ecosystem. Whether we live close to nature or in an urban jungle, Craig shows us how to nurture our individual wildness, tap into our empathy, and deepen our love for all living things. He teaches us to track the wild around us, and by doing so become present in the moment and revel in being wondrously alive.

ISBN: 9780008556068

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Thorsons Self-help & Personal Development

£10.99

HB Cover

INHERITING THE FEMINIST HISTORY OF THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

From a renowned puzzle creator, a compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest. "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page." New York Times

The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen and later spearheaded The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out of touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse. In this fascinating work part memoir, part cultural analysis she excavates the hidden history of the crossword and the overlooked women who have been central to its creation and evolution, from the “Crossword Craze” of the 1920s to the role of digital technology today. As she tells the story of her own experience in the CrossWorld, she analyzes the roles assigned to women in American culture, the boxes they’ve been allowed to fill, and the ways that they’ve used puzzles to negotiate the constraints and play of desire under patriarchy. The result is an unforgettable and engrossing work of art, a loving and revealing homage to one of our most treasured, entertaining, and ultimately political pastimes. ISBN: 9780063275485

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DAFFODILS

Naomi Slade, Georgianna Lane

Daffodils is a celebration of this spring floral favourite, with an in-depth look at the many gorgeous and multicoloured varieties, perfect for the garden, the home and any bouquet. Celebrating the glorious daffodil, spring flowers whose trumpet shape are instantly recognisable throughout the world, this is the next instalment in the iconic flower series by Naomi Slade and Georgianna Lane.

Ranging from the traditional trumpet-shaped corona, to the cup-shape daffodil, Narcissus are known for their brilliant colours ranging from brilliant yellow and orange to pastel pink and white, and for hailing the beginning of spring. This diverse plant can be traced back to the sixteenth century, and has been used for medicine, decor and as the symbol of many organizations and countries worldwide.

From the uncoventional, cheery ‘Pink Charm’ to the gloriously scented ‘Bridal Crown’, awardwinning garden writer Naomi Slade describes over 60 varieties, with suggestions for planting, growing and cutting. Accompanied by Georgianna Lane’s sumptuous and instantly recognisable photography, Narcissus is the perfect gift for any fan of spring flowers, gardeners and florists both amatuer and professional and collectors of this gorgeous flower series.

ISBN: 9780008662707

March 13, 2025

Hardback

Pavilion Books

Gardening

£25

BIRDS, SEX AND BEAUTY

Matt Ridley

From acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley, a new book that studies the peculiar mating behaviour of birds to better understand the origin of beauty and humanity itself. In all animals, mating is a deal. But few creatures behave as if sex is a simple transaction. Many treat it with reverence, suspicion, angst and violence. In the case of the Black Grouse, the bird at the centre of Matt Ridley’s investigation, the males dance and sing for hours a day, for several exhausting months, in an exhausting and sometimes deadly ritual called a ‘lek’. To prepare for the ordeal, they grow, preen and display fancy, twisted, bold-colored feathers. But why are males the eager sellers and females the discerning buyers? Why do increasingly baroque and bizarre males put themselves at risk of attack by circling hawks and rival birds? And why are these displays considered beautiful by humans at all? While the full answer remains a mystery, Charles Darwin thought the purpose of such displays was to charm females. Though Darwin’s theory was initially dismissed and buried for decades, recent scientific research has proven him right – there is a powerful evolutionary force quite distinct from natural selection: mate choice.

Using an early morning ‘lek’ as his starting point, Ridley explores the evolution of bright colors, exotic ornaments and elaborate displays in birds around the world – from the complex building rituals of Bowerbirds in Australia to the bubbling mating call of Curlews in the UK's declining moorlands. He reopens the history of Darwin’s vexed theory, laying bare a century of disagreement about an idea so powerful, so weird, so wonderful, we may have yet to understand all its implications. Birds, Sex and Beauty is a curious and insightful investigation that seeks to uncover the origin of beauty itself – a path that might hold the key to understanding the human mind.

ISBN: 9780008645526

March 13, 2025

Hardback

Fourth Estate

Birds (ornithology)

£25

Cahal Moran

ISBN: 9780008637958

March 13, 2025 Hardback Macroeconomics

£22

Economics is too important to be left to the experts.

But if we understand our economic system, we can change it. An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it really works.

Did you know that while we think of money as notes issued by the government, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of money today is credit created by private banks?

Did you know that the reason housing keeps getting less accessible is because we haven’t found a way to separate houses from land in our policies?

And did you know that far from globalisation being a mystical force, certain countries and currencies have dominated the way it has played out – to their own advantage?

Whilst economics is at the heart of the society we live in, governing so many functions from our taxes to where we live to the price of our shopping, few of us have a strong grasp on the subject. This book is here to help.

Why We're Getting Poorer delves into the key topics in economics – money, globalisation, inequality, climate change and growth – showing that what we think we know about these things is wrong, and teaching us what we really need to know.

A Very Private School

ISBN: 9780008666118

March 13, 2025 Paperback / softback

Proofs available now! Email us on independentthinking@harpercollins.co.uk with your name and shop address to request

£10.99

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'A tour-de-force' Washington Post

At eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England’s most exclusive boarding schools.

In this courageous and beautifully written memoir, Spencer offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he witnessed and experienced in his five years there as a pupil.

Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, the book is his attempt to come to terms with the deep emotional scars inflicted upon him. Spencer reflects on the misery, hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness, the vicious brutality of a boys’ school in the 1970s and the appalling inescapability of it all.

The Incarcerations

Alpa Shah

ISBN: 9780008518844

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Political Oppression & Persecution

£12.99

'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press' NAOMI KLEIN ‘Essential reading' YANIS VAROUFAKIS

The world’s largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.

?The Incarcerations pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which 16 human rights defenders (the BK-16) – professors, lawyers, journalists, poets – have been imprisoned, without credible evidence and without trial, as Maoist terrorists.

Alpa Shah unravels how these alleged terrorists were charged with inciting violence at a public commemoration in 2018, accused of waging a war against the Indian state, and plotting to kill the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Expertly leading us through the case, Shah exposes some of the world’s most shocking revelations of cyber warfare research, which show not only hacking of emails and mobile phones of the BK-16, but also implantation of the electronic evidence that was used to incarcerate them. Through the life histories of the BK-16, Shah dives deep into the issues they fought for and tells the story of India’s three main minorities – Adivasi, Dalits and Muslims – and what the search for democracy entails for them.

The Poetry Business School

Deborah Alma, Mark Constantine, Kate DowneyEvans

ISBN: 9780008757649

March 13, 2025

A unique and extraordinary business book, The Poetry Business School is both an inspirational take on how to do business better – with more collaboration, communication, and creativity – and a beautiful gift book of inspiring poetry.

The narrative journey takes the reader through the dialogue, mentoring relationship, and shared poetry between Mark Constantine OBE, Co-Founder and CEO of LUSH, and Deborah Alma, Founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Green Door Project Founder and Business Psychologist Kate Downey -Evans offers additional business advice.

Over the course of this book, what emerges is an inspirational and constructive creative pathway for other businesspeople at their own individual stages along the journey, for both business growth and personal development, remembering...

The Poetry Business School Spreads

The Success Principles

Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer

ISBN: 9780008757397

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

Advice On Careers & Achieving Success

£18.99

Jack Canfield reveals the simple set of rules for success that led him to become the multi-million copy bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and shows how anyone can follow these principles to achieve their own dreams.

• Greater levels of performance and achievement are attainable by anyone. This book offers the proven self-empowerment tools and time-tested performance strategies that are the basis for personal and professional success.

• Jack Canfield has become the author of over 50 best-selling books by following these principles –here he reveals how they can help you to take on greater challenges, produce break -through results and achieve undreamed of success.

LIFE: My Story Through History

Pope Francis, Aubrey Botsford

ISBN: 9780063387546

03 27 2025

Paperback / softback

£12.99

Here telling the story of his life for the first time, reviewed through the events that have made their mark on humanity over the past eighty years, Pope Francis shares the origins of the ideas, considered daring by many, that have characterized his papacy: from brave pronouncements against poverty and the destruction of the environment to direct appeals to world leaders to follow a different course on matters such as dialogue between peoples, the arms race, the fight against inequality. From the outbreak of World War II in 1939 when the future pontiff was not quite three years old to the present day, Jorge Mario Bergoglio takes his readers by the hand and, with his reminiscences, leads them on a remarkable journey through the decades. The pope’s voice, in his most personal memories, alternates with that of a narrator, who in each chapter sets the historical scene. In the pontiff’s own words, “Life came to light so that young people in particular might listen to the voice of an old man and reflect on what our planet has lived through, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

The Grizzly Forager’s

to Family

Foraging

John Shahabeddin

ISBN: 9780008701550

March 27, 2025

Hardback

£16.99

A gorgeous and accessible family foraging guide from The Grizzly Forager Nature can calm, soothe, and excite all at the same time. It can show us – however big or small we are – a place to be free, curious, and connect to a far greater whole. On top of all of this, nature can give us an abundance of delicious, free food! Foraging is the key to unlocking these connections, an opportunity for us and our children to get out there, to explore, and open our eyes to all of nature's wonders.

Foraging with family or friends is an amazing thing that any of us have access to, and with just a few simple rules in place, you could be living that picture perfect daydream of filling baskets with juicy berries, piles of mushrooms, and a glorious variety of edible flowers and plants, with the sun on your back or crunchy leaves underfoot.

This book is about to unlock that world of nature, fun, magic, fairytales and, most importantly, a treasure trove of wild food. Grab your basket (or bag for life). And kids, grab your wellies and coat – we're going on an adventure. I'm going to show you how to forage – I'll teach you everything you need to know, from one parent to another. Every journey starts with a small first step, so let's take yours together.

Wisdom of Dogs

It's something everyone who shares their home with a dog has in common - companionship, unconditional love, and never ending loyalty. Every dog owner believes they have the best dog ... and they aren't wrong. Dogs are fun company, always live in the moment, are quick to forgive, they make us healthier, they make us happier, they support us emotionally when times are tough, and they understand us.

There are many scientifically proven mental health benefits to being around dogs. Interacting with dogs has been shown to decrease levels of cortisol (a stress-related hormone) and lower blood pressure. Other studies have found that pets and animals can reduce loneliness, increase feelings of social support, and boost your mood.

Based on research showing that pets are great therapy, 'The Wisdom of Dogs' is a positive and inspiring collection of affirmations from dogs which teach us how to have a better, easier and more relaxed life by "being more dog". This book will be inspirational, fun, and uplifting.

Plants That Heal

ISBN: 9780008737207

March 13, 2025

Hardback

Complementary Medicine

£19.99

I Am Not a Tourist

ISBN: 9780008603243

March 13, 2025

Hardback

True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival

£16.99

From garden herbs and flowers to foraged fruits and berries, plants have the power to nourish and heal. Used in home remedies and by professional herbalists for thousands of years, nature’s medicine chest offers incredible healing benefits for body, mind, and spirit.

Grown in pots outside 19th-century apothecaries, the apothecary rose has been used to treat skin conditions and indigestion

Rosemary is known for its culinary uses, but it is also an incredible antioxidant, ant-inflammatory, and anti-fungal

Native Americans used Evening Primrose to treat wounds, and today is used in acne treatments and pain suppression

Plants That Heal brings together over 200 therapeutic plants and their home remedies in one beautifully illustrated book, featuring detailed photography to aid identification of plants and clear instructions for easy-to-follow recipes.

Discover the incredible history of healing botanicals; explore the comprehensive illustrated directory of over 200 healing plants, from homegrown herbs and spices to wildflowers, fruits, and berries, with tips on growing, harvesting, storing, and using; and learn how to make bespoke healing remedies for everything from boosting the immune system to encouraging restful sleep

‘I may not yet feel fully British, but my family and I have made Britain our home. This book is for my daughters, so they can see themselves reflected in this country.'

It was during a trip to a museum in 2014 that Daisy Hung first recalls being incorrectly labelled as a tourist – a trend that has continued since she settled in the UK, regardless of the documents she has gathered. From assumptions that she speaks Mandarin or that she’s from China, to hearing the continued use of offensive and culturally insensitive terms, such as ‘Oriental’ and ‘Chinese whispers’, she has consistently felt othered, despite being a British citizen and having only once visited Hong Kong and China.

In I Am Not a Tourist, Daisy explores what it means to be British Chinese today , and the social, historical and political factors that have got us here. Fighting narrow and dehumanising stereotypes, of Chinese people excelling at school, or being devoid of original thought or leadership, or having authoritarian parents, she encourages readers to interrogate their assumptions and interpretations of ‘Chinese’ identity.

In the wake of the upsurge of anti-Asian racism, triggered by the racialisation of the COVID-19 pandemic as the ‘China virus’, ‘China plague’ and ‘Kung flu’, I Am Not a Tourist exposes the ongoing racism and inequalities that British Chinese communities face, and forms an urgent call for change.

Candida Moss

ISBN: 9780008612214

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

History Of The Americas

£12.99

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan

'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent '[A] massive achievement' Spectator

‘Refreshingly readable' Guardian

For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But the truth is that these individuals did not write alone. In some meaningful ways they did not write at all. Hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a cluster of enslaved coauthors and collaborators, almost all of whom go uncredited. They were responsible for producing the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament. They took dictation, sometimes editorialising in the process, and polished and refined the final manuscripts. When the Christian message began to move independently from the first apostles it was enslaved missionaries who undertook the dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean and along dusty Roman roads to move Christianity from Jerusalem and the Levant to Rome, Spain, North Africa and Egypt. Finally, when these texts were read aloud to new audiences of curious potential converts, it was educated and trained enslaved workers who performed them –deciding whether a statement was sincere or sarcastic; a throwaway remark or something central to be emphasised. Their influence in the spread of Christianity and making of the Bible was enormous, yet their role has been almost entirely overlooked until now.

Get Hooked

Tom Daley

ISBN: 9780008657017

March 27, 2025 Hardback

Knitting & Crochet

£18.99

Dive headfirst into the world of crochet. With Tom Daley as your coach, learn everything you need to know to practise this versatile craft. Whether you’re a complete beginner, or something of an expert, quickly pick up all the basic skills you need with step-by-step photographs so you can master any of the fifteen projects with ease. Learn while making your way through the masterclasses that accompany the projects, which range from stylish clothing, cosy accessories and desirable homewares. Whether you’re crocheting for yourself or to make gifts for friends with family – Get Hooked has something for everyone!

Do you run a bookshop craft club? We’re looking to partner with a small number of indie bookshops on GET HOOKED! We will provide you with the tools needed to run a small crochet class in your shop, using one of Tom’s designs. If you’re interested in finding out more, please email us on independentthinking@harpercollins.co.uk

Say Everything

Ione

ISBN: 9780008661113

March 13, 2025

03 13 2025

Unfiltered and uncensored, actress Ione Skye’s memoir is a wild ride of Hollywood thrills, confessions, and desire, as well as a deeply meditative and lyrical reflections of a messy, sexy, unapologetically unconventional life.

In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye landed the breakout role of Diane Court, the dream girl who inspires John Cusack’s iconic boombox serenade in the hit Cameron Crowe film, Say Anything. While Skye seemed perfectly typecast as an aloof valedictorian, her reality was much messier. The love child of a magnetic ’60s It Girl and the folk-singing legend Donovan, Skye chased her absent father’s approval throughout her life. Wounded by his rejection, she sought warmth through infatuations and affairs with the brightest lights in her path Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Matthew Perry, John Cusack, and Robert Downey, Jr., as well as ’90s “bad girls” like Jenny Shimizu, Ingrid Casares, and Alice Temple. On the heels of a toxic teen relationship with the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis, Skye leapt into wedded bliss with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz. But marriage was not the magical hall pass to adulthood Skye had imagined, and the fairytale ended in heartbreak.

Strong

ISBN: 9780008701369

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Coping With Old Age

£16.99

Step into a vibrant, healthier future with Strong.

This book celebrates the joy of active ageing while addressing the diverse physical challenges you may be facing, such as post-surgery recovery and rehabilitation.

Discover a wealth of rejuvenating exercises that require little equipment that won’t dent your budget and can be carried out from the comfort of your own home. The exercise routines detailed in this book cater to various fitness levels, emphasising that age is no barrier to achieving and maintaining an active lifestyle for healthier ageing.

Jacqueline’s positive approach shines through every page, highlighting the empowering journey towards vitality and well-being. More than a fitness guide, this book is a testament to the transformative power of embracing an active life at any age.

Ben Horowitz

ISBN: 9780008740696

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Business Strategy

£10.99

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times

bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. The times and circumstances in which people were raised often shape them – yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In this follow-up to the bestselling business classic The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation: How do you create and sustain the culture you want?

This book is a journey through cultures ancient to modern, spotlighting models of leadership and culture-building from the samurai to prison gangs. Along the way, it answers fundamental questions: Who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Can we be trusted?

Shine Your Light

Lucinda Light

ISBN: 9780008741617

March 27, 2025

Hardback

Autobiography: Religious & Spiritual

£16.99

In this interactive journal, Lucinda Light guides you towards deeper emotional intelligence and genuine self-love

In a world where true connection can feel out of reach, let Lucinda Light illuminate your path to enriching, more meaningful relationships – starting with the one you have with yourself. Because once you fully love who you are, your connections with others will be transformed.

You’ll find all the inspiration and encouragement you need within this interactive journal. Combining wisdom distilled from Lucinda’s richly lived life with techniques for elevating your emotional intelligence, Shine Your Light provides insightful prompts and space for personal reflection. Open up and discover your most authentic and empowered self. With Lucinda as your soulful guide, you’ll be reminded that you’re just gorgeous!

Teresa Thornhill

ISBN: 9780008657871

March 13, 2025

£10.99

When the system fails the parents, how can it protect the children?

Welcome to the secretive world of the Family Court.

What's it like to act for a father who has recently overcome his drug problem but risks losing his beloved son to foster care?

Or to represent a young mother whose abusive childhood has left her depressed and struggling to cope, to the point where the local authority is seeking to persuade the Family Court to place her small children for adoption?

In this hard-hitting account of her work representing parents in care proceedings in the Family Court, child protection lawyer Teresa Thornhill conveys the dilemmas inherent in the job and shows how our under-resourced system of child protection – in both its social work and legal aspects – often fails to provide support that could enable the most vulnerable parents to continue to care for their children

TESTED: The remarkable power of resolve

ISBN: 9781460764916

March 27, 2025

Australia's Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers - from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee.

When Pat Cummins unexpectedly became Australia's 47th Test Captain at age 28, he inherited a team with a long and storied history, but also one on the cusp of reinvention. It was the beginning of a personal leadership journey for him; a unique moment of challenge and pressure that would see him become a seasoned captain, and in his private life, become a father and husband but also lose his mother to cancer.

Inspiring, revealing and deeply personal, TESTED is an exploration of the remarkable place where challenge, crisis and opportunity meet, and how it's only in the moments when we are tested that we discover what we are made of.

From a charity leader to Australia's first female Prime Minister, a Test cricket great to a ground-breaking scientist, an Indigenous leader to a bestselling author and podcaster, Pat interviews eleven extraordinary people whose own stories of challenge, adversity, perseverance and resiliencenavigating moments of crisis and doubt, seizing once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, creativity and giving back - have inspired him.

RISHAD TOBACCOWALA

ISBN: 9781400249305

03 27 2025

WITH DUST JACKET

£22

BRITTANY MAHER, CASSANDRA SPEER

ISBN: 9781400231140

03 27 2025 WITH DUST JACKET

£20

JOSH NADEAU

ISBN: 9781400341047

03 27 2025 HARDBACK

£20

STEPHANIE BARRON HALL

ISBN: 9780063318960

03 13 2025 HARDBACK

£20

MARCUS BRIDGEWATER

ISBN: 9780063141490

03 27 2025

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£12.99

PAST IS PROLOGUE

STREET HEARTS

LAURIE WOOLEVER

ISBN: 9780063327603

03 13 2025 HARDBACK

£22

CHRISTIE KEDERIAN

ISBN: 9780310369165

03 13 2025

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£14.99

DENNIS KNEALE

ISBN: 9780063381261

03 13 2025 HARDBACK

£25

DR DAPHNA SHOHAMY

ISBN: 9780008527525

MARCH 26, 2026 HARDBACK

£20

EMMA SMITH, ANTHONY SMITH

ISBN: 9780008701970

MARCH 13, 2025

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REBECCA MINKOFF

ISBN: 9781400251650

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£14.99

TANYA DALTON

ISBN: 9781400346622

03 27 2025

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DREW RAMSEY, M.D.

ISBN: 9780063377738

03 27 2025 HARDBACK £25

EXMOOR

FLEMMING ULF-HANSEN

ISBN: 9780008380717

MARCH 13, 2025 HARDBACK £65

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400250042

03 27 2025

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WILLIAM VON HIPPEL

ISBN: 9780063319257

03 27 2025 HARDBACK

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KIRK GOLDSBERRY

ISBN: 9780063329638

03 27 2025

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£14.99

REFERENCE

THE TIMES BRITAIN’S BEST WALKS

Christopher Somerville

Christopher Somerville has covered the length and breadth of the UK on foot, and has written and broadcast about its history, landscape, wildlife and people for over 25 years. Now, in this extensive new volume, he selects his top 200 routes from his hugely popular Times column, A Good Walk. More than just a basic guidebook, this is a meditation on our relationship with the landscape and a celebration of all that Britain has to offer. From Cornwall to Shetland via Pembrokeshire and Barrowdale, this is the most comprehensive collection of walks in the United Kingdom available in one book, and features trails to suit all skill levels and references, whether you want a gentle ramble to the pub or something much more challenging. Each of the featured walks contains:

• Detailed description as featured in The Times column

• Postcode and OS grid reference start point

• Instructions on how to get there

• Distance and grade so readers can suit walks to their ability, fitness and mood

• Simple step-by-step walk instructions

• Beautiful colour photograph for each walk

• Full colour, clear and up-to-date map

• Food and accommodation details for the hungry traveller Featuring stunning photography and using Christopher’s trademark with and lyricism, this is the perfect gift for ramblers anywhere.

ISBN: 9780008745189

March 27, 2025

Hardback

Times Books

Walking, Hiking, Trekking

£30

NATIONAL TRUST – BOOK OF PIES

ISBN: 9780008697945

March 13, 2025 HARDBACK

NATIONAL TRUST

£9.99

NATIONAL TRUST – THE BUTTERFLY SPOTTER’S GUIDE

MATTHEW OATES

ISBN:9780008715953

March 13, 2025 HARDBACK

£9.99

THE NATIONAL TRUST BOOK OF NATURE-FRIENDLY GARDENING

REBECCA BEVAN

ISBN: 9780008715946

March 13, 2025 HARDBACK

£20

THE TIMES MINI ATLAS OF THE WORLD

TIMES ATLASES

ISBN: 9780008718510

MARCH 13, 2025

HARDBACK

£12

2026 COLLINS ROAD MAP OF IRELAND

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719241

MARCH 13, 2025

SHEET MAP, FOLDED

£7.99

COLLINS HANDY ROAD

ATLAS SCOTLAND

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008725518

MARCH 27, 2025

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£6.99

2026 COLLINS ESSENTIAL

ROAD ATLAS BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719234

MARCH 13, 2025

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2026 COLLINS ROAD MAP OF SCOTLAND

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719265

MARCH 13, 2025

SHEET MAP, FOLDED

£7.99

2026 COLLINS ROAD MAP OF BRITAIN

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719258

MARCH 13, 2025

SHEET MAP, FOLDED

£7.99

COLLINS 2026 BIG ROAD

ATLAS EUROPE

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008716462

MARCH 13, 2025

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£14.99

2026 COLLINS BIG ROAD

ATLAS BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719210

MARCH 13, 2025

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2026 COLLINS HANDY ROAD

ATLAS BRITAIN AND IRELAND

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719227

MARCH 13, 2025

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COLLINS GOLF MAP OF SCOTLAND

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008720278

MARCH 13, 2025

SHEET MAP, FOLDED

£9.99

DISCOVERING LONDON

ILLUSTRATED MAP

DOMINIC BEDDOW, COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008724658

MARCH 27, 2025

COLLINS WORLD ATLAS: REFERENCE EDITION

COLLINS MAPS

ISBN: 9780008696078

MARCH 13, 2025 HARDBACK

CAMBRIDGE IGCSE

ENGLISH REVISION GUIDE

ISBN: 9780008758899

MARCH 03, 2025

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£4.99

SHEET MAP, FOLDED

£25

£16.99

COUCH TO CONCERT:

BEGINNER PIANO COURSE

KAREN MARSHALL,

HEATHER HAMMOND

ISBN: 9780008739379

OCTOBER 24, 2024

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

CAMBRIDGE IGCSE

GEOGRAPHY WORKBOOK

REBECCA KITCHEN, ALAN

PARKINSON

ISBN: 9780008725808

MARCH 20, 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£12.99

CAMBRIDGE IGCSE

ENGLISH STUDENT’S BOOK

ABHINANDAN

BHATTACHARYA, KEITH

BRINDLE…

ISBN: 9780008700553

MARCH 03, 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£28.99

CAMBRIDGE IGCSE

ENGLISH WORKBOOK

STEVE EDDY, NAOMI

HURSTHOUSE, LUCY TOOP, ELIZABETH WALTER

ISBN: 9780008700560

MARCH 03, 2025

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£12.99

CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL AS & A LEVEL GEOGRAPHY

STUDENT'S BOOK

BARNABY LENON, IAIN PALÔT…

ISBN: 9780008703448

MARCH 20, 2025

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£49.99

CAMBRIDGE IGCSE

ENGLISH TEACHER’S GUIDE

ABHINANDAN

BHATTACHARYA, CLAIRE

AUSTIN-MACRAE…

ISBN: 9780008700577

MARCH 03, 2025

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£100

COUCH TO CONCERT: BEGINNER

PIANO PIECES AND PRACTICE

KAREN MARSHALL

ISBN: 9780008739386

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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£9.99

CAMBRIDGE IGCSE

GEOGRAPHY TEACHER’S GUIDE

JOHN RUTTER, ROB BIRCHER, CLAIRE KYNDT

ISBN: 9780008725839

MARCH 20, 2025

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EDEXCEL LEVEL 2 EXTENDED

MATHS CERTIFICATE COMPLETE STUDY AND PRACTICE

ANNE STOTHERS, TREVOR

SENIOR, ANDREW MILNE

ISBN: 9780008739478

MARCH 13, 2025

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£16.99

CAMBRIDGE IGCSE

GEOGRAPHY STUDENT'S BOOK

JOHN RUTTER, ROB BIRCHER, CLAIRE KYNDT

ISBN: 9780008725761

MARCH 20, 2025

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GREAT BRITAIN A-Z SUPER SCALE ROAD ATLAS 2026 (A3

SPIRAL)

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719203

MARCH 13, 2025

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SOUTH DOWNS WAY

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008727727

MARCH 13, 2025

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£11.99

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PATH

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008727765

MARCH 13, 2025

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BRIGHTON AND WORTHING

A-Z STREET ATLAS

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008730871

MARCH 27, 2025

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£8.99

SOUTH WEST COAST PATH 2

– NORTH CORNWALL

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008707620

MARCH 13, 2025

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£11.99

SOUTH WEST COAST PATH 4

– SOUTH DEVON

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008707644

MARCH 13, 2025

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SOUTH WEST COAST PATH 1

– NORTH DEVON & SOMERSET

A–Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008707651

MARCH 13, 2025

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– DORSET

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008707668

MARCH 13, 2025

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SPIRAL)

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719180

MARCH 13, 2025

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A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008730840

MARCH 27, 2025

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£11.99

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£10.99

PEDDARS WAY AND NORFOLK COAST PATH

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008727734

MARCH 13, 2025

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COTSWOLD WAY

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008727758

MARCH 13, 2025

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– SOUTH CORNWALL

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008707637

MARCH 13, 2025

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PEAK DISTRICT (DARK PEAK)

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008744205

MARCH 13, 2025

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ATLAS 2026 (A4 SPIRAL)

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008719197

MARCH 13, 2025

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£14.99

EDINBURGH A-Z STREET

ATLAS

A-Z MAPS

ISBN: 9780008730857

MARCH 27, 2025

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COOKERY

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CHILDREN’S

CHILDREN’SFICTION

WOLF SIREN

Beth O’Brien

A vibrant, evocative and magical debut which centres a positive, empowered disabled character at the heart of a reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood.

The woods are hiding a secret… but then so is Red…

Red is not allowed to go into the woods. Everyone knows that they are dangerous – because of their strange magic and the wolves that lurk there… But Red finds herself increasingly drawn to the woods and the place where her grandmother disappeared without a trace three years ago. When the woodcutter fails to return home one night and wolves are spotted close to the village boundary, fear drives a deep and dangerous divide between the villagers and the nature they live alongside.

Only Red seems to hold the key – but she has a secret, and exposing it could ruin her family forever …

'Full of brilliant, wild, misunderstood girls, this is a feminist tale with teeth and a sharp bite. Beth O'Brien is an exciting new talent.' Katya Balen, author of October, October

For orders of over five copies, we will send indies exclusive Wolf Siren art prints to bookshops to giveaway to customers as a gift with purchase, while stock lasts!

RACE TO ECHOES EDGE

Observers! Dreamers! Inventors! Explorers! The time has come to crown four new Protectors of Imagination Island. Do YOU have what it takes to win the Race? The second instalment in this incredible, addictive and collectable series. Our hero Luca is back for the second leg of the Race to Imagination Island! This time, our plucky Racers create team mascots to help them with the three challenges they must overcome: crossing a canyon full of tricks and traps, passing through a forest of evil icy-blue fairies, and quite literally pulling the plug out of the ocean … Who will pass? Who will fail? And who will be sent home forever?

THE RACE IS ON!

THE FIRST KID IN SPACE

When an unfortunate incident in a space shuttle simulator turns twelve year old Franklin Wilson into an accidental viral sensation, he attracts the attention of Xavier Drake, the third richest person in the world, who invites Franklin to take part in a competition to become the actual first kid in space.

But after the competition launches, and the five young contestants begin to compete in a series of trials that will see them eliminated one by one until only the winner remains, Franklin discovers that everything is not what it seems – and it turns out there is much more at stake than just a trip to space…

Hilarious, fast-paced, and action-packed, The First Kid in Space is an out-of-this-world adventure for readers aged 9+, from the highly-acclaimed author of Escape from Camp Boring and How to Rob a Bank.

SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT BOOK #17

Derek Landy

The bone-shaking new trilogy continues – the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series Vengeance is a killer.

A killer is stalking and murdering sorcerers, and Valkyrie Cain is next on his list. While hunting down a cult of magical terrorists intent on taking their revenge on the mortal world, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are drawn into a murder investigation with unsettling similarities to a case they just closed – the case that nearly took the lives of both Valkyrie’s sister and girlfriend. With the body count rising, a special night approaches – a night where the elite of sorcerer society will gather on a remote island to witness a ceremony that could change that society forever. Speeches will be made, champagne will be sipped, and two things will become terribly, distressingly clear…

No one is safe. And not everyone will make it out alive.

Signed bookplates Available

Serial Chillers: The Witch in the Woods

Jennifer Killick

ISBN: 9780008720506

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

Farshore

Horror & Ghost Stories, Chillers (Children's / Teenage)

£7.99

The must-read middle-grade novel from the author of the super-spooky Dread Wood series. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s Goosebumps and Stranger Things.

“Deliciously scary and hilarious comedy-horror, perfectly pitched for eight-plus.” Guardian on Dread Wood

Welcome to Hazard. An ordinary town where strangeness is a way of life. A town where sink holes appear with no warning, where people go missing way too often and where things really DO go bump in the night …

To Travis and his classmates, Hazard is home. But when they’re set a school project to investigate the history of the town, they soon realise that something strange and alien lies beneath Hazard. What can they learn from their investigations into the mysterious witch in the woods? And – if the witch does exist – will they make it home to tell the tale…?

BEANO Betty and the Yeti: Friends at First Fart

Beano Studios

ISBN: 9780008720926

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback

Adventure Stories

(Children's / Teenage)

£9.99

Make a new friend at first fart in the funniest, messiest and smelliest new graphic novel series!

Betty and the Yeti are the best of friends, but Yeti is, well … a yeti, and Betty isn’t supposed to have a yeti living in her room – not that she’s asked! What the groan-ups don’t know won’t hurt them, right? Well, just their house, their garden and their bank accounts! But shh! You wouldn’t tell them about Yeti, would you?

Join Betty and Yeti as they get to grips with being roommates and Yeti learns how to act like a human to blend in. Will it end in disaster or will they become friends at first fart? Find out in this epic new comic book series, which includes awesome activities for you to complete as you go.

"Betty and the Yeti is funny, furry and fantastic!

Hilarious and wonderfully silly, Betty and her Yeti are comic heroes in the making. A brilliant book, and Hugh is a certified comic genius!” – Jamie Smart, author of Bunny vs Monkey and Looshkin

Cecelia Ahern

ISBN: 9780008758707

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

General Fiction (Children's / Teenage)

£8.99

The stunning YA debut from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern. Celestine North lives a perfect life. She’s a model daughter and sister, she’s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she’s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan.

But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found FLAWED.

In this stunning novel, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts a society in which perfection is paramount and mistakes are punished. And where one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything.

Cecelia Ahern

ISBN: 9780008758714

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

General Fiction (Children's / Teenage)

£8.99

The thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut FLAWED is finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that’s when we can finally become PERFECT…

Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely fractured – all her freedoms gone.

Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with the complicated, powerfully attractive Carrick, the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret – one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground.

Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save only herself, or risk her life to save all the Flawed. And, most important of all, can she prove that to be human in itself is to be Flawed…?

THE BECK

From Carnegie Medal winning author Anthony McGowan comes an environmental tale packed full of his signature grit, heart and humour, as Kyle and his grandad execute a plan to save the local beck.

Kyle is less than pleased about getting dumped at his eccentric old grandad’s for the day, but a whole new world opens up to him when he’s introduced to the marvels that can be found in the beck at the bottom of his grandad’s garden.

Once filthy and full of rubbish, the beck has been cleaned up and is now full of amazing creatures. But this magical world is under threat from a new development.

Kyle’s grandad is determined to stop the builders, but when he falls ill, Kyle decides to carry out the plan himself, finding courage and new friends along the way.

Particularly suitable for readers aged 11+ with a reading age of 9.

ISBN: 9780008722296

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Barrington Stoke

Children's / Teenage Fiction & True Stories

CHILDREN’S –PICTURE BOOKS

BRENDA’S REVENGE

Sarah Tagholm, Laurie Stansfield

Because she’s a cat, Brenda needs help with things like getting dressed, table manners and trampolining!

Brenda is just a cat, so she isn’t good at hairstyles or getting dressed or good table manners… and her handwriting is terrible! Luckily she has one loving owner who is going to help her. Will the little girl who owns Brenda’s ever learn that it isn’t nice to make someone do something they don’t want to? Maybe her new neighbour can help…

• The author of Sam Francisco is back with this hilarious tale of empathy and consequences

• Brenda’s expression when she’s “playing” with her owner is priceless

• Her owner’s comeuppance is a new neighbour who treats the litte girl as she treated Brenda!

• Sarah and Laurie’s warm characters and spot-on slapstick comedy makes this a must-read and a must-re-read

ISBN: 9781915395191 £7.99

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Rocket Bird Books

Picture Storybooks

DRAGONS CAN’T EAT SNOW CONES

Amanda Sobotka

If a dragon wants a snow cone, it must proceed with great care, In case a fireball melts it all until there’s nothing there!

If a dragon wants a snow cone, it must proceed with great care,

In case a fireball melts it all until there’s nothing there!

This dragon has a peculiar problem: he loves snow cones, but his fiery breath keeps melting them! Follow along in this fun-filled adventure as the dragon tries everything to keep his favourite treat from turning into a puddle.

This delightful tale is brought to life with colourful illustrations and playful rhymes. Children will discover that challenges can be overcome with some creativity and perseverance. This charming story is sure to be a bedtime favourite!

ISBN: 9781400346820

March 13, 2025

03 13 2025

Applesauce Press Hardback

£10.99

ISBN DRAGONS CAN’T EAT SNOW CONES STANDEE

ISBN: 9780008626143

March 27, 2025

Board book

Picture Books

ISBN: 9780008626150

March 27, 2025

Board book

Picture Books: Character Books

£6.99

Hungry Shark is on the hunt for food in this fun, cheeky and vibrant lift-the-flap story!

It’s dinnertime and Hungry Shark is in the mood for something to eat… but her prey sees her coming! Will she end up with anything to munch?

With six spreads and five sturdy flaps, perfect for little hands, children will love discovering who’s hiding on each page in this funny and playful introduction to the food chain!

£6.99

Hungry Spider is on the hunt for food in this fun, cheeky and vibrant lift-the-flap story!

It’s dinnertime and Hungry Spider is in the mood for something to eat… but his prey sees him coming! Will Spider end up with anything to munch?

With six spreads and five sturdy flaps, perfect for little hands, children will love discovering who’s hiding on each page in this funny and playful introduction to the food chain!

Storybooks – Ten Little Tractors

Amanda Sobotka

ISBN: 9781400346134

03 27 2025

Board book

£10.99

Count along with Ten Little Tractors and watch as they disappear!

Ten little tractors in the bright sunshine, along comes a cow and then there are…nine! Learning to count has never been more fun. This unique board book counts from ten little tractors all the way down to one with adorable illustrations. With each page, one more tractor disappears. To demonstrate this concept, this book uses tactile tractor buttons to help children count how many little tractors are left as the story progresses. Follow along with the easy rhythm and rhymes of this story and let your child touch the colourful, built-in toys for a creative, hands-on approach to counting. Start young ones on a lifetime of loving reading and learning with Ten Little Tractors.

Magical Counting

Storybooks – Ten Little Trains

Amanda Sobotka

ISBN: 9781400344567

03 27 2025

Board book

£10.99

Count along with Ten Little Train Engines and watch as they disappear!

Ten little trains on the railroad line, one chugged away and then there were…nine! Learning to count has never been more fun. This unique board book counts from ten little trains all the way down to one with adorable illustrations. With each page, one more train disappears. To demonstrate this concept, this book uses tactile train buttons to help children count how many little trains are left as the story progresses. Follow along with the easy rhythm and rhymes of this story and let your child touch the colourful, built-in train toys for a creative, hands-on approach to counting. Start young ones on a lifetime of loving reading and learning with Ten Little Trains.

Beep! Beep! Vehicles

Byron Barton

ISBN: 9780063415423

03 13 2025

Board book

Cranky and Friends –Cranky Makes A Friend

Phuc Tran, Pete Oswald

ISBN: 9780063256309

03 13 2025 Hardback

£7.99

This colorful and sturdy board book features the many things that go, including trucks, cars, airplanes, and trains, from the world of Byron Barton. Perfect for young children who love vehicles of all kinds. Beep! Beep!

Twelve vehicles a car, a truck, a plane, a boat, a train, a bus, a bike, and so on are introduced to very young children in this board book celebration of transportation. The award-winning Byron Barton (1930–2023) was renowned for his preschool picture books introducing basic concepts to young children. The images in this board book come from his many popular “things that go” titles, including My Car, My Bus, and My Bike, and also feature a community of drivers and passengers, both animal and human. Beep! Beep! Vehicles on the Go is a terrific choice for vehicle-obsessed toddlers. A great gift for baby showers and birthdays!

£12.99

In this second picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Food Group series, Pete Oswald, and acclaimed picture book author Phuc Tran’s bestselling Cranky series, Cranky is feeling extra cranky when a new crane joins the crew.

There’s a new crane on the construction site! His name is Lefty and he's the opposite of Cranky smiley, talkative, and a jokester. Everything Lefty does makes Cranky feel extra cranky. But everyone else seems to love him. What if Cranky's friends like Lefty more than him?

Find out how self-acceptance and a supportive crew help one cranky truck make a new friend in this humorous story about big trucks, big feelings, and even bigger friendships. With Phuc Tran’s hilarious text and Pete Oswald’s bold, expressive illustrations, this read is perfect for fans of Grumpy Monkey and construction vehicles.

I Was Born A Baby

ISBN: 9780063157231

03 27 2025 Paperback /

Good For Nothing Puddle

Jana Jackson, Abby Jartos

ISBN: 9780310160120 03 27 2025

£7.99

Don’t miss this irresistible read-aloud in the vein of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom with catchy rhymes and bold, silly art about baby animals and the names they share! I was born a baby and grew into a kid…

Soon all the other baby animals can’t help but share what they are called and what they grew up into! Readers will learn about owlettes, pufflings, and more. But when the chick, calf, cub, and pup realize they share their names with several other species, they can’t believe it. “No way! No how! That can't be true!” becomes a catchy, energetic refrain readers will love chanting. The text invites readers to predict what the baby animal is by using context clues and checking the endpapers to see if they guessed right.

The strong rhythm and unexpected discoveries of the baby animal kingdom, plus deadpan humor and wonderfully expressive art, will spark a conversation about names and nature and leave readers wanting to read it aloud again and again.

£12.99

In this powerful picture book about a girl experiencing loss, The Good-for-Nothing Puddle helps children explore the nature of grief and loss and leads them to find hope and redemption from pain.

When a girl loses the thing she loves the most, her tears gather into a puddle around her feet that follows her everywhere she goes. At first, she tries her best to make it go away, but it is inescapable. She even cries out to God to take it away. Eventually, a puppy, a farmer, and an artist stumble upon the girl and her puddle. Each one finds the puddle extremely useful in their own way and slowly the girl begins to understand that her “good-for-nothing” puddle might just be good for something after all! As she learns to accept her grief, she begins to find happiness again. Filled with moments of sorrow and joy, The Good-for-Nothing Puddle is a powerful metaphor for dealing with difficult emotions and navigating grief while holding onto faith.

Is This A Dinosaur?

ISBN: 9781400347001

03 13 2025

Board book

ISBN: 9780547379050

03 27 2025

Paperback / softback

£6.99

Snuggle up with your little paleontologist with this touch-and-feel book!

Let your little dinosaur sleuth get their hands on this delightful touch-and-feel book! Meet a lineup of adorable characters and ask, “Is this a dinosaur?” One just might be a sneaky dino in disguise. These catchy verses encourage children to guess what each page will hold. This adorable book is perfect for your curious kiddo. And while your little one is busy giggling and guessing, theyll also be sharpening their fine motor skills and boosting their cognitive development.

£5.99

Hop along with Curious George as he celebrates Easter with his friends and gets into a bit of monkeysized mischief along the way. Includes egg-cellent stickers for decorating! George can’t help but join in the Easter fun when he sees children dyeing eggs at the park. But why is someone hiding their decorated eggs? And what happens when the Easter bunny gets loose? George hops from one adventure to another. He mixes primary colors together to achieve secondary colors, helps look for the missing bunny, and performs one very important job. Including a full sheet of egg-decorating stickers, this paperback format is perfect for Easter egg baskets and other holiday fun!

THE MYSTERIOUS MISSING MATZOH

9780063311183

March 27, 2025 HARDBACK

MY SEDAR PLATE SHAPED BOARD BOOK

9780063329324

March 27, 2025 -

LOVE GOD GREATLY BIBLE STORYBOOK

9781400244454

March 27, 2025 HARDBACK

CHILDREN’S

NON FICTION

POEMHOOD: OUR BLACK REVIVAL

"A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience." Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this unmatched anthology that features both modern poets, such as Nikki Giovanni and Ibi Zoboi, and 'the brilliant Black poets who are now ancestors'... A fresh canon for poetry studies." ALA Booklist (starred review)

"An excellent collection of poetry that is an insightful read on the Black experience"—School and Library Journal

Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from acclaimed authors, including Kwame Alexander, Ibi Zoboi, and Nikki Giovanni, this breathtaking Black YA poetry anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, Taylor Byas, and Erica Martin celebrates Black poetry, folklore, and culture.

Come, claim your wings.

BRAMBLY HEDGE: NATURE COLOURING

BOOK

Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge with this beautiful colouring book, featuring illustrations from the beloved classic picture books. Come along on a colouring adventure with author and illustrator Jill Barklem and bring the natural world of Brambly Hedge to life as never before!

From the beauty of the seasonal changes in the hedgerow to the intricate details in the mice’s homes, this colouring book celebrates the exquisite moments featured in Spring Story, Summer Story, Sea Story and Poppy’s Babies. Filled with favourite quotations, detailed vignettes, full-page illustrations and stunning double-page spreads, immerse yourself in the treasured tales of this lovable community of mice.

Printed on a smooth, untextured cream paper which complements your colouring palette, enjoy seeing your creations come to life in pen or pencil.

ISBN: 9780008660918

March 13, 2025 Paperback / softback

NATURE

Manon Bucciarelli

Discover the natural world with this beautifully illustrated book full of amazing animals, plants and the incredible habitats they live in.

Which talkative bird is one of the largest of its species? Which tree can live for over 2,000 years?

Can you guess which fish darts through the ocean at 68 miles per hour? From dry deserts and tropical beaches, icy terrain to expansive mountains, our planet Earth is rich in spectacular species and breathtaking environments.

Journey through sixteen different ecosystems in this stunning hardback, packed with gorgeous illustrations and phenomenal facts, and see if you can guess the marvellous things that are being described! This incredible book is a treasure-trove of creatures and fascinating discoveries and can be enjoyed time and time again.

The perfect gift for the curious, lovers of nature and wildlife, or for children and families who love to learn about the world!

SPY AGENCY PUZZLE BOOK – THE HIDDEN

HACKER

Collins Kids

<h2>Train to be a secret agent in this exciting spy puzzle book!</h2>Your secret mission, should you choose to accept it:

Save the world from chaos by unmasking the hacker threatening to shut down the internet!

Put your spy skills to the test with four areas of puzzling challenges from hidden words and codebreaking to logic and observation puzzles, before you take on your top secret mission. Hurry, this message will self-destruct in 3, 2, 1…

March 27, 2025

Paperback / softback Collins Puzzle Books (Children's / Teenage)

CHILDREN’S –BRAND AND HERITAGE

THE ART OF WINNIE-THE-POOH: 50

COLLECTABLE POSTCARDS

Disney

This beautiful postcard set includes 50 famous scenes and character images from the Hundred Acre Wood from the pages of the original, much-loved books by A.A.Milne and E.H.Shepard. It makes a perfect gift.

This collectable keepsake box of 50 postcards features iconic scenes and the beloved characters in the world of Winnie-the-Pooh. It also includes postcards featuring some of E.H. Shepard’s original sketches.

This very special postcard set celebrates A.A.Milne’s ever popular, gently humourous stories about Pooh and his friends and depicts many favourite moments created by the hugely talented artist and illustrator E.H.Shepard.

These full colour, high quality postcards held in a beautifully decorated keepsake box are a musthave for Winnie-the-Pooh fans old and young. It makes a great present or stocking gift. It's perfect for everyone who loves the characters and the stories, as well as for those who love art and iconic illustrations.

A.A.Milne’s poetry and his stories about Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood with decorations by E.H.Shepard have been loved by generations of children and their parents since the first publication of Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. The famous bear truly is The Bear for All Ages. Have you collected all the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poetry collections: Winnie-the-Pooh

The House at Pooh Corner

Now We Are Six

When We Were Very Young

Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

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ISBN: 9780008648671 £16.99

March 27, 2025

Postcard book or pack

Farshore

Stationery & Miscellaneous Items (Children's / Teenage)

Paddington: Fun at the Fair

Michael Bond, R. W. Alley

ISBN: 9780008726904

March 13, 2025

Board book

Baby Books

A Bear Called Paddington

Michael Bond, Peggy Fortnum

ISBN: 9780008720025

March 13, 2025

Paperback / softback

Picture Books: Character

Books

£7.99

Move the sliders in this interactive toddler board book to enjoy all the fun of the fair with everyone’s favourite bear, Paddington, who is now a major movie star! Come and join the Paddington bear for a fun-filled day at the fair! Move the sliders in this pull, slide and play book and watch him slide down the helter-skelter, jet off on the Rocket Rollercoaster … and more!

£12.99

The original story of Paddington, the classic bear from Darkest Peru – now a major movie star! Unabridged and featuring colour illustrations from the original Paddington illustrator, Peggy Fortnum, this beautiful large-sized edition of a much-loved classic will enchant established Paddington fans and a new generation of readers alike.

“A bear on Paddington Station?” said Mrs Brown in amazement. “Don’t be silly – there can’t be.”

Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same… for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved.

CHILDREN’S –GRAPHIC NOVELS

CINDY CHANG

ISBN: 9780358659655

03 27 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£10.99

ISBN: 9780063389052

03 13 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£4.99

BARBARA LEHMAN

CHILDREN’S

YOUNG ADULT

ISBN: 9780062888877

March 13, 2025

Hardback

Young Adult / Fantasy /

£14.99

WHILE WE’RE YOUNG

ISBN: 9780008688455

March 13, 2025

£9.99

Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for fireball witches with all its bright lights, shut windows, and bolt-locked doors.… While Marisol hoped they would leave their old traditions behind when they emigrated from the islands, she knows this will never happen while she remains ensnared by the one person who keeps her chained to her magical past her mother.

Seventeen-year-old Genevieve is the daughter of a college professor and a newly minted older half sister of twins. Her worsening skin condition and the babies’ constant wailing keep her up at night, when she stares at the dark sky with a deep longing to inhale it all. She hopes to quench the hunger that gnaws at her, one that seems to reach for some memory of her estranged mother. When a new nanny arrives to help with the twins, a family secret connecting her to Marisol is revealed, and Gen begins to find answers to questions she hasn’t even thought to ask.

But the girls soon discover that the very skin keeping their flames locked beneath the surface may be more explosive to the relationships around them than any ancient magic.

An epic road-trip romance from NYT-bestselling author of TikTok sensation The Summer of Broken Rules, inspired by the 80s classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Grace, Isa, and Everett used to be an inseparable trio before their love lives became a tangled mess. For starters, Grace is secretly in love with Everett, who used to go out with Isa before breaking her heart in the infamous Freshman Year Fracture. And, oh yeah, no one knows that Isa has been hanging out with James, Grace’s brother and if Grace finds out, it could ruin their friendship. With graduation fast approaching, Grace decides an unsanctioned senior skip day in Philadelphia might be just what they need to fix things. All she has to do is convince Isa to help her kidnap Everett and outmaneuver James, who’s certain his sister is up to something.

In an epic day that includes racing up the famous Rocky steps, taste-testing Philly's finest cheesesteaks, and even crashing a wedding, their secrets are bound to collide. But can their hearts withstand the wreckage?

Four friends. One day off. A whole heap of trouble – this is the perfect love story for readers to escape with this summer and ticks all the boxes for fans of Carley Fortune, Lynn Painter and Emily Henry.

YOURS, NOT HERS

KARI KAMPAKIS

ISBN: 9781400249213

03 13 2025 HARDBACK

£12.99

THE WILDE TRIALS MACKENZIE REED

ISBN: 9780063287648

MARCH 13 2025 HARDBACK

£14.99

UNLOCK THE DARK

SASA HAWK

ISBN: 9780063335035

03 27 2025 HARDBACK

£14.99

WHERE SHADOWS BLOOM CATHERINE BAKEWELL

ISBN: 9780063359086

03 13 2025 HARDBACK

£14.99

RHINO’S RUN

Robert Lipsyte

ISBN: 9780063343870

03 13 2025 Hardback

£14.99

WHEN THE BONES SING GINNY MYERS SAIN

ISBN: 9780008626716 MARCH 13, 2025 UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND £9.99

It’s a love/skate relationship

Carli J. Corson

ISBN: 9780063370869

March 13 2025 Hardback

£14.99

HCCP

JOHN F. MACARTHUR

ISBN: 9780310123903

03 27 2025 UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND £10.99

JARED C. WILSON, PAUL

DAVID TRIPP

ISBN: 9780310155768

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND £14.99

CRAIG GROESCHEL

ISBN: 9780310369875 03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

JACK COUNTRYMAN ISBN: 9781400251278 03 13 2025

JACK COUNTRYMAN

ISBN: 9780310369905 03 13 2025

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344246 03 13 2025 WITH RIBBON MARKER(S)

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344253

03 13 2025

WITH THUMB INDEX

£55

DAN B. ALLENDER, STEVE CALL

ISBN: 9781400344604

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

DANA K. WHITE

ISBN: 9781400344376

03 27 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

TANYA DALTON

ISBN: 9781400346622

03 27 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND £10.99

JOHN F. EVANS

ISBN: 9780310150718

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£30

DR. DAVID JEREMIAH

ISBN: 9780310167969

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£12.99

JASON WILSON

ISBN: 9781400249053

03 13 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£14.99

GRACE HELENA WALZ

ISBN: 9781400345632

03 27 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK £10.99

RICHARD STEARNS

ISBN: 9781400345946

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344031

03 27 2025 WITH RIBBON MARKER(S)

£65

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344079

03 27 2025 WITH THUMB INDEX

£80

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344086

03 27 2025 WITH RIBBON MARKER(S)

£65

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344239

03 13 2025 WITH RIBBON MARKER(S)

£45

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344345

03 13 2025 WITH RIBBON MARKER(S)

£45

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344352

03 13 2025 WITH RIBBON MARKER(S)

£45

DREW HYUN, PETER

SCAZZERO

ISBN: 9780310161530

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

JONATHAN POKLUDA

ISBN: 9781400341177

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400250042

03 27 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£14.99

GISELA H. KREGLINGER, RANDY FRAZEE

ISBN: 9780310172765

03 27 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£15.99

JONATHAN POKLUDA

ISBN: 9780310169826

03 27 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£15.99

SCOT MCKNIGHT

ISBN: 9780310129264

03 27 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£11.99

ROSS DOUTHAT

ISBN: 9780310367581

03 27 2025 WITH DUST JACKET

£20

BARB ROOSE

ISBN: 9780310159933

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400343980

03 27 2025 WITH RIBBON MARKER(S)

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344116

03 13 2025 WITH RIBBON MARKER(S) £45

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344154

03 13 2025

WITH THUMB INDEX

£55

IAN MORGAN CRON

ISBN: 9780310173649

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

PATRICK KEITH MILLER, KEITH SIMON, JUSTIN WHITMEL EARLEY

ISBN: 9780310368748

03 13 2025

MELISSA DOUGHERTY

ISBN: 9780310368861

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

IAN MORGAN CRON

ISBN: 9780310369288

03 13 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£14.99

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

£14.99

COREY YEAGER

ISBN: 9781400251056

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£9.99

REBECCA MINKOFF

ISBN: 9781400251650

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK

£14.99

JANA JACKSON, ABBY JARTOS

ISBN: 9780310160120

03 27 2025

PICTURE BOOK

£12.99

CHRISTIE KEDERIAN

ISBN: 9780310369165

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

BRITTANY MAHER, CASSANDRA SPEER

ISBN: 9781400231140

03 27 2025 WITH DUST JACKET

£20

JOSH NADEAU

ISBN: 9781400341047

03 27 2025

JACK COUNTRYMAN

ISBN: 9781400251254

03 13 2025

CHRISTINE CAINE

ISBN: 9781400226665

03 27 2025

PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK £14.99

THOMAS NELSON

ISBN: 9781400344192

03 13 2025

WITH RIBBON MARKER(S)

DAN B. ALLENDER, STEVE CALL

ISBN: 9781400347261

03 13 2025

UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND

£14.99

DAVID JEREMIAH

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