MAY 2024 NEW TITLES
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TAYLOR SWIFT: THE WHOLE STORY [NEW EDITION] Chas Newkey-Burden The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from America’s sweetheart to global megastar. But how did she get there? And how has she coped with the realities of fame? Fully updated in fascinating detail, Taylor Swift: The Whole Story explores Taylor’s musical evolution and her status as a fearless businesswoman operating on her own terms. From her early beginnings in Pennsylvania to the challenges she faced on the road to success, and from her relationships with Harry Styles, Joe Alwyn and Travis Kelce to her record-breaking Eras tour, this is the unmissable account of Taylor’s journey to world domination.
ISBN: 9780008696320 March 28, 2024 Paperback / softback HarperCollins Biography: Arts & Entertainment
£10.99
OUT Tim Shipman The unmissable final instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit trilogy. How did Boris Johnson supersede Theresa May to become Britain’s Prime Minister? How did he pursue his promise to Get Brexit Done amidst multiple Brexit secretaries, repeated coup attempts and reshuffles, and an extraordinarily terse relationship with Brussels? What really happened in Downing Street – from the political choices to the party place settings – as the pandemic took the world in its grip?
To follow his bestselling books All Out War and Fall Out, this book launches off from 2017 to offer an unflinching, unfiltered account of unprecedented times. In the company of all the key players and with countless never-before-revealed insights, this book traces our political moment from May’s resignation through to the tussles over the final Brexit deal, the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our shortest serving PM ever. This is the ultimate insider narrative to the last five years of government, revealing the strategies, gambles, mistakes, mindsets and scandals that have shaped and shaken Britain. As always, political insider and Chief Political Commentator for the Sunday Times Tim Shipman unleashes a slew of insight – and gossip – to reveal the democratic drama as it really happened.
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ISBN: 9780008308940 April 25, 2024 Hardback William Collins Biography: Historical, Political & Military
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AUGUST NEW TITLES FICTION
YELLOWFACE Indies special edition
Rebecca F Kuang The No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from literary sensation R.F. Kuang *Foyles Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* *A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick*
Athena Liu is a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. But when June just happens to witness Athena die in a freak accident, she realises now is her chance to find fame. So what if that means stealing her friend’s work? So what if that means creating a new, racially ambiguous identity? So what if a social media scandal is about to blow her cover? As her lies mount up and threaten her stolen success, how far will June go to keep what she thinks she deserves… This is one hell of a story. It’s just not hers to tell.
Information on POS coming soon! ISBN: 9780008532819 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback The Borough Press Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
£9.99
BLUE SISTERS Signed & indies special edition – blue sprayed edges
Coco Mellors From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein ‘A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY 'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity' RAVEN LEILANI 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 one reckless 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: 9780008622992 May 23, 2024 Hardback Fourth Estate Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
£16.99
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Bridget Collins The whole world disappears when you enter Henry dreams of silence.
A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock. Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. Precious silk that can drown out the clamour of the world – and everything Henry is so desperate to escape. Summoned to Sir Edward’s secluded factory to try to cure his young daughter’s deafness, Henry is soon drawn deeper and deeper into the mysterious origins of this otherworldly gift: a gift that has travelled from ancient Mediterranean glades to English libraries. Ignoring repeated warnings, he allows himself to fall under the spell of Sir Edward and his silk… but when he learns its true cost, will it be too late to turn back? From the #1 bestselling author of THE BINDING, this is an enthralling story about complicity, desire and corruption – a novel to lose yourself in.
ISBN: 9780008424046 May 09, 2024 Hardback The Borough Press Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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MRS SIDHU’S ‘DEAD AND SCONE’ Suk Pannu The debut cosy culinary crime thriller from Suk Pannu, creator of BBC Radio 4’s Mrs Sidhu Investigates and writer for Goodness, Gracious, Me and five series of the Emmy Award winning Kumars at No. 42 Mrs. Sidhu – unofficial Aunty to everyone, caterer, and amateur sleuth from Slough – spices up the lives of Berkshire's elite with both her mouth-watering dishes and her sharp detective skills. But when she stirs up trouble among the rich and ruthless, she finds herself an outsider in her own community. Banished to the kitchen by her boss and sentenced to an endless loop of aubergine bhajis, Mrs. Sidhu seizes the opportunity to whip up a new recipe for success – getting a job as a private chef at an exclusive celebrity rehab retreat. But when a therapist is found dead in the quiet village, Mrs Sidhu’s appetite for mystery is rekindled. As the plot thickens, it becomes clear that the killer is picking victims through a twisted raffle at the village fete. Is a vengeful spirit returning to exact a horrifying revenge, or is there an impostor among the residents hiding a deadly secret? ‘Stuffed with warmth and wicked, cross-cultural observations, Dead and Scone is a dollop of cosy crime goodness’ Vaseem Khan, bestselling author of The Malabar House series ‘I loved it. Suk Pannu stands out as a writer with real depth and insight into human nature.’ S.J. Bennett, bestselling author
ISBN: 9780008562960 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Hemlock Press Crime & Mystery
£9.99
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THE SECRET SHORE Liz Fenwick The next gloriously uplifting, escapist, historical read from ‘the queen of the contemporary Cornish novel’ (Guardian) As one of the Navy’s most skilled mapmakers, Merry knows the very lives of men far away depend on her work in the War Office. But when a family crisis draws her back to her beloved Cornwall, Merry finds herself working alongside an enigmatic American officer on secret operations spanning the rugged coasts of Cornwall and Brittany which she knows so well. But not everything is as clear as the maps she draws. As rumours and suspicion swirl around her family, Merry is increasingly drawn to Jake, despite the defences she’s built around her heart. It’s a dangerous time to fall in love when there is everything to lose as the tides of war are rising… The award-winning author Liz Fenwick returns with a glorious, sweeping novel full of intrigue and passion.
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ISBN: 9780008707477 May 09, 2024 Paperback Historical / Romance
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I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL Natalie Sue Would you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back? 'Darkly funny with a brilliant premise' Emma Gannon For readers who loved The Office US and Really Good, Actually comes the awkward heroine you’re about to fall in love with… –––––––––––– Meet Jolene. She’s socially awkward, depressed and hates her work colleagues. Due to a serious IT error, she’s also just been granted access to all of their emails and private messages. She knows she should tell HR, but finds it hard to resist knowing what they all really think of her… When her access informs her of forthcoming redundancies, Jolene realises she could wield her new-found knowledge even more powerfully. But the more she learns about the people she spends most of her waking hours with, the harder she finds it to hate them. In the end, Jolene will have to decide if she can keep living her life between the lines of an email, or whether she’s ready to experience the world she’s avoided for so long.
ISBN: 9780008604455 May 23, 2024 Hardback The Borough Press Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS Oisín McKenna 'Zadie Smith-esque in its kaleidoscope of London' Niamh Campbell 'The aching, swelling humanity of this book swallowed me whole' Saba Sams London, 2019. It’s the hottest June on record and the weekend is about to begin… Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with a future in the home town she once fought to escape, she’s beginning to wonder if having a baby will be last spontaneous act of her life.
Ed, a bike courier, can’t wait to settle down with Maggie. But she doesn’t know that he has a secret history with Maggie’s best friend Phil. Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, whilst falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith already has a boyfriend, and they’re about to be evicted from their warehouse commune anyway. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches, each of their lives look set to change forever. Taking place over two blisteringly hot days in the feverish capital, this is an addictive drama, painfully relatable to anyone living for the evenings and weekends.
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ISBN: 9780008604172 May 09, 2024 Hardback Fourth Estate Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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BAD HABIT Alana S. Portero, Mara Faye Lethem ‘I urge you to read Alana S. Portero's Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMÓDVAR ‘Obliges the reader to hold back (or unleash) their feelings chapter after chapter’ VOGUE SPAIN The most talked-about debut of the year’ TIME OUT SPAIN Told in an irresistible, heartrending voice, Bad Habit takes us deep into the lives of the residents of a godforsaken Madrid neighbourhood ironically named after a holy saint. An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working class suburb that has no place for her. She discovers community and kinship in downtown Madrid, amid a lively party scene animated by junkies, pop divas, and fallen angels. But with each step she takes forward, she finds herself confronted by a violence she does not yet know how to counter; in this thrilling and yet often terrifying world each choice can truly be a matter of life and death. Blistering and compassionate, Bad Habit by Alana S Portero is translated by Mara Faye Lethem, and deftly illuminates the ties between gender and class, the search for identity, and the power of sisterhood. Shimmering in its lyrical beauty and vivid in its realism, Bad Habit is a mesmerising story of self-realisation that speaks to the outsider in all of us.
ISBN: 9780008663292 May 23, 2024 Hardback Fourth Estate Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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GONE TO PIECES Rachel Cosyns A crushingly funny and poignant debut, perfect for fans of Sorrow and Bliss. There are three things I have to do this year. Just three. All the other things don't matter. • Learn to drive on motorways. • Use above skill to run away to France. • Begin new life in France under assumed name.
Rebecca is a wife, mother and the author of an unmanageable number of to do lists.Her attempts to coerce her life into something she has any hope of controlling are failing. Her family can’t manage without her but she’s starting to think they should. So she makes a decision. Only it doesn’t quite go to plan. Rebecca finds herself in therapy with a doctor poking around in her brain, asking questions about her childhood. She wants to get better but that means telling someone how she feels. How she really feels.
She’s gone to pieces. Can she put herself back together?
ISBN: 9780008550912 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback HQ Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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EXPERIENCED Kate Young '‘A fizzing roller-coaster of a rom-com that is both the sexiest book you'll read all year and the most heartening. A big, kind, horny love-in that will embolden readers to get some more experience of their own.’ Caroline O’Donoghue, author of The Rachel Incident Bette loves Mei, but Bette and Mei are on a break, so Bette can catch-up on the decade of dating experiences she missed before she came out. So Bette is (reluctantly) on a dating odyssey: a quest to have lots of casual sex with lots of hot women and come back to Mei more experienced and more certain about what she wants. And now she has new friend Ruth as her queer dating guide, she can't possibly fail. It's just three months, then she'll be back with Mei. It's the perfect plan … isn't it?
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ISBN: 9780008609498 May 23, 2024 Hardback Fourth Estate Adult & Contemporary Romance
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Sharpe's Command
Traitors Gate
Bernard Cornwell
Jeffrey Archer
ISBN: 9780008496807
ISBN: 9780008474416
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Historical Adventure
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
£9.99
£9.99
SHARPE IS BACK.
24 hours to stop the crime of the century The race against time is about to begin…
The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series. If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . . And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines, deep in the Spanish countryside.
THE TOWER OF LONDON… Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armoury when they transport the Crown Jewels across London.
For a remote village is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north and one in the south; if they meet, the British are doomed.
SCOTLAND YARD… For four years, Chief Superindendent William Warwick – together with his second-in-command Inspector Ross Hogan – has been in charge of the operation. And for four years it’s run like clockwork.
Only Sharpe's small group of men – with their cunning and courage to rely on – stand in their way. But they're rapidly outnumbered, enemies are hiding in plain sight, and time is running out . . .
THE HEIST… But this year, everything is about to change. Because master criminal Miles Faulkner has set his heart on pulliling off the most outrageous theft in history – and with a man on the inside, the odds are in his favour.
SHARPE’S COMMAND is the brand new novel in the bestselling historical series that has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
Unless Warwick and Hogan can stop him before it’s too late…
The Runner
The Deadly Spark
Lloyd Devereux Richards
Roxie Key
ISBN: 9780008648312
ISBN: 9780008500474
May 23, 2024 Hardback Crime & Mystery
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Thriller / Suspense
£16.99 £8.99 A gripping thriller from TikTok sensation Lloyd Devereux Richards. Martin Gabriel is a runner for Ben. He runs errands. He runs deliveries. And now he is running for his life… When a deal goes wrong, Martin realizes Ben isn’t the legitimate businessman he thought he was. He flees before Ben catches up with him, unaware that Ben’s criminal network and the FBI are also on his tail. No longer a runner, but still on the run. Is Martin fast enough to get away from his past?
Once secrets catch… they spread… 'A gripping story' Jane Casey 'I couldn't stop reading' Gytha Lodge Deadly fires are lighting up Brighton, and the latest case is alarmingly close to home for DC Eve Starling. The blaze was deliberately set, and a mother and daughter didn’t make it out of the smoke. Eve’s investigation takes her deep into her own uncomfortable past. When her key witness disappears, and with the killer always one step ahead, Eve is desperate to solve the case – whatever the cost. But Eve has no idea how close she is to the flames, and playing with fire can get you burned… Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Jane Casey and Clare Mackintosh!
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The Kill List
The Trip
Nadine Matheson
Phoebe Morgan
ISBN: 9780008548438
ISBN: 9780008406998
May 09, 2024 Hardback Crime & Mystery
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Crime & Mystery £9.99
£16.99
He will come for them, one by one… Five shocking murders Twenty-five years ago, DCI Harry Rhimes arrested Andrew Streeter for the brutal murders of five young people. Streeter’s ‘kill list’ of victims was found in his home, and he was convicted of all five crimes.
A legacy under threat Now, Streeter’s convictions are being overturned, as new evidence implies the original investigation was corrupt. No one is more shocked that DI Henley. Because this case is personal; Rhimes was her old boss, and he’s no longer alive to defend himself. But when the killings start up again, Henley must face the truth: Rhimes got it wrong twenty-five years ago. A hunt for a killer Henley and her team reopen the original murder cases, but they must put their personal feelings to one side. Because the real killer is still out there, and he’s working his way through a new kill list . . .
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How well do you know your friends? Four friends on the holiday of a lifetime. Until a vicious murder shatters their paradise. Four friends who'd do anything for each other, until now. Only one of them committed a crime. But all four know how to keep a secret. And they're all guilty of something… Praise for Phoebe Morgan: ‘Combines a beautiful, exotic location with a slithering, unsettling sense of suspense. A page-turner, full of secrets and reveals’ Adele Parks, No. 1 bestselling author ‘Tense, well-paced and with a cast of relatable flesh-and-blood women … an exhilarating, read-in-onesitting ride’ Louise Candlish, bestselling author
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Butcher
The Life of Crime
Joyce Carol Oates
Martin Edwards
ISBN: 9780008694876
ISBN: 9780008192440
May 23, 2024 Hardback Horror
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
£16.99
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state— women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir’s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir’s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of his destruction. Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance. Once again, Joyce Carol Oates has written a spellbinding novel confirming her position as one of our celebrated American visionaries of the imagination.
£14.99
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In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world’s most popular form of fiction. Author Martin Edwards is a multi-award-winning crime novelist, the President of the Detection Club, archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association and series consultant to the British Library’s highly successful series of crime classics, and therefore uniquely qualified to write this book. The Life of Crime is the result of a lifetime of reading and enjoying all types of crime fiction, old and new, from around the world. In what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus, Martin Edwards has thrown himself undaunted into the breadth and complexity of the genre to write an authoritative – and readable – study of its development and evolution. With crime fiction being read more widely than ever around the world, and with individual authors increasingly the subject of extensive academic study, his expert distillation of more than two centuries of extraordinary books and authors – from the tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann to the novels of Patricia Cornwell – into one coherent history is an extraordinary feat and makes for compelling reading.
The Second Chance
How to Plot a Payback
Charlotte Butterfield
Melissa Ferguson
ISBN: 9780008642945
ISBN: 9780840702913
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Adult & Contemporary Romance
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Romance £12.99
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***From the author of a 2023 Times Book of the Year comes a hilarious, emotional and thoughtprovoking book club read for fans of David Nicholls, Sophie Cousens and Beth O’Leary.***
She’s been muddling his plans for years—now hes the writer for the beloved character she plays on television, and its time for payback.
After a psychic predicted her death date twenty years ago, she has lived life accepting she would never see forty – embracing adventure and travelling the world, choosing fun over commitment and laying down roots.
Finn Masters has been in the business of murders for five years. Writing murders for the television drama Higher Stakes, that is. And hes more than ready to move up the corporate ladder until, ideally, he gets his own show about almost anything else. So when an unbelievable offer is presented to him— becoming the supervising producer in none other than the nations most popular ongoing sitcom, Neighbors—its an opportunity he cant pass up. Despite the fact that the star of the show and of Americas heart is Lavender Rhodes. And everybody loves her. Except him.
So, when the fateful day comes, Nell feels ready. She posts five excruciatingly honest confessions to her sister, parents and past loves, knowing she won’t be around to face the consequences. Then, with her heart laid bare, all that's left to do is check into a glamorous hotel and wait for the inevitable…
And for good reason. Because Lavender Rhodes is generous to everyone. But theres a figurative price to pay for the fortune she bestows time and time again upon those in need, and the one who always ends up “paying” it, unbeknownst to her, is him.
But when Nell unexpectedly wakes up the next morning broke, single and very much alive, she must figure out exactly how to seize this second chance at life. And then it also hits her:
Finally, after she unknowingly destroyed his acting career, accidentally wrecked his relationship with the love of his life, and inadvertently begins to tear his new job to shreds, hes had enough. Hes now the writer for the beloved character she plays on television. And its time for payback.
Nell has always known her expiry date.
What on earth happens now that everyone knows how she really feels?
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The Burnings
On Her Own
Naomi Kelsey
Lihi Lapid, Sondra Silverston
ISBN: 9780008534790
ISBN: 9780063309760
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Historical Fiction
May 09, 2024 Hardback Psychological £20
£8.99 *Translated fiction from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston* Nothing scares men like witchcraft… 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta lead opposite lives, but they both know one thing: when a man cries “witch”, no woman is safe. Yet when the marriage of King James VI and Princess Anna of Denmark brings Geillis and Margareta together, everything they supposed about good, evil, men, and women, is cast in a strange and brilliant new light. For the first time in history, could black magic – – or rumours of it – be a very real tool for women’s political gain? As the North Berwick witch trials whip Scotland – and her king – into a frenzy of paranoia, the clock is ticking. Can Margareta and Geillis keep each other safe? And once the burnings are over, in whose hands will power truly lie?
A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock-ticking tension of Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me with the “issue-driven” gravity of Jennifer Haigh’s Mercy Street. Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food on the table, Nina, a beautiful and restless teenager, vows her life will be different. When a strapping older man in a fancy car appears at school one day offering her luxuries her single mother cannot afford, Nina believes he’s her ticket out of her dumpy little town. Ignoring the danger signs and her mother’s constant pleas—which end in exhausting screaming matches—she packs a suitcase and leaves home after one last fight. Ten days later, a terrified Nina, her dress torn, is hiding in the stairwell of a Tel Aviv apartment after witnessing a murder she cannot talk about. She is discovered by one of the building’s tenants, a confused, lonely old widow who mistakes her for the granddaughter she hasn’t seen for a long while, not since her son moved his family to America. “You’ve come back to me, Dana’le.” Instead of correcting the mistake, the desperate Nina jumps at the chance for a place to hide. Hiding from her mother and the dangerous man who are both frantically searching for her, Nina settles into the old woman’s apartment. But how long can Nina possibly hide out until the poor woman realizes she’s not who she says she is? Set between the eve of Passover and Israel’s Independence Day, On Her Own is a tense and immersive psychological read about two families looking for redemption, the transformative bonds between strangers, and the unexpected places from which love can grow.
COMMUNITY BOARD: A Novel
Pairing Up
Tara Conklin
George R. R. Martin
ISBN: 9780062959386
ISBN: 9780008410698
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Literary
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Science Fiction
£10.99 £9.99 The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community. Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life— the mundane, the trivial, the take-for-granted minutiae that once filled every second of every day— suddenly disappear? Where does one go in such dire and unexpected circumstances? I went home, of course. MURBRIDGE COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD FREE: 500 cans of corn. Accidentally ordered them online. I really hate corn. Happy to help load. REMINDER: use your own goddamn garbage can for your own goddamn pet waste. I’m looking at you Peter Luflin. Meeting this Friday. Agenda items: 1) sludge removal;2) upkeep of chime tower;3) ice rink monitor thank you gift. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined. But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed. And while Darcy’s first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood bedroom, subsisting on Chef Boy-R-Dee and canned chickpeas, it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection and respond to anonymous internet postings.
As Murbridge begins to take shape around Darcy, both online and in person, Darcy will consider the most fundamental of American questions: What can she ask of her community? And what does she owe it in return?
For decades, George R.R. Martin – bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire and creator of A GAME OF THRONES – has collaborated with an ensemble of science fiction and fantasy icons to create the amazing Wild Cards universe. Tales of Love & Lust from the World of the Wild Cards An alien virus has ravaged the world. Survivors may draw an ace and receive superpowers, or the joker and become bizarrely mutated. And yet love still reigns supreme. In this fantastical collection of all-new stories: • A jewel thief seduces a popular actor just so she can track down a long-lost treasure • A teenager trapped in the body of a giant snail attempts to win his love • A man discovers his purpose in life after meeting a beautiful butterfly woman. • A young hero by the name of Hero McHeroface finds solace in the arms of an astrologer hiding her own unique powers Superheroes and villains do battle over the human heart in this anthology set in the Wild Cards universe.
The Persephone Code
Herc
Julia Golding
Phoenicia Rogerson
ISBN: 9780008636876
ISBN: 9780008589875
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Historical Fiction
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Bridgerton meets The Da Vinci Code in the most page-turning book you will read in 2024!
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right?
You don’t dabble in satanism. You sell your soul to the devil or not at all.
Well, it’s not.
1812 Deep below the hills of the Buckinghamshire countryside, the infamous Hellfire Caves house a pleasure palace for the idle rich – a secret society steeped in satanism, opium and debauchery of the highest order.
This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends) Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll tell you about their marriage) Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc’s labours (He never asked for the job)
When the club’s warden, Antony Pennington, is brutally murdered, his bastard sister, Dora, must follow the clues to decode who the killer is, aided by an unexpected ally – ex-Army officer, former opium addict and son of a Viscount, Dr Jacob Sandys. As a shadow dogs their every footstep, Dora and Jacob find themselves in themselves in the midst of a shocking conspiracy, caught between the legendary Illuminati and the Hell Fire Club. With time running out, they must fight against both the most influential gentleman of the ton – and the undeniable attraction they feel towards each other…
His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, his victims. It’s time to hear their stories. Told with humour and heart, Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth.
Song of the Mysteries Janny Wurts
PICTURES BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN J.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN: 9780008653903
ISBN: 9780008484453
May 09, 2024 Hardback Fantasy
May 09, 2024 Hardback Fantasy
£8.99 £25 The hugely anticipated final volume of The Wars of Light and Shadow brings this widely acclaimed, masterful epic fantasy series to its powerful, earth-shattering close. In the final battle of Light against Shadow, warring factions prepare to meet the bare fist of Arithon’s fury, sparked by the execution of the innocent murdered by divine decree.
With Christopher Tolkien as your guide, take a tour through this colourful gallery of enchanting art by J.R.R. Tolkien, as published originally in the first groundbreaking Tolkien Calendars of the 1970s.
As the Fellowship Sorcerers clash with rebellious dragons bent on catastrophic annihilation, those faithful to the True Sect raise armies to extinguish the clans and fight a last, bloody conquest of the free wilds. All while the Prime Matriarch courts reckless power to seize charge of Mankind’s destiny.
This collection of pictures, with text by Christopher Tolkien, now reissued after almost 30 years, confirms J.R.R. Tolkien’s considerable talent as an artist. It provides fascinating insight into his visual conception of many of the places and events familiar to readers of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
As contention threatens to snap the final restraint of old Charter Law, bitter strife and vicious ambition threatens to snap the final restraint of old Charter Law, bitter strife and vicious ambition threaten to revoke humanity’s right to inhabit the world. The only hope of survival for all lies in the recovery of the Paravians, those who last called Athera home before Mankind.
Examples of his art range from delicate watercolours depicting Rivendell, the Forest of Lothlorien, Smaug and Old Man Willow, to drawings and sketches of Moria Gate and Minas Tirith. Together they form a comprehensive collection of Tolkien’s own illustrations for his most popular books.
The true hearts of heroes will be challenged in the savage fires of conflict; Elaira and Daliana’s steadfast loyalties must rise against the odds or fall as Lysaer’s reckoning collides with the Mistwraith’s secretive machinations. But not before Elder Powers arise to claim their debt for a grievance spanning millennia . . .
Also included are many of his beautiful designs showing patterns of flowers and trees, friezes, tapestries and heraldic devices associated with the world of Middle-earth. In their variety and scope they provide abundant visual evidence of the richness of his imagination.
THE SUMMER SWAP
UNDER A SUMMER SKYE
Sarah Morgan
Sue Moorcroft ISBN: 9781848459212
ISBN: 9780008636814
May 23, 2024 Paperback Romance
May 23, 2024 Paperback Romance
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A Scottish island. A stranger from the mainland. A summer of possibilities…
A summer escape When Cecilia Lapthorne’s 75th birthday celebrations take an unexpected turn, she seeks solace away from the festivities and escapes to Dune Cottage – without telling her family where she’s going. A new friendship Lily Thomas, a struggling artist, has secretly been staying in the unoccupied cottage. When Cecilia discovers Lily during a late-night visit, an unexpected bond forms between the two women.
A chance encounter is about to change everything for Thea Wynter. The moment she arrived on the Isle of Skye, life changed for Thea. Running from a succession of wrong turns, she comes to the island in search of blue sea, endless skies, and mountains that make the heart soar. Here, she feels at peace. As head gardener at Rothach Hall, life is exactly how she wants it, with her days spent working in the glorious clifftop garden and her evenings in the cosy village pub. But an encounter with a stranger from the mainland brings with it an unexpected turn – and she is left wondering whether he is friend or foe.
A chance to start over Then Cecilia’s grandson, Todd – and Lily’s unrequited crush – shows up, sending a shockwave through their unlikely friendship. Will it inspire Lily to find the courage to live the life she wants? Can Cecilia finally let go of the past to find a new future? Because as surely as the tide erases past footprints, this summer is offering both Cecilia and Lily the chance to swap old dreams for new . . .
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It seems that even on Skye, life can catch up with you, and Thea is soon faced with the past she left behind – and with it, the family she’s never met… From old lives to new beginnings, lose yourself on the beautiful Isle of Skye with Thea as she discovers how many possibilities life can truly hold if you look hard enough.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Little Women
Charles Dickens
Louisa May Alcott
ISBN: 9781400341863
ISBN: 9781400341870
05 23 2024
05 23 2024
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Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen
ISBN: 9781400341825
ISBN: 9781400341856
05 23 2024
05 23 2024
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THE HOT HENRY EFFECT LUCY CHALICE ISBN: 9780008646196 MAY 23, 2024
THE TYPO EMILY KERR ISBN: 9780008653101 MAY 09, 2024
THE HAPPY HOUR CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN ISBN: 9780008623746 MAY 09, 2024
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UNLADYLIKE RULES OF ATTRACTION AMITA MURRAY ISBN: 9780008598051 MAY 23, 2024
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THE PICK UP HANNAH DOYLE ISBN: 9780008651725 MAY 09, 2024
THE MARRIAGE SABBATICAL LIAN DOLAN ISBN: 9780063270619
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THE SCANDALOUS LADIES OF LONDON SOPHIE JORDAN ISBN: 9780063270749
OFFTRACK ESHA PATEL ISBN: 9780008693930 MAY 09, 2024
LOVE, UNSCRIPTED DENISE HUNTER ISBN: 9780840716651
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THE BRITISH BOOKSELLERS KRISTY CAMBRON ISBN: 9780785232247 05 09 2024 PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK
SOUTHERN MAN GREG ILES ISBN: 9780008270186 JUNE 06, 2024
THE LIFE SENTENCE JACKIE KABLER ISBN: 9780008544577 MAY 09, 2024
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NEIGHBOURS AT WAR DEBORAH CARR ISBN: 9780008664022 JUNE 06, 2024
TWO WARS AND A WEDDING LAUREN WILLIG ISBN: 9780062986191
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HOW TO KILL WITH KINDNESS S. R. MASTERS ISBN: 9780008520151 MAY 09, 2024
THE STONE HOME CRYSTAL HANA KIM ISBN: 9780063310971 05 23 2024 ROUGH FRONT
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THE ANGEL OF WATERLOO JACKIE FRENCH ISBN: 9781460759363
THE LOST BOOK OF BONN BRIANNA LABUSKES ISBN: 9780063259287
AMERICAN DAUGHTERS PIPER HUGULEY ISBN: 9780063273702
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PROOFS DARK RIDE LOU BERNEY ISBN: 9780008657147 MAY 09, 2024
BURMESE DAYS GEORGE ORWELL ISBN: 9780063344365
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POLE POSITION REBECCA J. CAFFERY ISBN: 9780008684860 MAY 09, 2024
THE AMETHYST KINGDOM A.K. MULFORD ISBN: 9780008582814 MAY 09, 2024
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THE CURSED FRIEND BEATRICE SALVIONI ISBN: 9780008694685 MAY 23, 2024 HARDBACK
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THE CUCKOO CAMILLA LÄCKBERG ISBN: 9780008283841 MAY 23, 2024 HARDBACK
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THE GOLDEN LIBRARY SCOTT MARIANI ISBN: 9780008601157 MAY 09, 2024
SENTENCED TO MURDER SUE MINIX ISBN: 9780008659820 MAY 23, 2024
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THE BLOOD PROMISE LIZ MISTRY ISBN: 9780008686451 MAY 23, 2024 UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND
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AUGUST NEW TITLES NON-FICTION
REBEL GIRL SIGNED
Kathleen Hanna
An electric, searing memoir by the original riot grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, ’90s, and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today their gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like ‘Rebel Girl’ and ‘Double Dare Ya’ are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from? In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home, to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a ‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightening rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination.
But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her – including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship with Kurt Cobain; and her introduction to Joan Jett – and they were a testament to how the true punk world nurtured and cared for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her later bands, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the darkest, hardest times along with the most joyful – and how it all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to today.
ISBN: 9780008365349 May 14, 2024 Hardback William Collins Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment
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POS Pack ISBN: 9780007996155
OPERATION BITING SIGNED
Max Hastings
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazioccupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations. A company of the newly-formed Airborne Forces was committed to the operation, which took place on the night of 27/28 February. Amid heavy snow 120 men landed, some of whom were misdropped almost two miles from their objective. They nonetheless launched the assault, dismantled the German radar, and after three nail-biting hours in France and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time by landing-craft across stormy seas to Portsmouth. Max Hastings recounts this cliffhanging tale in a wealth of previously unchronicled detail. He portrays its remarkable personalities: the ‘boffin’ RV Jones; the peacock Mountbatten; the troubled husband of Daphne Du Maurier, Gen. ’Boy’ Browning, who commanded the Airborne Division; ‘Colonel Remy’, the French secret agent whose men reconnoitered Bruneval at mortal risk; Major John Frost, who led the paras into action; Charlie Cox, the little RAF technician who stripped the Würzburg and became an unexpected hero; Wing-Commander Charles Pickard, a legendary bomber pilot who led the drop squadron. Seldom have so many fascinating personalities been brought together to fulfil a mission that became a front-page triumph in a season of British defeats. Recounted in Hastings’ familiar best-selling blend of top-down and bottom-up action detail, Operation Biting tells a story that has become almost forgotten yet deserves to rank among the epic tales of courage and daring that took place in the greatest conflict in history.
ISBN: 9780008642167 May 23, 2024 Hardback William Collins Second World War
£25
LESS SIGNED
Patrick Grant
From Patrick Grant, the ‘Prince of Fashion’ best known for his role as judge of the BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee, this is a passionate and revealing book about loving clothes but hating the way they’re made, about everything wrong with the fashion industry today, and how to set it right. Clothes are important. They have an impact on our mood, what people think of us, how comfortably we can move through our day. And no one knows – or loves – good, proper clothes like Patrick Grant. Edinburgh-born, he built his business from total obscurity, running one small shop on Savile Row, to become a dresser of the stars, a friend of the King, a beloved TV star and a leader in the fashion industry. But increasingly, we don’t make clothes well. Here are some facts to consider: - Fashion is a 3 trillion dollar a year industry, double what it was ten years ago - It accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, a larger environmental impact than both aviation and shipping combined - We have more than enough clothes on the planet today to dress the next six generations of the human race - UK consumers spend over £30 billion on clothing each year, but less than 2% of it is made here. In this book, Patrick explains his journey through fashion and why he’s putting his money into a sustainable future. We can love clothes more, and better. But the way to do it is through less.
ISBN: 9780008664008 May 09, 2024 Hardback William Collins Fashion / Sustainability
£22
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BOTHY Kat Hill You will find a bothy in the mountains or the wilderness, remote huts you can’t reserve, usually without electricity or other mod-cons, running water or a marker on the map. And it’s there that you’ll meet Kat Hill – kettle on, feet up and pen out. Leading us on a gorgeous journey around the UK, Kat reveals the history of these wild mountain shelters and the people who visit them. With an historian’s insight and a rambler’s imagination, Kat lends fresh consideration to the concepts of nature, wilderness and escape. All the while, weaving together her story of heartbreak and new purpose with those her fellow wanderers – past and present. For readers of Robert MacFarlane and Raynor Winn, this is no conventional environmental history. Instead, writing with warmth and wit, Kat has crafted a compelling work of creative-nonfiction, travel memoir, cultural geography and environmental activism. Bothy is a stirring, beautiful book for anyone who longs to run away to the wilds.
ISBN: 9780008619022 May 09, 2024 Hardback William Collins Natural History
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YOU NEVER KNOW Tom Selleck, Ellis Henican Frank, funny and open-hearted, You Never Know is an intimate memoir from one of the most beloved actors of our time, the highly personal story of a remarkable life and thoroughly accidental career. In his own voice and uniquely unpretentious style, the famed actor brings readers on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, his temptations and distractions, his misfires and mistakes and, over time, his well-earned success. Along the way, he clears up an armload of misconceptions and shares dozens of never-told stories from all corners of his personal and professional life. His rambunctious California childhood. His clueless arrival as a good-looking college jock in Hollywood (from the Dating Game to the Fox New Talent Program to co-starring with Mae West and escorting her to black-tie social functions). What it was like to emerge as a mega-star in his mid-thirties and remain so for decades to come, an actor whose authenticity and ease in front of the camera connected with audiences worldwide while embodying and also redefining the clichés of onscreen manhood. Selleck recounts his personal friendships with a vivid army of A-listers, everyone from Frank Sinatra to Carol Burnett to Sam Elliott, paying special tribute to his mentor James Garner of The Rockford Files, who believed, like Selleck, that TV protagonists are far more interesting when they have rough edges. Magnum fans will be fascinated to learn how Selleck put his career on the line to make Thomas Magnum a more imperfect hero and explains why he walked away from a show that could easily have gone on for years longer. Hollywood is never easy, even for stars who make it look that way. Selleck struggled to balance his personal and professional lives, frequently adjusting his career to protect his family’s privacy and normalcy. His journey offers a truly fresh perspective on a changing industry and a changing world. Beneath all the charm and talent and self-deprecating humor, Selleck’s memoir reveals an American icon who has reached remarkable heights by always insisting on being himself.
ISBN: 9780008685690 May 07, 2024 Hardback HarperCollins
£22
HOW WE FISH Paul Whitehouse, John Bailey, Bob Mortimer Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing. Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey have been devout fishermen for longer than they care to remember. A hobby, past time or sport – call it what you want – they have felt the pull of the water ever since they were kids and have never missed the chance to set up on the bank and try their luck. In this wonderful book, the two fishermen collaborate to celebrate the rich tapestry that is fishing – from mentors to memories; from philosophy to modern jargon; from watercraft to becoming selfstyled ‘Fishing Detectives’. Punctuated by brilliant stories, beautiful illustrations by Carys ReillyWhitehouse, and recollections from fishing day trips past, How We Fish is the perfect tome for the veteran fisherman or the budding angler – warm, funny and rich in the wonders of the riverbank.
ISBN: 9780008559670 May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Mudlark TV Tie-in Humour
£9.99
NATURE’S GHOSTS Sophie Yeo What human history can teach us about how to avoid ecological catastrophe Once, the world was wild. By mapping the footprints left behind, however faint, we can start to walk towards a brighter and more ancient future. For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the environment. Our activities leave an indelible mark on the places we inhabit – for good and for bad. Nature’s Ghosts examines how the earth would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity, from the primeval forests that emerged following the last ice age, to the eagle-filled skies of the Dark Ages, to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries. It uncovers the stories of the people who have helped to shape our landscapes through time, seeking out their footprints – even where it seems there are none to be found – and looking at how timeworn knowledge of the natural world can help us to mend our own relationship with the earth. And it recounts the environmental detective work – archaeological, cultural and ecological – that has allowed us to reconstruct the details of our lost wild world. Today, the footprints of humanity are heavier than ever; the natural world more vulnerable as we encroach upon it ever further and faster. There is no such thing as pristine wilderness anymore – nor will there ever be again. But, this urgent book argues, from the ashes of the past, we can start to rebuild an ancient and enchanting future.
ISBN: 9780008474126 May 23, 2024 Hardback HarperNorth Conservation Of Wildlife & Habitats
£22
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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 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. Featuring breathtaking original photos and QR codes that access mini-videos of never-seen-before animal interactions, Amphibious Soul is a remarkable experience that will transform us and ultimately our world.
ISBN: 9780008556037 May 23, 2024 Hardback Thorsons Self-help & Personal Development
£22
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A note from the author…
AMPHIBIOUS SOUL 9780008556037
Dear wonderful book sellers and book readers, Amphibious Soul is my whole-hearted attempt to describe what it’s like to be inside the original womb of Mother Nature, and how to get in. There is no better feeling than to be in dialogue with the wild, to be able to speak the oldest language on earth. When we can live like this, within the bounds of our original design, our entire human ecosystem sparkles with joy and life. I share the story here of how I attempted, for years, to immerse myself in the wild by diving with crocodiles and great white sharks, only to find that the golden key was a much simpler and safer way. This book is a guide to help you find your own way to experience the primal joy of reconnecting with nature. In forging that deep connection, we can experience and explore the biodiversity that is the life support system of this living planet and enables us to stay alive. I hope this experience will inspire us to put in all our efforts to support, grow and protect our only home. I get messages from so many people all over the world, from multiple different cultures, who confess their emotional and physical struggles. The world seems gripped in a pandemic of depression and anxiety that I’m convinced is largely due to our separation from nature and from the ways of our ancestors. I hope this book can help with understanding this despair. It is written for those of us who are disconnected from nature and also for those of us who already know how important nature is and want to deepen that experience and see inside the secret lives of animals and plants.
James Cameron director of “Avatar” summed up “Amphibious Soul” in this way: “This book is the story of finding wildness in a world gone tame, and feeling the hearts of animals beating inside our own. It’s about feeling our stone age ancestors shouting across the great divide, pushing us to wake up to who we are. It’s about becoming alive in the Great African Seaforest, and learning the oldest language on earth. It’s about tracking the greatest masters of camouflage and being let inside their secret worlds. This is the amphibious soul.” Come find yours with me. Blessings Craig
OUT IN THE WORLD Stefan Arestis, Sebastien Chaneac Out in the World is THE indispensable guide to queer travel from popular bloggers and influencers, The Nomadic Boys – full of tips, advice and resources on the best and safest places to visit around the world. The Nomadic Boys – Stefan and Sebastien – left their comfortable London lives over 10 years ago to travel the world together… and they haven’t stopped since. What started as a blog for family and friends to follow along with their adventures has now become one of the most charismatic and successful queer travel guides out there. Their aim is to inspire and show their fellow community that they can visit more places than they thought they could. When they first started travelling as an openly gay couple, Seb and Stefan quickly realised that there are many countries where being gay can still be dangerous and sometimes illegal, meaning that they often needed to make more considerations before deciding where to go, where to stay, and how comfortable they could be in each place. But they haven’t let this stop them from exploring nearly every corner of the world together. In this book, The Nomadic Boys will detail every tip and piece of advice for queer people to travel the world safely and make the most of anywhere they want to go. Their travels are often informed by connecting with the local queer communities, giving their travel writing a unique perspective of the scene and life in that country alongside all the hidden gems and exciting experiences they'd recommend from their own adventures, from the best Pride celebrations around the world, to their top spots for great food and drink. Stefan and Sebastien share their personal travel stories including how they met in G.A.Y in London, to taking Mermaid classes in the Philippines, while giving you their recommended top sights and activities, alongside practical tips and resources to give you a one-stop-shop travel companion to get the most out of every destination.
ISBN: 9780008604158 May 09, 2024 Hardback Pavilion Books Travel & Holiday Guides
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR HUMAN Babas, Katherine Gregor A witty and winsome new way of looking at the complex relationship between cats and people: through the eyes of one erudite and attentive Italian gatto. We live on a planet infested with humans. They are a pernicious species, yet undeniably clever and capable—even if the reasons behind their actions are often incomprehensible to us felines. But while it is true that there have never been so many primates on Earth, in reality, they are quite simple to teach using well-practiced domestication techniques, such as loud vocalizations, strategic nighttime alarms, and selective displays of affection. And if you choose your specimen carefully, you’ll find that it can be completely tamed, and you'll end up with the best, most faithful companion you could possibly wish for. Andrea Ferolla’s elegant illustrations make this helpful guide a feast of fancies for the eyes—the perfect gift for the cat lover in your life.
ISBN: 9780063336483 05 23 2024
Paperback / softback Humour / Gift
£8.99
THE STARS WILL STILL BE THERE Nicola Nuttall The heartbreaking but life-affirming memoir from Nicola Nuttall about her inspirational daughter Laura When Nicola Nuttall was told that her 18-year-old daughter Laura had only 12 months to live, following a diagnosis of the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, she couldn’t begin to process her emotions. It was her greatest fear come true. But while her mother struggled to adjust, Laura made a decision: she would live her life to the full and embark on an extraordinary bucket list. Meeting Michella Obama, piloting a Royal Navy ship, sky diving, going on safari in South Africa, driving a monster truck, taking tea at the Ritz, dancing on stage in front of thousands and graduating from university were just some of the many adventures Laura undertook. The Stars Will Still Be There is Nicola’s raw but beautifully written account of helping her daughter make the most of her final days, while dealing with her own pain along with that of her younger daughter Gracie and husband Mark.
COVER NOT FINAL ISBN: 9780008667979 May 09, 2024 Hardback HarperElement True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
£20
T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen
The Tourist Phil Tufnell
Peter Kay ISBN: 9780008623333
ISBN: 9780008641658
May 09, 2024 Paperback Humour / Entertainment
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Cricket
£9.99
£9.99 HB cover
*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure* Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonlighting … Porridge, Parkinson … Peter Kay takes you on a journey into the wonders of TV –back to the days when Dusty Bin was a household name, Robin of Sherwood was a pin-up and the Brookside siege was the event of the year. For a young telly-loving Peter growing up in Bolton, TV meant Sunday bath nights with a black-and-white portable, the unbridled excitement of the new Christmas TV guide and his elderly neighbour’s inconvenient hearing problem. Here, for the first time, he collects his TV memories and adventures together in this brilliant book. Join Peter as he finds success on the small screen, leaving his own unique footprint in the golden age of TV: from making tea at Granada Studios and marching along to ‘(Is This the Way to) Amarillo’ to hanging out in the Rovers Return, having run-ins with Bernard Manning and starring in possibly the worst Doctor Who episode of all time. You’ll go behind the scenes of the legendary Phoenix Nights, take The Road to Nowhere with Max & Paddy and discover how Peter created his BAFTA-winning performance in Car Share. So sit back and enjoy a journey through the wonderful world of television. Endearing, sidesplittingly funny and utterly unforgettable – T.V. sees Peter Kay at his vivid, nostalgic and hilarious best.
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What Goes on Tour, Stays on Tour…Until Now! As a cricketer, broadcaster and celebrity jungle-dweller, Phil Tufnell has travelled the world far and wide. From the great cricket tours of Australia and South Africa to his equally memorable jaunts to Benidorm and Blackpool, Phil has spent much of his life living out of a suitcase, meeting a host of colourful and memorable characters along the way. The Tourist takes you out on the road, into the dressing room and behind the scenes of the commentary box to reveal just what really happens on Tour. Did Phil once push a baby grand piano down the stairs of a plush hotel? Did he accidentally eat a rat? Was he blamed for England being bowled out for 46 against the West Indies without even being in the team? There’s only one way to find out… It’s time to take a hilarious trip across the world with one of our most treasured sports personalities.
Who Am I?
Into the Void
Danny Cipriani
Geezer Butler ISBN: 9780008476502
ISBN: 9780008617325 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Autobiography: Sport
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment
£9.99
£10.99 HB cover
A Rough Trade Book of the Year RAW. REVEALING. REFLECTIVE. The candid autobiography. Danny Cipriani has always been searching for something. On the pitch, it was a line-break or space. A chink of light to dart through. An angle that no one else could see. Off the pitch, it was seeking a path through the pressure, fame and chaos that came with being anointed the ‘Saviour of English Rugby’. Who Am I? is the raw and powerful memoir of a man of mercurial talent who, with the world at his feet, made his England rugby debut aged 20. A man who, just a year, contemplated suicide. A man whose safe space was on the field, away from the drink, the women and the drugs he turned to in an attempt to escape his thoughts.
The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million records sold, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath are one of the most influential bands of all time. From the very beginning, Geezer Butler was at the heart of their success. He named the group, provided the bass behind their distinctive sound and wrote the lyrics that resonated so powerfully with fans around the world. At long last, Geezer is ready to tell his side of the Sabbath story, from early days as a scrappy blues quartet through to the many lineup changes, the record-breaking tours and the international hell-raising with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward.
Now, for the first time, one of the most compelling personalities in the sport reflects on who he was, where he’s come from and the man he’s become. Alongside his astute insight into playing under Martin Johnson, Stuart Lancaster and Eddie Jones, Danny also talks about chasing his dreams, his desire and passion to represent England, and his drive to become the best player he could be.
Featuring Geezer’s candid reflections on his working-class childhood in Luftwaffe-battered Birmingham, his almost-life as an accountant and his fascination with horror, religion and the occult, Into the Void reveals the softer side of the heavy metal legend, while holding nothing back.
This is the story of a once complicated man. A man searching for answers. A man trying to understand who he is.
Like Geezer’s bass lines and the story of Black Sabbath themselves, Into the Void is original, dramatic and one hell of a ride.
Wild Air James Macdonald Lockhart
The Light Eaters Zoë Schlanger
ISBN: 9780008399566
ISBN: 9780008445348
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching
May 09, 2024 Hardback Life Sciences: General Issues
£10.99
£22
COVER NOT FINAL A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.
In Wild Air, James Macdonald Lockhart sets out to write about a series of birds as though he has his granny’s role of listening to birds’ songs and in farmland; ravens in woodland; divers on a loch; lapwings on the coast; and nightingales in calls and relaying what she heard to her aged and by then quite deaf father – the famous naturalist Seton Gordon. From a nightjar’s strange churring song on a heath in the south of England, to a lapwing displaying over the machair in the Outer Hebrides, he writes about eight different birds who he has spent mo st time with, returned to most often and relays what he hears.
Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass, or a tree. Think how a life spent constantly growing yet rooted in a single spot comes with tremendous challenges. To meet them, plants have come up with some of the most creative methods for surviving of any living thing, us included. Many are so ingenious that they seem nearly impossible.
The eight species are all representative of a different habitat. Not all of the birds are songbirds in the traditional sense, though each possesses its own distinctive music. That music can vary from the strange, as in the weird gurgling sound a shearwater makes inside its burrow, to the joyous exuberance of the skylark’s song. Sometimes, he hears a lot, and sees little (shearwaters in the pitch dark); sometimes he sees a lot, but hears little (black-throated divers on their loch). But in every case the sounds the birds make become an introduction to their lives – an audible introduction to the birds and the places they are found.
But did you know they can communicate when they are being eaten, allowing nearby plants to bolster their defences. They move and that movement stops when they are anaesthetised, just like animals. They also use electricity for internal communication, just like animals. They can hear the sounds of caterpillars eating, just like animals. Plants can remember the last time they have been visited by a bee and how many times they have been visited, so have a concept of time and can count, just like animals. Plants can not only communicate with each other, they can also communicate with other species of plant and animals, allowing them to manipulate animals to defend or fertilise them. This is unlike most other animals. So look again at the potted plant, or the grass or the tree and wonder: Are plants intelligent? Perhaps even more fundamental is are they conscious? The Light Eaters will completely redefine how you think of plants. Packed with the most amazing stories of the life of plants it will open your eyes to the extraordinary green life forms we share the planet with. Of course, like animals, plants can also detect light.
POS Pack ISBN: 9780007996131
Fatherland
SAS
Burkhard Bilger
Joshua Levine
ISBN: 9780008100773 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback True War & Combat Stories £10.99
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain) What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party’s brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country’s crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out.
What follows is a literary suspense story: a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in villages and dusty archives across Germany and France. Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century, tracing one family’s path through history’s wreckage.
ISBN: 9780008549992 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Military Intelligence £10.99
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. The SAS began as a lie, a story of a British parachute unit in the North African desert, to convince the Axis they were under imminent threat. The lie was so effective that soon a small band of men were brought together to make it real. These recruits were the toughest and brightest of their cohort, the most resilient, most dynamic and most self-sufficient. Their first commanders, David Stirling and Paddy Mayne, would go down in history as unorthodox visionaries. Yet this book tells much more than the usual origin story of the unit and seeks out less well-known leaders like Bill Fraser, who was essential in helping the SAS achieve fame for their devastating raids. By looking beyond the myth, this book brings back to life a group of men who showed immense bravery and endured unimaginable risks behind enemy lines. Written with the full cooperation of the SAS and with exclusive access to SAS archives, Levine draws on individual stories and personal testimony, including interviews with veterans and family members. This book is vivid with the characters of the men, their eclectic personalities, their strengths, weaknesses and many disagreements. Levine has uncovered a remarkable portrait of this enigmatic unit with photographs and stories long thought lost to history
The Full English
Made in Manchester
Stuart Maconie
Brian Groom
ISBN: 9780008498290
ISBN: 9780008608521
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Travel Writing
May 23, 2024 Hardback History
£10.99
£20
What kind of country is England today? What does it mean to be English? Are we hungry for change or seeking old certainties? Join Stuart Maconie on an enlightening, entertaining journey through England, from Bristol's Banksy to Durham's beaches, from Cotswolds corduroy to Stoke's oatcakes. As his guide, Maconie walks in the footsteps of J.B. Priestley's classic travelogue, English Journey, to explore our national identity and how it has evolved over the last century. On his way, Stuart takes inspiration from the people he meets at bus stops and train stations, cafes and corner shops. Travelling the length of the land, Maconie explores the differences between city and town, north and south, and examines our past and present with affection and insight. Whether he’s passing the boutique hotels of Manchester, the moors of Ilkley or the grand houses of Tynemouth, looking out over misty fens or urban skylines, he shines a light on the people who make these places and asks what the future holds for them. Along the way, he uncovers local heroes and secret histories over early breakfasts and last orders. Through his journey, he lets us see our homes and habits, hopes and eccentricities with fresh eyes. The Full English challenges us to embrace the messy, shifting and diverse nature of England, and to ask ourselves what kind of country we want to be.
A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who have made it Made in Manchester is the tale of England’s second city; a metropolis that exported industry and commerce to all others and whose culture is celebrated globally. Manchester was the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution. Visitors arrived from foreign lands, who saw in it a foretaste of the world’s future. But no one knew whether the upheaval would lead to prosperity or starvation. ‘From this filthy sewer pure gold flows,’ wrote French social commentator Alexis de Tocqueville.
It was a hotbed of politics too. The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 is immortalised in British folklore. The city was a centre for radical movements such as Chartism, yet also spawned the employer-led AntiCorn Law League, which made free trade Britain’s economic orthodoxy. It became the centre of the global cotton industry and a pioneer in engineering. But Made in Manchester will also tell the untold story of the pre-industrial age: Manchester’s Roman fort was manned by soldiers from across the empire, prefiguring the cosmopolitanism of the present day. Made in Manchester will tackle the city’s sometimes spiky relations with its neighbours and its reputation for arrogance, asking whether the city’s inhabitants have a definable character. And it will ask whether Manchester, through economic decline and recent recovery, has lived up to its early promise, and whether it can still do so today.
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The Queer Bible
The Palace
Jack Guinness
Gareth Russell
ISBN: 9780008530501
ISBN: 9780008437015
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Gay & Lesbian Studies
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Biography: Royalty
£20
£10.99
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.’ THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the Queer Eye cast to Mae Martin on Tim Curry, today’s queer heroes write about the icons that provided a creative inspiration to them. Each essay is accompanied by exclusive, bespoke illustrations by queer or ally artists, to create a truly beautiful celebration of queer culture. Based on the popular website QueerBible.com, founded by model and activist Jack Guinness, this timely collection, edited by him, continues his mission – to create a space dedicated to the celebration of queer history. The Queer Bible is a love letter to the LGBTQI+ community and its allies.
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts’ PHILIPPA GREGORY For centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and intrigue: a stage for events that shaped the nation. The Palace raises the curtain on 500 years of British history with royals, politicians, criminals, and geniuses all playing their parts.
Hampton Court has been an arc of monarchy, revolution, religious fundamentalism, sexual scandals, and military coups. In this rich and vivid history, Gareth Russell moves through the rooms and the decades, each time focusing on a different person who called Hampton Court their home. Beginning with the Tudors, Russell takes the reader from the kitchens of Henry VII and the dreams of Anne Boleyn to Elizabeth I’s brush with death and the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The gossip and feuds of Georgian aristocrats lead into the era of the Windsors when Hampton Court becomes the place to host Elizabeth II’s coronation ball and hide the last Tsar’s sister. Fascinating and engaging, The Palace is as atmospheric as it is gossipy and through the many sovereigns and servants that lived and worked in its halls reveals the personal tragedy and political importance of this extraordinary place.
The Age of Cats Jonathan B. Losos
The World is Yours: The Story of Scarface Glenn Kenny
ISBN: 9780008339500
ISBN: 9781335449627
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Cats As Pets
May 25, 2024 Hardback Film
£10.99
£25
The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. Why don’t lions meow? Why does my cat leave a dead mouse at my feet? And why is a pet ocelot a bad idea? Jonathan B. Losos unravels the secrets of the cat using all the tools of modern technology, from GPS tracking (you’ll be amazed where they roam) and genomics (what is your so-called Siamese cat, really?) to forensic archaeology. He tells the story of the cat’s domestication (if you can call it that) and gives us a cat's-eye view of the world today. Along the way we also meet their wild cousins, whose behaviours are eerily similar to even the sweetest of house cats. Drawing on his own research and life in his multi-cat household, Losos deciphers complex science and history and explores how selection, both natural and artificial, over the millennia has shaped the contemporary cat. Yet the cat, ever a predator, still seems to have only one paw out of the wild, and readily reverts to its feral ways as it occupies new habitats around the world. Looking ahead, this charming and intelligent book suggests what the future may hold for the special bond between Felis catus and Homo sapiens.
The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew. An unflinching confrontation of humanity’s dark side, Brian de Palma’s crime drama film Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release in 1982. Its impact was unprecedented, making globespanning waves as a defining portrait of the gritty Miami street life. From Al Pacino’s masterful characterization of Tony Montana to the iconic “Say hello to my little friend,” Scarface maintains its reputation as an unwavering game-changer in cult classic cinema. Featuring brand new interviews and never-before-seen snapshots of the film’s production, long-time film critic Glenn Kenny takes us on an unparalleled journey through the making of American depictions of crime. The World Is Yours highlights the influential characters and themes within Scarface, reflecting on how its storied legacy played such a major role in American culture.
House of Kwa
The Lasting Harm
Mimi Kwa
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
ISBN: 9780733343520
ISBN: 9780008591182
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Memoirs / Family drama
May 23, 2024 Hardback True Crime
£10.99
£22
Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations The dragon circles and swoops ... a tiger running alone in the night ... Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father sue his own daughter? The collision was over the estate of Mimi's beloved Aunt Theresa, but its seed had been sown long ago. In an attempt to understand how it had come to this, Mimi unspools her rich family history in House of Kwa. One of a wealthy silk merchant's 32 children, Mimi's father, Francis, was just a little boy when the Kwa family became caught up in the brutal and devastating Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Years later, he was sent to study in Australia by his now independent and successful older sister Theresa. There he met and married Mimi's mother, a nineteen-year-old with an undiagnosed, chronic mental illness. Soon after, 'tiger' Mimi arrived, and her struggle with the past - and the dragon - began ... Riveting, colourful and often darkly humorous, House of Kwa is an epic family drama spanning four generations, and an unforgettable story about how one woman finds the courage to stand up for her freedom and independence, squaring off against the ghosts of the past and finally putting them to rest.
The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of the criminal trial of the century. 'I understand – and sympathise with – the feeling you might have that you already know the Jeffrey Epstein story. But I am not here to tell you a story about Jeffrey Epstein, or even Ghislaine Maxwell. I am here to tell you the stories of ten women, many of whom have never spoken at length before, about the real impact of sexual trauma on their lives.’ In November 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five counts of sex-trafficking of minors, and now faces 55 years in prison for the role she played in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of four girls. The trial was meticulously covered by journalist and legal reporter Lucia Osborne-Crowley, one of only four reporters allowed into the courtroom every day. The Lasting Harm is her account of that trial, a gripping true crime drama and a blistering critique of a criminal justice system ill-equipped to deliver justice for abuse survivors, no matter the outcome. Centring the stories of four women and their testimonies, and supplemented by extra material to which Osborne-Crowley has exclusive access, The Lasting Harm brings this incendiary trial to life, questions our age-old appetite for crime and punishment and offers a new blueprint for meaningful reparative justice.
In My Time of Dying Sebastian Junger
Will You Read This, Please?
ISBN: 9780008670191
Joanna Cannon
May 23, 2024 Hardback True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
ISBN: 9780008520014 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Psychiatry
£16.99 £9.99 A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived.
‘Moving and vital’ i NEWS ‘A beautiful book’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible’ DAILY MIRROR
This experience spurred Junger—a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical—to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions?
Edited by Sunday Times bestselling author Joanna Cannon, the stories told here are powerful, resonant and heart-breaking. This is a ground-breaking and unforgettable collection, shining a light on the stigma and isolation of living with mental illness, while also showing the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
How do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please? is a frank and impactful collection of twelve stories as told to our best British writers, including Tracy Chevalier and Clare Mackintosh, based on the lived experience of people who have faced mental illness in the UK.
White Terror Jacob Kushner ISBN: 9780008502775 May 09, 2024 Hardback Fascism & Nazism £25
In a tour de force of investigative journalism, White Terror tells for the first time the story of the National Socialist Underground in Germany – in an engrossing global story that examines violence, modern racism and national trauma. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of deep uncertainty: some four million East Germans found themselves out of a job. At first the three friends spent their nights wandering the streets, smoking, drinking, looking for trouble. Then they began attending far-right rallies with people who called themselves National Socialists: Nazis. Like the Hitler-led Nazis before them, they blamed minorities for their ills. Believing foreigners were a threat to their homeland, the three friends embarked on the most horrific string of white nationalist killings since the Holocaust. Their target: immigrants. A masterwork of reporting, White Terror reveals how a group of young Germans carried out a shocking spree of white supremacist violence, and how a nation and its government ignored them until it was too late.
The Demon of Unrest Erik Larson ISBN: 9780008681753
May 09, 2024 Hardback History Of The Americas £25
The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fuelled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter – a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were ‘so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them’. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink – a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late.
Elton John Activity Book
Color Me Capybaras
Nathan Joyce
Editors of Cider Mill Press
ISBN: 9780008683207
ISBN: 9781400340729
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Humour
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Coloring book
£9.99
£6.99 COVER NOT FINAL
Recognising one of the most-honoured performers of all time, A Celebration of Elton John: The Activity Book is 2024’s follow-up to A Celebration of Dolly Parton: The Activity Book, A Celebration of David Attenborough: The Activity Book and The Unofficial Michelle Obama Activity Book. Following the incredible career of Sir Elton John, featuring:
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Wit & Wisdom from Sir Elton John Design your own Elton Grand Piano, Boots and Numberplate Illustrations and graphics to colour-in dedicated Elton John’s greatest hits The ultimate Elton John Quiz for new and old fans alike Inspirational word clouds, quizzes, puzzles, games, drawings, facts, emotional ollercoaster graphs and much, much more
]This extensive guide gives you the opportunity to learn more about Elton, his charitable work, musicals, and famous friendships! Elton the Philanthropist mentions Sir John’s work with the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, Breast Cancer Research and the AIDS foundation as well as other charitable endeavours. Expect cameos from The Beckhams, Lady Gaga, and more in Famous Friendships and information about Elton’s Legendary Oscar Parties.
Unwind and express your creativity with the fun designs in Color Me Capybaras. Who doesn't love capybaras? This hilarious collection of coloring pages is something you never knew you needed until now. Take advantage of the meditative benefits of coloring with capybaras driving cars, sunbathing on the beach, listening to tunes, and living their best lives. These detailed illustrations allow you to practice mindfulness and will keep you busy for hours. Color Me Capybaras includes: • • • •
50 coloring pages to help you de-stress Designs suitable for all skill levels, with a range of selections for beginners and experienced artists One-sided pages so your art doesn't bleed through to the other side Anxiety-reducing benefits to lift your mood
Whether you need a calming atmosphere, want to relax at the end of the day, are trying a new hobby, or just love coloring, there is something here for everyone. Forget your worries as you explore these creative scenes. You can use colored pencils, markers, gel pens, watercolors, crayons, or whatever tool you want to fill in these designs.
Technology is Not the Problem Timandra Harkness ISBN: 9780008503604 May 23, 2024 Hardback Technology
£20
We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back for more? Technology has delivered a world that we expect to revolve around us, our needs and preferences, and our unique personalities. Each of us willingly yields up the most intimate facets of our behaviour and interests in return for a world that’s exponentially easier to navigate. Ours is the Personalised Century, where we view ourselves primarily in terms of what rather than who we are – the objects of others’ recognition, rather than the subjects and authors of our own lives. That we keep handing ourselves over to technology is not a sign of its supernatural powers, but rather our own shrinking sense of selves. Interrogating the historical currents that have brought us here, Harkness envisages a messier, riskier and less comfortable world than the one into which we’re sliding. Challenging readers to scrutinise what’s missing from their personalised menus, Recognised encourages us to look afresh at the familiar: not just the technology we use every day, how we relate to the world and those around us.
How to Drink Wine
How to Drink Whiskey
Carlo DeVito
Carlo DeVito
ISBN: 9781400340606
ISBN: 9781400340590
May 09, 2024 Hardback Drink
May 09, 2024 Hardback Drink
£12.99
£12.99
This comprehensive guide to wine appreciation teaches you everything you need to know, from selecting the perfect bottle to pairing it with your favorite meal.
This comprehensive guide to whiskey appreciation teaches you everything you need to know, from selecting the perfect bottle to savoring its complex flavors and aromas.
Wine is more than just a drink--it's a passion, a lifestyle, and an art form. But for many people, knowing how to appreciate wine can be a daunting task. That's where this book comes in. Discover valuable information on the history of winemaking, the different types of wine, and how they vary by region and season. Learn the right way to taste wine, how to read wine labels, and how to store your bottles for optimal aging. Inside you'll find three wine cocktail recipes for each featured type of wine.
Whiskey is more than just a drink--it's a cultural icon, steeped in history and tradition. But for many, knowing how to appreciate whiskey can be a daunting task. That's where this book comes in. Discover the basics of whiskey-making, the art of distilling, aging, and blending. Learn about the different types of whiskey, their origins, and how to read a whiskey label like a pro. Inside you'll find three whiskey cocktail recipes for each featured type of whiskey.
With expert tips on selecting the right glassware, serving temperatures, and decanting techniques, How to Drink Wine is an essential resource for any sommelier in the making. Engaging insights on notable wineries and wine makers will help you enjoy wine like never before.
Delve into the nuanced world of flavor profiling with valuable tips on identifying the unique flavors and aromas of different whiskeys. From the smoky richness of peated Scotch to the sweet caramel notes of bourbon, you'll learn how to savor each sip and fully appreciate the complexity of this celebrated spirit. This is an essential resource for any whiskey lover. Engaging insights on notable distilleries and distillers will help you enjoy whiskey like never before.
So pour yourself a glass, settle in, and let How to Drink Wine be your guide on this rewarding journey through the world of wine.
So pour yourself a dram, settle in, and let How to Drink Whiskey be your guide on this rewarding journey to the heart of whiskey country.
OPEN WIDE: A COOKBOOK FOR FRIENDS benny blanco with Jess Damuck The debut cookbook from benny blanco—pop music super-producer, artist, actor on FXX’s Dave, and consummate food freak—teaches you everything you need to know about cooking, enjoying life, and throwing the greatest dinner party of all time. Hi, I’m benny blanco. I’m in a television show with my best friend Dave and I probably produced most of the songs you have heard on the radio from 2008 until now. When I was thirteen, I got a George Foreman Grill and it changed my life forever. I would invite friends over and we would get stoned and gather around the grill and make the most elaborate sandwiches our prepubescent minds could fathom. I became obsessed with food and cooking for friends. I know what you are going to say, and I get it. Cooking is scary. But I promise you, once you get into it, it will be your new addiction. Slicing an onion is like taking a Xanax to me. I made this cookbook to teach you everything I know about food, cooking, and throwing the greatest dinner party of all time. There are the basics to get your kitchen ready, a little advice from my expert friends, then all of the dinner party menus I love to make, like: 5 Dishes to Get You Laid and One for the Morning After, I Wish I Were an Italian Grandma, Take Me to the Cheesy Rodeo, F*ck Morton’s Steakhouse. I’ve been told some of the finest stories over meals. I’ve laughed so hard I thought I was going to actually die. I’ve fallen in love—sometimes with the food, sometimes with the person across the table. I’ve cried in good ways, and I’ve cried in bad ways. I hope you’ve been lucky enough to have all these same memories and then some. But if you haven’t, I can make you a promise. If you follow these three simple steps, it will all become a reality: Open this book. Open your heart. And open wide, baby.
ISBN: 9780063315938 Hardback Cooking / Celebrity May 23, 2024
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JAYAFLAVA Tasha Marikkar
BIG DIP ENERGY Alyse Whitney
PIZZA VOLUME 01 Gozney
A mouthwatering culinary tour of Sri Lanka, JayaFlava brings together the history and traditions, ingredients and spices, and their preparation and use. With clear step-by-step recipes, it guides the reader through the delightful process of creating a beautiful Sri Lankan meal.
Alyse Whitney has been a Dip Queen for decades, making the writer, editor, Cosmopolitan food columnist, and TV host the perfect diplomat for this firstof-its-kind cookbook. Big Dip Energy offers endless fun and easy ways to both entertain and enjoy solo with creative dips and dippers.
The official debut cookbook from internationally market-leading outdoor pizza oven brand, Gozney. This book celebrates the versatility of outdoor cooking, proving that you can create so much more than just pizza – although lots of pizzas will feature! Over 75 pizza recipes and how-to’s, plus 20 other outdoor recipes.
ONE BAKE, TWO WAYS Ruby Bhogal Bake Off finalist Ruby Bhogal is here to delight us with a flexible approach to baking tasty, sweet treats that give you double helpings of temptation. She brings us 50 like-for-like recipes, with a plantbased and non-plant-based version for each bake.
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DESSERT BOARDS Elizabeth Latham Take dessert from ordinary to extraordinary with 100 elegant spreads in Dessert Boards. The perfect blend of savory and sweet, this cookbook combines the charcuterie board craze with decadent desserts.
THE ANTI-PROCESSED AIR FRYER COOKBOOK Heather Thomas
THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES COOKBOOK Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
Break the addiction to ultra-processed foods with these speedy, healthy, delicious alternatives! From healthy breakfast options to delicious meals, snacks and desserts, The AntiProcessed Air Fryer Cookbook has simple swaps to satisfy every craving
From the world of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire comes a collection of 80 delicious recipes inspired by the histories of Westeros, Essos, and beyond.
THE COOKBOOK OF ALL TIME Ashley Wells The first cookbook from Tyler and Ashley Wells, the husband-and-wife duo behind Los Angeles’ bustling, sought-after restaurant All Time, with recipes for the simple, market-driven food that attracts guests from all over, alongside their intimate, hilarious, and tender stories.
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THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO KARL MARX, FRIEDRICH ENGELS ISBN: 9780008619978 MAY 09, 2024
CHARLESTON THEN AND NOW LEIGH JONES HANDAL ISBN: 9781911663454 MAY 09, 2024
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AN ORDINARY MAN RICHARD NORTON SMITH ISBN: 9780062684172
WHAT THE MOUNTAINS REMEMBER JOY CALLAWAY ISBN: 9781400244317
AS LONG AS YOU NEED J. S. PARK ISBN: 9781400336845
WALK, RIDE, PADDLE TIM KAINE ISBN: 9781400339457 05 23 2024 WITH DUST JACKET
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ON QUALITY ROBERT M. PIRSIG, WENDY K. PIRSIG ISBN: 9780063084650
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NEVER LEAVE THE DOGS BEHIND BRIANNA MADIA ISBN: 9780063316096 05 09 2024 HARDBACK
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BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN ALUA ARTHUR ISBN: 9780063240032 05 09 2024 HARDBACK
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YOU WILL GET THROUGH THIS NIGHT DANIEL HOWELL ISBN: 9780008407490 05 09 2024 PAPERBACK
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DAY TRADING ATTENTION GARY VAYNERCHUK ISBN: 9780063317598
TALK MONEY TO ME JASON TARTICK ISBN: 9781400226900
LEARNING TO DISAGREE JOHN INAZU ISBN: 9780310368014
ADHD IS AWESOME PENN HOLDERNESS, KIM HOLDERNESS ISBN: 9781400338610
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SECURE RELATING SUE MARRIOTT, ANN KELLEY ISBN: 9780063334557
GET BETTER AT ANYTHING SCOTT H. YOUNG ISBN: 9780008679460 MAY 09, 2024
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BURNOUT IMMUNITY KANDI WIENS ISBN: 9780063323667 05 09 2024 HARDBACK
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IS EVERYONE HAPPIER THAN ME? SARAH BRAGG ISBN: 9780310361374 05 09 2024 UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND
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AUGUST NEW TITLES REFERENCE
National Trust
GREAT BRITISH WALKIES ISBN: 9780008641337 MAY 23, 2024 PAPERBACK
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THE TIMES OLYMPIC MOMENTS Sir Steve Redgrave CBE, John Goodbody, Robert Dineen, Times Books Pairing epic sports photography with articles from The Times and Sunday Times archive, this unofficial volume brings together 100 of the most iconic moments from the history of the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. With striking, full-colour photography, rarely seen archival images and sensational reporting on the action, The Times Olympic Moments showcases the moments of heroism, triumph and controversy that continue to make the Games the centrepiece of the global sporting calendar. Featuring the most stunning records, fiercest rivalries and most dramatic upsets, these instants have changed the course of sporting history and captivated generations of fans along the way. The perfect gift for anyone with an interest in the 2024 Olympics, some of the most iconic moments from this book include:
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Jesse Owens defies Nazi racism, Berlin, 1936 The ‘blood in the water’ match, Melbourne, 1956 Cassius Clay bursts onto the scene, Rome, 1960 The ‘Fosbury flop’ revolutionises high jump, Mexico City, 1968 Terror and tragedy as hostages killed, Munich, 1972 Seb Coe vs Steve Ovett in middle-distance rivalry, Moscow, 1980 Five in a row for Redgrave, Sydney, 2000 Ennis the star of ‘Super Saturday’, London, 2012 Simmonds surges to victory, London, 2012 Phelps becomes the greatest Olympian, Rio de Janeiro, 2016
ISBN: 9780008664251 May 23, 2024 Hardback Times Books Olympic & Paralympic Games
£30
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THE TIMES 2 JUMBO CROSSWORD BOOK 19 JOHN GRIMSHAW, THE TIMES UK ISBN: 9780008618087 MAY 09, 2024
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THE TIMES SUPER FIENDISH SU DOKU BOOK 11 THE TIMES MIND GAMES ISBN: 9780008618124 MAY 09, 2024
THE TIMES CODEWORD 15 THE TIMES MIND GAMES ISBN: 9780008618100 MAY 09, 2024
THE TIMES CRYPTIC CROSSWORD BOOK 28 THE TIMES MIND GAMES ISBN: 9780008618094 MAY 09, 2024
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BIG LONDON A-Z STREET ATLAS A–Z MAPS ISBN: 9780008663506 MAY 09, 2024
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CARDIFF A-Z POCKET STREET MAP A–Z MAPS ISBN: 9780008657437 MAY 23, 2024
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LIVERPOOL A-Z POCKET STREET MAP A–Z MAPS ISBN: 9780008657352 MAY 23, 2024
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AUGUST NEW TITLES CHILDREN’S
CHILDREN’S – AUGUST NEW TITLES PICTURE BOOKS
HIDE-AND-SEEK! Nick Butterworth From the creator of One Snowy Night comes this entertaining new novelty board book for the youngest of Percy fans! Percy the park keeper is playing hide-and-seek with his animal friends! Who’s hiding in the grass? And who’s hiding under the blanket? Lift the flaps in this fun interactive book to help Percy find everyone! Percy and his friends have delighted readers around the world for over thirty years!
ISBN: 9780008679811 May 23, 2024 Board book HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks Picture Books: Character Books
£7.99
MY FIRST DRAW WITH ROB: UNICORNS Rob Biddulph A magical unicorn activity book from Rob Biddulph’s amazingly popular Draw With Rob art activity series – now for little readers! Gallop away to a land of clouds, rainbows and unicorns in this magical activity book from bestselling and award-winning creator, Rob Biddulph. Featuring fairy-tale castles, starry skies and enchanted lands, these pages are full of mazes, puzzles and colouring along with Rob’s simple drawing instructions for creating your own incredible unicorns!
Rob Biddulph is the genius behind the phenomenal, viral sensation that is DRAW WITH ROB and the accompanying activity books. The first DRAW WITH ROB activity book went to Number One in the charts and was named ‘Book of the Year’ at the 2020 Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards! Since then, Rob has continued to bring joy to families everywhere with his easy-to-follow drawing instructions and warm-hearted humour.
ISBN: 9780008627607 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks Picture Books
£6.99
BLACK & WHITE IN COLOUR Tana Hoban From the acclaimed and bestselling creator Tana Hoban, this sturdy accordion-format board book features iconic black-and-white images of recognizable objects from a child’s world accompanied by full-color photographs of babies interacting with those objects. A perfect gift for new parents and for tummy time. Before babies can see color clearly, they respond to the high contrast between black and white. This accordion-style foldout board book is sturdy enough to stand on its own, is ideal for little hands, and features Tana Hoban’s bold and iconic black-and-white images of familiar objects along with full-color photographs of adorable babies interacting with those objects. Showcasing everyday objects from childhood—for example, a bottle, a spoon, or a flower—Black & White in Color educates, entertains, and helps a baby’s developing brain make connections in an ever-expanding world. This edition includes high-contrast art from two bestselling Tana Hoban titles: Black on White and White on Black. These classic and popular board books have sold more than one million copies.
ISBN: 9780063395800 05 23 2024
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INVISIBLE DOGS Ruby Wright 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 her grandpa knows the best game to cheer her up: invisible shops. Little does he know that it sells invisible dogs, and those dogs are going to cause chaos!
ISBN: 9781915395061 May 09, 2024 Hardback Rocket bird Books
£12.99
Where’s Willy’s Welly?
Race to Kindness
Rob Jones
Orion Jean, Darshika Varma
ISBN: 9780008660215
ISBN: 9780310152552
May 23, 2024 Board book Interactive & Activity Books & Packs
May 23, 2024 Hardback
£7.99
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Over TWO METRES of fold-out concertina fun!
From TIME 2021 Kid of the Year, Orion Jean, this heartfelt picture book invites readers to join the race to kindness and see what a big difference even a small act of kindness can make.
Oh no! Willy the Caterpillar has lost his welly boot! Come join our great race where kindness begins, Have Willy’s insect friends seen it? Is it hidden in the flowerbed? Or the tool shed? The vegetable patch? Or the pond? Unfold the veeerry looooonnnng concertina book to find out . . .
A sturdy concertina book packed with bold, fun-filled artwork – perfect for curious preschoolers! Look out for more veeerry looooonnnng concertina books: Where’s Brian’s Bottom Who’s Tickling Tilly?
Where everyones welcome and everyone wins!
This inspiring picture book, written by TIME 2021 Kid of the Year Orion Jean, invites readers to join in the kindness movement, because when we dream big and work together, we can change the world. From giving meaningful compliments to sharing your snack to donating used clothes, there are so many ways to be kind that it can be tough to know where to start! Luckily, author and fellow kid Orion Jean has some simple steps we can all take to make the world a better place.
A Monster Princess Shark Adventure
What Do People Do All Day?
Sarah Coyle, Adam WalkerParker ISBN: 9781405299077
Richard Scarry
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Picture Storybooks
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Picture Books
£7.99
Do you love monsters? How about princesses? And sharks? Find them ALL in the pages of this laugh-out-loud ‘pick your own’ picture book adventure! Zara is enjoying a day at the beach, when she realised – horror! – that Old Ted has disappeared. He may be old and worn . . . but Zara needs him back, and she needs YOUR help to find him! Has Old Ted been taken by a monster? Or pinched by a princess? Or snapped up by a shark? It’s up to YOU to decide! Pick a Story is the ONLY series where young readers choose between three completely different worlds – allowing them to change the story as it happens. Children are excited by having choice and a feeling of agency, and it fires their imaginations. Choice and value! Readers choose the direction of the adventure on every page. With endless story paths to be taken, the adventure is always different. Packed with activities! Each page includes an activity, such as search-and-find, odd-one-out, mazes and more, woven seamlessly into the narrative – perfect for immersing and engaging young readers.
ISBN: 9780008665371
£8.99
Packed with things to spot on every page, this picture book classic is beautiful, fun and a favourite with children of all ages. Everyone is busy in Busytown – from train drivers to doctors, from mothers to sailors, in police stations and on fire engines. Follow lots of busy people working through their busy days!
MERDADDY Wednesday Kirwan
AWE-SAMOSAS! Marzieh Abbas
An ode to parent-child bonding, imagination, the ocean, and bath time! Perfectly pitched for even the youngest readers, Merdaddy is a sweet young picture book with a gentle, genuinely surprising twist that will charm fans of Oona and Julián Is a Mermaid.
This warm and joyful picture book blends family tradition and creativity as Noor puts an awesome spin on her Dadijaan's yummy but ingredient-specific samosa recipe. It’s Noor’s first time making her Dadijaan’s Special Samosa recipe. When she can’t get in touch with her Dadijaan because it’s nighttime in Pakistan, Noor must improvise to make her family’s recipe without all of the correct ingredients.
EYES THAT KISS IN THE CORNERS Joanna Ho A New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller This lyrical, stunning picture book tells a story about learning to love and celebrate your Asian-shaped eyes and is a celebration of diversity.
Deep down under the sea live Merbaby and Merdaddy. They talk to the fish, have seaweed picnics, float with the jellyfish, hide with the otters, surf with the turtles, and save any hapless sailors who need help. The water is the best place Merbaby can imagine being . . . until Merdaddy says their fingers look like raisins and their teeth are chattering.
Noor uses her creativity and problem-solving skills to create something new and exciting for her friends: flaky, super-crispy Awe-samosas!
A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother’s, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future.
23 MAY 2024 | HB | £12.99 | 9780063280274
23 MAY 2024 | HB | £12.99 | 9780063257276
23 MAY 2024 | PB | £7.99 | 9780063391468
TEN LITTLE UNICORNS AMANDA SOBOTKA ISBN: 9781400340743
TINY TROUBLES SOPHIE DIAO ISBN: 9780063214460
CURIOUS GEORGE AND ME! H. A. REY ISBN: 9780358521198
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CHILDREN’S – AUGUST NEWAND TITLES BRAND HERITAGE
WINNIE THE POOH A DAY AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Jane Riordan, Mark Burgess Join Winnie-the-Pooh and friends for a visit to the Natural History Museum in this beautiful special edition storybook. ‘The Dippywhat-cus?’ asked Pooh. ‘Is she the one with the teeth?’ When Winnie-the-Pooh has an outing to The Natural History Museum, he comes across some very, very old dinosaurs with rather long names… We all have a place in our hearts for the adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh told by A.A.Milne in Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. This heart-warming story is from the authorised prequel Once There Was a Bear written by highly talented author Jane Riordan in the style of A.A.Milne. Jane Riordan has a strong pedigree in writing in the style of A.A.Milne, having also created the highly successful Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the King, Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen and the reissue edition Winnie-the-Pooh Goes to London. The story features beautiful illustrations by Mark Burgess in the style of E.H.Shepard. Mark is uniquely suited to this having also illustrated Once There Was a Bear, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and The Best Bear in All the World. The nation’s favourite teddy bear has been delighting generations of children for over 95 years. Milne’s classic children’s stories – featuring Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin and, of course, Pooh himself – are gently humorous while teaching lessons about friendship and kindness.
ISBN: 9780008647032 May 09, 2024 Hardback Dean Picture Storybooks
£7.99
9780008685461
The Adventures of Tintin: 8 Title Paperback Boxed Set
£71.92
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9780008669096
Barbie Pegasus Sparkle Picture Book
£7.99
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9780008616397
Mr. Men Little Miss: Friendship
£4.99
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9780008615611
Minecraft Tips, Tricks and Hacks
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Sonic Sticker Activities
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CHILDREN’S AUGUST NEW TITLES FICTION
JUST ADD DRAGONS Ian Mark, Louis Ghibault “A magnificently hilarious masterpiece!” Jenny Pearson on Monster Hunting for Beginners Our hapless monster hunters are back – and this time they’re tackling dragons! Readers of 7+ and fans of Mega Monster and Shrek will adore this funny fantasy series from NIbased author Ian Mark and Belgian animator Louis Ghibault When a dragon eats a bus on London Bridge, Jack, Nancy and Stoop are on a mission to track it down. But what does the dragon have to do with the death of Jack’s mum? And why has the monster hunting manual always filed dragons under ‘D’ for DON’T EXIST (things that)? Maybe there’s more to this ‘tail’ than meets the eye . . . Packed with jokes, monster 'factoids' and hilarious footnotes? while touching gently on processing difficult feelings and emotions, the 3rd title in this gut-bustingly funny, highly illustrated series is perfect for fans of the Dragon Realm series and reluctant readers aged 7-11.
ISBN: 9780755504381 May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Farshore Adventure Stories (Children's / Teenage)
£7.99
FLAT STANLEY 60TH ANNIVERSARY SIXBOOK BOX SET Jeff Brown, Rob Biddulph The six classic magical adventures of Flat Stanley brought together in a beautifully presented, ecofriendly and plastic-free pack with wonderful illustrations by the award-winning author/illustrator and star of Lockdown viral sensation #DrawwithRob, Rob Biddulph. Stanley Lambchop was just an ordinary boy – until a noticeboard fell on him. Now he’s flat as a pancake! Join Stanley as he travels to space, meets a real genie, and goes to visit Father Christmas in this collection of the six original Flat Stanley books. With Rob Biddulph's heart-warming and funny illustrations, revisit Stanley's adventures to find out how heroes come in all shapes and sizes! Jeff Brown’s Flat Stanley stories have been delighting children around the world for 60 years. This collection includes: Flat Stanley Invisible Stanley Stanley and the Magic Lamp Stanley's Christmas Adventure Stanley in Space Stanley, Flat Again
ISBN: 9780008687533 May 09, 2024 Farshore Adventure Stories (Children's / Teenage)
£41.94
Only Children
Up Toward the Light
David Baddiel, Jim Field, Steven Lenton ISBN: 9780008222505
Granger Smith, Laura Watkins
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Family & Home Stories (Children's / Teenage)
May 23, 2024 Hardback
£7.99
£12.99
A Sunday Times Best Book for Children 2023
Through a simple conversation between a boy and a tree, country-music star Granger Smith shares an incredibly powerful and deeply moving story filled with life lessons on loss, grief, and the strength gained in finding the light and the will to move forward with joy and purpose.
From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud collection of three short stories for readers of 8 and up, brilliantly illustrated by Jim Field and Steven Lenton. MEET ALFIE… THE BOY WHO COULD DO WHAT HE LIKED!
ISBN: 9781400241668
In this wonder-filled and inspiring story of surprising loss but found strength, a boy encounters a red oak who shares forest wisdom about the rich soil and the nourishing sun, pointing the boy toward a simple truth about moving on: we must grow toward the light.
Alfie has a routine. To be honest he has a lot of routines. But then one day Alfie’s babysitter is unavailable, and Alfie’s parents get Mrs Stokes instead. Mrs Stokes doesn’t do routines. Instead, she just tells Alfie to do what he likes. And that’s when things start to go weird. Does everything get hilariously out of control? Yes. Does Alfie learn a valuable lesson? Nah. This isn’t that kind of story…
With breathtaking artwork from Laura Watkins, this picture book is for ages 4 to 8; is a message of hope and strength that is passed through generations; shares the value of pain, grief, and reaching out of the darkness toward the light; and is perfect for fans of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The One and Only Family
Wombat and the Family Tree
Katherine Applegate
Marietta Apollonio
ISBN: 9780008702465
ISBN: 9781400246182
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Animal Stories (Children's / Teenage)
May 09, 2024 Hardback Animal Stories
£7.99
Previous author title
From beloved author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Family, the final instalment in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its sequels, The One and Only Bob and The One and Only Ruby. Ivan has been happily living in a wildlife sanctuary, with his friend Ruby next door in the elephant enclosure, frequent visits from his canine friend Bob, and his mate Kinyani by his side. And in the happiest turn of all, Ivan and Kinyani have welcomed a set of twins to their family! Ivan loves being a papa, even though it can be hard sometimes. But as he navigates the joys and challenges of parenthood, he can’t help but recall his life before the glass walls of the mall circus, his own childhood in the jungle – and his own twin. In the tradition of timeless classics like Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, the one and only Katherine Applegate has crafted a poignant, delightful, heartbreaking, unforgettable final foray into the world of Ivan, the world’s favorite silverback.
£12.99
Spark curiosity in children about family history, genealogy, and their place within that legacy as Wombat's family tree project grows into an exploration of his relatives' wisdom as well as what talent he can add to his community. Wombat's family tree assignment turns sour when he realizes that every ancestor has a special something they are good at--everyone except him. He tries all the talents he's learned about from his family members, from music to carving to cooking, but nothing fits. Then, with a nudge to try again, the family tree branches out to grow into Wombat's very own something.
Always Anthony
The Circuit
Terri Libenson
Francisco Jiménez, Celia Jacobs
ISBN: 9780063320925
ISBN: 9780358348221
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Graphic Novel
May 09, 2024 Paperback / softback Graphic Novel
£8.99
£10.99
The eighth book in the New York Times bestselling Emmie & Friends series, told from the alternating POVs of popular Anthony and timid Leah as they grapple with a bullying incident at school. Friends. Bullies. MIDDLE SCHOOL Anthony is TPFW (Too Popular For Words), loves science, hates writing. Leah is a super-shy nerd who’s finally making friends of her own. What could they have in common? A lot more than they thought, as it turns out! But then one day they witness Anthony’s teammates bullying a sixth grader. What happens next could cement their new friendship—or blow it up forever. New York Times bestseller Terri Libenson is back with a story about unexpected friendship and everyday bravery.
Poignantly told from a young boy’s perspective, the popular and award-winning memoir centered on a Mexican family working California’s fields is now a powerful graphic novel that will appeal to readers of Illegal and They Called Us Enemy. An honest and evocative account of a family’s journey from Mexico to the fields of California—and to a life of backbreaking work and constant household moves—as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home. A popular choice for community reads, as well as school curricula and curriculum adoptions, Francisco Jiménez’s award-winning memoir, now brought to life in Celia Jacob’s beautiful and resonant artwork, is a powerful story of survival, faith, and hope.
OPERATION: HAPPY JENNI L WALSH ISBN: 9780310159261 05 09 2024 WITH DUST JACKET
£12.99
FOX VERSUS FOX COREY R. TABOR ISBN: 9780063277953 05 09 2024 Paperback / softback £4.99
TWO HOMES, ONE HEART JESSICA YOUNG, CHELSEA O'BYRNE ISBN: 9780063253971
KIT AND THE MISSING NOTEBOOK: A BOOK ABOUT CALMING ANXIETY CHRIS WHEELER ISBN: 9780310150794
05 23 2024 HARDBACK
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CURIOUS GEORGE ROLLER COASTER H. A. REY ISBN: 9780063323506 05 23 2024
THE COOL BEAN MAKES A SPLASH JORY JOHN, PETE OSWALD ISBN: 9780063329546 05 09 2024
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A FRIEND FOR EDDY ANN KIM HA ISBN: 9780063315464 05 23 2024 HARDBACK
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PINKALICIOUS VICTORIA KANN ISBN: 9780063257344 05 23 2024 Paperback / Softback
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WHEN SATURDAY COMES Tony Bradman
ANGEL OF GRASMERE Tom Palmer
WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AN ANCIENT MAYA David Long
TOO NICE Sally Nicholls
A young boy’s relationship with his struggling dad is strained when he is forced to choose between playing football and quality time in this sensitively told story from award-winning writer.
Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer.
Discover our ancient civilisations with Blue Peter Book Award winner David Long.
Abby struggles with feelings of anxiety about school during a period of family upheaval in this sensitive and touching story.
CHILDREN’S AUGUST NEW TITLES NON-FICTION
DEBORAH MEADEN TALKS MONEY BOOKPLATES
Deborah Meaden THE empowering intro to money and finance that EVERY young person needs right now, from Dragons’ Den investor and entrepreneur DEBORAH MEADEN. Finance made fun? YES, REALLY! Dragons' Den investor and entrepreneur, Deborah Meaden, makes finance exciting, relatable and personal – AT LAST!
Money is such a huge part of our lives, so learning how to make it work best for YOU is a crucial skill. Knowledge is power! Whether you want to earn money, save money, set goals, or set up and grow a business, Deborah will be your personal guide, demystifying the world of finance, and sharing the knowledge and insights that have made her one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs. Fearful of finance? You are not alone! TALKS MONEY is packed with podcast-style interviews with ordinary young people, as well as top business people and personalities, who reveal the secrets to their success – and the mistakes they’ve made along the way. Create great money habits! With Q&As, quizzes, tips and challenges, TALKS MONEY is the ONLY guide you need to building the skills and confidence you need to manage finances and reduce money worries. The empowering finance book that EVERY young person needs right now. Book 2 in the TALKS series coming in August 2024.
ISBN: 9780008651527 May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Red Shed Money (Children's / Teenage)
£9.99
Priya’s Kitchen Adventures
The Teenage Guide to Digital Wellbeing
Priya Krishna
Tanya Goodin, Collins Kids
May 23, 2024 Hardback Cookbook for Kids
ISBN: 9780008659981 May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Personal & Social Issues: Body & Health (Children's / Teenage)
£25
£12.99
ISBN: 9780358692935
The ultimate guide to digital wellbeing and living your best life – offline and on! From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Indian-ish and Cooking at Home, an illustrated cookbook for kids and their parents that draws on Priya’s childhood experiences traveling the globe with her family. With delicious recipes and laugh-out-loud stories, Priya’s Kitchen Adventures will get kids cooking and expand their curiosity about the world. In this bright and kid-friendly cookbook, kids can travel the world with Priya—no passport required, just an open mind and a kitchen. Through her eyes, kids and their parents can see—and taste!—China, Greece, Peru, Mexico, Morocco, England, Italy, Japan, France, Egypt, Trinidad and Tobago, and India. The whole family will love making and tasting each kid-tested recipe—brought to life with vivid photos and colorful illustrations plus step-by-step how-to photos—and sharing Priya’s dynamic and often hilarious tales of adventure. They’ll come to discover what Priya was lucky to learn as a kid: that cooking is one of our greatest superpowers, allowing us to travel in our own kitchens and learn about incredible places and cultures—without the jet lag.
This guide helps tweens and teens do exactly that, inspiring them to set their devices aside (sometimes anyway!) and start living in the here and now. Written by digital wellbeing expert Tanya Goodin, it’s packed with positive prompts, thought-provoking science, and hands-on activities to encourage healthy habits around screen use – including nostalgic crafts, retro tech scavenger hunts, and phone-free nature excursions, plus practical tips on how to deal with digital challenges like comparison culture, cyberbullying, trolling, and much more. Teenagers will discover how to: • • • • •
Develop healthy habits, identify priorities, and set achievable goals Know their own screen limits and deal with digital distractions Stay safe and savvy on the internetCombat comparison culture on social media and quieten their inner critics Nurture friendships and family relationships offline and on Build resilience and self-confidence to live healthily and happily with their digital devices
A CROWN OF STORIES CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD, KHALIF THOMPSON ISBN: 9780062911032 05 23 2024 HARDBACK
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AMAZING FOOTBALL FACTS EVERY 9 YEAR OLD CAROLINE ROWLANDS, EMILIANO MIGLIARDO ISBN: 9780008649104 MAY 09, 2024 UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND
INDESCRIBABLE ATLAS ADVENTURES LOUIE GIGLIO, NICOLA ANDERSON, LYNSEY WILSON ISBN: 9781400246137 05 23 2024 HARDBACK
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AMAZING FOOTBALL FACTS EVERY 10 YEAR OLD NEEDS TO KNOW CAROLINE ROWLANDS, EMILIANO MIGLIARDO ISBN: 9780008649104 MAY 09, 2024 UNSEWN / ADHESIVE BOUND
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PUZZLE PLAY UNICORN MYSTERY KIA MARIE HUNT ISBN: 9780008665937 MAY 23, 2024 Unsewn / adhesive bound
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WHAT IN THE WOW?! 2 MINDY THOMAS, DAVE COLEMAN, GUY RAZ ISBN: 9780358697107 05 23 2024 Paperback / softback £7.99
AUGUST NEW TITLES YOUNG ADULT
MOONSTONE Laura Purcell From award-winning bestseller Laura Purcell comes her YA debut, MOONSTONE, a sparkling, chilling gothic romance with real bite… Don’t misbehave. Beware the moon. And never go out after dark . . . Following a scandal at the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, Camille is sent to the woods to live with her reclusive godmother and her strange daughter, Lucy. Cast out from polite society, she must learn to live by her godmother’s strict rules. Camille has never met anyone quite like Lucy before, and as they grow closer and cross forbidden boundaries, strange things begin to happen. Mysterious deaths, claw marks raking the doors, and the nights are pierced by the howls of a creature that sounds almost . . . otherworldly. Should Camille be more afraid of what’s hiding in the woods – or her own heart? From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silent Companions, Moonstone is a haunting gothic romance with real bite.
ISBN: 9780008562823 May 23, 2024 Hardback Magpie Monsters & Legendary Beings
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ICARUS K. Ancrum Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he’s been stealing from—think Portrait of a Thief for YA readers. Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father’s impeccable forgeries. For years, one man—the wealthy Mr. Black—has been their target in revenge for his role in the death of Icarus’s mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don’t let anyone close. Don’t let anyone touch you. And, above all, don’t get caught. Until one night, he does. Not by Mr. Black but by his mysterious son, Helios, now living under house arrest in the Black mansion. Instead of turning Icarus in, Helios bargains for something even more dangerous—a friendship that breaks every single one of Icarus’s rules. As reluctance and distrust become closeness and something more, they uncover the gilded cage that has trapped both their families for years. One Icarus is determined to escape. But his father’s thirst for revenge shows no sign of fading, and soon it may force Icarus to choose: the escape he’s dreamed of, or the boy he’s come to love. Reaching for both could be his greatest triumph—or it could be his downfall.
ISBN: 9780063285781 May 09, 2024 Hardback Romance / LGBTQ
£14.99
UNRAVEL ME Tahereh Mafi Discover the romantic, addictive and thrilling world of Tahereh Mafi’s fantasy Shatter Me with this second book in the series. This stunning hardback collector’s edition with its exclusive design and gold reading ribbon is the perfect gift for fans and new readers alike Juliette has escaped. She has found the headquarters of the rebel resistance – and people like her. People with gifts. She is free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam.
But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch. Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible. In this heart-racing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me, Juliette has to make lifechanging decisions between what she wants and what she thinks is right. Decisions that might involve choosing between her heartand the life of those she loves. PRAISE FOR THE SHATTER ME SERIES: "Dangerous, sexy, romantic, and intense. I dare you to stop reading." – Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series "Addictive, intense, and oozing with romance. I'm envious. I couldn't put it down." – Lauren Kate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series
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ISBN: 9780008687625 May 09, 2024 Hardback Electric Monkey Fantasy Romance (Teenage)
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The Library of Broken Worlds
The Temptation of Magic
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Megan Scott
ISBN: 9780008612399
ISBN: 9780008587130
May 23, 2024 Paperback / softback Science Fiction (Children's / Teenage)
May 23, 2024 Hardback Fantasy Romance
£9.99
£14.99
A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, epic tale of oppression and the cost of peace, where stories hide within other stories, and narrative has the power to heal… or to burn everything in its path. In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great celestial peacekeeper of the three systems, a terrible secret lies buried.
As the daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring the Library's ever-changing tunnels and communing with the gods. Her unparalleled access makes her unique – and dangerous. When Freida meets Joshua, a mortal boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, a Disciple from a persecuted religious minority, Freida is compelled to break ranks with the gods and help them. But in order to do so, she will have to venture deeper into the Library than she has ever known. There she will discover the atrocities of the past, the truth of her origins, and the impossibility of her future… With the world at the brink of war, Freida embarks on a journey to fulfill her destiny, one that pits her against an ancient war god. Her mission is straightforward: Destroy the god before he can rain hellfire upon thousands of innocent lives – if he doesn't destroy her first.
Serpent and Dove meets A Discovery of Witches in this magical, forbidden romance debut. He was an Empyreal, her greatest threat, her greatest fascination. Everything she’d been warned against. And yet she wanted him, still. Nicole Palmer’s secret powers are invaluable. As an Empyreal, she harbours the ability to destroy dangerous creatures, an ability The Wake -a shadowy organisation that governs all supernatural creatures- will stop at no lengths to weaponize. Dormant for now, Nicole knows if her powers were to be triggered she’d suffer the same deadly fate as her mother. To stay safe from The Wake and find a final encoded message from her mother, Nicole secures a role researching the supernatural art collection at the local Cornish manor. But when Kyan McCarter, The Wake’s most skilled Empyreal and perhaps Nicole’s greatest enemy, is stationed there to track a deadly creature, they are forced to work together to stop a painting falling into the wrong hands. As their hunt for the creature progresses,it threatens to expose Nicole’s powers, and her tenuous alliance with Kyan begins to threaten her heart. If Nicole’s true identity is revealed, Kyan will hunt her next. No one disobeys The Wake and survives. Especially when the art they’re seeking could hold the key to a conspiracy that would change the lives of creatures and humans forever …
Under This Red Rock
Dragonfruit
Mindy McGinnis
Makiia Lucier
ISBN: 9780063230415
ISBN: 9780358272106
May 23, 2024 Hardback Thriller / Mystery
May 09, 2024 Hardback Fantasy
£14.99
£14.99
From award-winning author Mindy McGinnis comes a mesmerizing YA psychological mystery following a teen girl who is grappling with the death of her brother as she starts a new job in the caverns of Ohio—only to become the number one suspect in her coworker's murder.
From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythology.
Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she’s in trouble. With a history of mental illness in her family and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can’t follow—the caverns. There . . . she meets Mila. Mila is everything Neely isn’t—beautiful, strong, and confident. As the two become closer, Neely’s innocent crush grows into something more. When a midnight staff party exposes Neely to drugs, she follows Mila’s lead . . . only to have her hallucinations escalate. When Mila is found brutally murdered in the caverns, Neely has to admit that her memories of that night are vague at best. With her monsters now out in the open and her grip on reality slipping, Neely must figure out who killed Mila . . . and face the possibility that it might have been her.
In order to return to her homeland and save her kingdom, exiled Hanalei reunites with her childhood best friend, Sam, to track down a rare seadragon egg—a dragonfruit—whose magic is said to grant any wish. But every wish comes with a price, and Hanalei must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice for her kingdom . . . and for Sam.
The Hedge Witch of Foxhall
Geek Girl (Netflix tie-in)
Anna Bright
Holly Smale
ISBN: 9780063083578
ISBN: 9780008669256
May 09, 2024
May 09, 2024
Hardback Fantasy
Paperback Coming of Age
£14.99
£7.99
In this gorgeous stand-alone fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft, a rebellious witch undertakes a last-ditch quest to restore magic to medieval Wales—as two princes vie for her heart. Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa’s Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent.
Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the crown to whichever son can destroy the dyke and restore magic to Wales, the brothers are forced into an uneasy rivalry. Ffion works hedgewitch magic for poor folk, not princes. Unlike the power-hungry Foxhall coven, she uses only what nature can spare. But when the coven’s greed costs Ffion everything, she will need power beyond her wildest dreams to get back what she’s lost. So when Prince Taliesin arrives, begrudgingly seeking a witch’s aid, Ffion agrees to help him—even if it means walking from one end of Wales to the other with the most use-less peacock she’s ever clapped eyes on. Even if it means striking a bargain with Dafydd behind Tal’s back. The fate of Wales depends on their quest . . . and so might the fate of Ffion’s heart.
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“My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek.” Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a “jiffy” lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her best friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of impossibly handsome model Nick. Even if it means lying to the people she loves. Veering from one couture disaster to the next with the help of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, Harriet begins to realise that the world of fashion doesn't seem to like her any more than the real world did. As her old life starts to fall apart, will Harriet be able to transform herself before she ruins everything? The award-winning debut by bestselling author Holly Smale.
AUGUST NEW TITLES EDUCATION
LOWER SECONDARY MATHS PROGRESS STUDENT’S BOOK: STAGE 9 ISBN: 9780008667122 MAY 02, 2024
LOWER SECONDARY MATHS PROGRESS TEACHER’S PACK: STAGE 9 ISBN: 9780008667153 MAY 02, 2024
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CAMBRIDGE IGCSE™ MATHS WORKBOOK CHRIS PEARCE ISBN: 9780008670849 MAY 09, 2024
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LAUREN FORTENBERRY ISBN: 9780310464334
ANNA MEADE HARRIS ISBN: 9780310154686
JOHN BEVERE ISBN: 9781400336715
JOSH AXE ISBN: 9781400337842
ALLISON ALLEN ISBN: 9781400339358
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ALLISON KEY BEMISS ISBN: 9781400247042
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