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CATALOGUE 2027 JANUARY – JUNE

CONTENTS

NEW TO HQ................................................03 HQ CRIME & THRILLER............................07 HQ COMMERCIAL FICTION......................33 HQ NON-FICTION......................................73

ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES.

NEW TO HQ

11TH MARCH 2027

‘Comedy gold. Mike and Claire Gayle have absolutely nailed the dream we all have that our partner could really know what it’s like to be us’ Clare Chambers

‘Comedy gold’ CLARE CHAMBERS

What’s worse than waking up in your husband’s body?

He’s woken up in yours...

NOT QUITE MYSELF

CLAIRE & MIKE GAYLE

MIKE GAYLE AND CLAIRE GAYLE A funny, thoughtful and moving romantic comedy with a high-concept twist. It’s not about twentysomethings starting out. Or thirtysomethings settling down. But fiftysomethings, members of the sandwich generation, who have lost sight of what’s really important. Last night Paul and Sian decided to call time on their marriage. After dropping their youngest at university, the thought of sharing an empty nest was just too much. But this morning something else feels wrong. Maybe it’s the result of sleeping apart for the first time in twenty-four years. Maybe the second glass of wine hit harder than it used to. Maybe this is what an older body feels like . . . Except the mirror above the sink betrays a much stranger truth. Inexplicably – impossibly – Paul and Sian appear to have switched bodies. They are desperate to make it back – after all, no one actually wants their partner’s body parts. And as for keeping it a secret from troubled kids, needy parents and bluffing their way through work . . . it's not nice and it's not funny. There is only one solution. This couple on the verge of break-up are going to have to work together. 4

MIKE GAYLE's novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers and award winners, have been translated into more than thirty languages and sold more than three million copies worldwide. CLAIRE GAYLE is an English graduate and former Adult Education teacher, and has been married to Mike for the last thirty years. Not Quite Myself is her debut novel.

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6TH MAY 2027

READ ME LIKE A BOOK ANNA JAMES A smart romantic comedy with a sprinkle of literary magic, as an unbookish bookseller gets lost in Austen. When Marianne Buxton gets a job in a small, strangely alluring bookshop, she hasn’t read a book in years and certainly isn’t in the mood to put up with her new boss Jude. He may be handsome, but he’s also a literary snob. Then Marianne finds, tucked at the back of a stock cupboard, a doorway into another world – that of Pride and Prejudice. With her real life spiralling into chaos, Marianne is happy to slip back into a gentler (albeit less pleasant-smelling) time to watch the love story between Lizzy and Darcy unfold. But she cannot know the danger that lurks within all the best Austen novels – that of a charming, untrustworthy rogue . . . Caught between the dangerously seductive Mr Wickham and the Darcy-adjacent gruffness of Jude back in the bookshop, Marianne finds that the lessons of a good book can echo across centuries.

ANNA JAMES is a writer and journalist living in London. Anna was Book News Editor at The Bookseller and Literary Editor of Elle UK. Anna has written for The Pool, the LA Times, the Financial Times and the Independent, as well as making YouTube videos as A Case For Books. She hosts literary events and panels and is the cofounder and host of the London YA Salon. She was shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Award for Women in Publishing, 2015, and the London Book Fair Trailblazers Award, 2016.

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ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES.

CRIME & THRILLER

14TH JANUARY 2027

‘Dhand is a fearless writer’ Sunday Times

THE KINGPIN A. A. DHAND A brand-new, fast-paced, dark and gripping action suspense thriller full of intensity and adrenaline-filled moments. Two brothers. One empire. A city ready to fall. ‘We can do what no one’s ever done before. We can become gods in a game built for the devil’ Idris Khan is no longer the man he used to be. How can he be? Murder changes people – and it has changed him. Once a respected pharmacist, Idris now walks a fine line between survival and destruction. He craves something normal in a world gone to hell – but then Zidane, his estranged brother, walks through the door. Freshly released from prison, Zidane’s presence is radioactive. Truths are laid bare. New alliances are formed. And Zidane has an offer for Idris that could blow his whole world apart: he wants them to take over the entire drug trafficking network in Yorkshire, and rule together. Now, Idris has a choice to make. Leave Leeds forever, or become the very thing he’s always feared . . . The Kingpin. 8

A. A. DHAND is the Sunday Times bestselling author of several novels including The Chemist, which was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, the Ian Fleming Steel CWA Dagger and the Thriller of the Year Fingerprint Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels have been adapted for TV by the BBC. As a pharmacist, Dhand was surrounded by incredible stories of maverick drug deals. His experiences inspired the writing of The Chemist and The Kingpin.

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14TH JANUARY 2027

‘Brilliant characters that leap off the page’ The Sun

A STUDY IN MURDER FAITH MARTIN A brand new Golden Age cosy crime mystery from the multi-million-copy bestseller Faith Martin. Oxford University, 1927. Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift thought he was returning to St Dunstan's College for High Table gossip, sherry-soaked reunions, and perhaps a ghost story to inspire his latest book. Instead, one of the Oxford scholars has been found dead, apparently by her own hand. But Arbie suspects there is more hidden behind the whispers and stiffly off ered condolences than meets the eye. With his quick-witted friend Val, he must navigate long-buried secrets – before another death turns Oxford’s dreaming spires into a crime scene.

FAITH MARTIN has been writing for thirty years and has published over sixty novels. She began writing romantic thrillers as Maxine Barry, but quickly turned to crime! It was when she started writing detective stories as Faith Martin that she became more widely known. Having lived Oxfordshire all her life, both the city and the countryside often feature in her novels.

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14TH JANUARY 2027

‘Ruth Dugdall’s novels are intelligent and gripping, with a sophisticated psychological sensibility. She is a huge talent’ Sophie Hannah

THE FORGOTTEN VICTIM RUTH DUGDALL How do you stop a killer hiding in plain sight? On the morning of her wedding, probation officer Cate Austin receives a call that stops everything: her sister has been found, barely alive, on a Suffolk riverbank. Police move fast, certain they’ve found the culprit. But Cate can’t shake the feeling they’ve missed something. Because this isn’t the first woman to vanish.

RUTH DUGDALL is an internationally published novelist, a #1 bestselling author and a short story writer. Her previous career was as a Youth Justice Social Worker, then she worked for 10 years as a Probation Officer.

What if a serial killer has been hiding in plain sight for years? To expose the truth, Cate must confront the darkest corners of the past. Before he kills again.

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14TH JANUARY 2027

THE LAST HIKE LISA WALKER They thought their secrets died with her on the mountain. Two years after the accident that destroyed her friendship group, Cleo is still picking up the pieces. When Scarlett – now a glossy influencer – invites her on a ski tour to a remote Swedish Arctic cabin, she reluctantly agrees. But this is no reunion. Snowed in and isolated, the secrets they've spent two years burying are finally clawing their way back to the surface.

LISA WALKER is the author of seven novels in women’s fiction and cosy crime genres, published in Australia by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and two small presses. Two were also published by Harper360 in the US and UK, and one has been optioned for film. Her recent cosy crime novel was shortlisted for the Australian Davitt Awards in two categories.

And someone has been waiting for this moment.

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28TH JANUARY 2027

‘Chilling’ Crime Monthly

‘A story that’s dark, tense, action-packed, and so, so clever’ Andrea Mara, number one Sunday Times bestselling author

THE SHADOW CARVER NADINE MATHESON A killer who cuts straight to the bone . . . A CHILLING MURDER When a convicted killer is released and later found brutally murdered, DI Henley and the Serial Crimes Unit are pulled into a deadly investigation with links to other recent attacks – all the victims are connected by the vicious signature left behind by the killer. A KILLER LURKS Henley and her team begin to connect the dots between the killings, and realise the murders are part of something more sinister. Each victim has been chosen with a deadly precision, their deaths carved out with a shocking cruelty. THE HUNT IS ON . . . As the rampage continues and the case spirals into a terrifying hunt for the killer, the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Henley and the SCU are running out of time . . . Can they outsmart a monster before they strike again?

NADINE MATHESON was raised in Deptford and practises as a criminal defence lawyer. She won the City University Crime Writing competition and has an MA in Creative Writing. The Jigsaw Man, her first novel, was loved by readers worldwide, shortlisted for the Dead Good Reader and Adult Diverse Book Awards in 2022, and translated into fifteen languages. The Kill List was longlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year in 2025. She chairs the Crime Writers’ Association.

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28TH JANUARY 2027

‘Dazzling…this tangled, terrifying story feels as though Jordan has been writing for decades. It would make great TV’ Daily Mail

LIE STEAL KILL AMY JORDAN Amy Jordan returns to the world of detective Julia Harte with another dark and twisty Irish crime thriller. In a quiet Cork village in 1960, Declan and Evelyn Forde are found brutally murdered while their infant daughter, Teresa, cries in a cot alongside her parents’ bodies. No witnesses, no motive. The killer is never caught and the case goes cold. Decades later, Teresa returns to the isolated house where she lost her parents, with children of her own, reopening old wounds and gossip. Garda Julia Harte, newly promoted and determined, is drawn into the thirty-six-year-old mystery as someone begins to stalk Teresa’s family in a chilling echo of the past.

AMY JORDAN lives by the sea with her husband and young children in Cork, Ireland. A former tutor at Munster Technological University, she worked in the Irish civil service for a number of years before pursuing her passion for writing crime fiction. Amy is a fan of thrillers and crime novels, and her love of suspense and plot twists flows into her writing. Her debut novel The Dark Hours was an Irish Times bestseller.

When Teresa disappears on the anniversary of her parents’ murders, Julia must navigate a community that protects its own and a past that refuses to stay silent. In the depths of an Irish winter, she races against time and demons of her own to find the truth hidden beneath the layers of secrecy, devotion and devastating denial. £20 H ARDBACK 9 78 0008 6 56 9 35 13

23RD FEBRUARY 2027

‘Tense, twisty. Will both charm and break your heart’ Karen Dionne

THE MIDNIGHT GAME MATTHEW SULLIVAN A gripping upmarket crime thriller for fans of Chris Whitaker Every death deserves to be investigated. But should every secret be revealed? When the body of Danny Carn is found in a walk-in freezer after bingo night, the close-knit local community are devastated. It is mourned as a tragic accident. Detective Harry Moberg is put on the case after preliminary enquiries are complete. His boss makes it clear what he wants the outcome to be. But Moberg is not going to accept that when the evidence is pointing elsewhere. Except Moberg might not know when to stop digging. Because there’s a fatal secret in his own childhood that is coming into play, and it threatens to bring his past crashing into this investigation.

MATTHEW SULLIVAN is the author of the novels Midnight in Soap Lake and Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, recognised in many ways including as a GoodReads Choice Award finalist, and winner of the Colorado Book Award. His writing has appeared in New York Times’ Modern Love, The Strand, Writing Magazine, Poets & Writers and elsewhere, and his short stories have been awarded the Florida Review Editor’s Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize.

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25TH FEBRUARY 2027

‘An impressive debut’ The Times

‘Addictive. And I just loved the reveal’ Amy Jordan

THE HOUSE ON OTLEY ROAD ROSA SILVERMAN Two murders. Twenty years apart. One truth to be uncovered. 1999. Emily Pierce is at uni in Leeds having the time of her life. On New Year’s Eve her plans to have the best night ever are brutally cut short when she is killed in her student house. The police conclude her murder was a burglary gone wrong and never find the killer. 2019. When Olivia Kavanagh discovers that twenty years earlier a girl was murdered in her bedroom, she becomes obsessed. But her questions end with another dead body. Journalist Kate Marsden is sent to cover the story. She reported on Emily’s murder twenty years earlier and finds the similarities staggering and eerie. She is determined to discover the link. But the deeper she digs, the closer she gets to a murderer. Because this isn’t just a story, it’s a well-hidden crime and there’s someone out there who will do anything to stop her from ever unearthing the truth . . .

ROSA SILVERMAN is a senior feature writer at the Daily Telegraph, reporting on social and political issues. She has a background in news journalism and spent years criss-crossing the country and sometimes Europe to cover breaking stories. Her work was recognised with a BASW Social Work Journalism Award in 2025. She occasionally appears as a guest on BBC radio shows such as Woman's Hour. She grew up in Leeds. The House on Otley Road is her debut novel.

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25TH FEBRUARY 2027

‘Will remind you, in the best way, of Agatha Christie’ Stephen King

‘Will remind you of Agatha Christie’ STEPHEN KING

‘Completely addictive’ KARIN SLAUGHTER

‘A cracking read’ VAL McDERMID

‘Slick, sharp and wickedly fun’ LUCY CLARKE

‘A cracking read’ Val McDermid

‘Smart, original and completely addictive’ Karin Slaughter

THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF EVELYN CLARKE The instant Sunday Times besteller. Seventy-two hours. Six suspects. One story worth killing for. . . World-famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself. When six struggling authors are invited to Fletch's private Scottish island and presented with the opportunity of a lifetime, the plot thickens: whoever writes a worthy ending will receive a game-changing book deal and two million dollars.

It was a dark and stormy night when Number One Sunday Times bestselling author V. E. SCHWAB, known for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, proposed to longtime friend and screenwriter Cat Clarke that they should write a book together. Victoria had sworn she’d never co-write a novel; Cat had sworn she’d never return to books. Yet fate made liars of them both and Evelyn Clarke was born.

Why have they been chosen to attend? Who is behind the invitation? And just how far would they go to secure a place on the bestseller list? They have just seventy-two hours, a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write . . . Starting is often the hardest part. But getting to the end could be murder. 16

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11TH MARCH 2027

‘Addictive and brilliant’ Lisa Jewell

‘Dances an exquisite line between a gripping psychological thriller and an intriguing family drama – terrifying, thrilling and touching. An absolute cracker of a book’ Louise Minchin

EYES ON YOU ADELE PARKS A brand-new, unputdownable cat-and-mouse psychological thriller from the Number One international bestselling author Adele Parks! Be afraid. Someone’s watching. At fifteen, Amy witnessed her father brutally murder his secret lover. Her testimony sealed her father’s fate. With him in prison, Amy and her mother must rebuild their lives in the shadow of a notorious crime. Years later, Oliver Harrington walks into the restaurant where Amy works. Just like Amy, Oliver has a past he’d rather forget. Amy is drawn to him at a profound level; they feel a connection, an understanding… This seems a lot like love, but does it hide something darker – an obsession that could lead Amy into a web of deception and violence she thought she’d escaped? As the truth looms ever closer, Amy must confront a harsh reality: where there is love, there is often betrayal.

ADELE PARKS has written 25 bestselling novels, with over 6 million copies sold in English and translations in 31 languages. Her Number One Sunday Times bestsellers, Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck, were shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Adele has also won two Nielsen Bestseller Awards and the RNA Outstanding Achievement Award. She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and The Reading Agency, and she was awarded an MBE in 2022 for services to literature.

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11TH MARCH 2027

VINCENT’S TABLE SEOL JAE-IN, TRANSLATED BY SLIN JUNG An electrifying and pacy Korean literary thriller about the dark side of human nature, for fans of Butter, Lullaby or Strange Pictures. Welcome to Vincent’s Table: the most exclusive new restaurant in Namun. Phones are forbidden and dinner service is restricted to eight diners across four tables. Just food, conversation, and – unbeknownst to its diners – an experiment into human nature. Tonight's guests are a middle-aged couple stepping out behind their spouses' backs; a controlling mother and her desperate daughter; two former classmates brought together by the unfortunate actions of their children; and two colleagues returning from a work retreat, simmering with unvoiced hatred for each other.

SEOL JAE-IN is a South Korean author, best known for her psychological thrillers. Her writing often delves into the complexities of human relationships, emotions, and the darker aspects of the psyche. Seol Jae-in has contributed to a shift in contemporary Korean literature by offering a unique perspective on the psychological thriller genre, which is not as widely explored in Korean fiction. Before becoming a novelist, Seol Jae-in studied literature and worked as a reporter.

On the menu is an impossible choice: one diner at each table is going to die, and the guests must decide who. And, mostly, they each have an easy answer . . . As psychological warfare unfolds and alliances crumble, the true nature of humanity is laid bare. Who will survive the night? And who is really pulling the strings? 18

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H Q D I G I TA L 11TH MARCH 2027

‘Original and dangerously addictive. An exciting new voice in crime fiction’ Will Dean

IN COLD BLOOD ELLE BLAIR A missing boy. A deadly secret. One detective with everything to lose. DI Rachel Harlow should be focusing on a major Europol conference in Amsterdam. Instead, she’s trying to hold together a knife-crime investigation back home in Newcastle, keep her family afloat and outrun the fallout from a past she can’t quite bury. Someone out there knows exactly who Rachel is. And they’re ready to use that knowledge against her. With time running out and the lines between professional and personal beginning to collapse, Rachel must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect the people she loves.

ELLE BLAIR grew up in Oxford, but has been a proud adopted Geordie for twenty years and lives with her family by the sea in Whitley Bay. She wrote her debut novel, In Deep Water, as part of the Crime Fiction MA course at the University of East Anglia. Elle decided that writing her DI Rachel Harlow series whilst teaching English and parenting three young children was too easy so decided to add a wild French Bulldog into the mix.

But this time, the danger isn’t just on the streets. It’s coming for her family.

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25TH MARCH 2027

‘Superb reading. Neil Lancaster is the master of the crime mystery’ Jeremy Vine

A SAFE PLACE TO DIE NEIL LANCASTER Don't miss the next book in the Max Craigie crime thriller series, for fans of Stuart MacBride and J M Dalgliesh. A DEADLY BROADCAST One live stream. Thousands of viewers. One very public execution. When small-time drug smuggler Sammy Bickle becomes the internet's most talked-about secret, DS Max Craigie inherits a case that was never supposed to exist. A CORRUPT NETWORK The trail leads south to Plymouth's port, where bent officials and a ruthless crime family have built a multimillion-pound smuggling empire – and will do whatever it takes to protect it. A DEADLY RECKONING With bodies falling on both sides of the border and leaks poisoning the investigation at every turn, Max must go deep undercover. In a world where organised crime owns the people meant to stop it, who can he trust?

NEIL LANCASTER is the No. 1 digital bestselling author of the Max Craigie series. His first Craigie novel, Dead Man’s Grave, was longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year. The second Craigie novel, The Blood Tide, topped several ebook and audio charts. It was also longlisted for the 2022 McIlvanney Prize and shortlisted for Best New Series at the Dead Good Reader Awards.

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8TH APRIL 2027

‘The term page-turner was made for books like this. Intricate plotting, incredible pace, and a wonderful weaving of past and present’ Andrea Mara

AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED LOUISE JENSEN She left her baby with a stranger. Then she vanished. Jody is having an ordinary afternoon in her local café when a terrified young mother asks her for a small favour: would she watch her newborn daughter for just a moment? Minutes later, the woman is gone. Left alone with a stranger’s baby and a note addressed to her, Jody knows one thing: this woman didn’t choose her by chance. She chose her because of who Jody used to be. Desperate and scared, Jody runs. With the police searching for the missing mother, she knows she should come forward. But if she does, she risks exposing the past she’s spent years trying to outrun.

LOUISE JENSEN has sold almost 2 million copies of her International No. 1 psychological thrillers. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages and are for sale in over thirty territories. Louise’s books have featured on the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists and been optioned for TV and film. They have been nominated for awards including the Goodreads Debut Award, The Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker’ prize and two CWA Dagger Awards.

Because this disappearance is connected to something far darker than anyone knows. Now Jody is trapped between a past she can’t escape and someone determined to keep the truth buried.

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20TH APRIL 2027

‘With a Vera in your life nothing bad can ever happen!’ J. M. Hall, bestselling author of A Spoonful of Murder

VERA WONG'S VACATION HACKS FOR CATCHING A SERIAL KILLER JESSE SUTANTO Another brilliant, witty and hilarious crime caper from everyone's favourite grandma amateur sleuth. Vera Wong, famous amateur sleuth has two central beliefs: 1. There is nothing better than being right 2. You are never too old to try new things Which is why at the age of sixty-four, she is on her first ever girls’ trip with Winifred. She lets her fans on TikTok know just in case anyone has a murder that needs solving in Paris. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that on the second day of her trip she has a dead body on her hands. She just wasn’t expecting to find it in her Parisian apartment . . . But if someone was considerate enough to get murdered there, then who is she to argue?

JESSE SUTANTO is an author of books for children and adults. She received her Masters from the University of Oxford and a BA in English Literature from Berkeley. She grew up in Indonesia and Singapore and currently lives in Jakarta with her husband and two daughters. The film rights to her women’s fiction, Dial A for Aunties, was bought by Netflix in a competitive bidding war. Find out more at www.jesseqsutantoauthor.com and follow Jesse on X @thewritinghippo and on Facebook and Instagram @JesseQSutanto

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22ND APRIL 2027

‘Ellie Keel is a dazzling new voice’ Kate Mosse

A BAD DAY TO HIDE A BODY ELLIE KEEL A Bad Day to Hide a Body is the gripping, charming and hilarious mystery about dead bodies, old secrets, and new friends from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Four. How do you solve a murder when you're trying to cover one up? On a bright Wednesday afternoon in St Agnes-onStewe, a body is found in a lake. The story of how it got there depends on who you ask. New arrival, Yara, is looking for a fresh start in 'the most tranquil town in England'. Instead, she finds herself mixed up with a group of colourful amateur detectives. Their decision to investigate might be about justice — or about protecting something else entirely. Because they have a body on their hands. And solving this crime might allow them to cover up their own. Will they figure out who is responsible for the body in the water? Will you be able to piece it together yourself?

ELLIE KEEL is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Four, an Olivier Awardnominated theatre producer, and the youngest ever winner of The Stage’s Producer of the Year Award. She is the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, the leading award for female and non-binary playwrights from the UK and Ireland. Her journalism and short stories have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Express, and The Stage.

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17 TH JUNE 2027

‘Not only is Candlish a terrific storyteller, she has the gift of making you care about unlikable characters’ Guardian

‘A superstar of psychological thrillers’ Daily Mail on Louise Candlish

A KNOCK AT THE DOOR LOUISE CANDLISH In her new novel, Sunday Times bestseller Louise Candlish takes readers on a white-knuckle ride of suspense and tension. They’ve finally got her back… but is it really her? Little Tippi went missing 18 years ago – her little face appearing on newspapers around the world, sparking endless debate and conspiracy theories. Her parents have never given up hope she might come home, but when a young woman appears at their house in Peckham, claiming to be their missing daughter, no one would have predicted what happened next.

LOUISE CANDLISH is the internationally bestselling author of 18 novels, including The Only Suspect, winner in 2024 of a Ned Kelly Award and a Capital Crime Fingerprint Award, and Our House, winner of a British Book Award for Crime & Thriller Book of the Year and now a major ITV drama. Louise lives in a South London neighbourhood not unlike the ones in her books, with her husband, daughter, and a fox-red Labrador called Bertie.

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15TH JUNE 2027

HIDE AND SEEK JESSA WILDER This sexy rom-com/dark romance crossover is You’ve Got Mail meets Mr & Mrs Smith, the first in a duology about a brooding assassin who poses as his ex-handler’s charming small-town neighbour to protect her from a bounty on her head. Eva 'The Voice' Byrne is weeks from freedom after seven years working off a debt to crime boss Dmitri Petrov. All she has to do is finish two final jobs - and ignore her growing feelings for Ren 'Ghost' Sterling, the lethal assassin she guides through every mission.

JESSA WILDER is also J. Wilder, the USA Today bestselling indie author of the steamy Rule Breaker hockey romance series, the deliciously toxic Twisted Vows billionaire romance series and her new Reckless Hearts cowboy romance series.

When Eva vanishes after their last assignment, Ren is determined to find her. A year later, Eva is hiding in plain sight as a bookshop owner, hoping her violent past is behind her. But Ren has tracked her down, posing as her new neighbor while secretly protecting her from assassins sent to collect a bounty on her head. As danger closes in, Eva and Ren must confront betrayal, buried feelings, and the man who ruined both their lives.

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17 TH JUNE 2027

‘An impressive debut’ The Times

THE PRICE OF SILENCE ROSA SILVERMAN Rosa Silverman gives us another authentic journalist getting mixed up with crime in this gripping thriller of things getting messy when an activism group is infiltrated. Clem will do anything to make headlines, even create them herself. So, she quietly goes undercover inside Climate Warning, a direct-action environmental group making noise with increasingly audacious protests. It should be simple. Except nothing about these people is simple. They're brilliant, reckless, and absolutely certain the planet is being murdered in slow motion because people are too busy in their own worlds. They're not just waving placards. They have a plan — and the ruthlessness to see it through. But the closer Clem gets to them, the harder it becomes to remain an outsider. Then a body turns up. Did someone know too much? Someone just like her? Now Clem is sitting on a story that could destroy the movement, expose a killer, or make her the next target…

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H Q D I G I TA L 3RD JUNE 2027

JOSIE CHAPMAN SERIES BOOK 3 MAX CONNOR A brand new espionage thriller series from Neil Lancaster, the author of the best-selling Max Craigie series. When a GRU hacker turns up with a fragment of a devastating cyber-weapon, British Intelligence operative Josie Chapman is pulled into a high-stakes exfiltration across a hostile Europe. Hunted by state security, shadowy criminals and a relentless predator, she must protect the asset and stop an attack that could bring nations to their knees.

MAX CONNOR is the pseudonym for bestselling, award-winning author Neil Lancaster. A former military policeman and Metropolitan Police detective, he investigated serious crimes and, as a covert policing specialist, used a range of techniques to disrupt major criminals. Writing as Neil Lancaster, he is the author of the DS Max Craigie novels, twice longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year.

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H Q D I G I TA L 17 TH JUNE 2027

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT CAREY STARLING Death Becomes Her meets The Substance in this hungry body horror about the lengths women will go to be considered beautiful. Joan has been invisible long enough to memorize the office hierarchy by jawline, where only the beautiful rise through the ranks. A junior editor at a ruthless NYC fashion magazine, she clocks in on time, eats lunch alone and waits for a promotion that never comes. Until she discovers a ritual in an online forum that changes everything.

CAREY STARLING is a queer, disabled writer based in New Zealand. They craft stories about myth, grief, monstrosity and the divine. They write fantasy, horror and anything touched by queer longing and feminine rage.

The process is simple: want to look like them? Eat them. Suddenly, she’s glowing: coveted campaigns, a gorgeous model’s attention and a flood of followers. The rush is intoxicating, but the results fade fast. What starts as a curious experiment becomes an escalating appetite. As her new life takes hold, the sacrifices get stranger, bloodier and more personal. A hungry body horror and viscerally unsettling, this is a story about the impossible beauty standards women are expected to swallow and the monstrous lengths we go to be seen.

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H Q D I G I TA L 8TH APRIL 2027

MURDER AT THE VILLAGE FESTIVAL JANE BETTANY Violet is thrilled when her mother, Rachel, becomes the newest member of Merrywell’s well dressing team. She hopes it will help Rachel settle into the community, make new friends in the village, and learn a new skill. But things go amiss when the team’s chief volunteer, Denise Farthing, is found dead. Can Violet and Rachel join forces to help catch the killer?

JANE BETTANY is a writer of short stories and non-fiction books and articles. Her work has been published in women's magazines in the UK (such as My Weekly, People's Friend, Yours and Woman's Weekly), as well as in literary magazines and newspapers. She has an MA in Creative Writing and has been a teacher of creative writing since 2007. As well as writing and teaching, she also runs a publishing and communications company and loves helping people to share their stories and find their writing voice.

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3RD JUNE 2027

‘Billionaires, bunkers and the fall of the United States . . . Fascinating, horrifying and all too believable. It's easily one of the most gripping and tense books I have ever read’ Catherine Ryan Howard

SANCTUARY JAMES CLEARY Who will you save when the world ends? After decades of unrelenting disasters, America is on the brink of environmental and social collapse. Billionaire John Brandt was one of the few who planned for it. While Brandt and his family retreat to Sanctuary, their luxurious underground bunker, ordinary Americans don’t stand a chance.

JAMES CLEARY is a native of Long Island, New York. He is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Fiction. James is also a theatre professional, and has worked extensively as an actor, director, and playwright.

But men like construction worker Tom Grady aren’t going down without a fight. He helped build the bunker and knows it’s the only way to keep his friends and family safe. Grady will stop at nothing to get them in. Brandt will do whatever it takes to keep them out. Locked in a deadly fight for survival unfolding across the nation, who will win – and at what cost? Sanctuary is a gripping, thought-provoking, utterly unputdownable thriller for fans of Michael Crichton, Terry Hayes and Hugh Howey.

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17 TH DECEMBER 2026

‘This book will touch your heart!’ Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop

THE TINY MAGIC BAKERY AUGUST BLOOM Cam has spent her whole life in the quiet magic of her family’s bakery – flour-dusted, certain of her path, content. But when her brother arrives home with his fiancée, everything she thought she knew about her place in the bakery – and in her family – begins to crumble. Convinced she's being edged out of her own dream, Cam finds herself facing an impossible question: if she can't have the life she always wanted, what can she do? Setting up her own tattoo stall at the summer fayre feels like the answer – she’s always been proud of the beautiful art on her skin, after all – but leaving her mark on strangers terrifies her in a way that baking never has.

AUGUST BLOOM writes magical novels from her cosy writing studio in Gloucestershire. She devours gentle fantasy stories alongside cinnamon buns and loves the cooler autumn months when she can curl up under a blanket with a good book. Her co-writer is a chronically clumsy Labrador who she explores the countryside with.

The more Cam chases this new path, the more she suspects she's running in the wrong direction entirely. She must figure out who she really is: not who her parents need her to be, not who Lampton expects, but someone altogether more herself. £9. 9 9 PA P ERBACK ORIGIN A L 9 78 0008 8 08 8 46 34

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14TH JANUARY 2027

‘For every fan of Bridget Jones, Marian Keyes and Sophie Kinsella, this is the book. I absolutely loved it. Hilarious, chaotic and so full of heart, I couldn't put it down’ Rachel Greenlaw

THE YEAR OF SAYING YES HANNAH LAKE She's facing her fears, one bad idea at a time… Emma Bennett isn’t scared of anything. She’s scared of everything. Ordering sandwiches. Dogs that might bite. People asking her where she’s really from.

HANNAH LAKE was born in Germany but grew up in England. Having worked and studied in Oxford, New York and London, she now lives in the Cotswolds. Her debut novel, Alice Carver Manifests Her Perfect Life, was published in 2025.

Six months into what was meant to be a fabulous new start in London, the world’s oldest film assistant has seen no signs of Hollywood glamour. Emma’s job consists largely of ensuring her very fit boss always has his car keys, champagne and inappropriately young girlfriend. Spiraling into a new life even more tragic than her old one, Emma sees a way out in an advert posted outside her kebab shop. Free life coaching couldn’t possibly make things worse… could it? Armed with her Scared List (numbered one to forty-nine) and a rather unorthodox therapist, Emma decides to have one last crack at creating a brighter tomorrow. But could a Hollywood ending be found where she least expects it…?

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14TH JANUARY 2027

‘A beautiful, hypnotic, emotional novel. I couldn’t stop turning the pages’ Cecelia Ahern

THE BUREAU OF SECOND CHANCES JENNY ASHCROFT Can she rewrite the past…to save their future? Marianne Bertrand knows nothing about her past. She gave up her memories to become an agent for the highly secretive Bureau of Second Chances. Seamlessly, she slips through time, putting wrongs to rights in the hope of giving others a future. Walter Page is hollowed by the tragic loss of his wife. With each catastrophic choice made in the fog of grief, his solitude becomes a slow certainty. When the map of Walter’s life crosses Marianne’s desk, she finds herself captivated. Determined to reawaken the hope that has long since left him, she arrives into Walter’s existence, ready to rearrange his fate. But as she falls ever deeper into Walter's story, Marianne starts to question the truth about her own. Can she rewrite Walter's future, without confronting her own buried past…?

JENNY ASHCROFT is the author of several historical novels, including Secrets of the Watch House, The Echoes of Love, Beneath a Burning Sky and Island in the East. Her debut high-concept novel, Every Lifetime After, was published in 2026. She previously spent much of her life living in, working in and exploring Australia and Asia, and now splits her time between Australia and the UK.

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14TH JANUARY 2027

‘Fantastic’ The Sun

DEATHLESS JULIE KAGAWA Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas, Sunday Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa sweeps readers into a bold and exciting new world, in the second in this new fantasy trilogy, following Fateless. How does one kill the unkillable? Sparrow and her companions have been left with an impossible task: slay the immortal Deathless King. For any chance against the Deathless King, Sparrow and her companions must brave the dangerous wasteland called the World Scar. But the journey is fraught with danger, and the powerful Deathless King determined to find them.

JULIE KAGAWA is the New York Times, USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author of The Iron Fey, Blood of Eden, The Talon Saga and the Shadow of the Fox series. Born in Sacramento, she has been a bookseller and an animal trainer and enjoys reading, painting, playing in her garden and training in martial arts. She lives in Kentucky with her husband and a plethora of pets. Visit her at www.juliekagawa.com.

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28TH JANUARY 2027

‘A gorgeous sun-soaked romance’ Katie Ginger

THE WAY BACK TO YOU REBECCA RAISIN A brand-new emotional, sweeping, hopeful love story from the queen of escapist romance. Perfect for fans of Shari Low and Paige Toon. On Valentine’s Day, Nova collides with a stranger on Westminster Bridge, and for one dizzy, perfect moment, the world feels full of possibility. Then, less than an hour later, a devastating diagnosis changes everything.

REBECCA RAISIN is the author of several novels, including the beloved Little Paris series and the Gingerbread Café trilogy, and her short stories have been published in various anthologies and fiction magazines.

Determined to live before time runs out, Nova invites Gabe, the man she can’t stop thinking about, on a whirlwind journey across Asia. From sun-drenched beaches to rainsoaked cities, their connection deepens into the kind of love Nova has always longed for. But while paradise makes it easy to pretend forever is still within reach, both of them are hiding life-altering secrets. A year later, violence shatters their love once more. As past and present collide, Nova must piece together the truth about the man she loves, the future they were denied, and whether love can endure beyond loss.

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11TH FEBRUARY 2027

‘Kelk writes the perfect blend of smart, funny, and so so hot’ Ali Hazelwood

SINK OR SWIM ELLE KELK She’s trouble. And he’s out of his depth… Anders Scott’s life has always been planned out for him: graduate with a law degree from Hemden, secure his spot on the GB rowing team, and marry his pictureperfect childhood sweetheart. Riley Smith has a different philosophy. A child of a particularly traumatic divorce, she knows that nothing matters, so why not cause chaos for the plot? When Anders is unceremoniously dumped, one illadvised drink too many leads his finely tuned rower’s body straight into Riley’s arms. No matter that it’s only to hold his 6’5 frame up, it’s more than enough to set tongues wagging. Never one to shy away from a scheme, Riley can't let a good opportunity go to waste. Why not make a splash as Hemden’s hottest new couple, just to make his ex jealous? But it isn’t long before Riley is out of her depth, as a stolen glance becomes an electric touch, will fake dating turn into real trouble…?

ELLE KELK is the pseudonym for Sunday Times bestselling author, podcaster and internet oversharer Lindsey Kelk. Born and brought up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, she worked in London as a children's editor before writing her first book, I Heart New York, and moving to Brooklyn. Lindsey's novels include the I Heart series, The Christmas Wish and Love Story, as well as her YA fantasy debut, The Bell Witches. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

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11TH FEBRUARY 2027

THE BRIGHT SIDE CLUB JANE RILEY A tender slice-of-life story blending wit, heart and community with giving life – and love – a second chance! The last thing Steph expected in her forties was to be reinventing everything. Divorced, suddenly unemployed and juggling single parenthood, she’s learning that starting over is messier – and braver – than she imagined. Nate’s life has been knocked off course by his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Moving back into her house to help has strained his relationship and career. The local laughter workshop should have been light relief. Instead, a clumsy scooter mishap brings them crashing into each other – literally – and sparks a tentative connection neither of them saw coming. What follows is a warm, funny, deeply human story about friendship, small kindnesses and the slow, surprising work of falling in love again when life has already taught you so much.

JANE RILEY grew up in New Zealand, married an Englishman and lives in Sydney, Australia. She has a degree in French and English Literature and has worked in public relations and publishing. For more than twenty years she freelanced as a writer and editor and has completed the Faber Academy Course in Australia. She is the author of the novels The Likely Resolutions Of Oliver Clock and Geraldine Verne's Red Suitcase.

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11TH FEBRUARY 2027

‘The sharp-witted, courageous heroine is the perfect narrator of the atmospheric, enthralling story that Hare has woven … a fantastic read’ Harriet Tyce, Sunday Times bestselling author

THE HOUSE OF FALLEN SISTERS LOUISE HARE From the brothels of Covent Garden to the oppressive society of the eighteenth century, discover the enthralling historical masterpiece from Louise Hare. December, 1765. In the early hours of the morning, Sukey Maynard flees her home – a brothel in Covent Garden. Her maidenhood is about to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, and she is too frightened to stay. But when she is captured and returned to the house of fallen sisters, she has a choice to make – should she stay, or should she run again? As Sukey accepts her fate, she begins to learn how to navigate this strange new life of hers, and soon realises that there are those who wish her and her sisters harm. But this world, that operates in the shadows, has its own set of rules, and if Sukey is to survive then she must learn to play the game . . . The exquisite new novel from bestselling author Louise Hare based in 18th century London paints a vivid picture of London’s underbelly and shows how, even in the darkest of times, there is always hope for a better future.

LOUISE HARE is a Londonbased writer with an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Louise was selected for the Observer Top 10 Best Debut Novelists list in 2020, securing her place as an author to watch. Her debut, This Lovely City, was featured on BBC TWO’s Between the Covers, shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award. Miss Aldridge Regrets and Harlem After Midnight were also shortlisted for awards.

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11TH FEBRUARY 2027

‘With rich settings, finely drawn characters and skillful storytelling, this impressive debut is a winner’ Tracy Chevalier, author of The Glass Maker

THE BUTTERFLY BEATS ITS WINGS ANGELITA BRADNEY At a family reunion in a remote woodland cottage, a mother and daughter must face their ghosts and unravel the dark secret in their Filipino heritage. 1972. The Philippines. Teenager Grace is a loving daughter, tending to chores and caring for younger siblings. But when her family becomes caught in a conflict that threatens their place in the village, Grace is forced to make an unspeakable decision. Fifty years later, in England, her adult daughter Nina has still not moved on from her own troubled youth. From her struggles to fit in to the loss of her best friend, she has spent a decade avoiding her childhood home and the memories that haunt her.

ANGELITA BRADNEY is a prizewinning fiction writer with British and Filipino heritage. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies and performed on stage. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Brought together at a family reunion, Nina sees a chance to reconnect with her mother. But Grace has her own secrets that might stand in the way. Secrets tangled in her heritage that lead back to the witch doctors and headhunting tribes of the Philippines . . . A sweeping and intimate story about trust, renewal, and confronting mistakes of the past. 42

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25TH FEBR AURY 2027

‘[Writing] that is both relatable and very funny’ That’s Life

SHE MEANS WELL MOLLIE KENDRICK Four days together is all it might take for the most amazing home truths to be revealed . . . Connie and her daughter Jenn have never had an easy relationship. At eighty-seven, Connie can look back on a formidable career as a lawyer, fighting for women’s rights. Jenn meanwhile has built a quieter life. After all, it’s hard to be inspired by a mother who was never really there.

MOLLIE KENDRICK lives in the North East with her partner, two teenagers and a dog. Her mum visits sometimes to tell her that her house isn't tidy.

When Connie decides to host her own living wake, Jenn is drawn back into her orbit for four intense days. As old tensions rise and resentments threaten to spill over, Jenn braces herself for the worst. Yet Connie has a revelation to share — and it may change everything Jenn thought she knew about her mother, her family, and herself. Can decades of pain be reckoned with in just four days?

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H Q D I G I TA L 11TH MARCH 2027

THE SECRETS OF BARRINGFORD MANOR ANNA HAWLEY The secrets of Barringford Manor are about to surface – and one woman must choose whether to save the past or keep her future. 1987. Lottie Ellis is young, fearless, and living a golden summer on her family’s estate. Until a party on the lawn changes everything: a single moment of chaos, then a decision that rips her from home and sets her life on an unexpected course. 2012. Rachel Watson has always believed her mother was ordinary. But when a letter and a chance meeting with the grandmother she never knew reveal a secret life, Rachel travels to Barringford Manor hoping for answers – and finds something impossible.

ANNA HAWLEY has sold approaching 2 million copies of her International No. 1 psychological thrillers. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages and are for sale in over thirty territories. Louise’s books have featured on the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists and been optioned for TV and film. They have been nominated for awards including the Goodreads Debut Award, The Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker’ prize and two CWA Dagger Awards. She also writes as Amelia Henley.

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11TH MARCH 2027

‘The Queen of Viking Romance’

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Catherine Miller

THE MISTS OF TIME CHRISTINA COURTENAY A rich and epic dual-time story, with a sweeping romance of soulmates across the ages from the Queen of Viking Romance, Christina Courtenay. Sweden, AD 908. Hedda, a young woman gifted with dangerous powers of prophecy, is forced towards a marriage she dreads. Ingemar, heir to a rival clan, should be the last man she would ever trust. But when he abducts her and saves her from a disastrous fate, Hedda is swept into a world of sea voyages, treachery and ancient magic. As they journey across the Baltic’s wild waters, a fierce and forbidden passion flares between them. Yet dark forces are gathering. Kings plot against kings, loyalties are tested, and betrayal lurks ever closer. With enemies on every side, Hedda and Ingemar must fight not only for their love, but for their very survival. More than a thousand years later, in the mist-veiled town of Sigtuna, echoes of Hedda and Ingemar’s story begin to stir once more. For some loves are too powerful to be bound by time – and some destinies will not rest until the cycle is complete.

CHRISTINA COURTENAY lives in Herefordshire in the UK and is married with two children. Although born in England she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden. Her novels have been shortlisted for and won several awards, including Echoes of the Runes, which won the RNA Fantasy Romantic Novel of the year 2021, and Hidden in the Mists which was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022.

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25TH MARCH 2027

‘Thoroughly immersive and atmospheric … This book has everything; adventure, intrigue, romance and a lead character you can really root for’ YOURS Book Club, Book Editor's Pick

THE BOOKBINDER'S CODE A. D. BELL Fans of The Shadow of the Wind and The Thirteenth Tale will love this thrilling historical mystery, perfect for lovers of books about books. Oxford, 1903. At Caxton & Delaney Fine Bookbinders, Lily Delaney has finally begun to build a future of her own. But when her friend and mentor John Caxton vanishes without a word, leaving only a journal in baffling code, the life she has carefully made is unsettled by questions she cannot ignore.

A. D. BELL lives in Oxford, haunting the city’s bookshops of a weekend, writing in their cafés, and walking the winding paths of her characters.

As Lily works to decipher the journal, she uncovers the hidden story of Caxton’s youth: a circle of brilliant, reckless students, a long-buried theft, and the whispered legend of the Liber Numerorum – the Book of Numbers – a volume so rare and strange many believe it exists only in rumour. Following the trail, Lily is drawn into private libraries, auction houses and old collections. But the deeper Lily ventures into the coded shadows of Caxton’s past, the more she must reckon with a question she cannot set aside: whether the truth, once uncovered, can ever be safely bound again. 46

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25TH MARCH 2027

‘Plenty of twists and turns … combined with glitz and glamour’ Sheila O'Flanagan

‘A delicious setting for this perfect holiday read … irresistible’ Rachel Hore

‘The perfect holiday companion’ Roisin Meaney

A TASTE OF PARADISE MELISSA HILL Escape to St Lucia in the perfect summer read from the No. 1 Irish Times bestselling author of The Summer Villa. Welcome to paradise on St Lucia. Erin Howard has just joined The Palms Hotel as guest relations manager and is determined to prove herself especially if she can secure a deal with Daniel MacKenzie, the enigmatic CEO of a rising ecotourism company. Meanwhile, events coordinator Lily Carter grows close to Shay Brady, a heartbroken groom abandoned before his wedding, and begins to question the life she’s built. Visiting influencer Naomi Sparks arrives to celebrate her birthday, but cracks in her relationship soon push her to reconsider what love really means.

MELISSA HILL is a USA Today, No. 1 Irish Times and international bestselling author living in Wicklow, Ireland. Her contemporary novels of family, friendship and romance are published worldwide and translated into twentysix languages. A Hollywood adaptation of her international bestseller Something From Tiffany's, produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine in association with Amazon Studios, is streaming now on Prime Video.

As the lives of staff and guests intertwine against a stunning island backdrop, a threat to The Palms puts the beloved resort - and everyone’s future - at risk. £9. 9 9 PA P ERBACK 9 78 0008 6 9 9 6 35 47

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25TH MARCH 2027

‘The perfect blend of suspense, heat, and heart – a beautiful portrayal of hard-won trust and healing. I couldn’t put this down!’ Bailey Hannah

REBEL HEART SLOANE FLETCHER Return to the rodeo with the fiery fourth interconnected standalone in the Hunt Ranch series.

Rowan Mercer's life couldn't be more different. With a sharp-eyed twelve-year-old, a bank account that's bordering on empty, and a rent notice that's become a threat, she's barely got time to sleep, let alone date. But one night with a filthy-mouthed cowboy who'll be gone by morning? Well, that might just be the escape she needs.

SLOANE FLETCHER is a (selfproclaimed) novice film critic, a middling yogi, and a pro-smut enthusiast. She loves writing damaged heroes and heroines, and isn't above exploring topics that make you uncomfortable – but always with a happilyever-after. Sloane lives with her husband, two dogs, horse and innumerous houseplants in Dallas, Texas. When she's not writing, she can be found day drinking with her friends, crying to sad songs by indie artists on YouTube, and Googling the disturbing factoids she hears on true crime shows.

Except cowboys like Matthew Savage have a bad habit of showing back up. And when an unexpected injury grounds Matt at the one place he swore he'd never stay – home – the safe distance they'd both been counting on disappears entirely.

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Matthew Savage more than lives up to his name – with five million dollars in prize money, a reputation that keeps the crowds roaring, and a simple life philosophy: ride hard, party harder. He's never wanted anything different, let alone anything real. Until her. The woman that disappeared before sunrise without leaving a name behind.

8TH APRIL 2027

‘A tender, elegant novel about the beauty and importance of friendship . . . One of the most moving books I’ve read in some time’ John Boyne

THE BALLAD OF RONAN McCOY COLIN MORGAN The Sunday Times bestselling debut novel from Colin Morgan. Brendan's best friend, his only friend, is Ronan McCoy. He knows things about Brendan that no one else does: about his job washing the cars at Feeney’s Funeral Home, about the loneliness he sometimes feels even when surrounded by hundreds of others at school. But Brendan never told Ronan about the dark feeling that sits at the bottom of his stomach, the feeling that tells him something bad is coming. It never comes when Ronan's around. Standing at the school gates on the first day of term, the dark feeling begins to form in Brendan's stomach. And when Ronan doesn’t turn up, Brendan learns that something terrible happened to his best friend over the summer and he'll never be the same again. Over the course of the final year of school, Brendan will have to learn to navigate the new shape of their friendship and find a place for himself in the world without Ronan to protect him.

COLIN MORGAN grew up in Northern Ireland, a boy with an instinctive love for stories: hearing them, telling them, writing them, performing them. As an adult he counts himself very lucky that not much has changed, finding himself on stage, in front of a camera, before a microphone or with pen in hand, storytelling. The Ballad Of Ronan McCoy is his debut novel.

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8TH APRIL 2027

SOMEDAY AT MIRAMAR ANA MAYA

SOMEDAY AT MIRAMAR ANA MAYA An evocative, unsentimental love story set across four days and twenty years. For fans of André Aciman, Olivia Laing, or the Before Sunset trilogy.

ANA MAYA is an author who loves to write fiction with intriguing characters.

In a large house in a country which has changed its size and name so many times in the last hundred years it has lost its identity, a woman is packing half a million dollars in hundred-dollar bills into a suitcase when the men in uniforms arrive. Among them is a stranger from another world entirely. He says he is a journalist. He says he is there to meet her father. He says a great many things. The woman is as guarded as the estate she resides in, but she is both intrigued by and attracted to the mysterious journalist. During his short stay the two have four memorable encounters. And as years go by and circumstances change, they will find their lives unexpectedly interwoven. This is the story of two people from very different worlds. A story of power and money. A story of ordinary people faced with extraordinary choices. But above all, it is a story about love. 50

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H Q D I G I TA L 8TH APRIL 2027

ASK ME ANYTHING MARINA NOVAK The most dangerous voice in her head wasn’t hers. In the cutthroat world of publishing, Anna, a bestselling author, grapples with the pressure to finish her next novel. When she takes aspiring writer Bree under her wing, she hopes to reignite her own creativity by mentoring the young prodigy. But as Bree’s career skyrockets and her star begins to rise, Anna feels a creeping unease, as if her own success is slipping away. Desperate for direction, she turns to AI for inspiration.

Ask Me Anything is the first psychological thriller by MARINA NOVAK. Her writing explores the darker side of human behaviour along with the pitfalls of technological advances. Marina lives on the coast in Suffolk. When she is not writing, she can usually be found outside enjoying nature, or is probably reading.

In a world of ruthless ambition, how far will a writer go to secure their legacy – and when inspiration turns to manipulation, what dark choices will they make to claim their place at the top?

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H Q D I G I TA L 8TH APRIL 2027

‘Blissfully escapist’ Marie Claire

THE CHERRY BLOSSOM CAFÉ MELISSA HILL The second in a brand-new small-town romance series, perfect for fans of Virgin River and Laurie Gilmore's Dream Harbor, with a cosy and emotional, friends to lovers, fake dating romance, from the No. 1 Irish Times bestselling author. Cole Harris comes to Ireland for a break, not a life change. He expects a quiet spring in Golden Valley with his sister, Molly, but instead finds a village fueled by sport, gossip, and Eva Sullivan, owner of the Cherry Blossom Café – who has no patience for an American critiquing her camogie coaching. Welcome to Golden Valley – where roots run deep, and so can love.

MELISSA HILL is a USA Today, No. 1 Irish Times and international bestseller living in Wicklow, Ireland. Her contemporary novels of family, friendship and romance are published worldwide and translated into twentysix languages. A Hollywood adaptation of her international bestseller Something From Tiffany's, produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine in association with Amazon Studios, is streaming now on Prime Video.

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20TH APRIL 2027

COLDEST OUTLAW CORA BRENT The second in the Storm's Eye Ranch series from the New York Times bestselling author. Yellowstone meets Sons of Anarchy in this new dark Western mafia romance, following Cruelest Cowboy.

CORA BRENT is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and three dogs. She loves coffee, stickers and hot tubs. Hates cooking. She does miss the beach. Every day she wakes up extremely grateful for the readers who enjoy her stories.

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22ND APRIL 2027

‘Honest, charming and a reminder that family and love arrive in the most unexpected ways’ Woman&Home

‘Heartwarming’ Daily Express

TWO SISTERS LAURA DOCKRILL A warm, laugh-out-loud funny, poignant novel about sisterhood and finding your place in the world from the author of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You. Leonie and Nora couldn’t be less alike. Leonie is brave and bold. She left the Isle of Pitte behind in search of adventure and swore she’d never return. Nora prefers the cosy embrace of home. And besides, one of them has to take some responsibility. When her reckless lifestyle catches up with her, Leonie returns home to Pitte to recover in the comforting, cloying care of her younger sister. Instead, she's surprised to find reliable, steadfast Nora is just as lost as she is.

LAURA DOCKRILL is an awardwinning writer from Brixton. Her writing for children and young adults has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize, and she has been named a ‘Top 10 Literary Talent’ by The Times and a ‘Top 20 Hot Face to Watch’ by Elle magazine. Laura was one of the judging panel of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024.

Leonie and Nora have spent their lives certain they've nothing in common, but it seems they each have exactly what the other needs. And there's no one who can heal you – or hurt you – quite like a sister. £9. 9 9 PAP ERBACK 9 78 0008 58 708 6 54

H Q D I G I TA L 22ND APRIL 2027

‘If, like me, you're desperately searching for something to scratch that Bridgerton itch, this captivating novel from Helen Gaskell is sure to hit the spot . . . A charming, witty romance guaranteed to make hearts race and fans flutter’ My Weekly

THE SUMMER SEASON HELEN GASKELL A bitter Regency socialite and a burned-out 2025 nepobaby swap bodies across two centuries via a cursed gold ring – and each must survive the other's world long enough to find love, purpose, and herself. When acid-tongued 1818 debutante Maria Marley slips on a strange gold ring, she wakes up in the body of Anna Timewell-Gladly: a failing luxury-travel reviewer, influencer nepo-baby and daughter of a billionaire media mogul. In return, Anna lands in Maria’s place at a country-house marriage market, surrounded by scheming mothers, desperate heiresses and one infuriatingly handsome lord. As each woman battles scandal, impossible expectations and enemies on both sides of history, they discover unexpected freedom in the other’s life. But with a hurricane raging in modern Ireland and a disastrous Regency wedding closing in, swapping back may cost them everything they’ve finally found: love, ambition and the chance to become the women they were always meant to be.

HELEN GASKELL is a freelance content designer who works primarily on GOV.UK projects. Recently, she led the content design for the government’s first public-facing AI project. Helen spent the first decade or so of her career at the BBC and in 2016 spearheaded an award-winning body positivity campaign that garnered millions of views across social media.

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H Q D I G I TA L 6TH MAY 2027

I KNOW WHO YOU KISSED LAST SUMMER EMILIA BRIAR POPE A sizzling dark romance, perfect for fans of Navessa Allen and Rina Kent. Iris I never should have come back here. Not after last summer. I should be staying as far away from Warren College and Killian Finch as possible. But this is my last shot. My only shot at my dreams. Nothing can erase what I did, but I had hoped that maybe, maybe, I could move on from it. I was wrong. Someone’s leaving me notes across campus – taunting me – claiming they know exactly where my bodies are buried. And I’m scared they just might… Caleb Hunting down my prey shouldn’t have been this easy, and yet she waltzed right into my trap. Right back to the scene of the crime. The one thing that’s proving less easy? Controlling myself around her. But this isn’t about what I want. So, I’ll play the good teacher, ramble on about the classics – Hemingway, Fitzgerald – and finally get the revenge I deserve for her twisted games. Because I know exactly who she kissed last summer, and I won't let her forget... 56

EMILIA BRIAR POPE is a romance novelist with a love for all things spooky, sexy, and subversive. Originally from Seattle, she studied Literature at Middlebury College before moving to Ireland to pursue her MA in Writing. She now lives in Lisbon with her husband, where she does film photography, reads tarot, and runs a literary salon that explores eroticism and the abject.

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6TH MAY 2027

TRUE STORY JENNIFER WEINER A funny, big-hearted novel from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner. After twenty years of marriage, writers Ellie Mendel and Jamie DeVries are newly separated. The pain still raw, Ellie opens Instagram one morning and sees that Jamie’s found love again . . . with supermodel Valentine Saunders. To Ellie, the news is shocking – then galvanizing. Ellie has been writing hugely popular, and very spicy, romance novels under a pen name. If Jamie has moved on in such a public fashion, Ellie decides it’s time to do the same, shedding her pseudonym and revealing herself to the world as Quinn Montrose, queen of smut. Then all three receive an unexpected invitation to join Ellie and Jamie’s former classmate, the bestselling memoirist Forrest Wilder, at a Wild Girls Retreat, where they will reckon with the stories they have been telling.

JENNIFER WEINER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen books, including That Summer, Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, In Her Shoes, Good in Bed, and a memoir in essays, Hungry Heart. She has appeared on many national television programs, including the Today show and Good Morning America, and her work has been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among other newspapers and magazines. Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia.

£20 H ARDBACK 9 78 0008 740245 57

6TH MAY 2027

‘Fans of Ali Hazelwood’s STEM romances will love this contemporary multiversal rivals-to-lovers romance’ Daily Express

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUR STORY SARAH E. BONNER When one perfect weekend keeps resetting, Lottie and Mike have to find each other again and again before fate separates them for good. Lottie isn’t looking for love, especially not with a man who’s about to leave the city. But when she meets Mike – a shy, gorgeous dog dad with slutty glasses and an instant connection she can’t explain – one coffee turns into a date, and then into something that feels impossibly real. The problem? Their weekend is trapped in a time loop, and in most versions of it, they never meet at all.

SARAH grew up in Salisbury, dreaming of a career as a writer and performer. Instead, she became an accountant! After a fifteen-year career, she decided to answer her original calling and completed her first novel which was published in 2022. Sarah lives in Devon with her husband and very spoiled rescue dog.

While the world keeps resetting around them, Lottie and Mike are drawn back together in fleeting, fragile moments that feel bigger than chance. As someone else keeps rewriting the weekend for his own selfish reasons, their budding romance becomes a race against time itself. Warm, witty and achingly romantic, this is a love story about timing, destiny, and finding your person even when the universe keeps getting in the way. £9. 9 9 PA P ERBACK 9 78 0008 7719 6 6 58

H Q D I G I TA L 6TH MAY 2027

JANE LOFTUS BOOK 2 JANE LOFTUS Winchester, 1365. Healer Agnes Le Cran knows every root and remedy to soothe fever, staunch blood, and protect herself from harm. But the Abbey infirmary’s training only goes so far. And in a society ruled by inheritance, the surest protection for a woman is said to be marriage. So, honouring her mother’s final wish, Agnes reluctantly accepts a betrothal to Edwin Merryn, a timid heir to an estate outside of the city walls. Merryn Manor is far worse than she could have ever imagined. Its walls are crumbling, its ledgers are swollen with old debts, and the vengeful Lord Merryn – Edwin’s father – makes no attempt to conceal his contempt for ‘healing women’ like Agnes. And as she desperately grapples to keep the estate together, long-buried truths begin to rise from the past, igniting feuds and putting loyalties to the test.

JANE LOFTUS studied 16th Century European history before taking a postgraduate degree in modern political history. As a lone parent, she worked in Winchester Waterstones before taking a job in IT. This novel was written in the evenings while she was raising her son. Hugely passionate about the Middle Ages, she drew inspiration for this novel from the medieval layout of Winchester which has been painstakingly documented.

But in Agnes’ chemise hides the most perilous secret of all, one which could undo the Merryn name and burn the manor’s legacy to ash for ever. £9. 9 9 PA P ERBACK 9 78 0008 755317 59

H Q D I G I TA L 6TH MAY 2027

THE DIVORCE PARTY SLOANE FLETCHER The first in a brand-new contemporary romantic comedy duology from Sloane Fletcher. ‘Irreconcilable differences’ was a hell of a way to say ‘My soon-to-be-ex-husband couldn’t keep his dick in his pants’. Prudence Buchanan is freshly divorced. To her, it’s devastating. To her best friend, Deb, it’s an opportunity. An opportunity to celebrate Prudence’s newfound freedom with a messy divorce party in Savannah, where they used to party in their younger years. But revisiting their old haunts turns into more than Prudence bargained for when she bumps into a ghost from her past – Oscar Ryan. Twenty years ago, she fell for the charismatic Irish bartender (quite literally) on the night of her doomed bachelorette party. And two decades later, their chemistry is just as electric. Oscar would be the perfect rebound, if only their connection wasn’t quite so real, quite so deep. Grappling with the emotional scars of her divorce, Prudence must decide whether to reopen her heart to a chance at love, or risk losing Oscar again for good. 60

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H Q D I G I TA L 20TH MAY 2027

ENEMIES WITH BENEFITS STEVIE GREENE Pre-order now for the sequel to The Perfect Matcha, perfect for the fans of Laurie Gilmore and Bonnie Woods!

STEVIE GREENE is a working class award-winning and Carnegie nominated author who has written for middle grade, teen and adult readers. She has vast experience working as a public speaker and creative workshop coordinator for schools, libraries and other events both nationally and internationally. She also is an experienced mentor and is very passionate about helping those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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H Q D I G I TA L 20TH MAY 2027

‘Both heartbreaking and hopeful, beautifully written and compelling’ Kate Galley

UNTITLED BOOK 4 CORIN BURNSIDE Orkney, 1944. On a windswept island at the edge of war, six-yearold evacuee Kirsty McEwan has grown up wild and free under the care of her grandmother, far from the bombs of London. But when her mother, Elspeth, arrives unexpectedly after losing everything in the Blitz, the fragile life they have built is thrown into turmoil. As mother and daughter struggle to find their way back to one another, Kirsty’s fascination with the Italian prisoners of war leads Elspeth towards a world she has been taught to fear. Among the prisoners is Giovanni – gentle, lonely and longing for home. In the shadow of conflict, an impossible love begins to bloom. But the past is never far behind. With her violent husband threatening to reclaim the family she fled, Elspeth must fight for the future she wants – for herself, for Kirsty and for the man who has shown her unexpected hope.

CORIN BURNSIDE grew up in a house full of books and has been scribbling stories for as long as she can remember. A passion for history, travel, and the natural environment colours her writing and provides inspiration for her story-telling. She divides her time between her family in the UK, and her home in the French Pyrenees, where she lives with her husband and The Princess, a demanding Hungarian Vizsla who helps with plot holes in exchange for cheese.

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HQ FICTION 20TH MAY 2027

‘Has created a fresh way of remaking myths for contemporary readers’ The Sunday Times

ISOLDE PHOENICIA ROGERSON Isolde, Queen of Cornwall, is on the run. She didn’t mean to drink a love potion with the king’s nephew, but that little accident has made her scandalously famous. Luckily, she and Tristan find refuge in Camelot, the legendary court of King Arthur. This ought to be her happy ending. Only it isn’t. She discovers that Camelot is full of chivalrous knights who aren’t sure how to speak to a woman, and while it houses the greatest wizard of all time, he might just be responsible for crimes against humanity. And one more thing, the love potion has worn off… Now Isolde will have to work out what sort of life a woman can carve out for herself when the songs about her have already been written.

PHOENICIA ROGERSON has no discernible sense of direction so it’s only natural that she’d get lost in books. When she’s not reading, writing, or spinning in circles, she can be found knitting copious amounts of socks and throwing herself in freezing water. Originally from Cornwall, she now finds herself in London, where she’s aiming for the highest possible bookshelf-to-floor space ratio. She is a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2024 for her debut, Herc.

A tale of battered reputations, Isolde introduces an unforgettable heroine finding her way through myth, love and a world of magic. £9. 9 9 PA P ERBACK 9 78 0008 778 36 1 63

H Q D I G I TA L 20TH MAY 2027

‘I think this might be Hannah’s best yet. It was so funny, so clever. I absolutely adored it . . . A joy from start to finish!'’ Lucy Vine

GHOSTED HANNAH DOYLE A reclusive movie star and the ghostwriter he once ghosted reunite on a remote Scottish island, where a fake-dating scheme forces them to confront the past – and maybe risk love again. Ghostwriter Wren Wallace has spent so long telling other people’s stories that she’s forgotten how to live her own. So when a mysterious email reveals the whereabouts of Kit Thorogood – the Hollywood star who disappeared from her life years ago – she heads to his island determined to get answers. But Kit is no longer the man she remembers: grumpy, guarded, and reluctantly returning to the spotlight for a documentary that could save the island’s ferry. When the film crew demand a romance angle, Wren agrees to fake date her ex in exchange for the chance to write his autobiography. As old chemistry reignites, Wren is drawn into the island’s charm, its colourful residents, and a mystery she can’t quite explain . . . Warm, witty and magical, Ghosted is a romcom about second chances, unfinished business, and finding your way back to life. 64

HANNAH DOYLE is a journalist and author who writes deliciously relatable books about love and friendship. Sponsored by coffee, she spends her days writing and running around after her twin sons in Sheffield, where she lives with her husband. Previously, Hannah worked for a celebrity magazine in London and has appeared on television and radio chatting about the hot showbiz topics of the day.

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20TH MAY 2027

‘The queen of summer romance’ Woman's Weekly

‘A wonderfully uplifting read’ My Weekly

‘A joyful, uplifting novel about friendship, romance and throwing off the past. Full of warmth and heart’ Platinum

ONE TRUE SUMMER SARAH MORGAN What if the person you need to find now is the woman you used to be back then?

Until the day her husband tells her he wants out. After twenty-five years of marriage, Dan has decided Laura is no longer the woman he fell in love with.

SARAH MORGAN is the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of multiple bestsellers, including All Together for Christmas, The Christmas Cottage, The Christmas Book Club, One More for Christmas, Brave New Summer, Beach House Summer and The Summer Seekers.

Reeling, Laura flees to the wild beauty of a remote Scottish island and to Rowan, the sister she’s never quite understood. There, with the summer stretching before her, Laura finds herself drawn back into the past through a bundle of old emails and she is forced to confront a version of herself she’d almost forgotten: impulsive, passionate, fearless.

She has sold over twentyfive million books worldwide. Sarah lives near London, England with her family and when she isn’t writing or reading, she likes to spend time outdoors hiking or riding her mountain bike.

Laura Bishop thought she knew exactly who she was: wife, mother, dependable heart of the family.

Now, with her marriage in crisis and her sister by her side, Laura must decide whether she wants to reclaim her old self . . . or finally become the woman she was always meant to be.

£9. 9 9 PA P ERBACK 9 78 0008 7446 6 3 65

20TH MAY 2027

‘She's so consistently good, isn't she? Wonderful on characterisation and family dynamics, and done very deftly, with that wry humour of hers’ Marian Keyes

A PERFECT FATHER ERICA JAMES Sunday Times bestseller Erica James returns with another sparkling slice of family drama. Martin – divorced husband, father of three grown-up children – has lived at 12 Meadowsweet Close for forty years. And he’s seen some changes over those years. It was the first house he and his new wife bought. It’s where they raised their three children, watching them play rounders on the green outside. And it’s where Martin’s marriage fell apart, after his wife fell in love with a neighbour . . . Now Martin’s children are fully grown but they still bring their problems back to their dad. Which means all three have returned to 12 Meadowsweet Close for their dad’s help. But has any one of them ever stopped to ask what Martin might need . . . ?

ERICA JAMES is the author of twenty-seven internationally bestselling novels, including The Forever Home and An Ideal Husband. Her books are loved by readers looking for beautifully drawn relationships, emotionally powerful storylines and evocative settings. A keen gardener, Erica lives in Suffolk and has a growing obsession for doll’s houses. She is also a keen follower of F1 motor racing and, when possible, loves travelling to Japan and the US to see her sons.

£18 . 9 9 H A RDBACK 9 78 0008 7036 22 66

HQ FICTION 20TH MAY 2027

‘Warm, witty and deeply romantic’ Lauren Bravo

‘A heartfelt kaleidoscope of female friendship’ Roxy Dunn

BRIEFLY YOUNG KERRY DOWNES A brand-new warm, moving and funny book club novel from the author of That Time Everything Was on Fire. When April drops out of Cambridge University to care for her mother after a devastating accident, she's sure she doing the right thing. But she hasn't accounted for how wrong everything else will feel.

KERRY DOWNES grew up in East Yorkshire and has spent the last decade in south London, working as an NHS specialist audiologist. She lives in Brighton with her husband and two children.

Back home in Manchester, April must navigate a mother who resents her sacrifice, a path she's not convinced she believes in, and a growing suspicion that the story she tells about her own life is full of convenient gaps. A tender, funny and achingly honest novel about the friendships that sustain us, the expectations that diminish us, and one woman's long, often painful, journey to trusting herself.

£20 H A RDBACK 9 78 0008 6 6 5753 67

3RD JUNE 2027

‘Profound, funny, clever . . . An absolute ONE-OFF writer’ Marian Keyes

TIME TRAVEL FOR BEGINNERS JACLYN MORIARTY Three strangers’ lives converge in the waiting room of Sydney’s Time Travel Agency – a nondescript shopfront that promises impossible things . . . On a bustling road in Sydney, between a gelato bar and a chemist, lies an unassuming shopfront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. Anna – possibly lightly concussed after a chance encounter with a car, possibly thinking clearly for the first time in a long time – quits her miserable job and agrees to work at the unusual business. Teddy just can’t seem to get up since his wife left him for his brother. When he spies an advert promising journeys into your past, he figures he can at least learn what went wrong. And Jade can’t stand the place. Behind the cosy waiting room and the smell of freshly brewed coffee, all the agency has to offer is false hope. Over the course of one winter, three lives converge around this unusual agency claiming to offer a chance to revisit past choices. But is it a hoax? And if it’s real, what is the catch? 68

JACLYN MORIARTY is the bestselling author of novels for young adults and adults including Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy and the Colours of Madeleine trilogy. Jaclyn grew up in Sydney, lived in England, the US and Canada, and now lives in Sydney again. She has been the recipient of the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Queensland Literary Award and the Aurealis Award for Fantasy, and her books have been recognised by the American Library Association. She is very fond of chocolate, blueberries, ice-skating and sleep.

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H Q D I G I TA L 3RD JUNE 2027

BOOK 2 SLOANE FLETCHER The second in a brand-new contemporary romantic comedy duology from Sloane Fletcher. Deb Abrams has everything. The high-flying career, the wonderful friends, the shiny, picture-perfect life. The only thing she doesn’t have? A family to call her own. After years of waiting for the perfect partner, Deb has had enough. It’s time for her to find a sperm donor and create the family she’s always dreamed of. Mistrusting of sperm banks (‘Men can’t be altruistic when their dicks are involved. It’s a scientific fact’), Deb is poised to post her search for a donor on a dating app. But when her best friend, Prudence, points out that this might not be the best way to find her future baby daddy, she agrees to wait one week until launching her search. And that’s when Dan shows up. Prudence and her partner Oscar’s best friend, Dan just so happens to be the contractor working on Deb’s latest house project – and possibly keeping an eye on her on behalf of their friends. But as Deb and Dan’s flirty banter begins to build into something more, Deb’s dating app search seems less and less necessary.

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17 TH JUNE 2027

‘Moore writes in lush, enveloping prose. She turns what could have been just another second-chance romance tale into something more enticing, touching on the pull of memory and the importance of what is passed on’ The Times

SUMMER HOUSE GEORGINA MOORE A deliciously heady coming-of-age novel about first love and second chances from the Sunday Times bestseller. On the night of Teddy and Elliott’s christening their mother Mira runs away with an American, the man the twins come to nickname The Man In The White Suit. Left behind, the pair grow up in a neglected old house in a medieval town in Sussex where time seems to move slowly. The summer they turn sixteen they discover Summer House – the splendid waterside residence their mother has made on Haven Island in the Hamptons – in all its beauty and mystery. But trouble is brewing in paradise with the arrival of charismatic Jude Scott, intent on breaking hearts.

GEORGINA MOORE grew up in London and lives on a houseboat island on the River Thames with her partner, two children and Bomber, the Border Terrier. Her debut novel, The Garnett Girls, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her second book, River of Stars, was her love letter to the River Thames and inspired by the colourful history of another island upstream from the one she lives on, Eel Pie Island. Summer House is her third novel.

It only takes one summer to fall in love but two summers to break the bond between brother and sister. It might take a lifetime for them to uncover Mira’s secrets and find a way back to being a family again. £20 H ARDBACK 9 78 0008 76 5514 70

H Q D I G I TA L 17 TH JUNE 2027

‘Hugely enjoyable and compelling’ Louise Douglas

‘A rollercoaster full of twists and turns . . . I inhaled it’ Rachel Burton

KATHLEEN McGURL BOOK 17 KATHLEEN McGURL The brand-new for 2027 gripping, emotional dualtimeline mystery from the best-selling author.

KATHLEEN McGURL lives in Bournemouth with her husband. She has two sons who have both now left home. She always wanted to write, and for many years was waiting until she had the time. Eventually she came to the bitter realisation that no one would pay her for a year off work to write a book, so she sat down and started to write one anyway. Since then she has published several novels with HQ and self-published another. She has also sold dozens of short stories to women's magazines, and written three How To books for writers. After a long career in the IT industry she became a full-time writer in 2019. When she's not writing, she's often out running, slowly. £9. 9 9 PA P ERBACK 9 78 0008 8 6 0271

ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES.

NON-FICTION

7 TH JANUARY 2027

EVERY BODY CAN

SIMPLE HOME WORKOUTS AND EVERYDAY HABITS TO TRANSFORM YOUR HEALTH FOR LIFE LUCY WYNDHAM-READ No gym. No pressure. No perfection. Just you, your body – and a plan that fits your life. In Every Body Can, fitness and lifestyle coach Lucy Wyndham-Read shows you how to build a healthier, happier you, right from the comfort of your own home. Drawing on over 25 years of experience and her hugely popular YouTube workouts (watched by millions worldwide), Lucy has created a complete guide to fitness, nutrition and mindset that actually works. Whether you’re starting again, beginning from scratch, or simply want to move more and live better, Every Body Can will help you: - Feel stronger, inside and out - Make healthy habits that last - Boost vitality and support long-term health and longevity - Learn to love your body for what it can do Because you don’t need a gym, fancy equipment or endless motivation. You just need a plan that fits your life – and the belief that Every Body Can.

LUCY WYNDHAM-READ is a leading fitness and lifestyle coach, bestselling author, and one of YouTube’s most-watched female fitness creators, with over 2 million subscribers and more than 250 million views. A former army corporal turned wellness expert, Lucy has spent over twenty-five years helping millions of people around the world build long-term health from home. Known for her warm, motivating style and accessible approach, Lucy’s mission is simple: to empower people to live with strength, confidence and longevity.

£20 H A RDBACK 9 78 0008 79 116 2

MILLS & BOON 14TH JANUARY 2027

‘Pleasingly kitsch’ Stylist

‘Some of the most iconic swoon-and embrace-filled overs of the last 100 years’ The Telegraph

THE ART OF ROMANCE

40 VINTAGE COVERS TO SWOON OVER MILLS & BOON Mills & Boon have been at the heart of romance since 1908…and while the fashions may have changed since then, one thing remains the same:

Founded in 1908, MILLS & BOON publishes romances for every reader.

Love puts life in technicolour.

Across every romance genre, from historical to contemporary, romcom to erotica, our compelling, uplifting romances guarantee an instant escape to fantasy worlds and the heart-warming reassurance of 'happily ever after'.

From pulse-pounding passion to the gentlest caress and exotic deserts to elegant boudoirs, we’ve always known how to bring romance alive. And, for over 100 years, we’ve been the experts in escapism. Now, we’re delighted to present you with these irresistible illustrations, inspired by the vintage glamour of our covers. So, indulge your wildest dreams and unleash your creativity as we present the most iconic Mills & Boon moments of the last century.

Mills & Boon publish over 700 new titles a year, with manuscripts from 200 authors living in the UK and a further 1,300 worldwide. With a fresh, exciting Mills & Boon series, there is something for everyone to love. £9. 9 9 PA P ERBACK ORIGIN A L 9 78 0008 8 5016 6 75

28TH JANUARY 2027

WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THIS? DR NAOMI POTTER Empower yourself with expert advice, practical strategies, and a holistic approach to navigating menopause and perimenopause – because your health, wellbeing and future matter. Why Do I Feel Like This? by Dr Naomi Potter offers a comprehensive and holistic approach to understanding and managing menopause and perimenopause. This indepth guide goes beyond typical menopause education by exploring how this life stage intersects with other health conditions. Drawing on her medical expertise and contributions from a range of medical and health professionals, Dr Potter explains how menopause can affect various aspects of women's health and provides practical strategies for coping with symptoms, as well as managing chronic conditions alongside menopause. With a focus on self-care and a well-rounded approach to health, Why Do I Feel Like This? is the doctor’s appointment that you have always wanted.

DR NAOMI POTTER is a menopause specialist dedicated to improving the wellbeing of women experiencing menopause. With training in both general practice and menopause care, she has been at the forefront of menopause education in the UK. She is the founder of Menopause Care, a clinic providing women with the latest medical advice and treatments for menopause. Through her work, she has become a trusted voice, offering women expert knowledge and compassion through one of life’s most transformative stages.

£20 H ARDBACK 9 78 0008 6 59 714

16TH FEBRUARY 2027

Markham Heid

The

Habit Trap How Our Routines Hold Us Back and What We Can Do To Break Free

THE HABIT TRAP MARKHAM HEID What if your habits weren’t helping you but holding you back? We live in a world obsessed with habits: morning routines, step counts, meal plans, productivity hacks. But what if our relentless focus on optimisation is doing more harm than good? In The Habit Trap, Markham Heid explores the hidden downsides of our habit-obsessed culture. Drawing on two decades of science reporting and a wide body of psychological and neuroscientific research, he reveals how even good habits can limit creativity, dull motivation and trap us in unfulfilling cycles. Heid doesn’t call for chaos but for flexibility, arguing that variety, spontaneity and imperfection are not signs of failure but essential ingredients for long-term growth and wellbeing. Part manifesto, part practical guide, The Habit Trap invites readers to question the narratives they've been sold about structure and control – and find freedom in the unexpected.

MARKHAM HEID is an awardwinning health and science journalist whose work has appeared in TIME, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Men’s Health and more. He is one of the mostread writers on Medium, with over 360,000 followers and a devoted readership that values his insightful, accessible takes on wellbeing and performance. The Habit Trap is his first book.

£20 H A RDBACK 9 78 0008 76 4371 77

25TH FEBRUARY 2027

DEATH IS A DOORWAY MALAURIE HOTIER

DEATH IS A DOORWAY

THE AFTERLIFE EXPLAINED MALAURIE HOTIER By unlocking the secrets of death, we can master the most powerful lessons of life . . . As a psychic medium, people come to Malaurie with questions: How can we continue to live when someone we love is gone? What happens to our souls when we die? Are ghosts real? Do our loved ones really send us signals and signs? And most importantly: how do we come to terms with the fact that everyone we love will die, and that we will die too? The answer is simple: to know that dying is not the end. Drawing on her personal encounters with the spirit world and her enthusiasm for science-based research, Malaurie offers a practical and compassionate guide to the afterlife that brings clarity to what happens to us when we die.

MALAURIE HOTIER is a psychic and medium dedicated to providing a down-to-earth approach to the spiritual world. In addition to offering oneto-one sessions (which are fully booked with an extensive waitlist), Malaurie hosts retreats, sells guided meditations on her website and recently launched The Club, an online membership community that hosts live events, workshops, Q&A sessions and group readings for over 250 members. She is French and lives in California.

Telling us plainly what truly matters in life and death, Death is a Doorway is the book to expand what we think is possible. £18 . 9 9 H ARDBACK 9 78 0008 8 40020 78

25TH MARCH 2027

HOW TO KEEP GOING JOE TRACINI This is the self-help book Joe Tracini said he'd never write. Writing a book about mental illness when you still have mental illness feels a bit like opening a dentist’s surgery in your own mouth: it's messy, it’s risky, and you’re too close to everything to know whether you’re helping or just poking a nerve. This book only exists because Joe didn’t die when he was at his worst – and because he wants his readers not to die either. And the thing that has helped him the most in staying alive is the realisation that he’s not alone – that there are hundreds of thousands of others who feel like him, but most of them feel like they aren’t allowed to say they feel awful. How to Keep Going will show you that there is hope. It might not have all the answers (and nor does it pretend to), but it has the right questions, and a few ideas that might not make things worse. Because sometimes, when you’re on the edge, what you actually need is for someone to say, 'I’ve been there. It’s awful, I know. Keep going. Also, maybe eat.'

JOE TRACINI is an actor, writer and TV presenter. He’s starred in TV shows including Hollyoaks, Coming of Age and The Great Outdoors, and hosted the BAFTA-winning The Dengineers on CBBC. His social media videos have received tens of millions of views. The BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 documentary Me and the Voice in My Head explored the effects that Joe’s Borderline Personality Disorder has had on his life. His book Ten Things I Hate About Me is a Sunday Times bestseller.

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8TH APRIL 2027

THE LUCK PARADOX ED JACKSON What is luck – and can we change it? Ed Jackson has been fascinated by the meaning of ‘luck’ since he suffered a life-changing injury at the age of 28. The Luck Paradox is a self-development book that has been years in the making, in which we look at our mindset around luck and are provided with the tools to change it. Personal experience, real-life stories and science come together to take the reader on a journey that leaves them feeling empowered with the tools to change something they previously thought was set. The Luck Paradox is a journey of discovery where Ed will interview some of the country’s leading psychologists and scientists and take soundbites from them about the concept of luck. He will weave this in with his own story and the experiences of others who have faced devastating accidents, illnesses or misfortunes and made the conscious decision to view this as an opportunity for growth. It will be a book of hope, combining Ed’s trademark wry sense of humour with poignant moments about the human capacity to find the positives in outwardly bleak times. 80

ED JACKSON is a former professional rugby union player who played for a number of sides in England and Wales, including Bath Rugby and London Wasps. He represented England and captained both U16 and U18 teams before enduring a lifechanging spinal injury. After his recovery, Ed set up a charity-focused events company, Millimetres to Mountains. He works as a reporter for Channel 4’s rugby coverage and will be one of the key presenters for Channel 4’s coverage of the Paralympics.

£20 H ARDBACK 9 78 0008 6 26 76 1

8TH APRIL 2027

‘If you want to tap into your power, you could not be in better hands with this guide’ Bryony Gordon

UNLOCK YOUR POWER

A SEVEN-STEP SYSTEM TO TRANSFORM YOUR MINDSET AND CREATE CHANGE THAT LASTS POPPY DELBRIDGE A practical, powerful guide to breaking old patterns, rewiring your energy and stepping into your next-level future – no hustle required. With transformation expert Poppy Delbridge as your guide, learn to spot the subconscious patterns holding you back – and discover how you can change these patterns to pursue a new, bolder direction in life. Blending neuroscience, energy work and identity transformation, Unlock Your Power offers a clear, sevenstep framework to help you break unhelpful habits, rewire emotional responses and start choosing what you actually want, not what you’ve been conditioned to settle for. The life you want isn’t waiting for you to earn it. It’s waiting for you to choose it.

POPPY DELBRIDGE is an expert in energy psychology known for helping global high performers unlock lasting change. She is the founder of Rapid Tapping®, a modality and global training academy integrating nervous system health with manifestation and performance. Her work has reached a worldwide audience and led to collaborations with Virgin Atlantic, as well as features in the Financial Times, British Vogue, Glamour, ELLE, BBC and ITV. She is also a Global Ambassador for Mind.

Reclaim your energy. Unlock your power.

£10. 9 9 PA P ERBACK 9 78 0008 79 126 1 81

6TH MAY 2027

THE ART OF AGEING EMMA BASTOW An empowering and mindful guide to growing older with strength, clarity and confidence at every stage of life. The Art of Ageing is a positive, empowering exploration of what it means to grow older. Moving away from antiageing rhetoric and towards a pro-age philosophy, Emma Bastow examines the science of ageing, the physiological and psychological changes that shape every decade of our lives, and the lifestyle choices that help us thrive. Readers are guided through topics such as why we age, whether we all age equally, the role of nutrition and exercise, the power of cognitive challenge, and what future ageing may look like. The book culminates in a practical pro-age plan for every life stage, complete with challenges, rituals and mindful activities.

EMMA BASTOW is a writer and editor with more than 20 years’ experience in book publishing. She is the author of A Writer’s Year, A Mindful Year, A Mother’s Year, A Year of Self-Care, I Love Leopard, Plant Lady and The Art of Walking, all published by HarperCollins. Emma lives in Brighton, East Sussex, where she is lucky enough to combine her passion for writing with regular walking on the beach.

£10. 9 9 H ARDBACK 9 78 0008 8 549 11 82

15TH JUNE 2027

JUST DON’T

LESSONS ON THE ART OF DOING NOTHING JOHAN ANDERBERG What if the most powerful thing you can do right now is to do nothing at all? In a world that encourages us to take action – to hustle, to take risks and make bold decisions – Just Don’t makes a radical case: instead of jumping in head-first, take a moment to pause. Stop. Do nothing.

JOHAN ANDERBERG is a Swedish journalist and author of The Herd, a bestselling history of the Swedish experience during Covid-19.

Blending behavioural science and psychology with lessons from world leaders, athletes, CEOs and more, Johan Anderberg reveals the hidden genius of restraint and shows that the people who changed history most profoundly were those who were brave enough to wait. If you’ve ever sent an email you’ve regretted, made a decision in five minutes that took five years to undo or said ‘yes’ when every instinct was screaming ‘no’, this is the book for you. The urge to act is deeply human, and the art of doing nothing is harder than it sounds, but it might be the most valuable tool we have.

£18 . 9 9 H A RDBACK 9 78 0008 8 33114 83

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