The Secret Kingdoms

Abby Jimenez

Claire Harman

On the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, Penguin is publishing the definitive biography of this extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman Charlotte Bronte's life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. She was raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to brutally strict boarding school...

Stephanie Archer

The only way to get my inheritance? Marry Alexei Volkov-the grumpiest enforcer in the NHL, a brutally handsome jerk, and the last man I'd ever fall for. In public, we act as besotted newlyweds, but in private, we're at each other's throats. He's competitive, arrogant, and surly. The guy's never cracked a smile in his life. He's jealous of my ex, he glares at my high heels, and...

Jake Wallis Simons

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny of Israel that so often veers into obsession and outright demonisation; and traces ...

Percival Everett

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha HaJames by Percival Everett is a profound and ferociously funny reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Boo...

Jean Kyoung Frazier

Perfect for fans of Coco Mellors, R. F. Kuang and Yomi Adegoke, this electrifying debut and TikTok sensation charts the unlikely relationship between a pregnant teenage pizza delivery driver and a stressed-out, middle-aged mum. Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl, our dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's...

Alba De Céspedes

Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, the constant churn of the domestic routine and her fears that her husband will discover her new habit. With each entry Valeria plunges deeper into her interior life, uncovering profound dissati...

Robert Muchamore

The third title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James has to bust an inmate out of a high-security US prison ... Over the years, CHERUB has put plenty of criminals behind bars. Now, for the first time ever, they've got to break one out ... Under American law, kids convicted of serious crimes can be sentenced as adults. Two hundred and eighty of these child criminal...

Ken Liu

The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty quartet - one of the Greatest Fantasy Series of all Time (TIME MAGAZINE) Ukyu-Gondé: Stalked by foes and dogged by betrayal, Princess Théra is pursued across a continent vaster than she could ever have imagined, to the hidden valleys of the World's Edge Mountains, into the barrows and subterranean halls of the City...

Christina Adams

In this page-turning odyssey, a mother on a mission travels the globe -- from Bedouin camps in the Middle East to Amish farms in Pennsylvania to camel-herder villages in India -- to obtain camel milk, which dramatically helps her son's autism symptoms. Chronicling bureaucratic roadblocks, adventure-filled detours, and Christina Adams's love-fueled determination, Camel Crazy exp...

Tracy Wolff

The epic story concludes in Cherish, the sixth in New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff's lush, action-packed and romantic young adult paranormal fantasy series. 'Fandom's new favourite vampire romance obsession' Hypable 'This generation's Twilight' Lynn Rush 'I'm having the BEST book hangover. Filled with danger, humour, and heart, Crave proves that vampires are def...

Pierce Brown

Madeline Miller

A FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHORWoman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe gr...

Mo Willems

These are one of a series of delightfully humorous award-winning tales for beginner readers from an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator. Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In "Today I will Fly!" Piggie wants to fly. But Gerald knows that she cannot...

John Mchugo

Syria's descent into civil war has already claimed an estimated 200,000 lives while more than nine million people have fled their homes. This is now the greatest humanitarian and political crisis of the twenty-first century. In this timely account, John McHugo charts the history of Syria from the First World War to the present and considers why Syria's foundations as a nation h...

Kurt Vonnegut

Player Piano is the debut novel from one of history's most innovative authors, published on Vonnegut's 100th birthday. In Player Piano, the first of Vonnegut's wildly funny and deadly serious novels, automata have dramatically reduced the need for America's work force. Ten years after the introduction of these robot labourers, the only people still working are the engineers an...

Kristin Hannah

From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes Kristin Hannah's provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness - and the elusive nature of love. An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war. From a distance, Michael and Jolen Zarkades ...

V. E. Schwab

From V.E. Schwab, the critically acclaimed author of Vicious, comes a new universe of daringadventure, thrilling power, and parallel Londons, beginning with A Darker Shade of Magic. Kell is one of the last Travellers -- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between paralleluniverses -- as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, wit...

Peter Swanson

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Welcome to Christmas at Grey Gables, where everyone's a suspect. Struggling mystery writer Nicholas Child is commissioned to help another writer finish the overdue follow up to his breakout bestseller. Travelling to Grey Gables, the writer's Cape Cod home, in the week before Christmas, he discovers a house full of secrets, and a cast o...

Monica Wood

A runaway global bestseller, available now in the UK comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookshop. One bookshop. A thousand ways to rewrite a life. When Violet Powell is newly released from prison after killing someone in a drink-driving crash, she longs for a chance to start over. Harriet Larson believes stories can light a way through the lonelies...

Kate O'shaughnessy

A swoony, heartfelt, and evocative standalone original romance about first love, second chances, and finding yourself in the season of change - perfect for fans of Misty Wilson's FALLING LIKE LEAVES and anyone looking for their next Gilmore Girls-esque fall read. Some seasons change everything.... Five years ago, Claire was a child star, the goofy punchline of one of America's ...

Laleh Khadivi

'Intoxicating' KATIEKITAMURA 'Powerful' R. O. KWON 'A spellbinding fever dream' JONATHANESCOFFREY After a lifetime together, Heti thought she knew her mother inside out. She's about to discover how wrong she was. Heti moves in a daze of grief after her mother dies, until her life is upended by the arrival of an unmarked package containing photographs of her mother as a young w...

Omar El Akkad

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness. This is a book for everyone who wants something better. ...

Bree Grenwich

THE EPIC ROMANTASY THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT. In a world where divine power bleeds into the mortal realm, Thais Morvaren has mastered the art of deception. Secretly, she hides her ability to forge weapons from starlight. But, when Thais' powers are exposed, she finds herself forced into the deadly Trials of Ascension -where those with divine powers are given the choice: ...

Bree Grenwich

THE EPIC ROMANTASY THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT. In a world where divine power bleeds into the mortal realm, Thais Morvaren has mastered the art of deception. Secretly, she hides her ability to forge weapons from starlight. But, when Thais' powers are exposed, she finds herself forced into the deadly Trials of Ascension -where those with divine powers are given the choice: ...

Jasmine Mas

From global bestseller Jasmine Mas comes a brand-new story of obsession that asks... When the hunter is hunted, who becomes prey? The Emperor's Enemy She is Zora Ravenal: Knight Mage, Bear of the North, and only hope of her people against the ravenous empire. The Hunter's Mark He is Aleksander the Sadistic: divinely ordained emperor and royal mage, hellbent on capturing Zora, o...

Katie Jung

Who says romance is dead???????if you love Ashley Poston, My Best Friend's Wedding or Gossip Girl, You're the One that I Haunt is about to become your new obsession! Libby Lakoski has started seeing ghosts. Admittedly, it's not the worst thing that's happened to her today - that would be attending the engagement party of her best friend, Carter Coldwell, who she's secretly in...

Jasmine Mas

HERCULES IS BACK. AND YOU'RE BOUND TO LOVE HER. In this hotly anticipated follow-up to Jasmine Mas's BLOOD OF HERCULES, the stakes are higher and the villains darker than ever... Every hero has their monsters. And Alexis is bound to hers: tied eternally, irrevocably to the Underworld's dark heirs in a marriage that has shaken the foundations of Olympus - and everything Alexis o...

N. E. Davenport

Fae magic, enemies-to-lovers rivalry, and political intrigue combine in this steamy romantasy from award-winning author N.E. Davenport. HE'LL TAKE HER CROWN. SHE'LL HAVE HIS HEART. 'All the romantasy-loving folks, listen up -- this is your next favorite book! An immersive world, knife-to-throat enemies to lovers, morally grey characters ... An instant romantasy classic!' Katee ...

Sabaa Tahir

A crumbling empire An ancient evil. A lost homeland. A lie that could destroy the world. In the crumbling Martial Empire, crown prince Quil Aquilla and his Aunt Helene are losing a battle against the vicious Kegari horde. Quil's armies dwindle, his faith falters, and the woman he loves vanished months ago, leaving him broken-hearted. Torn between his duty to his people and h...

Raven Kennedy

PRE-ORDER YOUR NEW ROMANTASY OBSESSION FROM THE GLOBAL SENSATION, RAVEN KENNEDY From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Plated Prisoner series comes the first book in an alluring and addictive romantasy duology set in a world of fae and dark magic -- It's time to pay the Piper. Our world cracked open like an egg. Power burst out, and with it, nine monstrous Banes re...

John Green

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world."Green's novel of betrayal and survival, trust and love is a fluent condemnation of the machine of commercialization and a paean to art.... A spellbinding, tender, incisive, funny, and compassionate ...

Lyla Sage

Pre-order the brand-new small-town, paranormal romance from instant #1 New York Times bestseller Lyla Sage, author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series, now! Old haunts, new feelings. Clarke Cartwright probably needed to get out more. She just had a lot to do. Running Toade's Antiques was no small feat, especially considering that the roof was in shambles and half her merchandise wa...

Mark Little

Do you remember when the internet felt like a shared playground? When strangers around the world connected over the colour of a dress?The Last Good Day on the Internet sees former foreign correspondent and tech entrepreneur Mark Little take us back to a time when the web was a place of community, curiosity and potential.Until it wasn't.Having spent nearly two decades at the hea...

Freya Marske

L. K. Steven

Three rival mages race for power, vengeance, and the fate of Atherin in the epic second instalment of the Silvercloak Saga, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates. After the disastrous events in the Havenwood, Saffron Killoran's revenge has slipped through her fingers. Still deep undercover within the Bloodmoon gang, she sees only one path forward: harn...

Stephen King

Now with a stunning new cover look for the 50th Anniversary comes Stephen King's legendary debut. Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that ...

Julia Langbein

" A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A wild, wonderful essential novel' Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had 'Will remind you why you fell in love with reading' Oprah Daily, Best Book of Spring 2026 'Outrageously funny novel about hunger, desire, and the vulnerable' Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escap...

Safiya Sinclair

Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Preaching fire and brimstone, her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the immoral, corrupting influence of the Western world just beyond their gate...

M.john Harrison

Rebecca Perry

She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. A replica pie, half-eaten, perched on a small desk in the servant's quarters. A fruit bowl, filled with artificial apples, pomegranates and pears, with one piece missing. It should feel as though her subject has just left the room; the air should be alive with their energy. B...

Elizabeth Strout

FROM THE PULITZER-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED ELIZABETH STROUT COMES A STUNNING STANDALONE NOVEL OF LOVE, LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGS 'Emotionally stunning, devastatingly wise . . . her best novel yet' RACHEL JOYCE 'A moving, tender and wise novel about a committed teacher who is utterly confounded by the emotional complexities of daily life. This might be Elizabeth Strout'...

Douglas Stuart

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed' - Colm Tóibín'To r...

Marlon James

MARLON JAMES'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS 'Darkness is a mood in Jamaica . . .' The Disappearers is Marlon James's triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of Seven Killings - a place of heat and chaos, and of danger for anyone outside the heteronormal. So when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston ...

Luke Kennard

Kit Haley

'There are so many tennis books in 2026, but out of all of them, THIS is the one to read' ? ? ? ? ? 'I devoured this book, for fans of Heated Rivalry this is the perfect next read for you' ? ? ? ? ? 'Kit Haley, you've made me a fan of tennis' ? ? ? ? ? Discover the sweetest and steamiest tennis romance sensation of the summer - perfect for fans of Rachel Reid, The Open Era and ...

Agatha Christie

The special edition hardback of Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, with a gorgeous new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a...

Taylor Jenkins Reid

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'This summer's biggest read' SUNDAY TIMES 'A richly drawn page-turner' OBSERVER 'Beautifully written, immersive' THE TIMES 'Our favourite TJR novel yet' COSMOPOLITAN 'I absolutely adored this' BRYONY GORDON READERS ARE SAYING... 'So emotional by the end that I could hardly speak' - Reader Review, 5***** 'Melted m...

Rebecca F. Kuang

The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* 'Addictive' Grazia 'Hugely entertaining' Observer 'Provocative' Mail on Sunday THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY. IT'S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opp...

S. A. Chakraborty

Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the stre...

Daphne Du Maurier

DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION 'Rebecca has woven its way into the fabric of our culture with all the troubling power of myth or dream. A stunning book' SARAH WATERS 'It's the book every writer wishes they'd written' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'The greatest psychological thriller of all time' ERIN KELLY *** He did not belong to me at all, he belonged to Rebecca. . . ...

Alison Espach

It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming fo...

Jeremy Black

A wonderfully concise and very readable history of Spain, perfect for travellers This is the extraordinary story of Spain, from early tribalism and Roman rule to the Moorish conquest, Spain's eighteenth-century revival under the Bourbons, the Peninsular War and revolution in Spanish America right up to the catastrophic civil war and Franco's totalitarian regime. A key theme fr...

Giles Tremlett

Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles.'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian 'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and sty...

Giles Tremlett

1474. Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania-- and Isabella ascended the throne, a female ruler in a male-dominated world. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon not only united their kingdoms, but began a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Tremlett chronicles Isabella's colorful life as she led her country out of the Mid...

Henry Kamen

"In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences...

J. H. Elliott

Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu...

Nigel Townson

A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different, ' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the cou...