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A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. From the Arthur C. Clark award-winning author of Children of Time.
There are two sides to every love story. This is Anna’s.
Anna Cole grew up poor, but her mother’s love made her feel rich every day. Then her mother died, and Anna was sent to a care home. As a teenager, Anna vowed that one day, she would have children of her own, and create the happy, noisy family life she…
Suzy Suzy follows a teenage girl trying to understand the chaos of her family life. Narrated by a troubled young woman, the novel weaves a tale of secrets, lies and betrayal in the pressure cooker of her formative years.
Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival – any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries’ time. But the sophons, their…
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China Mieville’s brilliant reading of the modern world’s most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist Manifesto. In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two emigres from Germany. Marx and Engels’s apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner…
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A compulsively readable, carefully researched account of how a malignant combination of rightwing ideology, secretive money (much of it from the US) and weaponisation of social media have shaped contemporary British (and to a limited extent, European) politics … Remarkable’ Observer, Book of the Week.…
Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
Captured by the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, Heinrich Gerlach wrote a novel based on his experiences. In 1949, however, the KGB confiscated his 600-page manuscript. Gerlach returned to Germany in 1950, and, under hypnosis, recalled parts of his narrative. In 1957, it was published under the title The…
In 1994 Wizard’s First Rule introduced Richard Cypher, a young woodsman seeking answers and vengeance in the aftermath of his father’s murder, and Kahlan Amnell, a mysterious young woman pursued by a bloodthirsty tyrant’s assassins.
The Sword of Truth is one of the most ambitious fantasy series ever…
A Guardian Science Fiction Book of the Year. Mimi is drowning in the world’s trash. She’s a ’waste girl’, a scavenger picking through towering heaps of hazardous electronic detritus. Along with thousands of other migrant workers, she was lured to Silicon Isle, off the southern coast of…
In 1920s London a perfect family faces ruin if the truth about their daughter is revealed.
There are two sides to every love story. This is Theo’s.
Theo Montgomery grew up in a rich family where he had all the toys and trinkets money could buy. But his childhood was full of neglect and he was bullied at school. Now he is an adult, he longs to find a soulmate. Someone who understands him. Someone who…
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Back in Tulsa, things have settled down since Zoey closed the tear between Worlds.
But Zoey knows the truth. In the Other World her brother is using Old Magick, unaware of the dangers it holds. She knows she must help him – after all, he’s her little brother.
Though, in doing so, she may just have to lose…
A dazzling literary thriller set in Japan-occupied China from the most translated Chinese novelist of our time.
China, 1941.
It is the height of the Second World War, and Japan rules over China. In the famously beautiful city of Hangzhou, a puppet government propped up by the Japanese is waging an underground war…
A collection of four never-before-seen novellas. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present.
The epic finale to the THE SWORD OF TRUTH series: 16 volumes 20 years in the making, 26 million copies sold. Soulmates, pawns of prophecy and inheritors of an ancient conflict, Richard and Kahlan’s destinies have been bound together since their first encounter in Wizard’s First Rule. But now Richard lies on…
Judge Juliana Brody is a woman with principles. She is happily married, she doesn’t drink, she doesn’t lose control. She definitely doesn’t sleep with a handsome stranger at a law convention. Except that, last night, that is exactly what she did.
Matias understands that if anyone found out about their…
Outside the Gates of Eden follows two men from their first meeting in high school to their final destination in the 21st century. Alex is torn between his father’s business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole, constantly uprooted in his childhood, finds his calling at a Bob Dylan concert in 1965.
From…
For fans of Vox, The Power and The Handmaid’s Tale comes a dystopian novel set in a world where touching is forbidden, books are banned and The Key governs.
Elodie obeys The Key. Elodie obeys the rules. Elodie trusts in the system. At least, Elodie used to…
Aidan is a rebel. Aidan doesn’t do what…
A psychologically complex thriller that examines the fine line between genius and madness.
In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do. But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life – food,…
”They are the monsters under the bed when you are little, the shape just caught out of the corner of your eye when you thought you were alone, the shadow of something in a dark corner that surprises you and then isn’t there. They stop you dead with a knot of unexpected terror in the pit of your stomach. We…
Florence, 1429. With shrewd investment, strategic alliance and sly manipulation, the Medici family have climbed to the top of Florentine society. But their success has left a slew of bitter enemies in their wake, enemies who will stop at nothing to usurp their power.
When family patriarch Giovanni de Medici is…
First novel in a new historical trilogy set in Ancient Pompeii. Amara is a slave at the Wolf Den – the city’s infamous brothel. But just because she’s a slave now, doesn’t mean she inends to remain a slave forever…
THE CHECQUY: A centuries-old covert organization that protects the nation from supernatural threat. THE GRAFTERS: A centuries-old supernatural threat. After centuries of rivalry and bloodshed, two secret and otherworldly organisations – The Checquy and The Grafters – are on the verge of joining forces, and…
They all met again at the Drama School Reunion: the Hollywood celebrity, the out-of-work soap star, the understudy, the Shakespearian hero.
Thirty-six years ago, they dreamed of the great parts awaiting them. What they did not know was that the parts would soon dry up, for the actresses. Because they had stopped being…
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As two worlds intertwine, Zoey Redbird must once again call on her friends to destroy darkness. While Zoey can’t quite forget the Other World, she must focus on her own – if only to keep thoughts of going back at bay. Old Magick is dangerous and she must resist the urge to use it.
Other Kevin’s…
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Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative fiction bestrides worlds real and ethereal.
Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work – sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and heartbreaking. Included here are: The Man Who Ended History: A…
A woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, is seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot afford, as her married lover rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door.
An ageing, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgwood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a…
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A boy. A wolf. The legend lives on.
Viper’s Daughter is the seventh book in the award-winning series that began with Wolf Brother, selling over 3 million copies in 36 territories. Like them it can be read as a standalone story.
For two summers Torak and Renn have been living in the Forest with their faithful…
Focusing on the unsolved murder of teenage girl, this literary novel offers insights into gender, class and privilege in Seoul, and marks the English-language debut for award-winning Korean author, Kwon Yeo-sun.
In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do.
But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life – food,…
Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near – all too near – future.
’Unauthorized Bread’ is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman’s perilously illegal…
’Sultry fun in the sun!’ Heidi Swain. ’Clever, romantic and unputdownable’ Julie Houston. ’Leave a piece of your heart in Greece with this beautifully told story’ Sandy Barker.
Two weeks. One unforgettable trip to Corfu. A chance to change her life.
Becky Rose has just landed her…
What would you give for a second chance with the one that got away? ’What a jolly holiday of a novel! It was like a big festive hug – warm, funny and oh so romantic. I loved it!’ – Holly Martin, author of Sunlight over Crystal Sands
After a terrible heartbreak, Harriet Cookson worked hard to…