Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one
Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, th
The King's Courier Tycho has made a treacherous bargain. Now beholden to the magical scraver who saved King Grey's life, one false move could end everything. Jax escaped his life in Briarlock and traveled with Tycho to Emberfall. But life outside his small village brings unexpected challenges - and unlikely adversaries. After years of hating the royal family and their magic, Callyn never expected
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees shifts our focus from the centres of Greece and Rome to the lively, long-ignored societies on the borders.
* AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 * 'A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES 'I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINI 'Novels like this might help light the way' GUARDIANSaba's father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia
The outstanding novel from the multi-award-winning and former Laureate na nOg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger
'A triumph ... deliciously intriguing' Harriet Constable, author of The Instrumentalist
'Impeccably researched, masterfully plotted, beautifully written' Santa Montefiore
'Imaginative. The streets, parlours and galleries of London and Oxford come alive in this
Infused with the folklore of Northern England, It Comes from the River is an unforgettable, uncanny debut about violence, resilience and hope - and the power of women when they work together.
A brilliantly page-turning thriller with an unusual psychological twist, which fans of One of Us is Lying, Ace of Spades and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder will love. Sariyah is determined not to let her missing friend become just another statistic, one of many vanished Black girls. But despite her talent for ESP, Sariyah is struggling, even when the clu
Elias Westbrook, a newly drafted hockey player for the Toronto Thunder, is facing the challenges of fame and media scrutiny. With a growing fan base and too many expectations on his shoulders, he's struggling to make his first career goal. The tabloids are reporting on his every move, including which woman he was last seen with, but all he wants to do is escape the spotlight. Enter from st
The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times)
In the early Sixties, Victor 'Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill -
An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms - and the magical and myriad ways we are connected to each other
A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery
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It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people – Karim, Fauzia and Badar – are coming of age, and dreaming of great possibilities in their young nation. But for Badar, an uneducated servant boy who has never known his parents, it seems as if all doors are closed. Brought into a lowly position in a great house in Dar es Salaam, Badar finds the first true h
A gripping, propulsive and atmospheric crime thriller perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Peter James. When cold case diver Cam Killick discovers the sunken car of a family missing for thirty years, he thinks it will be the end of their story. But it's only the beginning...
Cate Kay is the most famous person in the world but no one knows who she is. Until now. She's ready to tell her story but will the world forgive her for the secrets she's kept? An astounding debut for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid.
The Ragpicker King is the spellbinding second book in Cassandra Clare's epic fantasy adventure of magic, power and politics - and the sequel to Sunday Times bestseller Sword Catcher.
A brilliantly original exploration of humanity's intimate relationship with technology, from the emergence of our species to the emergence of AI and beyond.
A tragic accident results in the death of a female climber in Australia's Blue Mountains; Girl Falling is a psychological deep dive into the lives of those who knew her - and what they are hiding about what happened that day - from CWA New Blood-winning author Hayley Scrivenor.
Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they have so far failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their as