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In a futuristic world where predictive software can map out the lives of every living person and their descendants, Naomi Prynne is on trial. The charge: endangerment by way of a pregnancy. Thirteen jurors will determine whether Naomi is allowed to carry the pregnancy to term, but the jurors are also all plaintiffs, the software having predicted how Naomi Prynne’s child will affect each of them in life-changing ways.

Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's The Sin Eater is a wonderfully rich story of treason and treachery; of women, of power, and the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast – because, sometimes, being a nobody sometimes counts for everything . . . 'A...

A girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen. 

In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups - the farmers of Shantih and the city dwellers - live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the city, the city bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to form a new settlement further away, the bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion". 

The end of the world has been avoided - for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas.... While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesn't make sense. London in 2111 is on the brink of annihilation.

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

Allt kommer att bli mörkt. Ingen vet exakt när, men det kommer att ske snart. Under flera år har forskarna mottagit mystiska radiovågor från avlägsna stjärnor. När en solliknande stjärna oförklarligt försvinner förändras allt. Mycket tyder på att solens bränsle är slut långt...

När Martin bara är fem år gammal försvinner hans föräldrar som jobbar som klimatforskare under mystiska omständigheter, och Martin tvingas växa upp i fosterhem. Som vuxen inleder han ett förhållande med sin barndomsvän Jenny, som har köpt Martins gamla barndomshem. Uppe på vinden...

VÄRMEVÅG är den andra fristående delen i den dystopiska thrillerserien Stockholm 2300 som inleddes med romanen Algblomning. May Born, kriminalinspektör med speciella mentala förmågor, får återigen utreda både mordfall och attentat. Tom Lexler, självlärd historiker, återvänder till...

När mänskligheten precis pustat ut efter pandemin hotas världen istället av en helt annan typ av kris som glömts bort. När katastrofen är ett faktum söker sig krishanteraren och strandvandraren Tomas Strand till norra Gotland för att ha bäst förutsättningar att rädda det som...

"Jag föddes som så många andra in till den Depression som varje dag fick människor, att varken med eller mot sin egen vilja, avsluta sina liv. Mamma sa att det alltid sett ut så, åtminstone så länge någon kunde minnas. Men det fanns en räddning för en del av oss unga kvinnor, en väg...

Das Geld wie wir es kennen gibt es bald nicht mehr. Der programmierbare E-Euro steht kurz vor der Einführung. Marc Kröger beschäftigt sich intensiv mit der Geldtheorie. Bald erkennt er, dass die Menschen betrogen und Krisen vertuscht werden. Deshalb gründet Marc die Bitcoin-Bewegung.

Am Anfang stehen Naturkatastrophen. Es folgt die Auflösung der öffentlichen Ordnung. Dann stürzen die USA in Chaos, Bürgerkrieg und Anarchie. Milliardär John Brandt hat sich seit Jahren auf dieses Szenario vorbereitet: Das Sanctuary, ein ehemaliges Raketensilo, achtzehn Stockwerke tief, voller Vorräte und Waffen, soll seiner Familie und seinen engsten Vertrauten auf Jahre Schutz gewähren. Schon bald rotten sich bis an die Zähne bewaffnete Überlebende, die nichts mehr zu verlieren haben, vor den Toren der Zuflucht zusammen.

“A gripping, sinister fable!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR GLAMOUR GOOD HOUSEKEEPING LIT HUB THRILLIST King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are...

Truth Medici has three questions: Can he rescue his siblings from the clutches of the evil Starbrite Corporation? What will it require of him? And where does he need to go next to make it happen? When he meets Justinian Merkovah—a strangely ageless spellcaster, teacher of religious law, and nomadic exorcist—he's one step closer to discovering the answers. With his experience providing security to the rich and terrible, Truth accepts a gig as Merkovah's bodyguard. What better way for Truth to grow as a mage?

Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil forever.

Just when John thinks things are finally calming down, the world never fails to throw a new twist his way. And the latest one is deadly. A distress call from Katrine has set John on a crash course with a band of vicious dimensional raiders led by a supreme mage who are already planning an invasion, while back home, the clock is ticking on the prophecy of the beast invasion that will wipe humans from the face of the world.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the Costa-Winning, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground: a gripping, haunting novel about memory, love and survival, for readers of Never Let me Go and Leave the World Behind Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big...

Brought to you by Penguin. Termight, a world at the heart of a cruel galactic empire. A world devastated by nuclear warfare. Deep below ground its inhabitants try to eke out a mere existence, continually threatened by the Terminators, led by the diabolically evil Torquemada. Torquemada, a...

What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from monitoring, went on with their lives.