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AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2026 'Perfect perfect perfect novel. I have thought of literally NOTHING else since I started it.' Jack Edwards 'I loved it.' David Nicholls 'I was totally invested.' Saba Sams 'I loved how funny and quietly brutal this is about the way we tried to connect with...

Assassin’s Creed: Gold follows Aliyah Khan, a card shark and hustler who’s been dealt a rough hand in life. Surviving through her smarts and street scams, Aliyah struggles to get by until she loses big time to a mysterious older man, Gavin Banks. Her only option to repay Banks is to become an Assassin. During her training, Banks tells Aliyah of the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and Templars, imploring her to help him decode a secret message inscribed on an illegal form of currency during the Great Recoinage of 1696.

Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parent's worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years their senior, Ryan was charming and good-looking...

Bloomsbury presents The Last Handmaid by Clare Whitfield, read by Gemma Lawrence. There's more than one way to feed her hunger. 'An evocative and unsettling tale ... Chilling and thought-provoking' ANNA MAZZOLA, author of The Clockwork Girl 'Richly-drawn and atmospheric.... Whitfield is a...

Billionaires, obsession and revenge all vye for Scarlett's heart in this wickedly tempting dark romance 🖤🔥'A tale of passion angst and corruption' Jodi Ellen Malpas, #1 New York Times Bestseller I’ve always walked the straight and narrow, following the rules, kept my head down and my...

What Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees, international ecologist and conservation scientist Hannah Mumby now does for elephants in this compelling, eye-opening account that brings into focus this species remarkably similar to humans—and makes a persuasive argument for saving them. From early...

When Irish photographer Finn O'Sullivan steps off the dusty road and into Garnet Creek, he's hoping the red dirt and wide horizons of the Australian outback will swallow him whole. Librarian Melanie Doherty recognises Finn the moment he walks through her door - and the colour drains from her face before she can stop it. Her reaction is immediate, complicated, and entirely her own business. She has a quiet life here. A safe one. A five-year-old son who is her whole world.

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. August 1939. For decades, local children have feared Creepy Cottage, a derelict house rumoured to swallow intruders whole. But after a violent summer storm collapses an end wall, the ruins give up a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 ROMANTIC NOVELISTS' ASSOCIATION ROMANTIC THRILLER AWARD Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. October 1939. With an injury forcing her to take time off work from the Mill, amateur sleuth Amy Rowlings has the...

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. July 1939. A pleasant afternoon by the river turns tragic when the body of young party girl Effie Watkins is discovered in the reed beds. For an overstretched Inspector Bodkin, it's the worst...

A bloodstained room, a missing woman, a passionate affair gone wrong. As London basks in September sunshine, the city is abuzz with exciting news. There is a new detective in London, dazzling society with spectacular deductive skills and giving Sherlock Holmes a run for his money. Radical...

Don’t miss the next book in MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke’s Dressmakers' Alley series Times are changing. Is there a glimmer of hope on the horizon for the women of Dressmaker Alley? London’s East End 1927 Yvonne White is content as head seamstress at Miss Susie, raising her beloved...

The Holiday meets Lost in Austen, with a sprinkling of Bridgerton steam… 'A fun, fresh take on a Regency romcom that had me alternately cackling and swooning from the first page right up to the last' VIRGINIA HEATH 'If, like me, you're desperately searching for something to scratch that...

‘WOW! I absolutely loved this book and stayed up way too late to finish it!’ NetGalley Reviewer, 5 Stars You trust her with your home, your husband, your baby… but she is about to destroy it all. Sophy Pemberton is struggling to cope with the pressures of becoming a new mother. Her...

England, 1948. It’s been ten years since Lola arrived from Germany as a Jewish refugee. Even now, she can’t think about the family she lost, or her heartbreak will destroy her. Instead, Lola looks to the future: the new family she’s found working in a job she adores as an airline stewardess, and the butterflies she feels around handsome pilot Brian – though the thought of opening her heart again terrifies her.

London is quiet, too quiet, and Holmes and Watson chafe at their inactivity. Then comes alarming news from the Balkans: a train carrying a vital coded message entered a tunnel - and never reappeared. The vanishing train and missing message mean Holmes and Watson confront a growing national...

A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words claim he has seen a man rise from the grave. At the same time, a visitor arrives with a mystery of unparalleled international importance. The Viscount Wrexham is missing, presumed dead, in strange...

A year ago, I kissed my three-year-old goodbye before a work trip and promised I’d be home before she knew it. I wasn’t. When I went missing, everyone searched for me but eventually they had to admit the worst: that I was dead. And maybe the woman I was did die. Because now I’m back...

“I Want You to Be Happy is an irresistible novel that asks complex questions about contemporary life and refuses easy answers. I couldn’t stop reading.” —Sally Rooney “A totally devastating—and all too relatable—portrait of modern romance.” ―Vogue Named a Best Book of 2026 So...

The book will consist of approximately eighteen chapters that each take inspiration from current scientific research. They'll present engaging, optimistic futures that could result from the real-world science, with insets delving into how that science works. The book will be highly illustrated...