Ten years ago, Hope left Somerset with a fatal secret and a broken heart. She has spent a decade in the shadows, living a quiet life of penance to protect the man she once loved - the world-famous author Ambrose Glencourt.

Then, she opens his latest bestseller. To the world, it’s a brilliant work of fiction. To Hope, it’s a betrayal. Every private moment, every dark truth, and every ‘fatal disaster’ from that summer is laid bare on the page.

But Ambrose has changed the ending. In his version of the story, Hope isn't the victim. She’s the villain.

Now, Hope must step out of the shadows to reclaim her narrative. But in a world of glamorous elites and whispered secrets, who will believe the word of an unreliable woman against the word of a literary icon?

Two narrators. One truth. And a secret worth killing for.

The King of Tyre is dead, his final words anointing his clever and strong-willed daughter, Elissa, as the new queen until his young son comes of age. But betrayal and danger soon haunt Elissa, and she is forced to flee the kingdom - exiled with a band of loyal followers and a broken heart.

After an arduous search for a new home, Elissa and her people settle in North Africa, and she is crowned Queen Dido: the ferocious and devoted ruler of her newly established city of Carthage. Soon a powerful trading hub, Carthage thrives under Dido's governance. But when a band of Trojan survivors, led by the valiant Aeneas, washes up on a nearby shore, Queen Dido is reminded of a promise she made long ago, never to trust or to love another again.

Can Dido overcome her past and open herself - and her city - up to Aeneas, or is their love doomed to burn everything to the ground?

The pulse-pounding, unmissable sequel to Nash Falls, from the international number one bestselling author of The 6:20 Man.

After turning informant for the FBI against a global criminal empire, Walter Nash has lost everything he cherished to its ruthless leader, Victoria Steers. Once gentle and sensitive, Nash’s rigorous training has forged him into a figure of power and precision with a singular mission: to take down Steers.

Defeating a mastermind requires cunning. Known for her sharp instincts, Steers confides in only a trusted few, so to penetrate her inner circle and dismantle her operation, Nash must summon all of his savvy and strength. But as he edges closer to the woman who unraveled his life, Nash finds himself oddly drawn to Steers in ways he never could’ve imagined. And what he uncovers will upend all he knows, leading him to a choice that will change everything.

Will the truth set Nash free?

Or end him?

You want to know who did it, but that was never the question. Or, it was never the right one.

Birdie Chang doesn't know much about Whidbey Island, only that it is far. On the ferry, she has an unnerving encounter with a stranger, where she finds herself telling him everything: how she was sexually abused as a child, how the perpetrator now walks free, how the calls and emails from him haven't stopped and she is on the run; how she wants to kill him. The stranger poses a shocking question - if she agrees, he will murder the man who hurt her, with no strings attached. She gives him a name.

On the other side of the country, Mary-Beth receives a phone call from the police: her only son has been murdered. What follows is a complex story of three women connected through one man: Birdie, a woman on the run from her past and her abuser; Mary-Beth, the abuser's loving mother; and Linzie, a former reality star turned bestselling memoirist, and another victim of the same man.

Whidbey is a brilliant reimagining of the whodunnit - a searing, propulsive novel that asks who has real power over a story: the one who lives it, or the one who tells it?

An aged-up THE TOMBS OF ATUAN meets AVA REID in this uniquely dark and gothic religious fantasy duology following three spiritual enemies forced to team up to find a murderer whose evil is responsible for degrading the magic that protects their Vatican-inspired city and all its people.

In a holy walled city where sin and sanctity are revealed through touch, Csilla - a girl born without a soul - is worth little to the Church that raised her. But when a series of murders corrodes the faithful magic that keep the city safe, the Church elders see a use for her flaw: she can assassinate their prime suspect, a heretic with divine heritage, without risking the stain of sin.

The heretic, however, makes Csilla a counteroffer: clear his name by helping him catch the real killer, and he'll use his angelic gifts to grant her very own soul. Meanwhile, ruthless Ilan, desperate to earn back his position as Church Inquisitor, sees the case as his chance at redemption: he'll bring in the murderer - or, failing that, Csilla and the heretic - and regain his title.

Join Ali Dawson and her cold case team for another thrilling case.

Ali Dawson is a police detective who leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel to the distant past to solve them. But Ali and the team haven't been allowed to time-travel ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in Victorian London, never to be seen again.

To distract herself from meaningless tasks, Ali decides to look into a present-day case - an apparent suicide of a young man who fell to his death from a high building. She believes the death is linked to a psychic medium called Barry Power, who convinced the boy he could fly. Ali goes to one of Power's shows where he claims to be in contact with Jones.

When Ali notices that evening that her cat, Terry, has gone missing, she decides to go back in time just long enough to prevent Terry from escaping through his open cat flap. A dangerous plan which backfires, and she finds herself once more in Victorian London, where she meets Jones, as well as Power, and the darkly mysterious Cain Templeton with whom Ali has unfinished business from her previous visit to the past . . .

An extraordinary literary horror debut from a rising star.

In the wake of an ill-omened romance with a horror cinephile, Brooke arrives in Vancouver to care for her sister, Izzy, who is facing reproductive surgery. But Izzy’s rapidly decaying apartment building, its hallways stalked by an ominous crone known only as Medusa, offers little refuge to the sisters.

Seeking solace in the films her ex-girlfriend loved, Brooke soon finds traces of horror bleeding from the screen into her life. Old wounds reopen and new frictions surface, and when Brooke begins to exhibit strange symptoms of her own, Izzy’s concern spirals into obsession. The line between self and sister blurs until only one question remains: who, or what, will survive when all unravels?

Through the dual lenses of art and horror cinema, Emma Cleary brilliantly dissects loneliness, motherhood and the body’s threatened autonomy. Eerie and threaded with yearning, Our Monstrous Bodies is a haunting literary debut that blooms with the dark desires we suppress or to which we surrender.

Tension heats up on the pitch in this heartfelt MM football romance, perfect for fans of HEATED RIVALRY.

In a league with no room for love, two players are about to change the game.

Oliver Harris is football royalty in London. Ordinarily, the star of the Camden Roses is calm, cool, and collected, keeping his club relevant with his prowess in the midfield and mighty left foot. But this season, the threats abound: there’s Camden’s management to contend with – complete with a new, prickly Dutch coach, eager for better results – and a mid-season injury, which sidelines him when his team needs him most. When a recruit is called up to fill in, Oliver fears he’ll be replaced. If he can mentor this younger talent, then they might just have a chance at winning, together.

After a string of lacklustre performances in his native Spain, Leonardo Davis-Villanueva is looking for one last shot at the club he always dreamed of, where he once played in the youth academy. Oliver immediately finds confident, eager Leo irritating. He can barely go through the motions, let alone coach him, without outright hostility. When he comes to admire Leo’s skill and warms to his humor and energy, though, he begins to see Leo as a friend – and then, to his mounting horror, as something more.

Leo craves Oliver’s attention and partnership; Oliver can’t afford to fall in love with his teammate. He’s always kept a tight lid on his sexuality in a league that’s never had a player come out. As the season heats up, a lot more than football hangs in the balance. Can Oliver – and Leo – win when it counts most?

When your favourite rockstar offers to be your wingman, there's only one rule: do not fall for him.

At twenty-seven, Marianto has it all – her dream man, a coveted job at a popular digital magazine and a bright future. Until one viral disaster ruins everything.

Within hours, Marianto loses her boyfriend and her job. Her solution? Write the article of a lifetime on how to win back your ex.

Enter Simón Arreaza – the sexy lead singer of her favourite indie band. After he discovers her list of experiments, he offers some advice, replacing each idea with one of his own. Marianto quickly sees results and so they strike a deal: if he coaches her on winning back her ex's heart, she will help raise his band's profile.

But between the fake photo ops and late nights together, the lines of their alliance blur. Marianto begins to question what – and who – she really wants. Because Simón was never part of the plan . . . sometimes, the best things in life aren't.

Irma Mulder land terug op Suid-Afrikaanse grond vanuit Hollywood na haar 13 maande se verfilming van ’n televisie-speurreeks — en dit voor dooiemansdeur...

Geen geliefde op die lughawe wat haar inwag en bly is om haar te sien nie en ook by haar huis is dit duidelik dat haar vriendin en huissitter, Zelma, vele dae laas daar was...

Nog hou die verrassings nie op nie. Sy het ’n e-pos ontvang van walglike Gary Hoise wat sy voor haar vertrek, warmplek toe verwens het — en nou vra hy dringend haar hulp. Uit die plaaslike koerante lees sy opskrifte van mense wat spoorloos verdwyn het en Gary is die een wat haar op hoogte bring. Ook dat Hugo van Zyl aanbeweeg het en sy nie meer sy meisie is wat hy vurig van afskeid geneem het nie.

Gary is ook nie meer die ongeskikte dronklap nie en stem in om hom te help met die ondersoek na die vermiste mense, party selfs kinders, want dit kom voor asof die polisie nie juis hond haaraf maak nie. Met die strydbyl begrawe, vorm hulle ’n formidabele span en ontdek gruwels wat niemand sal glo nie, tensy hulle eie oë dit sien...

The spellbinding new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning author of An American Marriage.

Vernice and Annie are 'cradle friends', born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, both destined never to know their mothers. The girls are inseparable, bound by a friendship far deeper than sisterhood. But this is the American south in the 1950s. Black girls like Vernice and Annie have to fight for every opportunity they can, and neither one can build the future they hope for in Honeysuckle.

Gradually, inevitably, the girls drift apart. Vernice pursues her education; Annie is lured by the promise of a heady first love affair and a growing obsession with finding her mother. But her search pulls her even further into a world of danger that soon leaves her oldest friend battling to save her.

Tayari Jones returns with an exuberant, richly told story about mothers, daughters, and a lifelong friendship that is as dangerous as it is unbreakable.

New York Times bestselling author Connie Briscoe updates Daphne Du Maurier’s classic Rebecca in this chilling tale of domestic suspense centered on a spirited woman named Angel who marries a Black billionaire, only to discover that he remains haunted by his first wife who took her own life—or did she?

A mansion haunted by the ghost of a cool, charismatic first wife. A second bride from a small Southern town who may be in over her head. A brooding billionaire who grows icier the more his new wife questions him about the past. In Connie Briscoe’s propulsive and entertaining novel, the elements of one of the most famous Gothic novels of all time is reimagined in surprising, yet still suspenseful, ways.

Angel is a private chef for the Harrisons, one of the most powerful Black families on Martha’s Vineyard. Impossibly supercilious Jillian Harrison often spends the entire summer on the island, and every August the family throws a lavish garden party. This year’s guest list includes Everett Bruce, an influential Black billionaire still in mourning for Chloe, his first wife, who committed suicide.

To Jillian’s surprise, Bruce becomes enchanted with Angel. Soon he and Angel begin a whirlwind romance that culminates in marriage, and Angel moves to Riverwild, her husband’s massive estate along the Potomac River.

Though Angel is a confident and strong woman, over time she begins to feel the enigmatic Chloe’s ghost. Not helping matters is Ida, Everett’s menacing sister who, like her brother, cannot seem to let the dead woman go, nor explain why Chloe would kill herself. The more questions Angel asks, the more vitriolic Ida grows and the more melancholic Everett becomes, revealing a far less charming side of himself. Just how well does Angel know Everett?

The answers lie somewhere in Riverwild . . .

An epic story of espionage, love and sacrifice.

In 1970s Ethiopia, 13-year-old Elen, determined to escape her arranged marriage, secretly abandons her tiny village hoping to find her aunt living in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. Meanwhile, Girmai escapes his abusive stepmother after the death of his beloved father, only to end up homeless and starving on the streets of the city. Overcoming the odds, Elen and Girmai both grow up to be successful business owners, each with their own lives and families

When the Derg regime overthrows the government, they turn Asmara into a nightmare of roaming bands of soldiers, who torture and kill civilians with impunity. Refusing to accept the injustice and mass killings of the Red Terror campaign, Elen and Girmai join the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front's (EPLF) underground network to fight for freedom.

The stakes rise as the horror of Derg-sanctioned torture leaks out of dissident detention centers. Elen and Girmai struggle to maintain their precarious fight for justice and a growing passion for each other. As they fall in love, they are faced with impossible choices, tragedy, and heroism in a cause much bigger than their own lives.

Based on a true story, Born at the End of the World is a powerful narrative of patriotism, love, camaraderie, and courage, no less uplifting or appalling than Schindler's List.

An endless void. A powerful anomaly. A quest for revenge.

When The Sinker was a child, her home was destroyed by The Construct, a floating machine that consumes all in its path. To survive, she fled into the void, a seemingly infinite nothingness where few dare venture, filled with floating, vertically stacked rocks. Some of these rocks are giant magnets, some burn with eternal flame and some are influenced by the presence of seemingly magical objects – anomalies that defy physical laws.

For half a lifetime, The Sinker has wandered the void on a quest for knowledge, for understanding and for peace. But when rumours reach her that The Construct is near again, she knows fate has come full circle. With the help of Crooked Arm – the heir to a shattered throne, who happens to possess the most powerful anomaly of all – the two of them set out on a mission to end the tyranny of The Construct forever.

From one of the visionary writers of the Netflix series The OA comes a reality unlike anything you have ever encountered before.

If you're ready, enter the void...

From London to Los Angeles, Berlin and Tokyo, Nothing Good Happens After 2 a.m. is a story of friendship, ambition, passion – and something more.

London, 2005. Behind the unmarked door of Love and Death, a tiny speakeasy in East London, Robbie Saunders and El Tippett are cocktail-making stars on the rise.

Locked in a volatile dance of rivalry and chemistry, they can't decide how they feel about each other. And, as the as the city transforms itself, and the bar's legend grows, it all begins to unravel.

Yet something indefinable keeps drawing Robbie and El back together. Over the years that follow, one unexpected, ill-advised, and utterly glorious late night after another, can they put aside professional betrayals to build something brand new?

Ingrid Dahl is a cheerful, twenty-nine-year-old librarian living in the cosy mountain town of Ridgetop. She and her boyfriend since college, Cory, have never discussed marriage; they're perfectly happy with the way things are. But when Ingrid's sister announces her engagement to a woman she's only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory suddenly feel pressured to start thinking about the inevitable: marriage and kids.

The thing is, neither of them has ever been with anyone else. Shouldn't they sow their oats before settling down?

They make the unorthodox decision to separate for a month to date other people, assuming that at the end of it, they'll reunite and start planning their nuptials. And Ingrid has the perfect man in mind for this relationship sabbatical--Macon Nowakowski, her cantankerous and completely adorable coworker for whom she's had a crush for years.

But of course the best laid plans often go awry, and when Ingrid and Cory meet at the end of the month to resume next steps in their relationship, it's clear neither of them is ready to get back together...

As the war rages on outside, it is the battle within that must be won, through the quiet strength of words.

Josie Everley may have survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, but she lost the man she loves most to the sea. Broken-hearted and destitute, Josie must start afresh as a library assistant at a groundbreaking, all-female-run military hospital in Endell Street.

As she focuses on her work, she never expected to meet Theo, a wounded soldier suffering his own trauma who finds solace amongst the books.

As Josie steps up to the role of librarian and loses her heart to Theo, the war around them continues to be a cruel companion and Josie must muster all her strength and courage to make it through.

Will Josie find her happy-ever-after amongst the heartbreak?

Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this visceral, darkly hilarious, and surprisingly moving debut novel about a charismatic misfit who livestreams herself for seven straight days to raise money for her comatose sister's life support.

Dell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She’s behind on rent for her bathroom-less studio apartment (formerly a walk-in closet), she’s being plagued by perpetual, spiking stomach pain, and her younger sister, Daisy, is in a coma at a hospital that wants to pull the plug. Freshly unemployed and subsisting on selling plant propagations to trust fund kids, Dell impulsively starts a 24-hour livestream under the username mademoiselle_dell to fundraise $14,000 for a week of private life support for Daisy.

In the dungeon of her stream, Dell is in control, banishing those who don’t abide by her terms of engagement and steadily rising up the platform’s ranks with her sympathetic story and angry-funny screen presence. On a dare, she discovers that she has a talent for eating spicy food, and her streaming fame explodes as her pepper consumption graduates from jalapeño to habanero to ghost. Finally, Dell is good at something―but as her behavior becomes riskier and riskier and a troll-turned-incel threatens to expose her dark past, Dell must reckon with what her digital life ignores, and what real redemption means.

Narrated in seven taut chapters, one for each day of Dell’s livestream, Just Watch Me careens us through a nonstop week in the life of this charismatic misfit with a heart of gold. Voyeuristic and visceral, audacious and outrageous, Lior Torenberg’s debut is both an incisive, zippy tragicomedy about the internet economy as well as a moving meditation on love, loss, and forgiveness.

A lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store―or to erase―our memories.

The narrator of Ben Lerner’s new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail “from the future and the past simultaneously” and who “reenchants the air” when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomas’s house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.

What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and an exploration of fathers and sons, male friendship and rivalry, and the challenges of parenting in a burning world. One of the first great novels about the early days of COVID, it is also a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to one another, that store or obliterate memory.

Full of startling insight, but written with the intensity of a séance, Lerner shows us how the air is full of messages, full of ghosts. Ultimately Transcription demonstrates what only a work of fiction can record.

Alana Rothman se lewe verander toe Roux op die masseertafel in haar skoonheidsalon beland. Die volgende week daag hy weer vir ’n ander behandeling op. Gou besef Alana sy is verlief op hom. Toe dit duidelik word dat iemand die salon saboteer, verdink Alana heel eerste vir Roux, omdat die eerste insident plaasgevind het op die dag wat hy vir sy eerste behandeling daar was en omdat hy nie ’n tipiese kliënt is nie. Wat steek hy weg? En is hy werklik die saboteur?

Melanie se modelloopbaan lê aan skerwe nadat sy haar enkels tydens ’n fotosessie breek. Ben, die helikoptervlieënier, wat die noodvlug beman waarmee sy uit die klowe gevlieg word, dring haar lewe – en haar hart – binne terwyl sy herstel. Nie net moet sy drastiese loopbaanbesluite neem nie, maar sy moet haar biologiese pa ná twintig jaar weer in haar lewe toelaat. Sy moet uitvind haar ma het nie altyd die waarheid oor hom gepraat nie. Kan Melanie op die dodelike aantreklike Ben vertrou in ’n moeilike tyd, of het hy verskuilde motiewe?

Elara Steyn, ’n navorser aan Stellenbosch Universiteit, besoek Kaap Nyala waar die marine-argeoloog Rowan Carter se duikspan die skeepswrak Eclipse verken. Die span hoop om die kroon van Almani in die wrak te vind.

Elara en Rowan voel aangetrokke tot mekaar, maar albei het bagasie. Die soektog verloop ook nie sonder probleme nie. Smokkelaars soek die kroon vir ’n ryk versamelaar en daar is ’n verraaier in Rowan se span. Al die drama vertroebel die water vir Rowan en Elara.

Sal die liefde oorwin?

Daar is niks wat Leola so ontstel soos bedrog nie, en as dit nie was dat Wian haar vooraf van haar voete af geswiep het nie, sou sy hom baie moeiliker vergewe het toe hy haar werk as veearts in Bloubosch kom oorneem.

Toe Wian se erfhuis in ’n bosbrand vernietig word, nooi Leola hom om tydelik by haar in te trek.

Gou besef sy die “saamblyery” is glad nie goed vir haar siel, verstand of hart nie.

Jong dokters Mia en Dolf word vir drie dae in ’n hysbak vasgevang ná ’n ontploffing. Hulle leer mekaar in daar die put van vrees en pyn ken.

Ná hul redding, neem Dolf se ouers hom Kanada t oe. Mia her stel nog, toe sy uitvind sy is swanger.

Toe hul paaie nege jaar later weer kruis, keer die herinneringe stadig na Mia terug. Maar hoe vertel sy vir haar seuntjie dat sy pa leef? En wat van Dolf wat nie eens weet hy is pa nie?

Samantha, ’n kunstenaar, woon met haar hond op Kruisklipbaai ná haar verloofde se dood. Sy stel glad nie in ’n verhouding belang nie. Staan sy egter ’n kans teen die ernstige man wat haar en Wolf een oggend uit die seestroom red?

Zak het jare gelede besluit om nooit te trou nie, maar dan ontmoet hy vir Samantha en haar hond op die strand. Teen sy sin moet hy herbesin. Kan hy waag om iemand in sy lewe in te laat?