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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

TWO MEN. TWENTY YEARS. ONE PROPOSAL.

Danny and Luis have been a couple for decades. Piece by piece, they’ve built a life together. They’ve created a home. The only thing they didn't have was a marriage. When they met, it was illegal. But the law finally changes, and Danny decides to propose - on a Scottish hilltop, to the love of his life.

Luis loves Danny, but does he love marriage?

And, as the past begins to catch up to them both, everything they have worked for begins to fall apart. Can their love survive the ultimate test? And is a yes still worth fighting for after twenty years together?

Tender, romantic, and beautifully written, Twenty Years Together is a love story for the ages, by the multi-million copy bestselling author of Child 44.

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?

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 . . .

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?

Once upon a time there was a family. Everything else is a lie. The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.

Generations of children have grown up with Dame Eleanor Kingman’s stories. Her status as the country’s best-loved storyteller is unrivalled. But now it is under attack. Because while her fans regard her as a national treasure, someone seems to know the truth about who she really is…

Eleanor is turning seventy and marking the occasion with a beautiful party at her new clifftop Cornish home. A retrospective television show has been commissioned to commemorate her and the great and the good will be there to toast Eleanor’s success.

But as her three daughters and her many friends gather, the stories Eleanor has been telling about her own life and family seem less and less convincing. Not every story has a happy ending: and every family has its secrets. As the threats against her escalate, will Eleanor be forced to tell the truth at last?

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.

When your life flashes before your eyes, what will matter most?

For Wilbur it was his time with Maggie, the love of his life. Their honeymoon in Venice. Before he threw it all away.

Years later, on the brink of his own death, a train arrives. It can take Wilbur back in time. To relive his most important moments. Soon he realises just how much he would have changed.

An adventure through time, The Midnight Train is a story of love and second chances, from the world of The Midnight Library.

So, I Met This Guy . . .

Well, isn’t that how every love story starts? But how does it end – a happily ever after? Or with the discovery that the supposed love-of-your-life has stolen your life savings and your home, trashed your heart and demolished your self-esteem?

Maggie is barely fifty years-old, and she's not one to give up on herself. So when she meets Flick, a young reporter who realises this story could be the big break she’s been looking for, they set off to catch him as he goes on the run across Europe. After all, she’s got nothing left to lose, right?

But as the pair embark on the road trip of their lives, unexpected twists, hidden secrets and hard truths are revealed. And as an unlikely friendship begins to blossom, they realise it’s not just about finding the guy, it’s about finding themselves . . .

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?

Niekie Rabie is haar moeilike aktrise-suster, Irene, se oorwerkte assistent en val al jare lank vir Irene se miserabele akteur-ekse. Ná haar laaste traumatiese verhouding sweer sy alle mans af.

Toe die aksieheld Ruhan Arendse op die filmstel verskyn, bly Niekie ver uit sy pad, want Irene het die man vir haarself opgeëis. Ruhan laat hom egter nie voorskryf nie en sien Niekie raak in die skadu van haar suster, en ontdek haar talent.

Maar wat is sy motiewe?

Catryn wil nie met ’n ryk wynboer trou nie. Sy wil eerder haar eie kleremaakbesigheid aan die Kaap de Goede Hoop begin.

Claude kom Kaap toe om die hart van sy eertydse minnares, die goewerneur se vrou, terug te wen. Toe hy en Catryn saam die goewerneur se vrou se gesteelde pêrelhalssnoer moet opspoor, spat die vonke. Die verhouding tussen hulle raak al warmer, en skandale dreig.

Sal hulle die vuurproef deurstaan?

Charl bestuur ’n groot vervoerbesigheid en sorg al jare vir sy drie jonger sibbe. Hy het nie tyd vir verhoudings nie, selfs nie vir Renise, sy jeugliefde nie. Tot hy haar een aand gestrand langs ’n gevaarlike pad met ’n stukkende motor vind. Hy moet dringend ’n vrag gaan aflaai en neem haar, ter wille van haar veiligheid, saam met hom.

Renise het ’n donker geheim wat niemand durf uitvind nie, veral nie Charl nie. Sal hul liefde hier die nuwe toets deurstaan?

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.

I'm a 32-year-old sex worker who just killed a politician. Please, please, please turn me into a feminist anti-hero . . .

A 32-year-old sex worker has just killed extremist political hopeful Meat Neck. Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits and a high-speed internet connection to save her own life.

Her best bet is to reach out to the wildly popular feminist investigative podcast Justice for Bimbos. In a hastily-typed series of emails, the newly-minted "Murder Bimbo" explains how she was recruited and then trained by a cabal of code-named US agents to take out Meat Neck.

But, when she starts a new set of emails, this time addressed to her ex-girlfriend, we begin to realize that Murder Bimbo might not be the unsuspecting cog she claims to be.

In a time where 'truth' is more flexible than ever before - who really is Murder Bimbo? And what will she do next?