On the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a heat dome of record temperatures. Even the global leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to admit that the climate crisis has reached boiling point and the world's time is running out.

That same day, at precisely 5:25 p.m., everyone on Manhattan Island - every man, woman and child, including all the world leaders at the UN - falls unconscious. Everyone that is, except for Samantha Rossi, a single mother reeling from devastating personal news and Nick Lockwood, a wounded NYPD detective who wakes from a coma just as the City That Never Sleeps falls into one.

Manhattan Down is a pulse-pounding contemporary thriller which dares to imagine the unimaginable. The questions it asks are terrifying - and so are some of the answers.

To have and to hold, to lie and to kill...

Meet James and Daisy Dixon. They get along perfectly well - especially when on separate sides of their huge manor house, where Daisy can plot her husband's murder in peace.

However, after accidentally killing a man on their way home from a lavish party, they're forced to work together to bury the evidence. All is going surprisingly smoothly, until the day the rain washes up more than it's supposed to... and suddenly, the Dixons are suspects.

As husband and wife battle it out to be the not-guilty party, Daisy starts working on a plot of her own... after all, it wouldn't be the first time, would it?

All's fair in love and war . . . especially in this marriage.

He swore he’d stay in the shadows. She made that impossible.

Cassie
How do you get the attention of the handsome, brooding man across the street? Step one: Leave baked goods on his porch. Even if he never answers the door and always returns the containers when I’m not home. Step two: Spend a whole year trying―and failing―to accidentally run into him. Step three: Have my boudoir photos accidentally delivered to his mailbox. Have him open them. Have him storm into my home and deliver the most panty-melting scolding of my life. Step four? Still working on that.

Hans
I’m a dangerous man. The kind who’s taken more lives than he can count. The kind who belongs in the shadows, not in the soft, golden glow of a woman like Cassie. I should stay away. I have stayed away. But I can’t ignore her anymore. Not when I’ve seen her bedroom, inhaled her scent. Not when I watch her every night like she’s already mine. But no amount of cookies will change what I am. Love was never meant for men like me. I’m only meant for violence.

Benny and Joy like to say that they've been saving each other since the moment they met. Until the day Joy disappears and Benny is accused of her murder.

Best friends Benny and Joy host a beloved 'comedy survival' podcast, gleefully finding life-affirming humour in near-death experiences. When Benny arrives at Joy and her husband's home one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house.

With Joy missing and the hours ticking by, not even their most devoted fans could guess the terrible secrets they have hidden from the world - and from each other.

If Benny wants to find Joy in time, and clear his own name, he'll have to solve the highest stakes survival story yet.

Prague, 1769. In the Magic Quarter of the jewel-box city of Prague, Thea runs Stiltskin's Apothecary. There, she brews potions to chase away nightmares and soothe heartache - and strikes bargains to change her customers' fates. The only fate she cannot change? Her own.

Seven years ago, Thea bargained away her heart and her memories to the apothecary's owner, the cold, yet enigmatic Jasper, for reasons she cannot remember, and a reward she cannot recall.

Then one day a stranger arrives with an unusual request. One that will upturn Thea's entire existence - and offer her a precious chance to recover her heart . . .

Prepare to be enchanted by this spellbinding historical fantasy romance from the author of Midnight in Everwood, steeped in magic, found family and love.

For fans of S.A. Chakraborty, Robin Hobb, and Martha Wells's Witch King, a page-turning standalone fantasy of necromancy and cursed magic from Jenn Lyons, the acclaimed author of The Ruin of Kings.

Centuries ago, necromancy almost destroyed the world. That’s how history remembers it.

History remembers it wrong.

Mathaiik has studied all his life to join the sacred order of the Idallik Knights, charged with defending their world from the forces of necromancy. Only vestiges of that cursed magic remain – nothing like the fabled days of the Grim Lords, the undead wizards who once nearly destroyed the world.

Until monsters once more begin to wake. But something about them is even stranger: whole forests coming alive and devouring anyone so foolish as to trespass, formerly peaceful animals mutating into savage carnivores . . . the land itself has turned upon humanity and the Knights are powerless to stop it.

It’s a good thing, then, that the Grim Lords were never truly destroyed. One of their number sleeps below the Knights' very fortress. And when an army of twisted tree monsters attacks the young initiates in his charge, Math decides to do the unthinkable: he wakes her up.

Amid the chaos and political upheaval of 1970s America, three very different women must accept the world as it is, or act to change it.

Phyllis Patterson is a housewife in White Plains, Illinois. Her son Jimmy returns to the family home from Vietnam with a Korean wife and two children. Blindsided by these new additions, particularly her curious granddaughter, Soozie, Phyllis’s small-town world is turned upside down in more ways than she could have ever imagined.

Andrea Dworkin is an activist in Amsterdam. Having fled her abusive husband and their life together, she finds herself desperate for answers, for herself and the world around her. An encounter with Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault at their infamous Dutch debate provokes her burgeoning independence. Returning to America she will embody a revolution, no matter the price.

Muriel Rukeyser is a poet in New York. Despite protestations from her lover, Monica, Muriel insists on campaigning against injustice, using her words as weapons and pushing her body to its limits. In this era of political unrest, Muriel’s life stands as a testament to the possibility of creative resistance.

A single postcard from an imprisoned writer thousands of miles away will unite these women in the fight for a world they believe in.

Full of compassion, imagination and rich storytelling, Our Better Natures is a powerful novel about language, connection and freedom.

Three women, each at a turning point in her life, are drawn together by old secrets and new dilemmas.

Ailie: newly widowed, after twenty tempestuous years with Giorgio. Her husband's family has never accepted her, or Giorgio's choice to live outside Italy. If it weren't for her daughter, she'd cut all ties. Building bridges might be the hardest thing Ailie has ever had to do.

Sybil: in the last five years she's found the confidence to be alone, but not lonely. Now her interfering younger sister Tansy is determined to set Sybil up with a new man. And maybe Tansy's right that it's time for Sybil to change something, if not her romantic status.

Rua: twenty years ago, she learned the hard way that it's a dangerous world for young women. Twice she's faced a crisis and twice she's had to rebuild her life. Now all she cares about is protecting her daughter from the pain she went through herself. But even the worst grief can heal . . .

In her unique, insightful life-affirming way, Sheila O'Flanagan weaves together the lives of these three remarkable women in an absolutely satisfying novel readers will never forget.

Annie thinks she knows what’s best for everyone. But when her life goes sideways, the inner workings of her own heart become a total mystery—can she stumble her way to happily ever after?

After getting let go from her job and learning her sister is engaged to the worst man alive, Annie needs a win. Filling the open role in her company's data strategy team is just what the doctor ordered. So what if she doesn't know how to write code? How hard can it be? Surely Connor—the team's overworked, aggravating, and distractingly hot interim head—will soon realize how capable Annie is.

Annie sets her sights on landing this new job, even if that means ignoring the chemistry building between her and her new boss, and she tries to (gently!) convince her sister to reconsider her engagement. But with sparks flying at work and at home, she begins to see how complicated taking matters into her own hands can be. Maybe, just maybe, Annie doesn't actually know everything.

Buckle up for a wild journey into the dark heart of the 1% – the perfect heist novel for our twenty-first century political moment, for fans of Yellowface, V for Vendetta, Tarantino and Irvine Welsh.

When her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian outback genius Kayla Connolly decides to hunt down the culprits of climate change: billionaires.

She teams up with Mr P, a giant ex-soldier from Tuvalu whose home is being flooded by rising sea levels. Together, they find ingenious ways to kill a property developer building on protected wetlands and a mining company CEO poisoning the earth with toxic chemicals. They also find an unexpected ally in Nancy, a wealthy elderly woman with a shocking past.

The trio’s mission soon develops a life of its own, taking them first to California to crack billionaire tech bros and then to London for superrich oil executives, spawning a global movement along the way. In pursuit are the FBI and Detective Sergeant Kate Anderson of Scotland Yard, but Kate is having doubts about whether Kayla is even in the wrong.

Will Kayla be able to stay ahead of the game and pull off one final, remarkable hit?

From USA Today bestselling author Kathryn Moon comes the Sweetverse: a scorching, emotional, why-choose omegaverse for fans of Katee Robert and Harley Laroux.

Baby's heat is coming…

After years of assuming she was a beta, discovering her omega designation in a biker bar surrounded by alphas isn't exactly fulfilling any fantasies for Baby. She only wanted to have a fun night, not get knotted, bitten, and bonded. Now Baby's entire life is about to turn upside down. With her heat on its way, she needs to find a pack, a nest, and alphas she can trust.

The Late Night Howlers have given up hope…

After years of waiting for an omega to choose them, this motorcycle club of alphas is ready to move on with their lives. Until one sweet woman takes a chance on them. A rundown bar and apartment building is no place to spoil a new omega but the Howlers are determined to do right by Baby when she needs them. All they have to do is keep her satisfied while resisting the mouthwatering temptation to bite and bond her, permanently.

When a rival MC comes sniffing after Baby, her safety is put at risk and the Howlers may be torn apart forever.

Three lives, one summer and an affair that will unravel everything.

At a crossroads in their relationship, Emma and Julian agree to house-sit for a friend in Athens over the course of an oppressive summer. Their plans take an unexpected turn when they meet Lena, an enigmatic young Greek woman who presents an opportunity for them to explore their relationship in uncharted and thrillingly risky ways.

But as the heat in the city grows stifling, Emma and Julian find themselves far more entangled in Lena's life than they'd bargained for.

What follows is a highly-charged three-way struggle for control, as Emma, Julian and Lena are suddenly faced with consequences far greater - and far more dangerous - than they could have predicted.

25th Anniversary Edition including a new preface from the author. Shortlisted For The Booker Prize in 2001.

Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and ambitious book, the brilliant Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives.

This is a novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe . . .

Bold, queer and utterly thrilling, Hell's Heart is a speculative retelling of Herman Melville's classic, Moby Dick. From bestselling author of Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall.

They are monsters. They are legends. And they are our prey.

Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of fuel. And by ‘fuel’ I mean cerebrospinal fluid, harvested at great risk from gargantuan space monsters.

I joined the hunt hoping to get paid and maybe laid, but mostly paid. And I followed a charismatic captain eager to face these beasts and to howl her defiance across the skies of Jupiter. On her crew, I met Q, a woman from the wreck of old Earth, who might have kept me grounded. Or then again, perhaps not.

We were ordered to hunt the greatest leviathan of all, and we fought beasts and ships and one another. Then we finally met our nemesis, there above the red heart of that world. Spoiler: it didn’t end well.

How do you catch a killer who believes they're above jusitce?

Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of his own.

A famous actress has disappeared and Wolff has been ordered to find her, fast. But Elena Lang is no ordinary film-star: she is the mistress of Joseph Goebbels - Hitler's right-hand-man in the party that Wolff despises.

But this is a country on the brink of war, and corruption runs deep. In a search that will take him from high society to the city's darkest corners, Wolff will soon learn just how fine the line is between justice and jeopardy...

Barry John Cohen delivers a powerful and resonant finale to a multi-generational story of exile, endurance, and rediscovery.

Inspired by true events, the novel follows Lotte Levy, the daughter of Holocaust family victims living in post-war Cape Town, after the Nazis stole their huge business, 22-room home, and art, and who uncovers a family painting long believed destroyed. Her search for its origin draws her across Europe-and into the shadow of the man who profited from her family's suffering: a former Nazi living behind a carefully constructed new identity in Luderitz, Namibia.

Spanning continents and generations, Cohen's work explores how art can carry memory, how truth can survive decades of silence, and how one woman's compassion becomes an act of resistance against forgetting.

House on the Hill is a dark, atmospheric thriller about a family estate where buried crimes, inherited guilt, and decades of silence refuse to stay hidden.

Rinelda is gelukkig tussen haar verfkwaste en verf en haar nuutste muurskildery maak haar opgewonde. Maar net toe sy dink haar lewe kry koers, verskyn ’n skim uit die verlede.

Sewe jaar gelede het Ewald ’n nota op haar kussing gelos en verdwyn. Nou is hy terug en vasbeslote om haar terug te wen. Sy probeer hom vermy, maar hulle werk saam op boupersele. Hoe meer sy veg teen die aantrekkingskrag, hoe sterker word dit.

Gaan ’n misverstand hulle brose serenade vernietig?

Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue meets Bridgerton in this stunning queer romance by KJ Charles, author of The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting.

Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte, is making a splash in Society. The son of a French noblewoman wrongly convicted for a notorious crime, he hopes to restore his mother’s reputation, if only he can raise the funds. Or, at least, that’s his story.

Titus Pilcrow, an unassuming shopkeeper, accidentally married an immensely wealthy woman on her deathbed. Now possessed of a fortune, he’s the target of every conman and beggar in London. Including Nico.

Broke and desperate, Nico latches on to Titus. It’s his big chance to get rich – until he falls in love with the man he needs to cheat. Still, Nico is sure they can have a happy ending together. If he can just find a way out of his own web of lies . . .

Nadat Karmen ’n vliegtuigongeluk in Spanje oorleef waarin haar ouers sterf, blameer haar ouma haar. Ná matriek vlug Karmen na Europa en leef soos ’n sigeuner sonder wortels.

Dertien jaar later dwing haar ouma haar terug na Barcelona, sodat Karmen met ’n ryk losbol moet trou. Dwalend in Barcelona se strate, ontmoet Karmen vir Marco, ’n straatmusikant wat haar liefde vir musiek en die lewe laat herleef.

Maar sy sal haar verlede en skuldgevoelens moet konfronteer as sy weer geluk wil vind.

Lani rebelleer teen haar ouers wat haar ’n konsertpianis wil maak en gebruik haar musiektalent om popmusiekliedjies te skryf. Sy werk as kelnerin en trek rond om haar ouers te ontduik.

Elliot leef rustig en georden totdat hy Lani, ’n ryloper met ’n ghitaar, oplaai. Sy is die teenoorgestelde van sy ideale vrou, maar maak iets in hom wakker. Hy glo nie aan liefde met die eerste oogopslag nie, maar sy hart vat kortpad.

Gaan hy sy hart se wens kan weerstaan?

It’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series—featuring bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.

Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don’t listen to those whispers about what’s happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.”

Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.

Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.

So Carl is planning a party of his own. It’s a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can’t even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it’s not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been.


Includes part eight of the exclusive bonus story “Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret.”

When Margaret Ives, the famously reclusive heiress, invites eternal optimist Alice Scott to the balmy Little Crescent Island, Alice knows this is it: her big break. And even more rare: a chance to impress her family with a Serious Publication.

The catch? Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud, Hayden Anderson, is sure of the same thing.

The proposal? A one-month trial period to unearth the truth behind one of the most scandalous families of the 20th Century, after which she'll choose who'll tell her story.

The problem? Margaret is only giving each of them tantalising pieces. Pieces they can't put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they're in the same room.

And it's becoming abundantly clear that their story - just like the tale Margaret's spinning - could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad ... depending on who's telling it.

Hyper-competent start up CFO Ellie is 46-years old and like most women, is already juggling too much.

Daughter’s not talking to her, husband’s not listening to her, and she's got a promotion coming up at work. It's an inconvenient time to be beset by mid-life symptoms: coarse hair in new places, hot flushes, insomnia, losing time, finding bloodstains on all her clothing, howling at the moon.

Her doctor diagnoses perimenopause. But it's another 28-day cycle that's taking hold. One involving fur, and teeth, and a not insignificant amount of rage.

Suddenly the troubles in her life - hot flushes, thankless family, spiralling to-do list, oblivious husband, the w*nker promoted above her at work – seem almost... bite­size.

A deeply gratifying, highly addictive and provocative read, Femme Feral is an exhilarating expression of feminine rage, with a warning: If you swallow your anger, it’s sure to come back with a bite.

I’m hunting a monster.

The first time I met Yulian Dimitriev, it was hate at first sight. He is brash, chaotic, a violence-junkie. In short, everything I disregard. As heirs to two notorious mafia organizations, we’re forced to spend time with one another.

The more I learn about Yulian, the deeper my loathing seeps. Until I truly see the person within, and something forbidden sparks between us.

When tragedy strikes, our co-existence is cut short. Forcing Yulian and I back to our parallel worlds that should never cross. But they do. And, once again, I’m dragged into the orbit of a man I shouldn’t want.

Two men can’t be together in our world.

But Yulian blurs every limit I thought existed. Soon, everything is in jeopardy.

Our hearts included.

A daring, stay-up-all-night story of love and the remarkable strength of women, from the multi-million copy bestselling author.

Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unforgiving. Unpredictable.

For thirteen-year-old Leni Allbright, Alaska is supposed to be a fresh start. Her father, a former POW, is desperate to leave the world behind. Her mother, Cora, will follow the man she loves anywhere, even to the edge of the earth. But as winter descends and darkness blankets the land, the Allbrights realize they are woefully unprepared. The danger doesn't just lurk in the wilderness outside; it lives within the walls of their own cabin.

In the shadow of a volatile marriage and a landscape that wants to kill them, Leni must decide: how far will she go to survive?

This new edition comes with exciting bonus content to dig deeper into The Great Alone: a conversation with Kristin Hannah and reading group questions.