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THE SENSATIONAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE'Bloody awful? Bloody brilliant, more like' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Pure joyous storytelling on every page … A little treasure of a book' FREDRIK BACKMAN'A delight from start to finish' JENNIE GODFREY'Flawless ... So sharp, so beguiling, so acutely observed' GUARDIANI’m fizzing. I love not being his son. Yes. I can feel it in my whole body. A great thrill – as if an adventure has begun. As if I’m the boy in a book about a boy who finds out his dad is the king of a magical and distant land. Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev’s mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet. Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or thieves, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame – but even she can’t control how they behave. Vivid and joyful, raw and tender, Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins and ends; and above all, about men. Because after all, you learn an awful lot about this strange species when you have seven fathers in seven years. READERS LOVE BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS'I loved this book so much. It reminds me a bit of Demon Copperhead but if Fredrik Backman was writing it' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW'Once every now and again comes a book that I just absorb. I have to press it into people's hands and say 'you must read this'. This is one of those books: a joyful, laugh out loud, heartbreaking and uplifting wonder' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW'Actually bloody brilliant in different ways ... Vivid and witty and punchy and just so real' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW'Hugely readable and often very funny ... Superb' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW'5 joyous stars. I urge you to read this. It may just be your book of the year. It is mine' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW

A secret romance writer discovers that the hottest story of summer might just be the one happening between her and the Prime Minister’s bodyguard... The swoon-worthy new fake dating rom com featuring forced proximity and second chances, from the international bestselling author of The Catch, perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey and Carley Fortune. Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she’s the no-nonsense personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada’s wife. By night, she slips out of her heels and writes romance novels under a top-secret pen name. But when her steamiest book, The Prime Minister & Me becomes a bestseller, rumours of a real-life affair between her and the PM start swirling out of control. Enter Nolan Crosby, the PM’s new close protection officer and Andi’s failed one-night stand from three years ago. Nolan might be in town to look after his mother, but when the scandal erupts, Andi enlists him to help take care of her own dilemma. To save their bosses’ reputations they’ll pretend to date for the summer. But as sparks fly, can they keep their romance strictly fictiona? EADERS CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THIS AFFAIR. . . 'You can’t put it down!''A cute rom-com… but with heart and depth...so refreshing''The perfect book''An ode to the romance reader and romance books''A heartfelt story'PERFECT FOR FANS OF:*Fake Dating*Slow Burn*Forced proximity*Rom-Com*Dual POV

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION**A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR FEBRUARY | A 2026 HIGHLIGHT IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND THE BOOKSELLER A meeting place for Europe’s bohemian artists. A headquarters of the Nazi occupation. A shelter for camp survivors. This is the true story of how one Paris hotel came to hold the weight of a century. The Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only ‘grand’ hotel on the city’s bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. It has a darker history, too. During one short period, it became a focus for some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history. In the 1930s the Hotel Lutetia attracted intellectuals and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, who met here with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service – and the centre of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich. In 1945, the Lutetia was requisitioned once more, this time transformed into a reception centre for deportees returning from concentration camps. Hotel Exile is about what happens on the edges of a war. At its heart are three groups of people connected to a place, to one another, and to the dark ideology which dictates the course of their lives. A masterpiece of empathy and concision, Jane Rogoyska’s extraordinary new book offers us a vision of individual human beings desperately trying to find a path through some of the twentieth century’s most devastating events.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2026'© Codex' SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEMLONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2026'Profound, sheer originality... a tantalising jigsaw puzzle of a book' Tristram Fane-Saunders, TelegraphIn The New Carthaginians, time – and with it the world – is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that will lead to Idi Amin’s Uganda becoming a pariah state and, within a few years, to the young Nick Makoha’s flight from the country. A mysterious writer daubs poetic slogans on the walls of late-’70s New York City, signing them SAMO©. Three characters who are also one – the Poet, a Black Icarus and a resurrected Jean-Michel Basquiat – journey through a time that is both our own and not, watching TV, discussing art and literature and tucking their wings into their jackets on the way to airport security. Concerned throughout with flight and falling, the sample and the loop, The New Carthaginians is a poetry collection of staggering originality: a work by an author at the height of his powers, in which the familiar Western canons of art, history and philosophy are prised apart and reassembled in a new configuration. Drawing on Basquiat’s technique of the ‘exploded’ collage, our heroes’ odyssey gathers the symbols of a new mythos, through which the othering of Black life might be undone and the stage set for some fresh emergence, some transfigured understanding of myth and life. ‘Hold that note,’ writes the poet. ‘In this place you are no longer the chorus … In any future, remember you are a New Carthaginian.’A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF POETRY 2025‘In this book, Nick Makoha has found an otherworldly, visionary voice and diction that arrest you from the first page and never let you go.’ Jason Allen-Paisant, Winner of the TS Eliot Prize

'A brilliant, strange and tender exploration of what it is to fail, keep failing, and fail better' Sarah Bernstein, author of Study for Obedience Two men meet in a flat in London. They are total strangers and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine is an ambivalent parent at best. Lewis is an erstwhile actor, too depressed to attend the big audition that has just fallen into his lap. Korine has tried a dozen dead-end jobs but never pursued his acting dreams. Two men living mirror image lives. Each seeking a second chance to get things right. Each wanting what the other has. As If is an existential farce about the road not taken. Surreal and slyly poignant, suffused with ironic melancholia, it is a parable for the twenty-first century everyman: a character trapped in reality’s hall of mirrors, endlessly searching for something to live for.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALIST'Wise, beguiling... a treasure and a beacon of a poet, whose indispensable body of work offers no less than a way to navigate this world' Sarah HoweA new collection and first UK publication from the Poet Laureate of the United StatesArthur Sze has long been renowned for his constellation of vision and generous imagination – able to hold the aspen leaf and the mountain range, the water droplet and the crashing surf in the same stunning poetic field. Turning his attention to habitat destruction, language extinction, mortality and so much more, Into the Hush sketches a world slipping into silence, asking what we lose to it, what emerges, and what can be held in its aperture. Sze draws together a startling array of imagery in these quietly forceful poems that render our complex universe with profound simplicity and clarity. Sze’s lyric voice – which at times inhabits the body of a jaguar and even an eraser – moves between chaos and stillness with supple agility, challenging our notions of traditional poetic forms such as the haibun, zuihitsu, sonnet and pantoum to break open new avenues of expression that speak to our fragmented world. Attuned to the underlying network that connects all things, Into the Hush charts a thrilling journey from silence into sound, from emptiness into the rich possibilities of existence.

'I loved how the fiendishly complicated back story unfolded and then how everything made sense in the end – so satisfying!' Marian Keyes‘A brilliant story about the cost of family secrets, the powerful bonds of sisterhood and how far we will go to protect the ones we love’ Edel Coffey‘An emotional thriller that will keep readers engaged from beginning to end … triumphant’ Irish Independent---This family lived a life before me. And now I wonder if it was what happened in that life – all those secrets – that tore this family apart . . . not me. The warring Brown sisters. Lucy. Susannah. Tara. Each is haunted – by disgrace (Lucy), vanity (Susannah) and envy (Tara). Most of all they are haunted by secrets. Just before a dinner at their mother’s idyllic holiday cottage, Susannah disappears. That same night a young woman is killed violently on a nearby beach. Amid the confusion the next morning, Lucy discovers a link between Susannah and the murder victim. Lucy must summon all she knows from her short-lived policing career to figure out the connection and find her sister. But tracking down Susannah means Lucy confronting her own shame. It also means resurrecting ghosts that Susannah, Tara – and their mother – desperately want to keep buried. Even if Lucy finds Susannah, will the truth destroy them all?---'Outstanding. An accomplished, clever thriller . . . the three sisters steal the show with their warring loyalties' Jane Casey‘A marvellously twisty matryoshka doll of a crime story, with shades of Agatha Christie and Liz Nugent in the stylings’ Irish Times‘Heart-thumping’ The Gloss‘Jen Bray has perfectly balanced pace with heart . . . beautifully thoughtful storytelling. I loved it!’ Liv Matthews‘A tense, layered debut about how family ties bind and break us’ Image ‘Gets its hooks into you from the first page and doesn’t let go. Tautly plotted, gripping and suspenseful’ Michelle McDonagh‘A page-turning tale of long kept secrets and murder' Andrea Carter‘So well plotted with characters who jump off the page . . . I was hooked from the start!’ Patricia Gibney'Deliciously unpredictable … richly compelling’ Hot Press‘Perfectly crafted. An engrossing, gripping, and heartbreaking crime novel’ Her.ie‘Tense and twisty’ Sheila O’Flanagan‘By turns gripping, pacy and emotionally satisfying – blistering’ Claire Coughlan‘Intriguing . . . the complex relationships between the sisters are beautifully depicted’ Fiona Gartland‘A tightly woven, twisty tale’ Kitty Murphy‘I really enjoyed all the layers and intrigue – keeps you guessing' Clara Dillon‘Accomplished . . . gripping’ Rosemary Hennigan''Three sisters and a myriad of complex, volcanic secrets! Intense, twisty and gripping. I loved it!' Vanessa O'Loughlin‘A wonderfully woven mystery’ Amy Jordan‘Chock full of family secrets . . . thrilling and twisty’ Catherine Kirwan‘Beautifully plotted and written, compelling and emotional’ Vicki Notaro‘Taut, terrific, tense . . . old wounds, secrecy and sibling relationships are tested to their limits in this twisty, unpredictable mystery’ Gill Perdue‘After reading the first two chapters there was no putting it down . . . loved it!’ Michelle Teahan‘Gripping’ Irish Country Magazine‘So vivid and atmospheric … the sisters were brilliantly brilliantly written. I will be recommending it to everyone!’ Sarah Easter Collins‘Keeps you guessing all the way.’ Rory Egan'Full of twists and turns.’ Belfast Telegraph‘I so enjoyed this’ Louise McSharry'A strong debut' Sunday Independent‘It has pace, is gripping and tense, and full of twists … superb’ Irish Farmer’s Journal

ATTEND THE BIGGEST MAGICAL TOURNAMENT AND PRE-ORDER WHISPERS MOST DEADLY, THE SEQUEL TO THE MAGICALLY MYSTERIOUS WHISPERS MOST FOUL . . . --Rose would have left the dark halls of Dunhollow Academy forever – but she cannot leave Sylvie, her heart and soul, behind in the Academy’s rotten core. And after months honing her newfound magic, Rose is stronger now – ready for whatever the elites of Dunhollow can throw at her. Or so she thinks.She hasn’t bargained on the academy hosting The Ashwood Tournament, a prestigious, once-in-a-decade contest against rival magical academies. The prize is glory, but the stakes are deadly - only the most elite contestants stand a chance.No one is surprised when Sylvie is among the chosen.But then Rose’s name is selected too…--Readers loved the previous book:‘I wish I could give Whispers Most Foul 10 stars! This is one of the best books I’ve read this year’ ***** Reader Review‘This book has me second guessing my ability to solve mysteries!’ ***** Reader ReviewI was promised a gothic fantasy full of mystery, romance, magic and a dash of horror and it delivered! ***** Reader Review‘The dark academia aesthetic and narrative was so captivating and immersive – you can tell that Emma was writing what she knew, because she captured it perfectly!’ ***** Reader Review‘Atmospheric and full of gut-wrenching emotions’ ***** Reader Review‘The novel balances everything out, with each chapter alternating between its academic world and its supernatural elements’ ***** Reader Review

Travel to the heart of a Roman dynasty beset by power struggles and betrayal in this latest chapter of the tale of Nero__________A MARRIAGE BLESSED IN BLOOD . . . Emperor Claudius is to wed his niece Agrippina. Her elevation will change so many things. Claudius will name her son Nero as heir. And any who dare cross her will live to regret it. Yet Nero – still a boy – is vulnerable. He vies for favour with his brother Britannicus. He learns to fight. He learns to love. Marry your sister-cousin Octavia,says his mother. Never mind the scandal. But those who have survived Agrippina,have long memories and short knives. To rise in Rome, others must fall. How long before Claudius realises his adopted son is a threa? nd Nero stops seeing his mother as an ally?__________PRAISE FOR CONN IGGULDEN'Breathtakingly good’ Bernard Cornwell‘Deft and robust storytelling, that whips through the history with plenty of blood, guts and plot-twists’ The Times'Pacy and propulsive, cracking with energy, violence and stirring speeches, Iggulden chronicles power struggles, political machinations and the bloodthirsty ravages of up-close combat' Daily Mail‘A master of the historical novel’ Washington PostReaders love Nero'Iggulden draws you into Rome, its brutality and its glory, and brings it back to life with such seamless ease' ***** Reader Review'Absolute quality from first to last page, atmospheric with a real feel for time and place' ***** Reader Review'It was fascinating to see the seeds being planted that will lead to the Nero becoming the tyrant we know through the ancient historians, but told in such a contemporary and accessible way' ***** Reader Review'An absolutely immersive experience throughoutthat throws you into the politics of Ancient Rome' ***** Reader Review‘Another gripping page turner from the peerless master of historical fiction.’ ***** Reader ReviewConn Iggulden, Sunday Times bestseller, June 2024

‘Magical … truly original … Writing of people who limited themselves and died of it, Als has overcome limits’ The New York Times Book Review What are the forces that shape us? Hilton Als’s brilliant, now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in AmericaIn The Women, Hilton Als explores—with breath taking originality—the role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction, Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary characters, including: his mother, a singular woman whose West Indian heritage and determination inspired her son to write; Malcolm X's mother, whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's burgeoning misogyny and fear; brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean, who deeply empathized with white gay men; and Owen Dodson, teacher and poet, who played an important role in the author's development as a gay man, and thinker. Combining memoir, cultural history, social theory and storytelling, The Women is a profoundly innovative work which has inspired a generation of writers. Here, Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to scrutiny, showing ‘no mercy but every tenderness’. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form of all its own.

*PRE-ORDER your next obsession now...*They’ve never met, but this is the way it is supposed to be: they belong to each other. Lonely college student Minnie feels invisible until she stumbles upon HOURglass: America’s new K-pop boyband obsession. Soon she is memorising the lyrics to every song and staying up late to watch their livestreams, hoping that her favourite member, bad-boy Halo, will see her in the comments.On the other side of the screen, Halo is also becoming addicted to the adoration from his fans, using their love to paper over the cracks of the tragic past he is determined to keep hidden.It’s a perfect love, until Minnie is drawn to a shadowy fan community who believe they need to protect the band members from a dark conspiracy. As Minnie becomes increasingly determined to discover the secrets that Halo is keeping, the line between fandom and obsession begins to blur.But if the truth comes out, could either of them survive it?

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD'Beautiful and unflinching, Cloudless is a phenomenal debut' ANNA HOPE, author of Albion‘Attends to the bonds we have to family, landscape, global politics with uncommon attention, extraordinary depth and lightness of touch’ ELIZABETH O'CONNOR, author of Whale FallIt is autumn 2004 and in a farmhouse on the hills outside Llandudno, Catrin and John endure the agonizing wait for their older son to return from Iraq. His decision to join up has left them reeling, yet there are other battles at home: the working of the land that has been theirs for generations and what to do with their troubled younger son. Catrin’s childhood sweetheart comes back to their small town, forcing the boys’ doting mother to confront the life she might have had. And John, desperate to keep farm and family together, turns to ever riskier methods to stay afloat. As each member of the family grasps at their own tenuous lifeline, they drift further from one another – until, on a cold winter evening, there is a fateful knock at the door. Written in luminous, exquisitely calibrated prose, Cloudless is a masterful portrayal of the fragility and resilience of human connection. ‘Dastur writes with devastating compassion on what it means to be human’ CATHERINE AIREY, author of Confessions‘Elegant and quietly devastating’ MELISSA FU, author of Peach, Blossom, Spring‘A story about love and war, family and nation . . . Told with intelligence, sensitivity and a huge heart’ PAUL McVEIGH, author of The Good Son

A powerful memoir from 'the Democrats’ most talented political newcomer since Barack Obama' (Time)'Spectacular . . . Wes Moore is a proper leader' George ClooneyTwo kids named Wes Moore shared much more than a name; they shared remarkably similar circumstances. Both grew up father­less and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and leading politician, while the other became a convicted murderer serving a life sentenc? es Moore, the author of this fascinating book, sets out to answer this profound ques­tion. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also featured an article about a botched armed robbery in which a police officer had been killed. Two of the suspects had gone on the run. One was named Wes Moore. After following the case to its conclusion, Wes Moore wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter asked the questions that had been haunting him: who are you? How did this happe? hrough dozens of letters and prison visits, over the course of years, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own. Told in alternating dramatic narratives, The Other Wes Moore takes readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, and sheds a powerful light on modern America. 'I always walk away from a conversation with Wes Moore with a new perspective…new ideas...with a new way of seeing things...with a new burst of positive energy.' Oprah Winfrey

Welcome to Neverthorn Academy.Where a bunch of magical school misfits are about to save the world.Or, more likely, die trying . . .--Since dropping out of Neverthorn Academy, after the death of her mother, Harlow Dragon has been working as an enchanted-jewel thief.The last thing she expects is for the school to make an offer she can’t refuse: come back to Neverthorn and join seven others with secret magical abilities in House Phoenix. There, they’ll be trained in potions, rune casting and combat.Because Nocta – a powerful dark wizard who has been plaguing the magical realm for decades – has the mortal world in his sights, and the students of House Phoenix are all that stand in his way.But Harlow failed at Neverthorn once before. And nothing reminds her of this more than tall, brooding Typhon – Harlow’s old classmate and nemesis – who is now the professor tasked with unlocking her own, special power.Except Harlow is sure that Typhon and the other professors are hiding a dark secret.One she must figure out before Nocta arrives to bring about the end of the world . . .--Readers love Shannon Mayer''I love Shannon Mayer and her ability to create paranormal worlds that just suck you in'' Reader Review''Shannon Meyer’s work is fun to read. Her spicy romance and suspense blend to make a novel that delights readers'' Reader Review''I love Shannon Mayer. Creative, tough, prolific, and smart'' Reader Review

When Neil Dawson''s father commits suicide, he is devastated by the loss.But even through his grief, Neil knows something isn''t right. Among his father''s possessions, he finds a copy of an old novel, The Black Flower. Opening it will take Neil into an investigation full of danger, pain and subterfuge.Detective Hannah Price is also mourning her father, having followed his footsteps into the police force.When she gets assigned to Neil''s father''s case, it will lead her on a journey into her own past and to the heart of a shattering secret...

DISCOVER Evan Smoak's most complex mission yet - with his usual skills off the table, how can he bring vengeance for those who most need it? Sometimes two wrongs do make a right . . . ‘Non-stop action and a wonderful lightness of touch. Hurwitz kills it again’ DAILY EXPRESSPRAISE FOR THE ORPHAN X SERIES'Weapons-grade thriller writing' The Guardian'Feels like a missile launch' David Baldacci'Outstanding in every way' Lee Child'Makes the Jack Reacher books look quaint' Sun---Two problems: A tech-billionaire whose psychological crisis could have catastrophic implications for the global order. And the abduction of vulnerable young woman, Anca, seized from the New York City Subway, held, hurt, then discarded like trash. One solution: Evan Smoak, a former black ops assassin codenamed Orphan X, now dedicated to helping the desperate with nowhere else to turn. But saving the world from a powerful man who has lost his mind while pursuing justice for an innocent survivor will test Evan like never before. Especially when complicated by Anca's inconvenient insistence that he show some measure of mercy to the men who abducted her. Because if the world's greatest assassin cannot kill, then this mission just got a whole lot more daunting and dangerous. As lethal threats mount, Evan may have to choose between upholding a higher code . . . and his own life.