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The dark, rawly comic follow-up to the winner of the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year, new in paperback 'A serious talent' Kevin Bridges 'Inventive and witty, with a nerve-shredding finale' Chris Brookmyre 'An outstanding new writer who is destined to become a very big name' Peter James DCI Alison McCoist is newly promoted but less popular than ever.Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit.When McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled corpse under a flyover, they are both sucked into a deadly stramash of gangland wars and police corruption.Can Chuck solve his gambling and gangster problems before some head-banger feeds him into his own shredder? And can McCoist claw herself out of this shitemire without her own shady dealings coming to light? It might depend on how far she's prepared to go...Readers love Paperboy"A fast-paced edge-of-the-seat thriller! I was gripped from the very first page! I loved it! What a book!" - ARCReviews byM (5 stars)"Horrific and darkly humorous in equal measure" - Chris Cuddihy (5 stars)"I love McCoist. What a brilliant character! I'm so impressed by how real she is... I can't wait for the next one. The ending was just the perfect set up for book #3' - Mary Silva (5 stars)

The instant New York Times and Indie bestseller.A Good Morning America YA Book Club pick.In Leyland, there is no magic more powerful than the written word. Maeve Abenthy knows this better than anyone, for it was with ink that her father destroyed the world. To avoid the stain of his crimes she lives in hiding, until the arrival of an anonymous letter changes everything. It contains four impossible words: Your father was innocent.In search of the letter's author, Maeve infiltrates the Otherwhere Post - an illustrious academy where she will master the arcane magic of scriptomancy. But one person sees through her disguise: Tristan Byrne, her brilliant yet infuriating mentor. To win his trust and uncover the secrets buried in her past, Maeve may have to risk something far worse than her mission - her heart.The Otherwhere Post contains:A rivals-to-lovers romanceAncient magicCrumbling librariesDangerous secretsHidden identities

'A triumphant piece of magic' Observer'The best book of all time for this age' The TimesAfter reigning for a thousand years, old King Mansolain is growing weary and his heart is slowing down. Only stories can keep it ticking while his doctor searches for the cure. So, from every corner of the kingdom, creatures journey to the castle in the copper mountains to sit on the King's long white bear and share their tales.Every night, a new storyteller arrives: a fearsome wolf, a lonely rabbit, a fire-breathing, three-headed dragon and many more. Each tale is more wondrous than the last, but will they be enough to keep the King's heart beating?Part of the new Pushkin Children's Classics series of thrilling, magical and inspiring stories from around the world, which young readers will return to time and again.Illustrated by Sally J. Collins.Paul Biegel was one of Europe's most acclaimed and best-loved storytellers, and the author of more than fifty books for children. Born in the Netherlands in 1925, he studied law but worked as a comic-strip writer before writing his first novel, The Golden Guitar, in 1960. The King of the Copper Mountains followed in 1965. It won the award for the best Dutch children's book of the year, and remains his best-loved work.

'A small dystopian treasure' Independent'Beautiful, funny, and life-affirming' Publishers WeeklyIn an unnamed Middle Eastern city, Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, makes his way through a crowd chanting in support of the Leader. Stifled by heat and noise, bullied by the party faithful, Fathi presses on, determined to visit his girlfriend. But over the course of the day it becomes clear the regime has plans for him - and soon he'll be forced to make a terrible choice.This startlingly funny, urgent novel asks what it means to have a conscience, to laugh, and to endure amidst the roar of tyranny.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.Translated by Max Weiss.Nihad Sirees was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1950. After training and working as an engineer, he became an acclaimed novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Finding himself under increasing surveillance and pressure from the Syrian government, in 2012 he left for Egypt and now lives and works in exile.Max Weiss is a faculty member at Princeton University, specializing in the culture and history of the Middle East, and an award-winning translator of contemporary Arabic literature.

'Sharp, provocative... You won't be able to look away' Observer'Acerbic... A lacerating comedy of manners' TelegraphCéline Wachowski is in free fall. The internationally renowned architect, host of a hit Netflix show and charismatic liberal icon, has just unveiled plans for a major project in her hometown of Montreal - the ravishing new headquarters for a multinational tech company. It should be the jewel in her glittering crown; but an initial spark of dissent ignites into a full-blown scandal, with Céline's firm excoriated for destroying fragile communities, ushering in a new wave of gentrification and even deadlier crimes. As furious protestors and critical media chip away at her empire, Céline tries to shore up her splendid world that once seemed so secure.With flowing prose that glints with irony, Kev Lambert infiltrates the upper echelons of society to depict the dreams and anxieties on which skyscrapers are built. This is a dazzlingly stylish social novel about the ways wealth shapes our world - and the seductive fictions of the powerful._________________________Winner ofthe Prix Médicis, Prix Décembre and Prix Ringuet, and longlised for the Prix Goncourt'A novel about the housing crisis told from the perspective of those causing it... Lambert's writing is lyrical and rapturous' Heather O'Neill, author of When We Lost Our Heads

WINNER OF THE PRIX SORCIÉRES'Eerie and thought-provoking' Shaun Tan, author of The Arrival'A rich, haunting story - gorgeously told' Lucy Strange, author of Our Castle by the SeaRoll up, roll up to discover the Circus of Dreams!The circus is coming to the village at the end of the world. There will be knife-jugglers and fire eaters, death-defying acrobats and wonders too strange to name!Of all our fantastical acts, the most shocking and terrifying of all is the Monster of Dreams.At the mid-of-night this fearsome creature will be revealed. Come and take a look - if you dare...But what is a monster, really?

A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. After receiving multiple tips from his devoted readership, a writer fascinated by the occult put together eleven case files, each featuring its very own strange building. Each of the eleven structures in this book has a floor plan that conceals a disturbing architectural quirk: from disappearing rooms to apartments with no means of escape. Each buildings tells its own chilling story. And each is part of a grander puzzle. Look closely . . . and you'll see that everything is connected. All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won't want to believe it.

'His fiction changed the way human beings think about themselves' George Saunders'If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy' Isaac BabelCrimea, 1854: Sevastopol's inhabitants taunt the besieging forces that keep them trapped behind defensive walls. So begins Leo Tolstoy's depiction of nine months of battle and bravery, based on his own experiences in the Crimean War.This new translation by acclaimed translator Nicolas Pasternak Slater introduces us to long-suffering citizens, vain hussars and the courageous Kozeltsov brothers - one jaded and pragmatic soldier, one naive and hungry for glory. Enduringly vivid, profoundly ironic, Tolstoy's portrayal of the stumble from triumph to disaster captures the absurdity at the heart of conflict.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater.Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born into the Russian aristocracy, spent his youth in aimless dissolution, and joined the army in a bid to escape his gambling debts. Sevastopol Tales, based on his experience serving as an artillery officer in the Crimean War, helped to establish his fame as a writer in the 1850s. The war helped transform him into a passionate pacifist and social agitator. He started a series of schools for the recently emancipated serfs of Russia, as well as publishing a number of literary masterpieces, most famously the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He gradually became a near-messianic figure, both lauded and persecuted by the Russian authorities. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prizes in Literature and Peace, but never won.Nicolas Pasternak Slater is the nephew of novelist Boris Pasternak. After retiring from his career as a doctor he turned to translation, and has published several highly praised versions of great Russian authors, including Pushkin, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov.

'Admirable' New York Times Book Review'One of the world's most distinguished scholars of de Sade' IndependentThe Marquis de Sade, infamous for his obscene writing and sexual cruelty, was incongruously married to a pious wife. A wife who, despite his peccadilloes, loved him devotedly for thirty years, through betrayal, imprisonment, and national turmoil.Bearing his children, editing his manuscripts, visiting him in prison, Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil endured her chaotic marriage with grace, achieving independence in an era when women were entitled to none. Their complex relationship, set against the French Revolution and its aftermath, is brought to life with humour and compassion by Margaret Crosland, the translator of Sade's Gothic Tales.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.Margaret Crosland (1920-2017), born in Shropshire, translated works by the Marquis de Sade, Émile Zola, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir and Cesare Pavese, among others, as well as writing many biographies and works of literary criticism. She was a leading authority on the life and work of the Marquis de Sade. Her prolific writings and translations were sometimes published under the pen name Leonard de Saint-Yves.

'A classic Polish children's book' The Times, Children's Book of the WeekAn irresistible collection of charming adventures featuring the classic duo, Detective Nosegoode and his talking dog, Cody.In the sleepy town of Lower Limeood lives famous detective Ambrosius Nosegoode. These days he enjoys a quiet retirement with his faithful companion Cody - a dog remarkable in many ways, not least because he can talk!But even cosy Lower Limewood has its secrets. When a series of puzzling crimes occur it's up to Nosegoode and Cody to investigate!Join the beloved crime-solving duo in this charmingly illustrated collection, featuring three delightful mysteries: Detective Nosegoode and the Music Box Mystery, Detective Nosegoode and the Kidnappers, and Detective Nosegoode and the Museum Robbery. Part of the new Pushkin Children's Classics series of thrilling, magical and inspiring stories from around the world, which young readers will return to time and again.Translated by Eliza Marciniak.Illustrated by Jerzy Flisak.Marian Orlon (1932-1990) worked as a teacher, and then a librarian while pursuing an extremely successful career as a children's writer. His subtle sense of humour and exciting plots made the stories in his Detective Nosegoode series bestsellers in Poland. His books have now been translated into six languages. In 1981 he was given Poland's highest literary honour, the Council of Ministers award, for his life's work.Jerzy Flisak (1930-2008) was a well-known Polish illustrator and designer of film posters and stage sets. He illustrated more than 70 books over his long career.

The first in a series of gripping historical murder mysteries, set in fifteenth-century EstoniaAt the dawn of the fifteenth century, Tallinn stands on the edge of Christendom. Merchants, monks, knights and pirates all struggle for control of the wealthy city. When the brutally decapitated corpse of a knight is discovered, apothecary Melchior Wakenstede, famed for his brilliant mind, is asked to investigate.But as Melchior tries to untangle the mystery, he stumbles across truths that many powerful people would prefer stayed hidden... Does he dare to defy them all?

'Barbery explores the mystical connections between nature, art and the human heart with vivid clarity' 'A mix of J.R.R. Tolkien and Hayao Miyazaki, epic in scope yet grounded by humour' Publishers WeeklyOne cold November night, in the sixth year of a devastating war, Alejandro de Yepes and his loyal lieutenant, Jesús Rocamora, discover intruders in the castillo's cellars. Leaving no footprints in the snow, these curious visitors come seeking peace and friendship-and perhaps a glass or two of wine. Yet behind their cheerful exterior lies a mission of the gravest urgency: to save a dying realm.Soon, Alejandro and Jesús abandon their posts, crossing a magical bridge into a land of lingering fog and extraordinary beauty, where the fate of all living creatures hangs in the balance. From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a bewitching, witty, and timely meditation on the interconnectedness of peoples, of the human and natural worlds, and a call to destiny unlike any other.

'A triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece' New Statesman'So shrewd, so ruthless, glittering and clever... every page he wrote was a delight' Fay WeldonIn this novel of desire and perdition, a bored and precocious adolescent pursues the wife of a soldier fighting in the First World War. At first attracted to Marthe out of sheer aimlessness, he finds himself falling in love. Consumed by sensual pleasure and power games, the pair do nothing to disguise their affair - until the consequences of their heedlessness begin to unfold.This shockingly sexy novel rocketed its teenage author into overnight fame in the 1920s - and was all the more scandalous for being based on his life.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.Translated by Christopher Moncrieff.Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) entered Parisian literary society with a bang when The Devil in the Flesh was published. Only eighteen at the time, he became the star of an unprecedented publicity campaign and earned copious praise and censure for his precocious talent and scandalous behaviour - the more so as the novel was based on his own wartime affair with a soldier's wife. A protégé and perhaps lover of Jean Cocteau, he fraternized with artists, dancers and aristocrats, drank heavily, and generally ran riot, before settling down for a brief period, during which he wrote one more novel, Count d'Orgel, also published by Pushkin Press. Shortly after the manuscript was completed, he contracted typhoid fever and died within a few weeks, aged only twenty. He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.Christopher Moncrieff is a poet, linguist and literary translator from French, German and Romanian. As well as a writing career he has served in the military and produced son et lumiere spectacles. He is descended from the poet Robert Burns.

Hirai is in a rut. Nearing 40, disillusioned by dating and drifting through her office job, she's starting to feel like she might just disappear. When she agrees to move in with her older colleague, Suganuma, people raise eyebrows, but the two women quickly settle into their own soothing domestic routines.Yet escaping the pressures of romantic love isn't easy. When a crisis jolts her back into the world of dating apps, Hirai meets more painfully adequate men and frets about freezing her eggs again. Surely there must be another way to feel less hollow? Witty and deadpan, Hollow Inside is a wonderfully skewed story of two single women trying to carve out their own space in a world of couples.

'An astounding debut, so full of wonder, outrage, invention, fireworks, sheer brilliance' Edward Carey, author of Little'Subversive, hilarious and shockingly original' Rosanna Pike, author of A Little Trickerie'A true, unique talent' Kat Dunn, author of HungerstoneStep into the past. Rush headlong at the future. The Age of Calamities is here.Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn dead, but there's just one small problem: she's alive again by morning, sipping tea at the breakfast table. In the gilded hush of the Winter Palace, the Romanov sisters slip through time and waltz aboard a spaceship bound for the stars. A woman on the run strikes a sinister bargain with the ghost of Joan of Arc, but can she reclaim her body before sunrise?With flickers of horror and dark humour, The Age of Calamities catapults us through sentient houses, looping timelines and haunted histories. Fiercely inventive and wickedly playful, these stories mark the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction-inviting the reader to confront the past, the present and themselves, all at once.PRAISE FOR THE AGE OF CALAMITIES:'Surreal, funny and endlessly thought-provoking' Dazed'An addictive blend of imagination and wit' Katherine J. Chen, author of Joan'Full of imaginative daring and electrifying humour' Naomi Booth, author of Animals at Night'The past comes to unexpected, vivid life in these speculative short stories' Publishers Weekly'Wonderful writing that had me in its grasp to the very last sentence' Nydia Hetherington, author of Sycorax'Stunning in its power, purpose and ambition' Maggie Su, author of Blob: A Love Story'Dazzlingly inventive' Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog'Wild, incantatory, upending' Claire Oshetsky, author of Evil Genius'I loved Ahmad's perilously playful journeys to other timescapes' Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells

YACHT SINKS! JEWELLERY LOST! MASSIVE REWARD OFFERED!Ever since the shipwreck, California's golden coast has been filled with treasure hunters. Each one is after the same thing: the lost diamond necklace. But none are more determined than Cassie Stein. Her dad's beloved aquarium is falling apart, and they need money - fast! While racing to find the treasure before her rival, TJ, Cassie finds something remarkable. A fish, unlike any she has ever seen, that can understand her every word. His name is Blue, and his life is in grave danger. To save her new friend, Cassie must do the unthinkable - accept TJ's help. But with the diamond necklace still up for grabs, can she really trust him?