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The first original novel set in the blockbuster Something Is Killing the Children universe: supernatural horror from a globally successful franchise and two award-winning authors. Welcome to the dark. It has very sharp teeth. Based on the internationally bestselling comic series, with millions of copies in print, the first full-length novel from the terrifying world of Something Is Killing the...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Gilmore, comes a brand new small-town romance set in the quirky town of Maple Hollow! The closer the proximity, the stronger the spark… Phoebe never expected to fall in love, and especially not with the annoyingly handsome werewolf she’s been hanging out with for years.Theo has spent his life comparing himself to...

Bring on the holiday cheer in this delightful collection of three feel-good novellas with bonus recipes and full-page illustrations, perfect for gifting! Tis the season to fall in love in these three brilliant novellas from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Night We Met. Anna thought only the food would be a disaster at her Christmas dinner—until...

The finale in Elizabeth Helen's Amazon top 5 and Sunday Times bestselling Beasts of the Briar series, a spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling filled with enchanted fae, morally gray characters, a stupidly hot villain, and a princess who has found her Prince Charming. All five of them. The Enchanted Vale has fallen. The princes have been forced to flee....

Step into Christmas with Abby and Maya Jimenez - a special hardback packable of swoon-worthy novellas, recipes to make and illustrations.

This Collector's Edition features marbled oceanic edges and endpapers, gold foil, and a reading group guide. A New York Times Bestseller • A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick Soon to be a Netflix Film Remarkably Bright Creatures is an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender. —Washington Post After Tova Sullivan's husband...

Christmas Staycation by Meghan Quinn: Nothing says Merry Christmas like fake fiancés, family pressure, and accidentally falling for your ex's brother... Nolan never met a spotlight he didn't like. As a major league baseball player with a filthy mouth, an ego the size of the North Pole, and zero interest in behaving, he's perfectly happy breezing into Christmas in Kringletown...

From the no.1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Elsie Silver, comes a gorgeous collector's edition of her beloved Chestnut Springs series. This edition includes: A stunning new foiled cover Illustrated endpapers Gold gilded edges Four full-colour illustrations (tipped in) Ribbon bookmark Working as a nanny for the world's grumpiest single dad should have been simple. Except I can't keep my eyes...

From the no.1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Elsie Silver, comes a gorgeous collector's edition of her beloved Chestnut Springs series. This edition includes: A stunning new foiled cover Illustrated endpapers Gold gilded edges Four full-colour illustrations (tipped in) Ribbon bookmark The rules were simple. Keep my hands off his daughter and stay out of trouble. But now I'm stuck with...

Don’t miss the final epic instalment of the Bloodwing Academy series, coming soon from New York Times bestselling author Briar Boleyn! What do you get if you mix Fourth Wing with Zodiac Academy, a dash of Arthurian legend, dark academia, and lots and lots of vampires? Welcome to Bloodwing Academy. Expect magic. Expect competition. Expect blood. 🩸🩸🩸 The reader reviews...

From USA Today bestselling author Peyton Corinne comes a second-chance hockey romance between the team's antihero and the new assistant coach's daughter, filled with Peyton's trademark "deliciously angsty" (Publishers Weekly) storytelling. Toren Kane has always been a magnet for trouble. Branded as dangerous and brutal, his reputation has followed him from the playground to the ice rink. After a scandal...

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second instalment in his monumental Bomb Light series - a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic weapons. 1934. British journalist Owen Crisp-Upjohn is dispatched to Moscow,...

Love and duty are thrown to the treacherous deep sea in the next Ever Seas book from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation LJ Andrews. Tait Heartwalker may be the cousin of the Ever King, but royally good company he is not. He’s ill-tempered and unapproachable, sharpened by life and loyalty. But to the dismay of Mira Sekundär,...

'An iridescent contemporary folktale' LUCY ROSE 'A mesmerising novel' OBSERVER 'Sparkles like unearthed treasure' KALIANE BRADLEY Agnes, a young forensic anthropologist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any she has seen before - its bones prove it...

Book Three in Shirtaloon's wildly popular LitRPG series. For all that Jason's new life is amazing, he is about to learn that his new power, wealth, and influence come at a price... Riding high on success, he and his team prepare for what comes next, but nothing can prepare them for what their enemies have planned. When magic enters the...

This expanded novelisation retells the thrilling fifth and final season of Netflix's iconic series Stranger Things! It's the fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But the villain has vanished—his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating the mission, the government has placed the...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Legends of Thezmarr series comes an epic romantasy trilogy about a gifted bookbinder and a cursed immortal general bound together by a dangerous magical bargain. "A gorgeous, luscious fantasy... Helen Scheuerer continues to be one of my favourite writers with her fantastic new series and its fierce, bookish heroine!" - Sable Sorensen, #1...

Embrace the chaos . . . Experience Dianna and Samkiel's journey all over again with this beautiful new collector's edition of The Book of Azrael, the seductive and steamy first book in Amber V. Nicole's New York Times bestselling Gods & Monsters series. This limited-run collector's edition features a deluxe new package, including a stunning new cover colourway, map endpapers,...

From USA Today, BookTok, and #1 Amazon bestselling author Kandi Steiner comes an angsty and emotional stand-alone romance about first love, buried pain, and the one person you can never quite let go of, featuring bonus content exclusive to this print edition. How can you hate someone who still owns your heart? Jasmine Olsen hasn’t been home in seven years...

Once upon a time, three young sisters survived a catastrophic house fire… Years later, one of them disappears and then another, and it is left to the eldest sister to find out whether something else survived… A dark, twisty, page-turning modern gothic horror from the award-winning author of The Cold House. When sisters Chloe, Zoe, and Dido were children, their...

The Thrice-Bound Fool is the epic, rollicking next chapter in the bestselling and "awesome as hell" (Nicholas Eames) fantasy adventure series that began with The Blacktongue Thief. Professional thief and inveterate trickster Kinch Na Shannack has always enjoyed a good book. But now his life, and the future of all of Manreach, depends on him deciphering a very bad book...

From USA Today bestselling author and TikTok sensation comes the gripping, steamy taboo romance series that everyone is talking about! 'Filled with TENSION, HEARTBREAK and ELECTRIC CHEMISTRY. This one will tear your heart right out of your chest before tossing it back in and sewing you up,' No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver 'Leigh Rivers is THE...

Step into the heart of Paris with this lush and thrilling dark academia fantasy that follows a young alchemist running from a dark past—perfect for fans of Ninth House and Blood Over Bright Haven. An ambitious alchemist must uncover her university's dark secrets while trying to escape her mysterious past in this electrifying and atmospheric debut. 'A triumph of a...

Beatrice Prior stands on the brink of a decision every person in her world must make: five factions, five futures, five lives. She has a plan: she's going to make the bravest choice, and leave Abnegation behind to join Dauntless, even though it means leaving her family behind. But when tragedy strikes at her Choosing Ceremony, everything changes—her world, her...

From Jacob Tierney, the creator of Heated Rivalry, in partnership with Brendan Brady and Accent Aigu, comes I’ll Believe in Anything, an official and complete collection of annotated scripts for the biggest cultural sensation of the year, with all new exclusive behind-the-scenes content.Based on Rachel Reid’s blockbuster Game Changers book series, Heated Rivalry premiered on Crave and HBO in late 2025 and immediately took the world by storm. I’ll...

In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy - and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. "What is it you think you're protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There's no one...

From USA Today bestselling author and TikTok sensation comes the gripping, steamy taboo romance series that everyone is talking about! Filled with TENSION, HEARTBREAK and ELECTRIC CHEMISTRY. This one will tear your heart right out of your chest before tossing it back in and sewing you up. No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver Leigh Rivers is THE...

The final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. Will Thursday find her happy ending? The Dark Reading Matter is a theoretical realm that suggests that the observable bookverse can only account for 20% of the calculated total readable mass. Out there somewhere, possibly, is a larger and more expansive and unseeable 'Dark Bookverse' that contains millions...

Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like...

The sixth instalment in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling Murdle series 'Utterly addictive!' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Twyford Code and The Appeal 'An absolute phenomenon' - Richard Osman, bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club series You've solved the murders, you've uncovered the mysteries, you've caught the culprits... but can you pull off the perfect crime? In...

‘He manawarū, he tāuteute hoki tēnei pukapuka e āta whakaahua ana i te wā koroniara o Aotearoa, i te wā Wikitoria hoki o Ingarangi, mā roto i te tirohanga a tētahi rangatira nō Ngāti Wai. E mīharo rawa atu ana te mahi a Paula Morris ki te whakamārama i te ao o tōna tupuna, o Paratene Te Manu, me te...

The stand-out, sensational new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about love, scandal and family secrets... In a grand villa on the shores of Lake Geneva, Dulcie's grandmother nears the end of her glamorous and eventful life. The days pass quietly to the reassuring tick of the Swiss clock - until a visitor comes to their door... 1961In the...

Published to coincide with the new Netflix TV series, adapted by Dolly Alderton and starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden: the nation's favourite novel, introduced by the beloved, bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love and Good Material. Pride and Prejudice begins with a timeless encounter: "No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that...

The highly anticipated conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling Hurricane Wars trilogy makes landfall – and as the winds of war sweep through Lir, Talasyn and Alaric must confront the truth of their hearts and decide whether duty or desire will lead them forward. When the storm swallows the world, who will be left standing?Throughout their political marriage, Alaric and...

Christmas at Fox Ridge is a spicy small-town Christmas novella from the USA Today bestselling author of the Wells Ranch series. It tells the story of a woman who accidentally reunites with a former fling when she rents his cabin for the holidays. When budding artist Eira Davies is caught sketching her best friend's handsome brother, Lucas McKinney, their subsequent...

Welcome to the picture book world of Lucy Fleming! An adorable series that celebrates the hidden magic of nature – perfect for children aged 3-5 years and fans of fairies and fantasy, and super cute miniature worlds filled with wildness and wonder! Through stunning illustrations, readers will be transported to a rocky island where, amongst sea-birds, lives a teensy tiny...

A gripping thriller inspired by the unsolved murder of Hitler's twenty-one-year-old niece. Perfect for fans of Frederick Forsyth and The Rise of Evil. Munich, 1931. A young woman is found dead in Adolf Hitler's apartment. The official verdict is suicide. Detective Inspector Thomas Bauer knows it's murder. The victim is Geli Raubal - Hitler's niece, prisoner, and secret shame. Within...

The next book in the blockbuster Empyrean series, Threshing Day contains thirteen stories starring your favorite characters and their dragons. The deluxe first edition includes sixteen beautiful original full-color illustrations by artist Joe Requeza.    Rebecca Yarros is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over twenty novels, including Fourth Wing and In the...

'Infinity stars. I smiled, laughed, squealed with delight, wept, and then smiled again' ★★★★★'This book ripped my heart out, trampled on it, put it back together, and still had amazing smut' ★★★★★'Fun, witty, sexy and made me cry at the end (in a good way, don't worry)…B.K. Borison has written one of my favourite reads of the year' ★★★★★ A...

The next book in the blockbuster Empyrean series, Threshing Day, contains thirteen stories starring your favourite characters and their dragons. The deluxe first edition includes sixteen beautiful original full-colour illustrations by artist Joe Requeza and silver-gilded edges. *while stock lasts. Discover the beloved world of the record-breaking, multi-million-copy bestselling series where power always demands a price, secrets darken every hallway,...

Jack Sawyer, a beloved and enduring King protagonist, returns in the final book in the Talisman Trilogy, the #1 New York Times bestselling collaboration between "master craftsmen" (The Washington Post) Stephen King and Peter Straub. "I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name." --Stephen King This is Stephen King and Peter Straub's epic...

Decide between two fantastical ACOTAR in-world scenarios that will reveal your loyalties, spark your imagination, and fuel endless debates among friends and fans. Inspired by the world of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, this official boxed set of 100 would-you-rather cards is ideal for book clubs, girls’ nights, ACOTAR-themed parties, or post-read discussions. Engage in...

From the acclaimed author of The Wedding Forecast, loved by Shameless Book Club, comes a slow-burn, forced-proximity romance about a PA falling for her boss's son. Thirty-year-old Charlotte is working hard to reinvent herself since her career as a book editor went up in flames. She's moved to a coastal town and landed a new job as a personal assistant...

A deluxe hardcover edition of the acclaimed Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller that's sold more than two million copies and inspired an Emmy-nominated series executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, from the beloved author of Atmosphere, Malibu Rising, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Now featuring: Full-colour stencilled edges Designed endpapers Updated jacket with foil Printed case beneath...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar, a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture – ‘bordering at times on the ineffable’ (Mary Gaitskill). A writer escapes the city to live by a pond in a small rural enclave, like a latter-day Thoreau. After a near-fatal hit-and-run, something spiritual inside him awakens. Caught between revelation...

Styx: The River is a rich, gleaming jewel of a novel… a heartbreakingly beautiful story of feminine rage and strength, says JENNIFER SAINT. Beginning a generation before Hekate, Styx sings the story of the goddess of the underworld river that bears her name… The firstborn child of Titans, Styx is revered as the first of her kind – until she...

Come and slay awhile with Sakamoto and friends in stories that extend the comedy of the best-selling Sakamoto Days! Come and slay awhile with Sakamoto and friends in stories that extend the comedy of the best-selling Sakamoto Days! Can a former assassin and his family go camping without someone sleeping with the fishes? Maybe not, if Shin and Nagumo’s fishing...

1926, Gracetown, Florida. A young Mazelle sets out from her Florida home to find the Wishing Pool and make her wish for a better life. A best friend forever, who will love her better than anyone else. When Scout the Wonder Dog appears, it seems her wish has come true, and she is suddenly a star of the silver screen,...

Sometimes you just want to eat the one you love...right? Jenny Greenteeth has watched civilizations fall and wars break out during her lifetime. Preferring to keep her own company, she has been living in Boston for the last few hundred years – currently, in an abandoned subway station. Here, she has access to the waterways, an interconnected subterranean system that...

A teen working at a Parisian bakery witnesses a murder in this cozy holiday mystery with a dreamy romance at its centre that’s a festive entry in the New York Times bestselling Advent Romance series, told in a perfectly paced advent calendar format with chapter-a-day reading. When Suzanne Sécretant arrives in Paris for her apprenticeship at the prestigious Rivoli bakery,...

What does the way you spend a small amount of money say about your life? In How to Use 3,000 Yen, Hika Harada weaves a warm, wise and deeply relatable story of three generations of women navigating love, work, family—and the quiet anxieties of money. From a young woman confronting the fragility of financial independence, to a mother managing a...

Ethan & Grace is a bad boy billionaire, enemies-to-lovers romance woven with secrets and suspense, set in the glamorous world of London’s most exclusive hotel—featuring stunning character art and sprayed edges. Twenty-two-year-old Grace Claymore's life was shattered by a devastating incident, and now she's consumed by one thing: finding the person responsible. Her search leads her back to the scene...

From Amazon bestselling author Luna Pierce comes a standalone dark romance and book one in the Brothers of Sin series. From the first reckless kiss to a wildfire of forbidden desire, Dangerous Haven draws you into a shadowed world where survival means risking everything... especially your heart. Pre-order now to secure your stunning deluxe first print edition featuring sprayed edges...

Everyone has wanted their favourite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favourite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction... especially on Addington Isle. Eamon and...

Set in the New York Times-bestselling world of Osten Ard, Tad Williams's latest novel is an action-packed, fast-moving adventure following the mythic figure of Flann Alderwood and his band of misfit rebels. As the old King of Hernystir's health worsens, the realm has been thrown into chaos—warlords divide the land up among themselves and questions about the heir to the...

A cosy paranormal romance featuring a single dad, village politics, a nosy book club, and a rivalry that just might turn into romance – from the author of Fangs for Nothing and A Grave Mistake. Three things get vampire Augustin Durant’s undead blood boiling: zoning violations, littering on the village green, and Komal Ahuja. And the tension goes both ways:...

‘Both epic in its sweep and haunting in its intimacy, Musa weaves a profound tapestry of resilience, inheritance, and hope’ Riz Ahmed The Strangling Fig is an extraordinary and beautiful novel about how understanding our past can pave the way for a hopeful future. Hyderabad, 1946 Ashraf is asleep in her mother’s bed when her father is murdered on the...

The official tie-in colouring book of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Gingerbread Bakery! “Will likely be your most cherished autumn companion”―Buzzfeed on The Pumpkin Spice Café colouring book Includes two pages of exclusive Dream Harbor festive stickers Welcome to The Gingerbread Bakery This cosy colouring book features: ❄️ 37 hand-drawn festive scenes and seasonal aesthetic designs ❄️ Two...

From the bestselling author of He Sees You When You’re Sleeping comes a dark romance about a murder-sober retired serial killer and his murder-curious protégé. Perfect for fans of Brynne Weaver, this twisted romance inspired by the Bluebeard folktale is filled with dark humour, sizzling chemistry, and spice. Murder is their love language… Five years ago, Saylor Mitchell’s father was...

A fake girlfriend. A real best friend. One very complicated lie... The day Clara started her new (dream) job as an assistant to her photography idol, she was met with an assumption that caught her off guard and stunned her silent. Suddenly, she has to bring a girlfriend to the gallery's opening in a few weeks—all because she choked up...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit Mother-Daughter Murder Night, a Reese’s Book Club pick, comes another fun, family-centred whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down the rapids of the Grand Canyon. What's a family vacation without a little murder? Liv and Mandy Chisholm’s yearly sister trip is...

Gillian Cross's brilliant retellings and Neil Packer's clever illustrations bring to life Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, two of the greatest stories ever told. Multi-award-winning author Gillian Cross makes two of the greatest stories in the world come alive for children in her strong, clear, deceptively simple retellings, which are faithful to the spirit and structure of Homer’s epic poems. This...

Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries—or be silenced forever, in the dazzling new novel by New York Times bestselling author Madeline Martin. In present day, Lilith Legare's life is unraveling. Since her mother's death, strange things have been happening—plants turn toward her touch, animals linger in her path, and the birthmark on her arm...

Who doesn't love a luxurious holiday? But even paradise can have an off day... A funny, warm and wise insight into the joys and challenges of finding community in the most unlikely places, from the bestselling author of The Road Trip. As manager of a luxurious Kimberley resort, Nelda has a lot on her plate. So when Beatrice Foreston, a...

In the rugged heart of sheep country, a woman can dream ... From the shearing sheds of the Great Dividing Range to the highlands of Scotland, Maddy Rainforth is on a mission to make the finest Merino wool - and now the glittering catwalks of Paris are calling. But it will take much more than just a dream. Grazier Maddy...

Magic built their empire. Blood will decide who rules it next. When a CEO falls, one family’s battle for control becomes a brutal game of betrayal, desire, and power in this sharp, seductive debut for fans of Succession – with fangs. Power runs in the blood. A hundred years ago, magic ran wild – belonging only to the fae, the...

Ambition. Sorcery. Treason. How far will one woman dare to go? The stunning new novel from the international bestselling author. Eleanor Cobham arrived at court with nothing—her greatest hope was simply to marry well. But her ambition carried her further than any woman before her had dared. She wanted to rule her own destiny. To rule England itself. They say...

Sunday Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood's intoxicating paranormal romance duology - together for the first time in print and ebook! Read the captivating dark academia romance in Bound, then flip your book over to unleash the dangers of forbidden love in Unbound. Bound A reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets are bound by an arcane text—in...

Dark, seductive, and utterly enchanting, this fae romance follows a human heroine who defies the shadows—and the fae prince destined to claim her. Reyna’s friends were supposed to be safe in the Shadow Court, but she has enemies everywhere. And unless Mazrith forgives her, he will join that number. As hard as she wishes it were not true, Reyna’s desire...

The final volume of Rachel Smythe's multi-award-winning series - soon to be a major animated series on Amazon Prime. The finale of Lore Olympus has arrived! Witness Hades and Persephone's modern, romantic reimagining in this gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning comic - now including a never-before-seen bonus short story! "It's time to set things right." The race is on to save...

Uniquely formatted in sections for daily reading during Advent. Groundhog Day meets Miracle on 34th Street in a holiday romance where Annie Jones must repeat Christmas Eve until she finally gets it right, discovering family-through-community and love along the way. Annie Jones is stuck repeating Christmas Eve until she finds everything she's been missing in life in this heartwarming time...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Peter Jackson's award-winning film trilogy, immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkien’s classic masterpieces behind the films, reissued with special images from the films on the covers, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins, Frodo, Gandalf, Gollum, and the quest to destroy the One Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord...

A deluxe, full-colour illustrated edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s timeless swashbuckling tale—an adventurous new instalment in the MinaLima Classics, the bestselling series from the renowned design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise—featuring richly illustrated original artwork and interactive elements. First published in 1883 and considered one of the best adventure books of all time, Treasure Island...

✨Pre-order the brand-new, magical, cosy paranormal romance from instant Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestseller B.K. Borison, author of And Now, Back To You and Good Spirits, now!✨ 'No one combines whimsy, humour, and heat as perfectly as B.K. Borison' — ALI HAZELWOOD Darcy Moore is tired of death. Which would be fine… if she wasn’t the Grim...

In The Heights by #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sir Ian Rankin, murder comes to London's most exclusive high-rise - and every resident is a suspect... MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, it is a billionaire's playground offering sumptuous suites...

I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name - Stephen King This is Stephen King and Peter Straub's epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels The Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King's iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It...

Franny is AWOL from her French translation job, her cat-sitting gig is making her anxious, and an obsessive personal project is shooting off in more directions than the London Underground. She needs to leave the UK and return home. But Aotearoa turns out to be less relaxing than she thought it would be, because she keeps running into people she’d rather...

Rotorua district, 1886. Englishman Cyprian Marsh has been despatched to the colonies in pursuit of his wayward half-brother. The only clue is the beautiful but mysterious Alice Bright, who has led him from the whorehouses of Melbourne to Te Wairoa, a tourist village near the Pink and White Terraces, in the shadow of Mount Tarawera. As the earth sends signs...

Rua is a young Maori woman learning to navigate the world on her own terms. She dreams of becoming a writer and one day moving to New York City to begin a life far removed from the one she knows. In her tight-knit community, where whanau is everything and loyalty runs deep, gang tensions ripple through daily life, eroding the...

Set in a fantasy world inspired by Tudor England and the real astrologers who advised kings, The Court of Venus is Bel Banta's fantasy debut and a beautifully written historical novel about rival magicians. 'Our kind has many names. Planetborn. Sorcerer. Witch or wizard. Magician.' In Alvion, magicians have always ruled beside kings. Blessed at birth by one of the...