The brilliantly dark and atmospheric new masterpiece from one of the most critically-acclaimed and respected crime authors of his generation
Some spirits linger...Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. Over an hour's drive from the nearest town, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude. But as she explores her new home, Elle makes a startling discovery: there's a graveyard nestled deep
Fighting for survival in a shattered world… the truth is her only hope. The thrillingly dark sequel to No. 1 New York Times bestseller, DIVERGENT. I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But
Not all faerytales are for children . . . A bestseller from the Dark Master of chiller
'Highly recommended' JAMES OSWALD'Deliciously dark and gritty' CAROLINE MITCHELLYour darkest moment is your most vulnerable...Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach
A dark past. A terrifying secret. A deadly game is about to begin . . . Washed-up author Rufus Orton needs money. It's the main reason he takes the gig teaching creative writing to inmates at HMP Holderness. That, and the flattery of prison officer Annabeth Harris, who contacted him out of the
A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse
A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the
A classic tale of action and adventure from fantasy legend David
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard's plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray
From bestselling horror author Darcey Coates comes a story of silenced voices and spectral reckonings. Some secrets are better left forgotten...A ghastly reimagining of classic haunted house stories, Craven Manor is: Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay and Amy CrossFor lovers of horror and ghost
The second Shardlake novel in C. J. Sansom's remarkable historical crime
Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale of a woman stationed on Mars who slowly starts to doubt her own memories and
A fabulous journey through the mind of the master of dark imaginative fiction, Clive
When a young boy goes missing, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in to investigate a chilling series of clues left
Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov's characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth
This thrilling conclusion to the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy recounts the climactic events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from its enigmatic hero's point of view. One of the most beloved romantic heroes in all of literature, Fitzwilliam Darcy remains an enigma even to Jane Austen's
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. Security consultant 'Jane Smith' receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a
French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been
A richly told literary thriller about the dark side of the rare book
A universal and empowering story about conquering your fears. From two giants of children's
A hugely epic space saga set in the Seven Suns
The next exhilarating novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine
'Gripping and heartbreaking' Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request 'Dark and addictive' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things 'So emotionally true' Sophie Kinsella, author of the Shopaholic series ******************* 'You're stuck there, aren't you? Right at the end. And I wonder if it
A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime. Karin Mu¨ller of the German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was he targeted?
Reared is a dark comedy about overcoming family history and fighting for a seat at the
The next exhilarating novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine
Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realizes that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Dark
A dark, provocative story of obsession and compulsion: one womans decision to shrug off her normal life and join the other-worldly existence of Londons nightshift
Return to the seductive world of Christine Feehan's New York Times bestselling novels
The second novel in the gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author Jodi Taylor.Betrayed, terrified and alone, Elizabeth Cage has fled her home. With no plan and no friends, she arrives at the picturesque village of Greyston and finds herself involved in an ages-old
A violent assault pushes a family, and a community, to the brink in this dark and gritty intergenerational
Christopher Urswicke must unmask the traitor lurking amongst Margaret Beaufort's supposedly loyal followers in this gripping medieval mystery. October, 1471. Edward IV sits on the English throne; the House of York reigns supreme. With her young son, Henry Tudor, in exile in France, Margaret
When a young woman's body is discovered on a popular jogging trail in Birmingham, Detective Inspector Bernard Watts and his team are plunged into a disturbing murder investigation. Not only has the woman been violently stabbed - her head is missing. When a close examination of the crime scene
Recommended for summer reading by TIME magazineLOUISE PENNY says Nicci French's books are 'fabulous.' JOSEPH FINDER says they're 'in the rich vein of Kate Atkinson.' And TAMI HOAG calls them 'truly unique.'Enter the world of NICCI FRENCH with Dark Saturday, an electrifying, sophisticated
A blackness leaves its lair, and begins slowly to spreadIt came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. Somewhere in the night, a small girl smiled as her mother burned, asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants, and in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered. Madness raged
A fabulous journey through the mind of the master of dark imaginative fiction, Clive
A secret hidden in the past. A family bound by a dark legacy... 'What a fascinating story. I enjoyed every moment of it. Intriguing and with a lovely time-slippery twist' Barbara Erskine, Sunday Times bestselling
A dark Fantasy take on Alice in Wonderland - horrifying, disturbing and deeply compelling. A read-in-one-sitting kind of book. Alice came 2nd in the Good reads Choice Awards Best of Year Horror category (with over 11K votes) beating many more wail-known
Gripping and action-packed fantasy with a historical
Haverscroft's dark secrets will drive Kate Keeling to question her sanity, her husband and fatally engulf her family unless she can stop the past repeating
Philip Pullman garnered every accolade around with the breathtaking His Dark Materials trilogy. Now he turns his storytelling gifts to one of the most famous of the Arabian Nights tales, Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp. Aladdin is a shiftless good-for-nothing boy until he unwittingly acquires a
In this powerful narrative, bestselling author Sarah Price takes us on the dark road to addiction.Laura Reese is losing control. Compassionate and conscientious, she excels as a post-op nurse, but her new supervisor doesn't care how much she needs time off. Although she's a selfless wife and
Kuba is a cocaine dealer in the dark, electric streets of Warsaw, believing he is smart enough to stay in control, unlike the top lawyers, doctors, TV personalities who are his client base.However, after calling in the debt of a failing nightclub owner, breaking his own rules on other people's
I am the monster. I am the shield. I am the knife in the dark.Ranka is tired of death. All she wants now is to be left alone, living out her days in Witchik's wild north with the coven that raised her, attempting to forget the horrors of her past. But when she is named Bloodwinn, the next treaty
He was supposed to be a myth.But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell... he was, quite simply, mine.Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned
Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons,
Five girls lied . . . five girls died . . . The Cheerleaders is Kara Thomas' brilliantly dark and twisty thriller that will leave you
Unwanted betrothals, assassination attempts, and a battle for the crown converge in Danielle L. Jensen's Dark Skies, a new series starter set in the universe of the YA fantasy Sarah J. Maas called 'everything I look for in a fantasy novel.'Now a Kirkus Best Book of 2020!A RUNAWAY WITH A HIDDEN PAST
A dark, enigmatic, and visceral examination of the psychology of repression, Vilnius Poker dives into the minds of four narrators whose contradictory memories challenge the very idea of truth. In this masterpiece written 'for the drawer,' Vilnius itself becomes a presence possessing a will, a
'Gloriously dark, deliciously twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH ONE FAMILY, TWO HOLIDAYS, ONE DEVASTATING SECRET To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs
A dark, sizzling, sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author J R
The terrifying and heart-breaking new novel from bestselling author Carrie
America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old
'Dark, gritty and funny' - Steve Cavanagh on Marnie Riches Keep your enemies close and your neighbours closer... When Private Investigator Beverley Saunders is tasked with going undercover, she relishes the chance to disguise herself as a cleaner in order to get close to Manchester bad boy Anthony
'A wonderful dark fantasy . . . give yourself a treat and read outside the box' CHARLAINE HARRIS on
From the dark imagination of New York Times bestselling novelist Daniel Kraus - co-author with Guillermo del Toro of THE SHAPE OF WATER (which as a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture) - comes a Halloween crime story that's like nothing you've ever read before. In a ruined house at the end
Praised by Sarah Jessica Parker and described as 'wildly entertaining' by Gillian Flynn, a dark and sharp-as-a-knife suburban thriller for readers of Liane Moriarty, Celeste Ng, Sarah Pinborough and Christos
Christopher Urswicke must unmask the traitor lurking amongst Margaret Beaufort's supposedly loyal followers in this gripping medieval mystery. October, 1471. Edward IV sits on the English throne; the House of York reigns supreme. With her young son, Henry Tudor, in exile in France, Margaret
Lois Lowry's Newbery Medalwinning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world is now in Spanish. Ahora disponible en espaol! Ganador dela Medalla Newbery y un New York Times bestseller, El
Sci-fi thriller from USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror comes a haunting story of isolation, desperation, and terror. There are bodysnatchers about, and they're closer than you think...For fans of Shirley Jackson and Stephen KingFor readers who love science fiction and
A suspenseful teen fantasy about young love, dark mystery and magic. Something is menacing Mundham Farm. Does it come from outside - or
The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's 'dark' period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. At the time this work was written, Twain had suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses.In this antireligious tale,
THE STUNNING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES **Sunday Times BOOK OF THE MONTH** 'J nasson is an automatic must-read for me ... possibly the best Scandi writer working today' Lee Child 'Is this the best crime writer in the world today? ... Truly a master
A family curse is chasing Damien and trying to destroy his life. Nightmares and dark visions are causing him to hallucinate and slowly lose his mind. Laurence, a wealthy businessman, is dealing with demons of his own. A fractured relationship with his mother causes him to become violent and
A high-tech, inter-dimensional espionage thriller featuring a future hi-tech America and its parallel
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged
A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and
Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan's dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man's path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister's
From New York Times bestselling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige comes a thrilling, dark contemporary fantasy about a prestigious sorority of witches and two girls caught up in its world of sinister magic and
Twenty-four recipes from the deep dark
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. 'A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction.' --Chicago Sun-Times In The Dark Descent, hailed as one of the most important anthologies ever to examine horror fiction, editor David G. Hartwell traces the complex
The sequel to THE SENTINEL. The critically acclaimed journey into the dark heart of Spain
A dark, funny, deliciously different literary thriller about a jaded hitman, set in the criminal underworld of
Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrell's sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaur's labyrinth on Crete
Mystery, intrigue and romance - the Queen of Historical fiction, Philippa Gregory, returns to the atmospheric world of the Order of Darkness
All the more successful for staying faithful to the dark spirit of the original book, this adaptation includes notes on the first production and can be performed with a minimum of set and props, making it well suited for staging by schools and amateur theatre groups, as well as by professional
A dark, provocative story of obsession and compulsion: one woman's decision to shrug off her normal life and join the other-worldly existence of London's nightshift
The No. 1 hardback bestseller, King's spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about music, the powerful bond between two people, addiction, religion and what might exist on the other side of
Preacher Jesse Custer continues his dark journey to find God, accompanied by his gun-toting girlfriend and Irish vampire buddy.In the continuing saga of the bizarre adventures of faithless Texas preacher Jesse Custer, Jesse, along with his girlfriend Tulip and their friend Cassidy, the Irish
The chilling novella featured in Stephen King's New York Times bestselling collection Full Dark, No Stars, 1922 is about a man who succumbs to the violence within--setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. Wilfred James owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in his
The new novel from Number One bestselling author Peter
A marooned outpost of humanity struggles to survive on a startlingly alien world: science fiction as it ought to be from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award,
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series! 'Wildly imaginative.' --President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction
Zombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evolves from rapist to mass murderer. Joyce
'Bleak but wonderful ... familiar, and of course funny.' Alan Bennett 'Dark, funny and twisted, but surprisingly tender.' A.L. Kennedy Couples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the nature of co-dependency - of two people who want to be together, but at the same time cannot help but
Perfect Match is a dark psychological thriller about a serial killer hunting women through dating apps. It's clever, brilliantly plotted and completely
A gripping Matt Scudder novel from the author of A WALK AMONG THE
Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower
The astonishing first volume in Raymond E. Feist's bestselling Serpentwar
A very special, spooky story from Dr. Seuss - with glow-in-the-dark
Distinguished literary critic Bodour is trapped in a loveless marriage and carries with her a dark secret. She fell in love in her youth and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, whom she abandoned on the streets of Cairo. Bodour doesn't know that Zeina has blossomed into one of Egypt's
A brilliantly comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he's trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke
ON DARK NIGHTS, SOMEONE NEEDS TO LIGHT A FEW FIRES . . . Bodies are piling up with messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for control. New drugs have arrived in Glasgow, and they've brought a different kind of violence to the broken city. The law of the street is changing and
A dark, seductive and existential page-turner from one of Turkey's bestselling and most significant
''Unstageable' was the first reaction of the National Theatre's artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, to the idea of dramatizing His Dark Materials. But last night's opening night has triumphantly proved him wrong.'--The Sunday TimesNicholas Wright has revisited his adaptation of Philip Pullman's
Dark shadows litter the mind after heart by-pass surgery. Stephen lives in turmoil he struggles to write his first novel. Deep and disturbing a dark thriller the product of a mind under siege. This is Viareggio, we enter a living nightmare as the imagination merges with the real world. A novel
From New York Times bestselling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige comes a thrilling, dark contemporary fantasy about a prestigious sorority of witches and two girls caught up in its world of sinister magic and
Christopher Urswicke must unmask the traitor lurking amongst Margaret Beaufort's supposedly loyal followers in this gripping medieval mystery. October, 1471. Edward IV sits on the English throne; the House of York reigns supreme. With her young son, Henry Tudor, in exile in France, Margaret
Sylvia Plath's dark, perceptive, and groundbreaking novel, covered in a fabric from the Liberty
A retelling of this famous, dark fairytale from award-winning author-illustrator Anthony
In William Godwin's dark psychological novel of paranoia and persecution, the eponymous hero is a guileless young servant who enters the employment of Ferdinando Falkland, a cosmopolitan and benevolent country gentleman. Falkland is subject to fits of unexplained melancholy, and Caleb becomes
A heart-pounding, relentless and chilling psychological thriller, rich with deliciously dark and unapologetic
Bring the deep dark wood to life in a Gruffalo stage show of your very
First published in Liber ABA (Part II), Aleister Crowley's dark masterpiece Magick is essential reading for students of Thelema and the occult. This guide to the principle tenets of black magic is a concise version of the more dense four-book magnum opus Liber ABA or 'Book 4' and is recommended to
Crime writer-sleuth Francis Meadowes discovers something dark hiding under the beautiful Umbrian sun when one of his writing group is found dead in Italy. Francis Meadowes is soaking up the late summer sun in Italy, running a creative writing course at the beautiful Villa Giulia, deep in the
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ' An] exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power.' --The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice'A lightning rod . . . brilliantly crafted.'--The Washington PostA most anticipated book by The New York Times - USA Today -
The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought
A major literary debut set in Communist Poland about the forbidden love between two young men on opposite sides of the political divide You were right when you said that people can't always give us what we want from them. Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate
Five groundbreaking stories that explore the dark and twisted underbelly of love Love makes the world go round. It can also turn your heart as black as coal. In the much anticipated follow up to their Eisner-nominated I Feel Machine, Julian Hanshaw and Krent Able curate a series of dystopian,
'Addictive, suspenseful and full of dark secrets!' Michele Campbell, Sunday Times bestselling author of It's Always the Husband 'A chilling glimpse behind the facade of the perfect family' Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs Parrish One of them lied. One of them
A stunning, dark and suspenseful psychological thriller that follows one woman's search for the truth about her tragic family history; perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Apple Tree
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the