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The beloved characters from the best-selling School of Monsters series are back in this brand-new, super-size look-and-find exploration of what monsters do all day!  Welcome to the School of Monsters : the funniest, silliest and most accessible series for first readers, by Australian Children's ...

Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition 'An absolute delight … Funny, moving, filthy and original … A frontrunner for historical fiction book of the year' The Times 'A vivid, transportin...

When four friends find themselves thrown back in time to 1985, how will they handle being teens in their parents’ era? And will they ever get back to the future? It takes Shannon a while to work out what’s happened. She went into the cinema in 2025 and came back out … in 1985? Somehow she’s trav...

Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues... Lambda Award Finalist Ignyte Award Finalist Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novella Locus Award Finalist for Best Novella A Best Of Pick for USA Today | Buzzfeed | Ms Magazine | Arlington Magazine | Transfer Or...

Nghi Vo's Hugo Award–winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a stand-alone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn. "A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." —NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune "Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today." —Taylor Jenkins R...

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih ru...

An intimate psychological portrait inspired by the true story of a notorious cult leader. bearcat: a large, tree-dwelling mammal; 1920s slang for a fiery girl or woman. 1987. Family is everything to Anne. Our Messiah. And Anne demands everything from The Family; their loyalty, their money, even...

16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran 'A remarkable testimony to women’s bravery, compassion and solidarity in the harshest of conditions… Think Nigella crossed with Nelson Mandela.' SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A fighting woman ca...

At the age of 31 Jamila Rizvi was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. When she shared her diagnosis with loved ones, good friend Rosie Waterland proposed the tumour eventually be named ‘Jam’s Jerky’ and kept on display in a jar. While this sensitive proposal was politely declined, there was a rea...

‘Oh, how I loved this book!’ – Reviewed the BookEscape to Paris this summer and prepare to be swept off your feet…