Collection: Online resource (Member logon)

“Reads like a warm hug.” —Rebecca Thorne, bestselling author of Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea “A stunning tale of learning to let go.” —Shelf Awareness A warm and hopeful story of a lonely witch consumed by grief who discovers a whimsical cast of characters in a magical arboretum—and the heal...

Brought to you by Penguin. How does your brain decide what it’s seeing, from the physical world to other people? For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work, not realising that the answer lies much closer to home than it seems. The latest research in neuroscience and ps...

A young, disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith, unable to help herself or find her way home. Someone is combing the streets, frantically searching for her. Within hours of her disappearance, a body is washed up on Beamer Rock, a tiny island in the Forth being used as part of the foun...

“[A] cli-fi fantasy exploring the potential for rage and trauma to break the world.” —Library Journal, starred review “And the Sky Bled is already drawing comparisons to the work of N. K. Jemisin and Fonda Lee.” –Paste Magazine Amid the chaos of a dying city ruled by colonizers, three rivals—a ...

Paul Leibovitz is 53, living in Hong Kong, deeply in love with the city, its culture, and most of all, Christine. When a fortune teller predicts the death of someone she loves, however, the pair are once again thrust into the murky criminal world of Hong Kong and forced to fight for their lives. ...

He is suddenly and monstrously there, and his mask disguises nothing . . .The bus never stops in Le Cap-des-Pins. Not in autumn, when the small Riviera resort is deserted. Except today, when a man with a red bag and a disconcerting stare steps out into the rain. His arrival will throw the life of...

An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine, love and war, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wildern...

Fear is a state of mind . . . Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death . . . and when her body is found in the centre of a pentagram on a lonely moor, journalist Rebecca Connelly is determined to find the truth. Could she really have been killed by supernatural means, or is there a more realistic...

A prize-winning bestseller in France, this is the unlikely love story of two lonely people in Paris.When a flock of crows invades their shared apartment block, farmer-turned-debt collector Ludovic and fashion designer Aurore speak for the first time. With nothing but the birds in common, the two ...

Richard Hannay is the star of John Buchan's original spy thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Spanning five novels and crossing paths with many of Buchan's other characters, Hannay has stood the test of time. Towards the end of John Buchan's last novel Sick Heart River, Edward Leithen reflects that, ...