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THE YEAR IS 1986. THE CITY IS SAN FRANCISCO. Here, Martin Hench will reinvent the forensic accountant – what a bounty hunter is to people, he will be to tech money – but for now he's an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technolo...

A deliciously funny debut from a major new talent! MiniRabbit is making a cake. Cake, cake, cake! But he’s run out of berries. No berries, no cake. No cake? No way! So off he goes to look for some… He’s not cold, not too small. And, no, no, definitely NOT LOST… or is he? In this award-winn...

Mini Rabbit is back in another adventure from leading new talent John Bond! Mini Rabbit is making a camp in the garden. He can’t wait. It’s going to be the BEST DAY ever! But there are still a few last things he needs to get, and it looks like it might rain. Will Mini Rabbit ever manage to get ...

You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here's how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. And even if the words include things like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and MY HEAD...

Aristotle claimed that ‘all human beings want to know’. Yet we also want not to know. Centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow preposterous prophets; irrational rumours trigger fanatical acts; and magical thinking crowds out common sense and expertise. Where does this wil...

A travel guide to hauntings and the haunted, to lands with their own power, and to the communities that spring from these strange realms. In your hands is a guide to the strange and surreal. From arcades along a boardwalk and jetties at the edges of tourist towns, to a rural village in Pakistan ...

In the thrilling sequel to Seaborn, the Windborn threaten war against the Fair Isles – and three women of the sea hatch daring plans to change their fates. Bela, the reluctant hero, journeys into the inhospitable Sea of Ice in search of the ancient portal that broke the world. Shae, the ship-le...

'Saltburn meets The Secret History in this gripping tale of alchemy and academia' IAN RANKIN THE WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR MAY 2025 Five friends. One deadly obsession. The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with in...

We have all fallen under the malevolent spell of hucksters, and their power is real, as is the loss of self and hope when the spell breaks.  A hybrid memoir and a personal detective story which has at its heart what it means to trust, why we trust, and what happens when trust is betrayed, Trust ...