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Kumiko and the Dragon: Kumiko doesn’t like going to bed. She can’t sleep. The reason she can’t sleep is because a giant dragon sits outside her bedroom window every single night. One evening, Kumiko plucks up the courage to ask the dragon to leave, not knowing that what she is about to discover i...

Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters – each more beautiful, brilliant and eccentric than the next – dominate the English political, literary and social scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fa...

Everyone is looking for love ... but the search for love in the 21st century is fraught with obstacles (not least among them pandemics), uncertainties (does romantic love really exist, and if it does, are we worthy of it?) and contradictions (the popularity of dating apps versus our cynicism abou...

AT THE DAWN OF THE COLD WAR, A NEW BREED OF SPY IS BORN . . .The gripping new 2025 novel from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling 'master of the wartime spy thriller' (Financial Times).Winter, 1947. Britain's secret services have been penetrated. The country is more vulnerable than ...

A historic institution is hiding a very modern threat.The studentLi Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix's College. The scapegoatMeanwhile, the centre's newl...

It's early in the wet season. A flock of crested terns sweeps into the bay and dives towards Batjani. The birds are saying the foreigners are coming, as they do every year, but why are they so full of menace?Batjani's beloved granddaughter Garritji is on the cusp of womanhood, about to go through...

Leah has a good life. She lives on The Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her husband Moses and their two children. She and her neighbours - the drovers - look out for each other. Theirs is a safe, community-oriented enclave and that's the way it's going to stay.When itinerants set up camp in ...

Against the backdrop of the last decadent gasps of the twentieth century, Somebody Down There Likes Me asks what might happen if we finally get what we deserve.The Gulch family have led a charmed existence in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Belle Haven, Connecticut. Now, the empire they have built i...

Rugby News is an iconic brand that has stood the test of time. We are the pulse of the nation’s favourite game, and have been for over 50 years. We call on a stable of the country’s best rugby scribes, to bring readers all the insight and analysis they need to accompany their rugby watching. Our ...

You can't hide in the shadows in a city of neon lights. When a local doctor is brutally murdered, Detective Constable Lana Cohen joins Strike Force Diablo on the notorious Gold Coast, where she finds herself navigating a world of chaos and corruption. As she delves deeper into the case, Lana rel...