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Discover the deliciously dark romantasy sensation taking BookTok by storm!
FOR BLOOD DEMANDS BLOOD, AND WE ALL MUST RENDER OUR DUES...
In Dendra death is an honour. The young are raised with one purpose: to die willingly before the Blood God in a rite of devotion.
Ashara was never meant to want anything beyond death... until Demetri.
Stolen touches in the dark, kisses under fading light, and a promise to indulge in a night of sin before they are sacrificed to the Blood God.
But that vow was made before the acolytes. Before the inquisition. Before the penance.
Estranged for eight years after a brutal penance leaves them both shamed and scarred, Ashara and Demetri reunite in the Grand Templum, mere hours before they are sentenced to die.
But the Templum is beginning to break.
When a Druid is found slain, the Last Rite unravels into a vicious hunt for answers, and soon Ashara must decide: remain the sacrifice or become the wrath...
*please read the trigger warnings before diving in
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READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE BLOOD PLAGUES
'You gave me trigger warnings but one of them wasn't the author is EVILLL'
'What witchcraft is this?! I'm wincing, horrified but also giggling and kicking my feet'
'I'm in awe... what the flip am I going to do with my life now??'
'One of the most saucy things I've read ever and they barely touched!'
‘Colourful vegetables, dripping in tahini, chilli crisp, and everything else that makes them impossible to ignore. This is the kind of cooking that makes converts!’ YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
‘Every page is something I want to cook. Eating more veg has never felt so inspired.’ EMILY ENGLISH
Alfie Steiner – aka @alfiecooks – is the food creator whose viral recipe videos have inspired millions of people around the world to cook and eat veg in exciting new ways. In this, his first book, he shares 100 easy, flavour-packed, plant-based dishes.
Bursting with simple, delicious and accessible recipes that put vegetables at the heart of every meal, Eat Your Veg is your new go-to cookbook for modern meat-free meals. From a warming bowl of soup to a quick weeknight dinner or a spread to share with your friends, Alfie has the recipe for you. With both brand new and signature recipes from one of your favourite cooks, these bold and vibrant dishes make eating veg easy, exciting and seriously satisfying.
Michael has had a big life. A life of abundance and applause. But now he's dead (or at least he's pretty sure he is.) He is given the chance to return - but it comes with a catch. He ends up back in a time he’d tried to forget.
He and his mum have been forced to start again after his dad's death: new house, new school, no mates. Worse still, his mum has a new boyfriend, a man with suspiciously close-set eyes and the word DRYWALL tattooed on his forearm. Michael mostly spends his time in his bedroom, drawing cars and making airfix models. Things seem hopeless.
But as the months pass, Michael slowly begins to find his place. Helped by new friendships and the unexpected kindness of his neighbour, Mr Graham, what starts as the worst year of Michael’s life might actually turn out to be the one that makes him. Life looks different second time around.
A wise, funny, and moving novel about growing up and finding your way, from multimillion-copy bestselling author Bob Mortimer.
A STUNNING DELUXE EDITION OF THE No. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard.
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humour, and fascinating science, with special features including:
• Intricately designed stencilled edges
• New cover art on a deluxe jacket
• Full-colour illustrated endpapers
• A gorgeous custom-stamped case
HUGO AWARD FINALIST. • NEW YORK TIMES READER PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that.
He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.
A beautiful classic hardback edition of King's famous work to celebrate its fortieth anniversary. Derry, Maine is just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live. It is a group of children who see - and feel - what makes Derry so horribly different.
In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT appears as an evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing . .
. Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget. Until they are called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, emerging again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
'Prepare to be gripped by the brand new novel from the 'queen of the psychological thriller' C. L. Taylor. A gripping thriller that will keep you guessing until the end' ALICE FEENEY
'A dazzlingly clever book where nothing is quite as it seems' ELLY GRIFFITHS
It's a dangerous thing to know too much.
Expect the unexpected in the ingenious new thriller from the bestselling author of Every Move You Make and It's Always the Husband.
Oxford University, 1995. Three student deaths in three weeks can't be a coincidence. Ned Marlowe doesn't think so, but no one wants to listen to him: not his professor or the clique of elitist psychology undergraduates he supervises.
Then Celia, a student in a nearby building, tells Ned what she saw the night of the last death, and his suspicions deepen into obsession.
Someone is trying to stop him from getting to the truth. The less he knows, the better.
In 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in Montparnasse, occupied Paris. In the chaos of their arrest, eleven-year-old Josie flees to the only person she trusts: her piano teacher, Andrée Levallois, secretly an operative in the French Resistance. Andrée takes her in as a member of the family, spreading their rations and risking everything to keep her safe.
But soon the authorities close in, and both Andrée and Josie are caught in a desperate race to stay alive. Heather Morris, author of the international bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of French Resistance operatives, and one piano teacher who is willing to risk everything to save a young girl. Epic in scope and inspired by real events and people, The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse is a gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting story of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
On a weather‑beaten rock forty miles west of the Hebrides, they still call Skarav 'Island of
the Dead' - a place of sheer cliffs, vanished communities and secrets buried as deep as
the graves in its thin soil. When burned‑out Glasgow journalist Ethan MacGregor returns
there for the first time in fourteen years, it is not for the scenery but an ultimatum: face
what happened the night his first love fell from the island's highest cliff, or lose his wife
and baby daughter.
At seventeen, Donna Gillies was fearless, barefoot and the only girl Ethan ever truly loved
- until she died on a moonlit August night, pregnant and broken on the rocks below a
headland called The Saddle. The island has never doubted who killed her: Christopher
MacGregor, Ethan's devout father.
On the mainland, Detective George Gunn is also haunted by that night: by the body he
helped gather in pieces from the rocks, and the post‑mortem that proved Donna was
struck with a tubular weapon before she went over the edge. A recent cliff‑top suicide has
shattered the fragile lid he kept on those memories, and when word reaches him that
Ethan is back on St. Columba, Gunn seizes on the case review as his last chance at
redemption.
As a storm season closes in, Ethan and Gunn follow different paths back to The Saddle,
through traumatised families, the politics of a shrinking island, and the dangerous loyalties
of a group of friends who once believed they would all escape. On an island where the
dead are never far from the living, Island of the Dead is a tense, atmospheric thriller
about faith and obsession, first love and generational guilt - and about whether the truth,
once unearthed, can ever set anyone free.
They call them Crown Vic and Baby Blue…From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Atmosphere, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a daring story of two friends chasing their biggest score yet – and risking everything that holds them together. As any good hustler can tell you, every con works the same way. Identify an unsuspecting mark and gain their trust. Promise them everything they desire… and give them just enough to believe you.
Then take the mark for everything they’ve got and disappear. Victoria Lucchese and Colette Wilson have been running their pool hustle for years, driving around the country and leaving overconfident men with empty wallets in their wake. The con is simple: Coco, magnetic and fearless, draws men in with her good looks and convinces them to play against her friend, Vic.
Precise and unstoppable, Vic runs the table clean. Vic and Coco are the closest thing to family either one has ever had… even if they don’t know each other’s real names. But now it’s summer of 1974.
Nixon is on the brink of impeachment, there’s an oil crisis, prices are soaring, jobs are scarce, and Vic and Coco are starting to feel the squeeze. Word is spreading about two women to watch out for, and they’re running out of places to hide and marks to hustle. That’s when they set in motion a plan that will bring them their biggest payday yet… or cost them everything.
Sharp, seductive, and electric, The Last Days of Vic & Coco is set in the sun-and-shadows world of long desert highways, seedy motels, and dive bars. It’s the story of two women living by their wits, making their own rules, and traveling light. Even though they want different things from life, they swear they will stick together.
But can you ever really trust the promises of a hustler?
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A festive murder mystery novella featuring Ali Dawson
No-one is more surprised than time-travelling detective Ali Dawson when Charles Dickens suddenly turns up on her doorstep a few days before Christmas. The Great Writer is as baffled as she is as to how he got there. Ali takes him in, despite being preoccupied with a new cold case around the murdered artist Sylvester Strong.
Dickens is a rather demanding house guest. However, as a detective, he shows distinct promise and together they embark on finding the truth behind the appearance of new paintings by the deceased artist. On top of that Nell, the daughter of Ali's best friend Meg, has vanished without a trace.
As the whole of London is in full festive swing and preparing for the most special day of the year, Ali and Dickens are exploring the town, desperate to solve not just one but two crime cases. Will they succeed before Christmas Day arrives and more importantly, will Charles find a way back home?
Archie Gibson's initiation into desert warfare almost proved to be his last. Barrelling through the sand dunes at the wheel of his truck, Gibson spied a searing flash of light up ahead, the signature of a feared German 88mm gun firing ... right at him.
He leapt from his speeding vehicle just before it was torn apart and turned into a flaming inferno. Gibson's response to his near-death experience was typical: his next vehicle he christened 'Wha Daur' - a phrase culled from the Scottish ballad, Who dares meddle with me? Wha Daur proved to be the slowest, most ugly and unwieldy of their Long Range Desert Group patrol - the unit that served as the forerunners of the SAS - but that didn't stop Gibson from spearheading a string of daring and audacious missions. Miraculously, Gibson survived the war.
Decades later, he went on to write his wartime story - twice - and at the urgings of his children. While it was never meant to see the light of day, Gibson's family decided that their father's tale - one paying tribute to duty, true grit and undying brotherhood, and laced with typical humility and humour - must be told. Now, acclaimed historian Damien Lewis brings Gibson's story to life, as if his voice speaks from beyond the grave.
Working from Gibson's incredibly detailed diaries, his sketchbooks, wartime reports, letters and the gripping account written by Gibson's own hand, Damien reveals the full story ... for the first time.
Knives Out meets Sherlock in the must-read new historical murder mystery from the Times bestselling author of The Murder at World's End, for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Tom Hindle and Janice Hallett. London, 1911. Coronation fever.
Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension. When a policeman is found brutally murdered on the streets of Kensington, blame falls on the three women seen fleeing the scene.
Their sole witness? Stephen Pike: ex-borstal boy, under-butler extraordinaire and assistant to the most unconventional detective in London, Miss Decima Stockingham. Sharp-tongued, fearless and bored of behaving herself, she’s the only one able to see that this case is not what it seems. Aided by an invisible network of maids – their eyes and ears in every house in London – this unlikely duo must catch the killer before time runs out.
But in a city dazzled by ceremony and divided by change, you never know what might be lurking in the shadows…READERS CANNOT WAIT FOR THE SHADOWS OF KENSINGTON GORE'
I can't wait for the next book in this stunning new series' Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal 'This is going to be a great series. Do yourself a favour - get in on the ground floor' Abir Mukherjee, bestselling author of the Wyndham & Banerjee series
A stunning limited edition first print run deluxe hardback. Featuring a full-colour illustration reversible jacket, full-colour designed endpapers, and foil case stamp... while supplies last!* '
The first book in a new dark, seductive and all-consuming fantasy series, in which a human commander and the masked enemy interrogator sent to break her are drawn into a slow-burn, dangerous bond - one that could end a fifteen-year war or ignite something far deadlier.
Vordell was beautiful once. Its people lived in harmony as they harnessed the power of light – until darkness came. The Iron Sky smothered the suns, the earth split, releasing vicious creatures, and the long-buried Dar’rak reclaimed the world above.
A high-ranking commander, Soraya Tollmere has spent most of her life on the front lines of the brutal war that followed. By day, she leads covert missions across ruined lands through enemy territory. By night, she meets with a Dar’rak defector who has kept humanity alive with his steady stream of secrets.
But when a lead that could turn the tide of the war draws her into enemy territory, Soraya is captured by The Demon, the Dar’rak’s most feared soldier. His orders are simple: break the human commander and uncover humanity’s greatest weapon. As devastating truths unravel and loyalties blur, Soraya must decide who to trust in a world where light is dying… and where her greatest enemy may be her only salvation.
Detective Matthew Venn is called in to investigate a puzzling death. The body of a young woman has been found in the swimming pool of Tide House, a luxurious holiday home in North Devon, and her best friend is missing. The property belongs to rising political star Paul Armstrong and the case quickly draws intense media scrutiny.
As a scorching heat wave rages and further tragedy strikes, Venn and his team begin questioning a community brimming with secrets. The dead woman and her friend had been spotted at a nearby music festival the day before, an event which brought locals and outsiders together - some of whom may have been more connected with the Armstrongs than first thought.
Caught between a powerful family's secrets and a powder keg of local tensions, Venn must navigate a treacherous path. Knowing that the real answers lie not in what people say, but in the silence that they keep . . .
Detective Matthew Venn of The Raging Storm returns in the fourth novel in the Two Rivers series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland.
FROM THE BOOKER AND WOMEN'S-PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY AND THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES
During a time of great turmoil, Gustave Flaubert created literature's most scandalous heroine: Madame Bovary. He then poisoned her with arsenic. But what if, 175 years later, Emma - and the women history overlooked - could seize the quill from his hands and tell a different story?
In One Brief Moment All Eternity is a luminous reinvention of an iconic male writer, told through the eyes of the women - real and fictional - who shaped him: a devoted nursemaid, an Egyptian dancer and a passionate, jealous lover who refuses to be forgotten. Through their voices, visionary author Elif Shafak creates both an intimate portrait of a great artist and an epic meditation on storytelling itself: who gets remembered, who gets erased, and how can literature endure through political upheaval, war and injustice? When the world feels broken, how do we find the hope to carry on?
Shafak takes readers on an extraordinary journey through time and space, from Flaubert's unusual childhood in a house that was part home, part hospital, part morgue, to nineteenth-century Paris during the Revolution, and onwards to Istanbul, Cairo, Palestine and Beirut. In this exhilarating tale, the questions at the heart of her work take on a thrilling new urgency: who gets to speak, and what would the silenced have said?
Boldly inventive, transporting and illuminating, spanning decades and continents, In One Brief Moment All Eternity is a dazzling love letter to literature, untold stories, neglected communities and the enduring spirit of humanity.
Two great loves. A world in chaos. And a life that never lands in order.
'Graceful... Satisfying... It takes on the biggest issues of our times without a flinch' BONNIE GARMUS
'Wonderfully enigmatic' TRACY CHEVALIER
'A marvel... Something I won't stop thinking about' CLAIRE DAVERLEY
Alba DeTamble is a time traveler, slipping unpredictably through decades like her father before her. But the hardest thing she carries isn't the burden of futures she can't understand, or pasts she cannot change - it's a secret: she is in love with two different people.
Each of them offers a different life. Zach lives in the present and can't follow her when she disappears. Oliver can travel through time, just like she can.
As Alba careens from time to time, moving from the riot-torn Chicago streets of her present to the eerie, timeless Yellow House, and into the digital corridors of the Museum of Lost Souls and a flooded future London, she must face a question she can no longer avoid: how is it possible to love, and live a meaningful life, in an increasingly troubled, fractured world?
Intimate and expansive, Life Out of Order is a kaleidoscopic story of love, resilience and hope when time is running out.
Roy Grace is back in this gripping instalment from number one bestselling author Peter James. Brighton is celebrating. A killer is waiting.
And Roy Grace is the target . . .
Brighton Pride is the biggest date on the city’s calendar with half a million people lost in the party. But behind the opulent façade of the Royal Courteney Hotel, a nightmare is checking in. Dritan Dervishi, the cold-blooded consigliere for Albanian mob boss Roel Albazi, has arrived with a beautiful woman on his arm and a lethal secret in his suitcase.
He has specifically requested Room 321 – a room with a perfect view of the sea, and a deadly proximity to a target he’s been dreaming of for years. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is already pushed to the limit, coordinating the city’s massive security operation amid whispers of a potential terrorist attack. But the threat is more personal than he could ever imagine.
Back in a prison cell, his old nemesis Albazi is counting down the seconds to a revenge that will not just take Roy’s life, but erase his entire bloodline. And as Roy and his wife Cleo prepare for a night of celebration at the Royal Courteney, they have no idea that they are stepping into a deadly trap. As the relentless countdown nears zero, Roy must outsmart an invisible enemy and protect his loved ones before their time finally runs out .
THE UPLIFTING KOREAN BESTSELLER
'Do you like cats? Or do you know cats well? I never once imagined that I would raise one with my own hands in the mountains. And yet, quite unexpectedly, something unbelievable happened: a cat walked into my arms.'After more than a decade at a bustling city temple in Seoul, Bokyeong Sunim - the Venerable Bokyeong - moves to a rural mountain temple where, in the depths of winter, an unexpected guest appears on his doorstep: a ginger-and-white cat. Their everyday interactions unfold into generous and life-affirming meditations on cats, companionship, patience, the fleetingness of time, and the satisfactions and challenges of different ways of seeing the world.
Drawing on years of learning, reflection and the Venerable Bokyeong's own practice, One Day a Cat Came to Me blends philosophy, mindfulness and connection with nature, powerfully capturing the essence of life in the company of others. Translated from Korean by Jinwoo Park.
*****Chance to win a personalised cat portrait*****
**SIGNED EDITION EXCLUSIVE TO INDIE BOOKSHOPS**
We often think of them as tiny, glittering creatures fluttering about in pastel tulle, but fairies haven't always been so benign. Here, historian Sarah Clegg explores the true history of fairies, and the menace and ambiguity that always lurks within the shimmering fantasy. This history takes us from elf fires in Iceland to a burial mound in Ireland; and from a stream in Cottingley where two sisters created a fairy hoax to a modern-day fairy ball in Los Angeles.
Along the way, Clegg reveals fairies' connection to ancient gods and their role in the witch-trials, and examines their seductive presence in romantasy today. This is a story of how fairy myths grew and spread across Europe, of how they changed and developed, and why we have, for centuries, been so enthralled by the danger and enchantment of the fae.
Paul 'Piglet' Middleton's first book is a heartwarming and often hilarious collection of
stories from his first thirty years working on the beautiful and historic North Yorkshire
Moors Railway. Best known as the star of Channel 4's hit series Steam Train Diaries, Piglet
brings readers into a world of steam, nostalgia, Yorkshire humour and some truly
unforgettable characters.
Throughout his career, he has worked with engine royalty such as The Flying Scotsman,
Locomotion No. 1, and Sir Nigel Gresley; acting royalty, including Tom Cruise and
Harrison Ford; and even helped make a few things happen for actual royalty, namely His
Majesty King Charles III.
Then there are Piglet's colleagues and friends: not only in the famed locomotive sheds at
Grosmont Station, but up and down the line, alongside countless locals, volunteers and
visitors. Well-known for his laid-back demeanour and love of "all things oily", Piglet even
has his own steam engine, Lucie, which he rescued from the scrap man about a decade
ago, restored (with the help of his brother), and now runs on the NYMR.
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which stretches for 24 miles between Whitby and
Pickering, is a piece of Yorkshire like no other, and over the years it has afforded Piglet a
veritable treasure trove of tales. So, climb aboard, sit back, keep your feet off the seats
and get ready to be transported into a wonderful world of adventure, nostalgia, and, of
course, steam.
'Ian Rankin is an all-time, solid-gold UK crime fiction great - read The Heights and find out why'
MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire's playground offering sumptuous suites for the global elite.
But when a night concierge is found murdered in the lobby, the building's rarefied atmosphere is shattered, and the gilded lives within come under intense police scrutiny. In a world designed to keep prying eyes out, where the residents are not used to being held to account, born-and-bred Londoner Detective Gillian Gish must find a way past their power, wealth and unimaginable influence. The rules may be different at the top - but is anyone truly above the law? Or could it be that the higher you rise, the further you fall...?
THE FIRST STANDALONE THRILLER IN TWO DECADES FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN.
A brand-new full-length novel, expanded from the previously published short story The Rise.
*****PRAISE FOR THE HEIGHTS:'Terrific' MICK HERRON, bestselling author of Slow Horses & The Slough House series'. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough'. CHRIS CHIBNALL, creator of Broadchurch and author of Death At The White Hart'
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Simon K, Slawit resident
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A F Steadman’s stunning new series for 2027 to her thousands of fans, ZENO AND THE DRAGON RIDERS !
As with her previous SKANDAR novels, this is a signed special edition with exclusive endpapers and a ribbon for Independent Booksellers.
Claim your dragon. Change your destiny.
Zeno Smith has always dreamed of becoming at hero – just like his famous dad. But a different fate awaits him. Far away in the Burning City, home to powerful and ancient dragons, Zeno faces a choice that will change everything.
Meanwhile, Raven Rizzo chose her path long ago. She has a plan to reach the Burning City – even if her family disapproves.
Zeno and Raven must take part in the famous Dragon Trials – a series of deadly tasks, broadcast live around the world, that tests the bond between young riders and their new dragons.
With the whole world watching, do Zeno and Raven have what it takes to become a different kind of hero?