Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary.To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anything supernatural. But if Cat...

Don't miss the electrifying new Karen Pirie thriller - STILL LIFE is out now. The eleventh book in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, from No. 1 bestselling author Val McDermid. 'The queen of crime is still at the top of her game'...

It's summer in Stockholm, and the city is sweltering in the grip of a rare heatwave while fascists and communists beat each other bloody in the streets. Harry Kvist has had enough. It's time for him to leave.But first he has some business to...

From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, an addictive mystery that refuses to let you go long after you turn the final page. Can Becks piece the jigsaw together and find her sister before Silva loses herself? Becks is into girls but didn't come out...

Since the crash, since Eliza died, Samuel can't find a way to go on. His need to see his love again is overwhelming, and so he ventures into the strange, terrifying world of Hoodoo. Samuel is about to make a pact with powers he...

A modern cult classic, a major motion picture and a timeless bestseller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story. Charlie is not the biggest geek in high school, but he's by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his...

The New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens. An evil spell has been cast on the Queen of Maar and her Captain of the Guard will do anything to reverse it. Their only hope lies on an island half a world away. A...

An eerie and evocative Victorian-set horror thriller about how a well-meaning butcher’s daughter from London’s Whitechapel grew up to become the baker who stuffed her pies with the flesh of Sweeney Todd’s victims. Perfect for fans of Clare Whitfield, Jess Kidd and Ambrose Parry....

Scientist Finn Blanchard is trying not to think about murder. The university administrator Nina Hussar may have fallen to her death down stairs she'd used for years, but the only mystery Finn wants to investigate is whether there's a shark in the local lake....

'Massimo lived here now. And things had begun to happen. Sounds, smells, dreams. A private horror show. A usurper in my ordered world…' Simon has always been a good boy. He’s invariably employee of the month at the seasonal small plates restaurant where he works,...

Killing Jericho #3 MURDER WON'T STAY BURIED... While Scott Jericho is tasked with investigating the most baffling case of his career, his partner Harry is set upon his own fateful path. In a rundown seaside town, a young man has vanished without a trace.Jericho's...

In Thrall, a young woman looking for a transformative college experience is bitten by a vampire and must team up with his other living victims to hunt him down.Lucy Easting has at last broken free from her grim home life and is ready to...

Harry Alexander is a failing art student at a prestigious college who grew up walking past the portraits of his ancestors, the Great Alexanders, whose artistic, musical and literary achievements are celebrated around the world. Unfortunately, Harry's uncle and sole guardian has always been...

Two teens are pitted against each other in a magical duel for revenge, but they’ll have to fight their growing attraction first, in this YA fantasy thriller from the author of These Deadly Prophecies.Eighteen-year-old Samantha Chan wants only one revenge for her brother’s death in...

Most people have been devoured by the eldritch creatures, but Sara and her family have been fighting for survival, armed with their knowledge of folklore and pagan rituals - the only weapon that seems to work against these monsters. And then a young woman,...

At the height of lockdown, a group of flailing twenty-something friends makes an illicit break for freedom.A grand country house stands empty. Once the home of Theo's great uncle, it seems like the perfect place to get high and hang out in the spring...

It’s a tale as old as time: break up with your shitty boyfriend, travel to a foreign country to find yourself...  end up in a sex-fueled commune worshiping an angry God. When Aoife stumbles across the Farmstead, she finds everything she’s been missing—a community...

A twisting, gothic literary thriller sure to delight fans of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, The Wonder by Emma Donaghue, and The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters.It is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a trailblazing marine archaeologist, has been called to Cairnroch, a small island off the east...

Offering the atmosphere of Twin Peaks and the queer camaraderie of comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, Veal is a thrilling exploration of friendship, fear, and the thin line between justice and vengeance.Delores “Lawrence” Franklin is a failed capitalist and a runaway headcase....

Sergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier. She’s also desperate to leave her haunted past deep in the bioluminescent ocean, buried alongside her best friend, Quian. So, when Subarch Kessandra, Valkesh’s favorite royal, and Nix’s loathed ex requests Nix’s help investigating a massacre...

In this thrilling sequel to The Hollow and the Haunted, Miles and Gabriel find themselves ensnared in a web of dark magic beyond their wildest imaginings. Time is running out to change their future, and the dead are hungry...Perfect for fans of atmospheric queer...

In this darkly magical fantasy debut set in Washington State, a closeted teenage psychic foresees the death of his sworn enemy, and is forced to work with him to save his life. Sparks fly, but some ghosts don't want to stay buried... Perfect for...

Michael McDowell's Blackwater meets Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show in the disturbing first installment of a new trilogy of intense, visceral, beautifully written queer horror set in a small New England town.A chilling supernatural tale of transgressive literary horror from the Bram Stoker Award® finalist and...

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of...

DARKNESS LIES IN THE SHADOWS OF VICTORIAN LONDONOpium, treachery, murder...Pearl Fitzgerald arrives in Limehouse - London's very ­first Chinatown - to settle her late father's affairs and claim her inheritance. But when she unwittingly ­finds herself at the scene of a murder, her plans...

Marguerite had been confined for the sake of her wellbeing. That’s what her mother had said. Marguerite Périgord is locked in the attic of her family home, a towering Chelsea house overlooking the stinking Thames.For company she has a sewing machine, Mrs Beeton’s Book...

The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to the social horror of Jordan Peele...

At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than the members of the elite Wilberton Theatrical Society a.k.a. the WTS and no one represents that exclusive club better than Elizabeth Woodward. Breathtakingly beautiful, beloved by all, and a talented thespian, it’s no surprise she’s...

Don’t Let the Forest In meets The Whispering Dark in a queer YA cult horror following a recently diagnosed autistic teen who becomes enmeshed in a community of outcasts harbouring sinister secrets. When Cassie Davis returns to her hometown in upstate New York, eager...

Sequel to Young Gothic  Filled with deadly secrets and the monsters you thought only existed in your mind...You've heard of Jekyll and Hyde, you've heard of the Invisible Man, but have you heard of Castle Bran? Eve, Griffin, Hal and Ren are whisked away...