Results Publisher "Sceptre" in All categories

'The best, liveliest account yet of the origin of video games. Trial of the Space Invaders is deeply researched, vividly written, and revelatory' Keza MacDonald, author of Super Nintendo A fascinating, page-turning story about one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century: who invented...

THE AWARD-WINNING, WORD-OF-MOUTH NEW ZEALAND BESTSELLER NOMINATED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF NEW ZEALAND'S JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE 'I was dazzled by this book's intimacy, truth and complexity. It has everything I truly love in fiction' Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard...

'Incredibly playful . . . for anyone willing to see the humour in the ridiculous, flawed ways we try to connect with each other . . . there are a lot of laughs to be had' Guardian 'A darkly comic, ridiculously smart novel about desire, desperation, hope, disappointment, politics and trying to do...

'A tremendous novel with a cool and engrossing narrative voice' William Boyd, author of The Predicament 'Thrums with the momentum of a page turner' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars 'Addictive' Ledia Xhoga, author of Misinterpretation 'Brilliant . . . A novel about a...

'I find it impossible to read [Wood's recipes] without feeling a burst of fresh energy for the kitchen. . . essential nourishment for the reader every bit as much as for the cook' NIGELLA LAWSON To award-winning novelist Charlotte Wood, cooking is 'creativity in its purest form', nourishing the...

On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by his captors...

On the edge of a small town in New South Wales, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, lies a prisoner-of-war camp housing Italian, Korean and Japanese soldiers. For their guards and the locals, many with loved ones away fighting, captive or dead, it is hard to know how to treat them...

'I entered instantly into the piercing clarity of these pages, utterly absorbed' JHUMPA LAHIRI 'Hypnotic . . . filled with unforgettable characters' SANDRO VERONESI 'An intense, moving book' DOMENICO STARNONE It is a June morning in Milan when Sandro abandons his flat, his job and the...

An Observer Best Debut Novelist 2026 'Atmospheric and gripping ... propulsive and intimate' Observer 'An electric portrait of teenage friendship and fandom, bubbling with rage and yearning . . . empathetic, addictive and feverish as a Nirvana gig' Guardian 'Part Virgin Suicides, part Veronica...

*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025* 'Public interest journalism at its best - powerful human stories peppered with well-chosen facts ... A compelling case for a fairer society' SUNDAY TIMES 'An absorbing, moving, and beautifully composed exploration of motherhood and mothering across the...

The night is a time of darkness and nightmares, fear and vulnerability, especially for women. And, yet, it is another world, full of beauty and possibility, too. After the sun goes down, insomnia and sleep paralysis do threaten. But some have always walked the nocturnal landscapes, with more or less confidence. Others have worked, night shifts and hidden night work: nurses, security guards, sex workers. And some have found solace in the darkness, from queer rave culture to religious pre-dawn traditions.

Whatever Jenn Ashworth turns her hand to, I'm there to read it' BENJAMIN MYERS, author of The Offing 'With honesty, humour and determination, Ashworth's journey takes the reader from coast to coast in search of freedom' JESSICA ANDREWS, author of Milk Teeth 'A miracle of a book . . . One of our...

'A book to love and cherish' Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living 'A beautiful writer and, just as important, a beautiful thinker' Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life 'Friendship is, in fact, as much the topic of this book as aloneness' Sarah Bakewell, Guardian At no time before have...

A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav...

SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 'It's been a while since we were stunned by an ambitious family saga' The Times 'One of this summer's most buzzed-about novels' Financial Times MEET THE MIKKOLA SISTERS: INA...

'Lush, complex, and close to the bone, The Decadence filled me with horror in the best way' Krystelle Bamford, author of Idle Grounds 'A genuinely creepy and evocative contemporary ghost story . . . this novel intrigues and unsettles' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'An exquisitely claustrophobic...

WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JÜRGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE 'Powerful' Times Literary Supplement 'Formally adventurous' New York Times 'An exquisite inquiry into what it means to be an individual in a body, a family, a society, with all the attendant misery...

In 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse married in Australia, they were part of a young generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on, as Grace recounts what happened to her doomed hero, she can say what she suspected then: that...

'A powerful synthesis of perspective and self-determination' Irish Times 'Fascinating ... affecting ... illuminating ... [Carthew] has genuinely interesting things to say' The Sunday Times ''Most Cornish stories are told by outsiders, and are not Cornish stories at all... Natasha Carthew gives...

Summer 1983, Rimini. On the beaches and in the nightclubs of the Adriatic Riviera, dazzling with its neon lights and promised pleasures, seven lives intersect. A young journalist on his first important assignment, determined to unravel a web of political corruption. A woman searching for her...