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Our dream home. A fresh start. But the house comes with secrets — and so do the neighbours. The moment we moved in, I knew something was wrong. A cracked stove. Scribbles on the wall. The lights flicking off every evening — always at the same time. Our daughter crying in the night, pointing at the corner of her room. "She has no face." Now the gifts are arriving. Notes through the door. A bottle left in the kitchen with no explanation. And my daughter won't stop screaming in her sleep. Everyone thinks I'm imagining it. But I know what I saw. What I heard.

Harry Christmas and Angie Moon are best friends and almost-twins. Ever since they were born two days apart they’ve been partners in cloud-spotting, sweet-eating and treehouse-building. But when Harry is taken to hospital for headaches that won’t go away, he needs Angie more than ever...

In the teeming underhive of Hive Primus, the de facto capital of Necromunda, untold billions clamour for scraps as they attempt to eke out something barely resembling an existence. While the gilded elite enjoy the trappings of luxury in the towering spires above and the lowest of the low barely survive, many turn to the streets and each other for survival, and these are some of their stories.

Roach, a bookseller and a loner, is content to spend her days hoarding true crime proofs, listening to murder podcasts, and sneering at the predictable tastes of her normie customers. That is, until Laura joins the bookshop. Everyone loves Laura, with her neat outfits, literary tote bags and beautiful poetry. But Laura has a dark side that only Roach can see, and when Roach uncovers her tragic past, curiosity blooms into obsession. As Roach's boundaries disintegrate, it becomes clear that she will do anything to infiltrate Laura's life—and at any cost. 

Baggit is a fast-talking ratling sniper with a greedy eye and loose morals. Clodde is an ogryn, a brute with a core of decency and a desire for a better life. Two abhuman deserters turned thieves, at large in the monolithic city of Varangantua, where only the tough or the ruthless survive. Having landed in debt to a savage crime lord, Baggit and Clodde end up in the crosshairs of the meanest, most puritanical sanctioner in the city.

Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2022 Waterstones Children's Book of the Month for October 2021 Winner of the Honour Award for Fiction, KPMG Irish Children's Book Awards 2021 'A magnificent, shadowy, gothic adventure full of heart' – Emma Carroll, author of Frost Hollow Hall. A...

Empires don’t need kings. They need queens. Freshly paroled from Holloway Prison, Pearl Armstrong returns to Soho not for nostalgia — but to reclaim the empire she built with blood, cunning and grit. Her sons, Kristian and Daniel, have turned the Armstrong legacy into a shadow of its former...

A wonderfully romantic and uplifting story from bestselling author, Jaimie Admans that is guaranteed to warm your heart 🏰Every book in the Ever After Street Series can be read as a standalone🏰 There's always time for tea... unless you've lost your teapot… Cleo Jordan has only ever wished...

An enchanting and heartwarming romance from bestselling author Jaimie Admans 🏰Every book in the Ever After Street Series can be read as a standalone🏰 A tale as old as time… Since her mum’s death, Marnie Platt has shut herself away from everyone who cares about her. Worse, her beloved...

⭐️ THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ⭐️A pulse-pounding summer thriller that keeps you guessing until the very last page, perfect for fans of Freida McFadden and The Holiday by T.M. Logan ✈️📚 Funny how one lie can spiral… 👀 One thing about me: I HATE flying. That’s why I book seat...

An utterly enchanting romance to sweep you off your feet by bestselling author Jaimie Admans 🏰Every book in the Ever After Street Series can be read as a standalone🏰 A picture-perfect town, a place where dreams come true. Welcome to Ever After Street... Will a kiss at midnight change her...

In a near future where a series of environmental disasters has left much of the country underwater, Pearl lives on a floating oyster farm with her father and younger sister Clover. Following her mum's death several years earlier, Pearl refuses to set foot on land, believing her illness was caused by the poisons in the ground. Meanwhile, Clover dreams of a normal life. Then Nat comes to spend the summer at the sea farm while his scientist mum conducts some experiments. But when the sisters promise to keep his secret safe, little do they realize that they may be risking everything.

‘This book really captured my heart and filled it with so much joy, I just couldn't put the book down. I can't wait to get stuck in to more of Jaimie's books.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Her new start is about to bee-gin! Having moved into her mum’s spare room after a disastrous...

In 1976, four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of that fateful summer are coming back to haunt them. And repercussions are just what Guy doesn't need: his wife, Jane, is moving swiftly from slightly eccentric to downright peculiar, their three-year-old daughter seems set on destroying Jane's sanity, and now even God's gone quiet on him. As for Nina, she's having enough trouble with her son, James. He's got exams looming, a new girlfriend with pneumatic breasts, and now, it seems, he's on drugs. Nina certainly won't welcome any ghosts from the past.

Willem has Asperger’s Syndrome and two main aims in life: to fly and to make at least two friends of his own age. As he stands on the edge of a wall, Sasha gives him a wink. Might she become his friend? As he flies through the air he wishes he could fly and escape. Instead he comes crashing down and breaks his ankle. Sasha is determined to put things right.

Fifteen year old Rose hears voices. Mostly she gets along with them ok, but when her real Dad turns up out of the blue to take her away for the weekend, things get completely out of control. This drama has sprung out of a project that listened to people with mental health issues, and in this case people who hear voices. The project was run by Company Paradiso, a charity that enables groups of people who encounter some form of disadvantage to tell their stories.

In the polluted, sprawling hive cities of Necromunda, life is short. From the decadent heights of the Spire to the murderous deeps of the underhive, those on the climb must be bold and brutal, or face a violent end. When the barbarous Fettnir, Goliath overlord of the Chemfall Butchers, turns his attention to Escher territory, the result is nothing short of a massacre. Brielle of the Wild Hydras escapes the slaughter and is cast into the deepest levels of the underhive.

Southampton 1920. Phoebe Collins rose to the challenge of running the family fruit and veg stall when her father did not return from the front. The work outside in Kingsland market in all weathers can be hard, but with her mother and younger brother Tim to support, she's determined that it...

From the author of A Room Full of Chocolate comes a heartwarming story about identity and courage, and a tremendous young girl who cares for her alcoholic mother. For fans of Jacqueline Wilson and Sarah Lean. Nell Hobson lives with a tortoise called Bob Marley, guinea pigs Asbo and Chaos...

From the author of A Room Full of Chocolate comes an aspirational story about facing fears and defying expectations. Bee stumbles through life in her stripy socks with her head in the clouds, doing her very best to keep out of the way of her bickering parents and avoid the bendy tap dancing...