Published By: GollanczPages: 240Released On: 01/09/2026 My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the ‘killing people’ part of it, I guess, but that’s a them problem: it’s been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides,Continue reading “Scion – James Islington”
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This Door of the Seas – Val McDermid and Jo Sharp
Published By: PolygonPages: 176Released On: 06/08/2026 At the end of the seventeenth century, a brave group of Scots sail for a jungle-coastline on the other side of the world, the junction between North and South America. Their objective: to establish a trading colony that would assure their hard-strapped country’s future, as the East India CompanyContinue reading “This Door of the Seas – Val McDermid and Jo Sharp”
The Cotswold Christmas Bookshop – Jill Steeples
Published By: BoldwoodPages: 264Released On: 31/08/2026 Isla Stewart has a glittering publishing career in London, but when she’s unexpectedly made redundant, she faces an uncertain future. Licking her wounds, Isla heads home to the Cotswolds. Keeping her devastating redundancy a secret from her proud parents, she seeks refuge at Finch’s, the enchanting bookshop she workedContinue reading “The Cotswold Christmas Bookshop – Jill Steeples”
Georgie – Malachy Doyle
Published By: Firefly PressPages: 128Released On: 15/09/2026Reading Age: 10+ 14-year-old Georgie hasn’t spoken in years. Withdrawn, isolated and full of rage, no one trusts him and no one gets close to him. But then he is moved to a new home in the Welsh countryside. Instead of an empty room with a bare mattress onContinue reading “Georgie – Malachy Doyle”
The Art of Charming a Changeling – Sylvie Cathrall
Published By: OrbitPages: 352Released On: 25/08/2026 On her first day working in the prince’s galleries, art conservator Florrie Hyverfell discovers that the most famous portrait in the collection is not only a fake-it’s also inhabited by Vern, a fairy trapped in the forged painting. Tracking down the stolen original is the only way for FlorrieContinue reading “The Art of Charming a Changeling – Sylvie Cathrall”
Eleven Days: The Fascinating True Account of Agatha Christie’s Mysterious Disappearance – Laura Thompson
Published By: Bedford SquarePages: 224Released On: 27/08/2026 In December of 1926, Agatha Christie vanished. Eleven days later, after frenzied media speculation, she was discovered alive and well. A century on, there are questions that have never been answered. Now Christie biographer Laura Thompson seeks to penetrate the story of the greatest mystery ever created byContinue reading “Eleven Days: The Fascinating True Account of Agatha Christie’s Mysterious Disappearance – Laura Thompson”
The Salt King – Natasha Pulley
Published By: GollanczPages: 432Released On: 20/08/2026 Avelyn Brocken is a Jesuit at the Vatican. Originally from the salt mining town of Hreodwater in East Anglia, his only ambition is never to go back. But when rumours of miracles being performed there are followed by a bizarre video showing that someone trying to leave then enclaveContinue reading “The Salt King – Natasha Pulley”
Everywhere But Here – Jacqueline Silvester
Published By: Simon and Schuster Children’s UKPages: 336Released On: 13/08/2026 Margot is That Girl – she’s built her online audience from scratch and though her life looks perfect on screen, her influencing supports her family’s dying B&B. Theo is seen as a nepo baby – but photography is his ticket to escaping his billionaireContinue reading “Everywhere But Here – Jacqueline Silvester”
They Can’t Burn Us All – Cathryn Kemp
Published By: BantamPages: 400Released On: 13/08/2026 Westfjords, Iceland. 1655 Þuríður Jónsdóttir has grown up praying to the old gods and watching her father and brother practise rune magic. But now, a witch-hunting craze is sweeping across the land of ice and fire, fuelled by the Protestant Reformation. Unlike elsewhere in Europe, those condemned as witchesContinue reading “They Can’t Burn Us All – Cathryn Kemp”
Traitors’ Nest – Frances Hardinge
Published By: First InkPages: 432Released On: 27/08/2026Reading Age: 12+ Castles traded places sometimes. Everyone knew that. It was always something that might happen, except that it never had. Until all of a sudden it did. Far above the valleys and villages of the Kingdom of Thaletal, a Great Game is played. Players move castles around the realmContinue reading “Traitors’ Nest – Frances Hardinge”
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