Erin Kelly (Author)
Every school has its scandals. This one could be fatal.
'Had me hooked from page one' JENNIE GODFREY
'Deliciously dark' JANE FALLON
'Relentlessly gripping...Original, atmospheric' LUCY CLARKE
Centuries of tradition are coming to an end at St Cordula's Catholic boarding school. Deputy Head, Fiona Fox, is about to preside over a controversial move to save it from ruin.
Legend has it that the ghost of fifteenth-century nun, Sister Matilda, will keep St Cordula’s safe. But only as long as the words ‘GOD FORGIVE ME’, scrawled by Matilda on a chapel staircase wall before she fell to her death, are repainted every year. The words have only been allowed to fade once, in 2002. Then, fits of vertigo spread through the pupils, and a second girl fell to her death on the night stairs.
Only three people know the truth of what happened on the night of the tragedy. Now the vertigo is back, and unless Fiona can stem the outbreak, St. Cordula’s darkest secret could claim another girl’s life...
The new thriller, with a jaw-dropping twist, from bestselling storyteller Erin Kelly
'A complex and beautifully written gothic thriller...I raced through it' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Outstanding...as much an insightful novel about female friendship and betrayal as it is a compelling mystery' JANE CASEY
'A stylish and utterly compulsive read from one of my favourite storytellers' RUTH WARE
‘Hysteria, secrets, faith… and murder? This gothic boarding school mystery…gripped me until the very last twist’ JUNO DAWSON
Annie Lord (Author)
Modern dating’s a mess. Unfortunately, so are they.
Daisy and Maya bounce around the city like they own it, from all-night house parties to sticky-floored smoking areas, drinks in hand.
But after a particularly regrettable one-night stand with her annoying friend James, Daisy starts to look around and wonder why, in a sea of intelligent, gorgeous women, all their prospects seem so hopeless. It’s time for The Project, a radical reinvention of dating, and who better to start with than James?
James may be raw material, but he’s quite happy to go along with Daisy and Maya if it means a little more time alone with Daisy. But falling for James was never part of The Project - can she bring down her walls enough to let someone in? Because she might not find someone perfect, but she might find something real.
Abir Mukherjee (Author)
Every floor has its secrets.Washed-up American heart-throb George Abercrombie hates India, even from the rarified heights of his apartment on the 68th floor of the Pinnacle, Mumbai’s grandest luxury skyscraper. He hates the noise, he hates the heat and maybe he’s even grown to hate his much younger wife, the newest queen of Bollywood, Sweety Sahota.When George wakes from a drunken stupor to find Sweety murdered in their bedroom, he knows he will be the prime suspect. But where is her computer, her phone – and where has his personal assistant gone?As George scrambles to piece together the night, others in the building are covering their tracks. Sweety’s assistant must find who is blackmailing her, and a servant who knows too much goes on the run.Welcome to the Pinnacle. A place where murder meets luxury and the world’s most privileged depend on the most desperate.From the winner of the 2025 British Book Awards Thriller of the Year comes a pulse-pounding new novel, set in a world of lavish opulence where someone is always watching, because everyone is hiding something.
Audrey Niffenegger (Author)
‘An old-fashioned love story. A terrific book’ Observer
‘An elegy to love and loss’ Independent
‘One of those books that makes you want to eat it up from start to finish’ Guardian
Henry and Clare meet, fall in love, and build a life together. Just not in that order.
Henry is a dashing, adventurous librarian who travels helplessly through time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his own past and future. Clare is an artist whose life moves forwards like the rest of us, one day to the next.
As they try to anchor their passionate affair in the here and now, Henry’s constant disappearances and sudden arrivals leave Clare realising there can be nothing normal about their relationship. But what they build instead is one of the most intensely moving and enduring love stories of our time.
The Time Traveler's Wife is the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love.
‘Moving but worth the heartbreak’ Daily Express
‘Truly original’ Vogue
‘Magical - memorable...poignant’ Mail on Sunday
John Bowen (Author)
In summer, and particularly when the wind blows south-west across the lawn, the sceptic tank gives out a strong stench… ‘Oh, it is a body,’ the girls say. ‘We have a body in there. No one you know. It decomposes, of course, but so slowly one quite despairs.’
In their lovely, quiet Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to the villagers simply as ‘the girls’. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop, they lead an enviable, enviably settled life.
But when a moment of small, surprising passion intrudes into the equilibrium of their world, the girls’ lives take a deeply unsettling turn. First comes motherhood. Then comes murder.
Part-macabre comedy, part-crime thriller, part-cosy romance, John Bowen’s The Girls is a novel like none other. Told with warmth, affection and fun, yet laced with darkness and unease, 'the girls' will ensure you never look on Middle England quite so quaintly again.
‘Absolutely wicked’ Armistead Maupin
‘Startlingly offbeat’ Gore Vidal
‘[For] people who like Myra Breckinridge as well as Miss Marple; fans of Beryl Bainbridge, Russell Greenan and Patricia Highsmith; those who feel Barbara Pym-ish on some days and Stephen King-ish on others . . . The Girls charms us as only certain tales ‘of village life’ can’ Washington Post
Claire Powell (Author)
‘Intensely funny… profoundly touching’ INDIA KNIGHT, SUNDAY TIMES
'I laughed, I cried, I couldn't pull my eyes away' VOGUE BEST BEACH READS 2026
'Captures all the awkwardness of family dynamics and marriage with such compassion and authenticity' JENNIE GODFREY
* A BEST SUMMER READ in The Times, Cosmopolitan, Daily Mail * A Good Housekeeping MOST ANTICIPATED READ 2026 *
A marriage on the rocks. A family in disarray. A weekend in the sun at a luxury, all-inclusive hotel. What could possibly go wrong?
Jo and Dave haven't had a holiday in years. They've had other things on their plate: failed IVF, the death of Dave's mother, doing up the bathroom.
So when Dave’s flashy brother Teddy offers to fly in from Dubai and take them – along with his gorgeous young girlfriend and their curmudgeonly father – to a beachfront resort in the Med, the couple can hardly refuse.
But while romance might be on the cards for some, Jo and Dave soon find that tensions don't disappear in paradise. In fact, they might just get worse...
Set over the course of one scorching weekend, All In is a compulsively entertaining and bittersweet novel that asks: when life gets choppy, how does love stay afloat?
'One for fans of The Wedding People and White Lotus' BOOKSELLER 1O TITLES NOT TO MISS
READERS ARE LOVING THIS YEAR'S FUNNIEST, MOST PERCEPTIVE SUMMER READ
'Tender, hilarious and wonderfully perceptive, this will be the summer read of the season'
'Oh I loved this book so much! The writing is so SO good - beautiful and poignant and funny - just brilliant. And the story is so relatable - the stress of travelling, group holidays, suitcases going missing, family dynamics... fabulous!'
'Smart, immersive and surprisingly moving — a standout contemporary read'
'An ideal holiday read... Beautifully written and hard to put down'
'A wonderful emotional snapshot'
'A brilliant book to take on holiday'
Steven L. Peck (Author)
Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies.
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp - a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. As his attempt to leave begins, he comes face to face with the absurdity of existence.
A haunting existential novella, Steven L. Peck's modern classic explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.
Daisy Johnson (Author)
A hypnotic and haunting story of longing and survival, losing yourself and finding your family, from Booker Prize-shortlisted Daisy Johnson
'Daisy Johnson's best novel... a multi-generational story of secrets, obsessions, and love' Jeff VanderMeer
'Astonishingly beautiful' Kaliane Bradley
Close to the shore is the island: uninhabited, wild, with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter. Ori was found there as a small child with a handful of stones, no memories and no mother. When she has a baby of her own, the job of motherhood feels immense and sleepless nights begin to shatter her grip on reality. Her head fills with the sound of stones knocking against each other and the mystery of her past begins to unravel, opening up a path to the mother she lost, and the mother she could become.
Years earlier, on a sweltering summer day, ten-year-old Ruth sees a woman and her baby walk into the river and disappear. But she is the only witness, and the water yields no trace. Ruth’s mother, Edith, locks her daughter away – first to restrain these wild imaginings, and later, when she falls pregnant, to hide the shame. Ruth longs to escape and dreams of the nearby island, where she and her baby can finally be free.
'An unflinchingly observed treatise on the maelstrom of motherhood. Masterful' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'A fierce and magical writer' Liz Berry
'At once devastating and heartening' Helen Phillips
