Leodora Darlington (Author)
Natalie’s in tears in her bedroom. She’s had a huge argument with her husband. Slowly, she realises she’s already holding a knife.
She’s telling herself she doesn’t want to do it. Not again.
Because Natalie has an awful secret. Sometimes, on her worst nights, she blacks out. She loses control.
What do you do when there’s a killer in your house, and you think it might be you?
Sufiyaan Salam (Author)
WINNER OF THE 2023/24 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS’ PRIZE
AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2026A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN BRICKS MAGAZINE, DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 AND BBC'Riotous. . .raucous, wildly inventive' THE OBSERVER'Inventive and highly enjoyable' BBC BOOKS OF THE YEAR'An energetic-livewire masterpiece' NIKESH SHUKLA
'A landmark debut that will inspire many books after it. Salam’s prose flows with wit and feeling. You will love Wimmy Road Boyz' NICOLA DINAN
'Compulsive, raw and searingly honest. An utterly original, unfiltered voice. A darkly witty story of Northern rude-bois coming of age: perfectly crafted, uncensored, totally real' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
'A novel no one else could have written, Sufiyaan Salam is a writer I hope to see keep pushing the boundaries of what contemporary fiction can show us' DEREK OWUSU
'Freewheeling, risk-taking and ceaselessly fun, this intense, multi-voiced novel is immense in its ambition and singular in its achievement. It really is one hell of a ride' GURNAIK JOHAL
'The energy of Salam's work was beyond . . . dazzling in its daring and reach' JACQUELINE CROOKS
'...Brilliant, ingenious, and utterly dazzling... WIMMY ROAD BOYZ is an intense cacophonous ride easily read and not easily forgotten, a polyphonic narrative of epic proportions.' KASIM ALI
'A skilfully composed and soulfully rendered symphonic ode to youth, friendship and masculinity. A raging success of a novel!' SANTANU BHATTACHARYA
three boyz drive & dream
of an impossible night
on an endless street. . .
a white bimmer hurtles down manchester’s curry mile, carrying three brown boys in pursuit of a wild night out, oi oi oi!
there’s IMMY (22) – nursing mad heartbreak but tryna get over it by chirpsing someone new, hoping to distract from the scores of rage bubbling up beneath. . .
there’s KHAN (23) – cambridge-gangster on a mission to avenge, losing himself to old stereotypes, illegal ventures on the sly. . .
and there’s HARIS (23) – the sensitive type, getting married next week but having second thoughts, feeling mad para about his day ones discovering all his secrets.
it’s an evening of chaos and mischief. three boys with nothing to do and something to prove. of course there’s gonna be trouble.
and look, what the boys don’t know: this night might just be their last. . .
WIMMY ROAD BOYZ is a blistering story of masculinity, violence and love set over the course of a single, surreal night from a wholly original new British talent.
Portia Elan (Author)
'A work of joyous and serious invention' KALIANE BRADLEY
'Gripping... hauntingly beautiful' MADELINE MILLER
'A big, bold, ecstatic world – full of heart and wonder' RUTH OZEKI
Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives.
An immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home.
It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.
The game will outlast Becks by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a pirate captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew.
Homebound is a coming-out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity’s future and capacity for love.
***READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND***'Beautiful and heartfelt... A masterpiece' 5* Reader Review
'So heart-achingly good' 5* Reader Review
'Nobody should miss this immersive and vulnerable debut' 5* Reader Review
'Beautifully ambitious... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence' 5* Reader Review
'I'll be recommending this title to everyone' Northwood Library
'I really fell in love with the ambition and scope' Portobello Books, Edinburgh
'Reading it will change you, in both heart and mind' Auntie's Bookstore, Washington
‘If you liked Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, you are going to fall for this book, and fall HARD’ Crow & Co Books, Minnesota
'For anyone who loved Cloud Cuckoo Land or Cloud Atlas' An Unlikely Story, Massachusetts
Frances Crawford (Author)
Don't miss the must-read debut of the year - a murder mystery unlike any other...
'Clever, honest, heart-rending.' VAL MCDERMID
'Richly authentic, funny, moving and insightful.' JANICE HALLETT
'I haven’t read anything quite as unique as this since Trainspotting.' LIN ANDERSON
'A Bad, Bad Place will stay with me for a long, long time' JENNIE GODFREY
'Part To Kill a Mockingbird, part The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, yet altogether incomparable’ A. J. FINN
What happened to the dog walker who found the body?
Glasgow, 1979.
Twelve-year-old Janey won’t take her dog, Sid Vicious, for a walk. Not anymore. It’s Sid’s fault she found the murdered woman.
Janey claims she can’t remember what she saw at the abandoned railway, but the police think she’s hiding something. And they’re not the only ones interested.
Fear and rumour rip through the tight-knit community of Possilpark. Janey and her nana, Maggie, are dragged into the hunt for a murderer. And Maggie’s struggle to keep her beloved granddaughter safe becomes ever more desperate.
Because Janey’s memories can’t stay hidden forever.
And neither can the killer…
Readers love A Bad, Bad Place:
'Lingers long after the final page' FIVE-STAR READER REVIEW
'I loved every page!' FIVE-STAR READER REVIEW
'Got under my skin in a way I didn't expect' FIVE-STAR READER REVIEW
'Absolutely brilliant, funny, full of life, completely convincing' FIVE-STAR READER REVIEW
'Brilliant' FIVE-STAR READER REVIEW
'Stunning' FIVE-STAR READER REVIEW
'Scottish writing at its finest' FIVE-STAR READER REVIEW
Kate Eberle (Author)
She thought she was in a romance. Fate threw her into a thriller. Will happily-ever-after still be on the cards when fiction and reality blur for Roxie?
When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favourite author’s next novel, she has romance in mind — namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted by a mysterious busker. Except for one little hiccup: that dashing stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is, Roxie may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist — but this time, Anna is writing a crime thriller.Thrown into a perilous genre she’s never read, Roxie is desperate for help. So, when her escape from a potential murderer takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman — an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels — she decides a little light kidnapping is a small price to pay for survival.Together, Roxie and Grant team up to navigate a madcap story where the lines between fiction and reality blur and find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End — or maybe even Happily Ever After.
Patrick Charnley (Author)
After a near-death experience and life-changing injury, twenty-year-old Jago Trevarno goes to stay with his uncle on his small coastal farm a few miles from St Ives in Cornwall.
Their existence is a simple one, their lives measured by the span of the days, the rhythms of the seasons and the animals they care for.
But lurking in the shadows is local villain, Bill Sligo, who has designs on Jacob's farm and in particular on a field near the cliffs housing a derelict mineshaft.
Wanting to repay his uncle’s kindness, Jago determines to find out what Bill Sligo is up to.
Jago is still vulnerable though, and in pursuing Sligo he delves into a murky world that he is ill-equipped to deal with. How far will Bill Sligo go to get what he wants? Jago doesn’t know it yet, but once again he is in grave danger.
Filled with shafts of light and darkness as well as the beauty and harshness of the Cornish landscape, Jago's journey is one of hope, renewal and resilience as he comes to terms with this, his second life.
Alex Kadis (Author)
A FIZZINGLY ORIGINAL COMING-OF-AGE STORY FOR FANS OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY
'Riotously funny, nostalgic and immensely touching.'
PANDORA SYKES
'Your new favourite novel.'
INDIA KNIGHT
'A debut that sparkles like Marc Bolan's eye makeup.'
GUARDIAN
For Constance ‘Connie’ Costa, life is just beginning. She dreams of leaving behind her dull, dreary life in ‘70s East London, shaking off her deeply embarrassing Greek-Cypriot community of interfering Aunties and pretend ‘cousins’, and running away with her best mate Vas (fellow misfit; NHS specs; soul of a poet). She is determined to take her rightful place alongside her hero, David Bowie, onstage at Wembley Stadium.
Only one thing stands in her way: her father, The Fat Murderer. No longer content with being an absolute imbecile and general abomination of nature, he has dialled up his campaign to ruin Connie’s life ever since the untimely death of her mother.
If she ever wants to claim the destiny that is rightfully hers, Connie has only one option left: to kill him.
Fizzingly original, disarmingly tender and laugh-out-loud funny, BIG NOBODY is a coming-of-age story about first love, first grief, and the long, painful journey to feeling like a somebody.
'Broke my heart one minute and had me really laughing the next.'
XOCHITL GONZALEZ, author of OLGA DIES DREAMING
'Hands down the funniest, most original novel I’ve read in ages.'
GRANT GINDER, author of THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING
'Audacious and hilarious.'
RUMAAN ALAM, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
READERS LOVE CONNIE COSTA . . .
'Poignant, authentic and darkly funny' *****
'Fabulous - I was rooting for Connie the whole way' *****
'Smart, funny, quirky' *****
Angela Tomaski (Author)
‘We shall be forgotten.’ he said. ‘We shall be lost. They will scrub us away like a set of dirty fingerprints on a plastic kettle.’
The crumbling Gothic mansion of Thornwalk, long-term home of the Gilbert family, is being handed over to a chain of luxury ‘historic’ hotels. Millions will be spent in its restoration. But for every so-called improvement, what will be lost? What value can there possibly be in a threadbare carpet, a tarnished spoon and a thousand empty jam jars?
Before the hotel people arrive, with their clipboards and their skips and their bottles of bleach, Maximus, loyal guardian of the Gilberts’ legacy, invites us on a final tour of the once-stately home, where each room holds a secret. From the bolt on the blue room door to the tiny dents in the bars at the nursery window … these are the keys that will unlock the lives of the five fatherless Gilbert children.
A frustrated romantic, a stubborn traditionalist, a dreamer, a diva and an explorer: The Infamous Gilberts will be cast adrift on the irresistible tides of the twentieth century, buoyed by love, buffeted by loss, and tangled together in an unputdownable story where the lines between eccentricity and madness, cruelty and love become hilariously, heartbreakingly blurred.
