ADAM HAMDY is a bestselling author and screenwriter. His most recent novel, The Other Side of Night, was an NPR best book of 2022 and a New York Times best thriller of the year, and has been described as ingenious and deeply moving. He is the author of the Scott Pearce series of modern spy thrillers, Black 13, Red Wolves and White Fire, and the Pendulum trilogy. Keep up to date with his latest books and news at www.adamhamdy.com.

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Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Imagine Me Gone and Union Atlantic. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. His journalism on culture and politics has appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He lives in New York City.

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Adam Henson is perhaps the best-known farmer in the UK, presenting on BBC's Countryfile to millions of viewers each Sunday evening. He's also appeared on Lambing Live, Secret Britain, Coast and Inside Out. Adam also runs the award-winning Cotswold Farm Park in Gloucestershire, which welcomes family visitors all year round and is home to many rare breeds. He has a monthly column in Countryfile magazine, as well as the Cotswold Life magazine. He has written several books including the Sunday Times bestseller Like Farmer, Like Son. This is his first children's book and it is the perfect introduction to the farm.

Adam Henson

Adam Henson presents Countryfile, often from his 650-hectare farm in the Cotswolds. Having studied Agriculture at college, Adam took over Bemborough Farm from his father, Joe. The farm now grows wheat, spring barley and oilseed rape, runs a flock of 400 commercial ewes and has the UK's leading collection of rare breeds, many of which are in demand for film sets and advertisements. Cotswold Farm Park (www.cotswoldfarmpark.co.uk) offers a total countryside experience for all the family, welcoming more than 100,000 visitors each year. 
 
Adam presented Lambing Live with Kate Humble, writes for Countryfile magazine and has appeared on Radio 4's On Your Farm and Farming Today. He is the author of three previous books, Adam’s Farm: My Life on the Land, the Sunday Times bestseller, Like Farmer, Like Son and A Farmer and His Dog.

Adam Higginbotham has written for magazines including The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Wired and Smithsonian. He is also the author of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, which was awarded the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He lives in New York City.

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Adam Hills is an internationally recognised comedian and host of award-winning Channel 4 show The Last Leg. His collection of stories from a life in comedy, Best Foot Forward, was a Times bestseller.

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ADAM JOHNSON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for his second novel, the New York Times bestseller The Orphan Master’s Son (‘Excavates the very meaning of life’ New York Times). His short story 'Nirvana' won the prestigious Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award. He is the author of acclaimed story collections, Fortune Smiles and Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives with his family in San Francisco.

Adam Johnson

Adam Kay is a former doctor who has written five million books and sold seven copies. No, hang on – he’s written seven books and sold five million copies. His debut book, This is Going to Hurt, is a literary sensation: a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year, winning a record-breaking four National Book Awards and selling over 3 million copies. Kay adapted This is Going to Hurt as a BAFTA-winning comedy-drama series for the BBC. Adam Kay’s children’s books have been translated into 32 languages and sold over 1 million copies, making him one of the UK’s bestselling children’s authors. Kay’s Anatomy became the fastest-selling children’s general non-fiction hardback of the decade. His first picture book, Amy Gets Eaten, was published in 2023, and his first children’s novel, Dexter Procter the Ten-Year-Old Doctor, was published in September 2024.

Adam Kay

Adam studied illustration and animation, and received a BA followed by an MA from the Edinburgh College of Art. As a student he won a competition to create a short film for MOMI and Channel 4, and once his career producing animated commercials was under way, he became an illustrator as well. He has regular columns in the UK and the US.

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Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982, where he currently lives. In 2008 he became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection In the Flesh (2010) win a Somerset Maugham Award. He is the Academic Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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Adam Richardson is the UK's top trending health and fitness coach with a rapidly growing audience across both TikTok and Instagram. Adam is passionate about removing barriers to exercise and movement, a philosophy that is key to his work as a Personal Trainer in which he strives to help his clients feel more confident, as well as more fit and healthy.

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Adam Roberts is the author of The Amateur Gourmet and Secrets of the Best Chefs, and coauthor of Give My Swiss Chards to Broadway. He started his food blog, The Amateur Gourmet, in 2004 and currently writes The Amateur Gourmet Newsletter on Substack. Roberts has also written for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and for film and television. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and their dog, Winston. Food Person is his first novel.

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Adam Roberts is acknowledged as the senior scholar of international relations in the UK. He was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University 1986-2007, and President of the British Academy 2009-13 - the head of humanities in Britain. He was on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (2002-08), a member of the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board (2003-15) and is now on the Board of Advisers of the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

Adam Robinson is based in the Middle East and is a regular contributor to newspapers in the Arab world and also to the British media. He is the author of numerous books on the region, including Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist.

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Adam Rutherford is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and geneticist at University College London. His books include A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, and the Sunday Times bestseller How to Argue with a Racist. He has written and presented numerous documentaries for BBC radio and television, including Inside Science and The Cell. Adam has also worked as a science advisor on many films, including the Oscar-winning Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).

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Adam Smyth runs the 39 Step Press, an experiment in printing, from a cold barn in Oxfordshire. He is also Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

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Don't miss the brand new action-packed thriller (Martini Club 3) from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast and The Summer Guests. 
 
Being retired has never been more dangerous . . . 
 
***** 
 
'The Thursday Murder Club on steroids' Saga Magazine 
 
'I love this new series!' SHARI LAPENA 
 
***** 
BEING RETIRED HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DANGEROUS . . . 
 
Maggie Bird’s ‘book group’ is an unusual one – a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the quiet town of Purity. Today they are visiting the Cod Cove Resort for a terrifying conference on global catastrophe. 
But a murder at the hotel coincides with the return of an old flame for ex-spy Ingrid - a CIA agent she worked with decades ago, in an operation that ended in the deaths of three people. Has the killer resurfaced after all these years? 
 
When Ingrid abruptly vanishes, her husband Lloyd is devastated. He has no experience in the field, but he’ll stop at nothing to track down his wife - wherever in the world she is. With a concerned Maggie at his side, Lloyd unwittingly sets off a chain of events that threatens Ingrid's life. 
 
Meanwhile in Maine, local cop Jo Thibodeau and the rest of the covert cohort uncover startling evidence that turns all their assumptions upside down . . . 
 
***** 
 
PRAISE FOR THE MARTINI CLUB SERIES 
'I love this new series . . . I couldn't put it down' SHARI LAPENA 
'What a ride . . . Immersive, compelling, utterly addictive – a masterclass in storytelling.’ ANDREA MARA, bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing 
'Irresistible and highly recommended!' LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series 
'Hugely entertaining!' ANN CLEEVES, author of the Vera Stanhope series 
'I love her books. She is a big influence' FREIDA McFADDEN, bestselling author of The Housemaid

The Shadow Friends

Thomas R. Weaver

It is five years since a global vote elected an AI leader, Solomon, to give humanity one last chance of survival in the face of crippling climate change. The world might be in recovery, but humankind is suffering—and rebelling—under Solomon’s governance. The choice was far from unanimous, and resentment is running high. 
 
As acts of sabotage and civil disobedience increase, a disgusted Solomon offers the people of the world a final choice: Upgrade or Unplug. Upgrade means irrevocably merging with artificial intelligence as a way of deleting the destructive nature of the species. Unplug will brick every chip, including Solomon himself, and humanity will begin again in a pre-digital age. 
 
Humanity has eighteen days to decide before civilization tips over into complete anarchy. One vote. No appeal. A simple majority wins. How will humanity vote this time? And how much choice do they really have?

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Samuel Bjork

The Bomber

Denzil Meyrick

As the snow falls, the hunt for a killer begins... 
 
Frank Grasby’s father, the Reverend Cyril Grasby, is getting married at Rowntree Hall on Christmas Day 1954. And to make matters worse – Frank is best man. 
 
The guests include important clergymen, and Inspector Arthur Juggers, Frank’s boss. As they gather at Rowntree Hall, the snow begins to fall, cutting them off from the outside world. But shortly before the knot is tied, Dean Welling is found dead, poisoned by mistletoe. In his hand is a crumpled piece of paper – on which is written only the letter ‘G’. 
 
Juggers and Grasby investigate, but things quickly take an even darker turn: a scream rings out late on Christmas Eve, and the body of Reverend Danbury Hollis is discovered in the chapel. 
 
Frank must save the day at his own father’s wedding, but how can he tell who is guilty when every suspect is a vicar? And where can he turn for help, when even the clergy can’t be trusted?

The Mistletoe Wedding Murders

Frederick Forsyth

One bullet is all it takes... 
 
The stranger stands in the rafters of New York’s Grand Central Station, his rifle ahead of him. The President’s security team are compromised, rendering the President vulnerable just as he is due to deliver a very public criticism of Israel. 
 
If his bullet meets its target, Odessa - a menacing and powerful Nazi group - will take control of the White House. If he fails, everything he's worked for will be lost. 
 
A team of specialist operatives race to stop the attack, and the nation inches closer to catastrophe. As the assassin pulls the trigger, something inexplicable happens. Something that turns this deadly game of cat and mouse on its head...

The Odessa Assassin

Emma Mason

All aboard for the most gripping mystery of the year. Eight passengers board the train. Will any of them survive the journey? 
 
When ex-detective Midge McGowan embarks on a sleeper train to Scotland, she's hoping for a nice relaxing trip to enjoy the snowy highlands. Instead, the journey quickly turns into a nightmare. 
 
The train has a haunted history, as multiple witnesses have claimed to see a shadowy figure jumping out of the last carriage, before reappearing on board and repeating the loop. One of the passengers is a mysterious prisoner on release from jail, who won't speak to anyone and remains locked in his cabin, with a guard posted on the door. And then the lights go out, the train stops, and someone turns up dead. 
 
Their body is found inside a locked carriage – with no way in or out – so how was the crime committed? Is this really the work of a ghost? Or has one of the guests just pulled off the perfect murder? The only thing Midge knows for sure is that not all of them will reach their destination alive...

Murder on the Haunted Express

Lee Child

Andrew Child

Jack Reacher is a former major in the US Military Police who, since leaving the army, has drifted round the wide open spaces of America, hitchhiking or on buses, wherever the whim takes him. He has no permanent address, no job, no family ties, no car, no luggage, no mobile phone, no credit card - all he carries with him is a folding toothbrush. 
Reacher is never looking for trouble, but somehow trouble always find him. He is the ultimate hero for our troubled times, with a keen moral compass and sense of justice, even if he is often prepared to take the law into his own hands: he says he doesn't want to put the world to rights, he just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

The world’s bestselling hero is back in a brand new, high-octane adventure! 
 
‘She knew that finding Reacher would not be easy . . .’ 
 
Washington DC. General Susan Turner needs help from the only guy she knows will get the job done right. Finding Reacher won't be easy. He's a wanderer. His trail will be faint. 
 
But it won't be impossible either. 
 
Reacher gets an invitation: a meeting with the general. Unnamed general, unnamed agency. Not the most attractive offer. 
 
But he's curious. 
 
Buckle up for a ride like no other . . .

Chain Reaction

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C.N. Vair

'People did not expect such a thing, from a woman or a fawn; we were both meant to be prey.' 
 
In the Appalachian hills, Tess Wynne lives in precious quiet. She tends her wildlife sanctuary, honours old rituals and survives what comes for her each year. 
 
Then she finds a doe split open. And the fawn who survived. Red-mouthed. Full set of teeth. Hungry. 
 
Nature knows what must be done. The town watches to see if Tess will do it. 
 
She does not. 
 
Whispers spread. Old bargains strain. Something feral stirs within Tess—anger, appetite, the slow understanding that prey is only prey for so long. 
 
A dark folktale of teeth and inheritance, Fawn asks what a woman must become to keep what is hers—and what the land demands in return.

Fawn

Frank Gardner

In the dying light of an Arctic afternoon a monstrous black shape slips beneath the Arctic waters of Murmansk bay. The Novorussiya is one of Russia's most advanced nuclear submarines, and she is carrying something that could change the world order forever . . . 
 
Far to the south, at a military base hidden in the sub-zero forests of Arctic Russia, a lone figure steps out into a swirl of snow. Unseen, Major Orlov trudges to a distant corner of the base and retrieves a hidden transmitter. The FSB intelligence officer knows all about the Novorussiya and what she’s carrying, and the time has come to alert his handler in London. He also knows that a net of suspicion is closing in on him. He wants out. And fast. 
 
MI6 operative Luke Carlton is dispatched to help with Orlov’s extraction across the border into Finland, teaming up with Finnish Special Forces officer Sini Järvinen. It's then that things start to go badly wrong . . . 
 
As tensions between the West and Russia ratchet up and reach fever pitch, Luke and his Finnish accomplice are caught in a race against time to unearth the secrets of Moscow’s latest weapon before it’s too late. 
 
Breathlessly exciting, frighteningly authentic and unnervingly prescient, Ballistic is Frank Gardner proving once again that he's one of the best in the international thriller business.

Ballistic

Catherine Ryan Howard

If these walls could talk, they’d scream… 
 
When Ellie moves into 1 Delaney Row, all she has to her name is the house, a small suitcase and the terrible secrets she’s desperate to keep. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets – and the people determined to keep them are watching her. 
 
When a grim discovery prompts Ellie to find out more about the house’s past, she unwittingly puts herself on a deadly collision course not just with her new home’s history, but with her own as well… 
 
Inspired by so-called ‘stigmatised properties’ – houses with dark and violent pasts – Buyer Beware is an intricate puzzle-box of a thriller with a pulsing emotional heart, from an author at the very top of her game.

Buyer Beware

Shari Lapena

The new twisty and playfully addictive thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling 'queen of page-turners', author of Everyone Here is Lying and The Couple Next Door. 
 
‘Shari Lapena is far and away one of the best psychological thriller writers in the world.' LISA JEWELL, No.1 bestselling author of DON'T LET HIM IN 
 
'Twist after twist, secret after secret, she keeps you teetering on the edge of trust. Every page demands your attention. And that ending? Absolute mic drop' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
She loves her husband. 
But she might love their house more. 
 
Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others adore their children. Styled to perfection, they have carefully made every inch of it their own. It reflects who they are. It is the stuff of glossy magazines and real-estate dreams. It is their sanctuary . . . 
 
So when Ted’s inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How can they lose their beloved home and enviable lifestyle? Being poor is not an option. 
 
The answer is obvious. Or at least, it is obvious to Jill and Ted. The death of one family member could solve all their problems. Together, they can get away with murder. 
 
As long as they love each other. As long as they trust each other. As long as neither makes a mistake. 
 
‘A DEVIOUSLY DELICIOUS thriller that kept me turning pages from the intense opening to the shocking conclusion.’ FREIDA MCFADDEN, No.1 Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid 
 
'Splendidly entertaining, FULL OF MORALLY DUBIOUS CHARACTERS, I could not have loved this more.’ LIZ NUGENT, bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond 
 
‘Shari Lapena is far and away ONE OF THE BEST psychological thriller writers in the world.' LISA JEWELL, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Don’t Let Him In

Getting Away With Murder

Antony Johnston

**Preorder the new Can You Solve the Murder? novel now** 
 
In this gripping interactive crime novel, YOU are the detective. At the end of every chapter, YOU decide what to do next… 
 
A village of secrets. 
You arrive at the heart of a remote forest to investigate the murder of a young woman, found dead inside an ancient stone circle. She’s a rock singer, who was filming a music video. Now her bandmates are suspects, along with the eccentric locals. 
 
No one is telling the truth. 
There’s just one problem: they all have water-tight alibis, and many villagers believe the singer was actually killed by the ‘Stone Warden’ – a figure from local folklore who haunts the forest. 
 
Only YOU can solve the mystery. 
Decide who to interview, decode the strange symbols written on the stone circle, and uncover what the villagers are hiding behind closed doors. Will your choices catch the killer – or will they be your downfall? 
 
Can You Solve the Murder? was a Top Ten Kindle Bestseller, July 2025

Can You Solve the Murder? - The Forest of Death

Ruth Newton

HOW MUCH IS YOUR SUFFERING WORTH? 
 
An unmissable, thought-provoking new thriller - this book will blow your mind. Perfect for fans of VOX, The Power and The School for Good Mothers. 
 
'Timely, innovative and fantastically compelling.' PANDORA SYKES 
 
Why should you suffer when she can do it for you?A revolutionary company can free you from your unwanted emotions. 
Jealousy, grief, despair. If you can afford to, you need never feel them again. 
In your place is a Carrier – a woman who is paid to process your pain. 
In a world full of suffering, there is no shortage of demand. 
But this company has secrets. The true cost of your freedom is a Carrier’s life. 
Would you let her pay the price? 
 
Everyone is talking about The Carrier... 
 
'Smart, absorbing and disturbingly timely.' ERICA WAGNER 
 
'A breath-taking debut and essential reading for our times.' EMILY BUCHANAN 
 
'I finished this novel in one weekend - loved it.' MARIE O'HARE

The Carrier

Benedict Anning

December 1984. SIS field asset Heidi Sperling [codename Thistle] exfiltrates from East Berlin with the sole copy of a critical intelligence leak: a naval log containing a solitary message received from a previously unidentified Soviet submarine. 
 
Incredulously – impossibly – it seems the vessel, known only as TK-15, has been sitting motionless and undetected in the waters between Scotland and Iceland for three whole years. And now this latest message reads: ACTIVE. 
 
Picked up by the Royal Navy’s submarine HMS Viking, Heidi is thrust into a 'black ops' mission: find TK15 and neutralise it at any cost. But as her only ally on board the Viking falls sick, she realises this modified vessel is far more than a Soviet experiment to gain an upper hand in the nuclear arms race. Here, in the crushing depths of the North Atlantic, it seems something darker has awoken - something that cannot be contained by any superpower. 
 
As Heidi’s own reality twists around her, an unknowable force cripples the Viking's defences and drives its crew to madness. Trapped in the deep, Heidi has no choice but to find a way to save the remaining crew and stop TK-15 for good, before it steals what’s left of her mind . . .

Atomic Coffin

Mary Watson

You never know what happens behind closed doors.Rafe seems like your perfect man – intelligent, charming, attractive.He also happens to be your boss.You’re too swept up to care for office gossip. In Rafe, you have found the one.You go back to his house one evening and falls asleep in his arms.When you wake, you reach out for him. But something feels cold beside you…Rafe is dead – murdered in bed as you lay next to him – and everyone is going to think you did it.

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