A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy and is known as @agatharoza on Wattpad.

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A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

A.E. Waite

A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

A.L. Kennedy

A.M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children. Angelica is also the author of Hunt A Killer, a PERFECT SCORE novel, under the pen name A.M. Ellis, which she wrote as an IP for Scholastic in the US.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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Aabria Iyengar is an American actress and author.

Aabria Iyengar

Aaliya Jaleel is a freelance illustrator, designer, and visual development artist, currently majoring in Animation at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the illustrator of Under My Hijab and Muslim Girls Rise. You can visit her online at www.aaliyamj.com.

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Aaron Allston

After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
He has been an ‘agony uncle’ for many years for both CBBC and BBC Radio 1, as well as on television, including BBC Worldwide, BBC 3 and BBC Learning.

Aaron Balick

Aaron Carroll

Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready--a global organizational transformation and coaching practice--that helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. Clients include Johnson &amp; Johnson, Microsoft, Lloyds Bank, Citibank, Boeing, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Dropbox, and charity: water. 
 
He is also the founder of Murmur--a SaaS startup that helps teams scale culture through the magic of working agreements. The Murmur platform will allow every team on the planet to define and share their ways of working. 
 
Dignan is the author of Brave New Work (2019) and Game Frame (2011), co-host of the Brave New Work podcast, and a friend to misfit toys.

Aaron Dignan

Aaron Edwards is a senior lecturer in defence and international affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, specialising in terrorism and counter-insurgency. He is the author and editor of several books, including Defending the Realm: The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars Since 1945, and has lectured all over the world on aspects of national and international security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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James Patterson

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
THE FINAL PART OF A FIVE-PART JON ROSCOE THRILLER 
 
As he races across London, can a killer help Jon Roscoe unlock the secrets of the past?

Kidnapped - Part 5

BookShots

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
PART FOUR OF A FIVE-PART JON ROSCOE THRILLER 
 
Shots are fired at London's most exclusive hotel. 
 
Will Jon Roscoe survive?

Kidnapped - Part 4

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
The greatest story in modern history has a new chapter... 
 
Posing as newlyweds, two ruthless thieves board the Titanic to rob its well-heeled passengers. But an even more shocking plan is afoot – a sensational scheme that could alter the fate of the world's most famous ship.

Taking the Titanic

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
PART THREE OF A FIVE-PART JON ROSCOE THRILLER 
 
With his future hanging in the balance, Christmas Day brings tragedy for Jon Roscoe.

Kidnapped - Part 3

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
PART TWO OF A FIVE-PART JON ROSCOE THRILLER 
 
Good will to all men? 
 
Not to Jon Roscoe. 
 
JESUS LIVES, YOU DIE.

Kidnapped - Part 2

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
PART ONE OF A FIVE-PART JON ROSCOE THRILLER 
 
'Please help before he kills me.' 
 
Travelling home for Christmas, Jon Roscoe receives a desperate cry for help.

Kidnapped - Part 1

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
I will avenge my husband and children. 
 
Former Marine Corps colonel Amanda Collins and her lethal team have vowed to avenge her family's murder. 
 
And they have nothing left to lose....

The Women's War

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start – but someone wants to make his first big case his last. 
 
Welcome to New York.

French Kiss

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
A woman violently attacked in her bed. 
 
A billionaire businessman on trial at The Old Bailey. 
 
As the world’s press gather outside London’s luxurious Tribeca hotel, can Jon Roscoe protect his own family from the terrifying consequences of the verdict?

The Verdict

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
I know who killed my son. 
 
Molly Rourke’s son has been murdered… and she knows who’s responsible. Now she’s taking the law into her own hands. Never underestimate a mother’s love.

113 Minutes

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
Make believe I love you… 
 
Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don’t believe in love at first sight and certainly not on a first date. But from the instant they lock eyes, life becomes a sexy, romantic dream come true. That is, until they start playing a strangely intense game of make-believe – a game that’s about to go too far.

Let’s Play Make-Believe

James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
It's not the police I'm running from. 
 
Logan Bishop is a thief living off a stash of stolen diamonds. But when his murderous ex-partner tracks him down, Logan must find a way to turn the tables – or lose the only woman who can handle the truth.

The Pretender

James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
From the world's bestselling thriller writer, three pulse-pounding stories in one book! 
 
CROSS KILL: Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister? Nothing will prepare you for the wicked truth. 
 
ZOO 2 (with Max DiLallo): James Patterson's ZOO was just the beginning. The planet is still under violent siege by ferocious animals. Humans are their desperate prey. Except some humans are evolving, mutating into a savage species that could save civilisation – or end it. 
 
THE PRETENDER (with Andrew Bourelle): Logan Bishop is a thief living off a stash of stolen diamonds. But when his murderous ex-partner tracks him down, Logan must find a way to turn the tables – or lose the only woman who can handle the truth.

Triple Threat

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide – except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. 
 
Enter Detective Michael Bennett.

Chase

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
It’s the day of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and excitement is at fever pitch. 
 
But a key athlete has gone missing and Detective Rafael Carvalho, on the brink of retirement, is assigned the case. 
 
When the athlete suddenly appears at the ceremony, it seems the case is solved. But Carvalho soon discovers that he has returned with the deadliest of intentions.

Dead Heat

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
THE FINAL INSTALMENT OF A THRILLER IN FOUR PARTS 
 
Can Detective Carvalho solve the case before the final piece of the devastating plan falls into place?

Dead Heat – Part 4

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
PART THREE OF A THRILLER IN FOUR PARTS 
 
As Detective Carvalho gets closer to unravelling the case, things suddenly get much more dangerous.

Dead Heat – Part 3

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
PART TWO OF A THRILLER IN FOUR PARTS 
 
Another shocking death rocks the 2016 Olympic Games. Could this death be linked to the first?

Dead Heat – Part 2

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
PART ONE OF A THRILLER IN FOUR PARTS 
 
It’s the day of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and excitement is at fever pitch. 
 
But a key athlete has gone missing and Detective Rafael Carvalho, on the brink of retirement, is assigned the case. 
 
When the athlete suddenly appears at the ceremony, it seems the case is solved. But Carvalho soon discovers that he has returned with the deadliest of intentions.

Dead Heat – Part 1

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
The family next door has a very dark secret. 
 
The Sanderson family has been forced into hiding after one of them stumbled upon a criminal plot. Or so they think. No one will answer their questions. And the terrifying truth may come too late... 
 
Includes free samples of the electrifying Women's Murder Club BookShot The Trial and Chase, featuring Detective Michael Bennett

The Witnesses

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
A major terrorist cell sets a devastating plan in motion. Their target? One of the world's busiest airports – London Churchill International Airport. 
 
Retired SAS captain Matt Bates and ex-Delta Force officer Chaz Shoeman find themselves caught up in the attack. And they are London’s only hope at stopping an atrocity that could kill thousands.

Airport - Code Red

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
‘I’m not on trial. San Francisco is.’ 
 
Detective Lindsay Boxer has finally managed to capture the drug cartel boss who has been tormenting her for months. And now he’s about to go on trial for his life. 
 
But after threatening to unleash violence on everyone involved in the case, the whole city is paralysed, and Lindsay and the Women’s Murder Club are caught in the eye of the storm.

The Trial

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
Three thieves have planned the perfect diamond heist. They’ve monitored the Hatton Garden jeweller for months and are ready to make the hit. But they were not expecting a rival crew to show up at exactly the same time. 
 
After a bloody fight, the three thieves come away with the diamonds and set off to meet their buyer in Amsterdam. But now it’s not only the police who are chasing them, and not only the diamonds that are at stake.

Heist

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
When former SAS captain David Shelley goes looking for an old comrade who has taken to a life on the streets, he finds his friend is dead. An MI5 agent contacts Shelley and arranges a meeting. All the signs point to murder, and the agent believes this is part of something much bigger. 
 
The only way Shelley can discover the truth is to put himself on the streets, and into the same danger that got his friend killed. 
 
Read the full-length sequel, REVENGE, available now.

Hunted

Candice Fox

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
A beautiful young woman is found murdered on a river bank, and Detective Harriet Blue is convinced she's the next victim of the worst serial killer Sydney has seen in decades. 
 
But the more Harriet learns, the more she realises this murder is not what she first thought. And her own life might be tangled up in the case.

Black & Blue

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
One point away from winning the French Open, tennis star Kirsten Keller breaks down and flees the court in tears. 
 
Keller has been receiving death threats. Terrified and desperate, she hires former Metropolitan police officer Chris Foster to protect her at Wimbledon. 
 
As the championship progresses, Keller’s tormentor gets ever closer. And the threats become horrifyingly real.

Break Point

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
ALEX CROSS, I’m coming for you – even from the grave if I have to. 
 
Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister? 
 
Nothing will prepare you for the wicked truth.

Cross Kill

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
Jack Morgan is visiting Peter Knight and the team in the London branch of his investigation agency, Private. 
 
At a cocktail party the night before the Trooping the Colour parade for the Queen’s 90th birthday, Jack receives a phone call from the Duke of Aldershot saying that his daughter, Abbie, has been kidnapped. He needs Private on the case – one word to the police and Abbie will be killed. 
 
Jack will have to find Abbie before 11:00 a.m. the next morning, or the kidnapping will turn to murder. 
 
Read the full-length sequel – PRIVATE PRINCESS – available now

Private Royals

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
The grand opening of the world's most exclusive hotel: forty floors of breathtaking luxury. 
 
VIPs gather in London for the ultimate preview. But one uninvited guest plans to make this a day the city will never forget. 
 
Global Head of Security, Jon Roscoe, confronts a killer with a deadly timetable.

The Hostage

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
James Patterson's ZOO was just the beginning. 
 
The planet is still under violent siege by ferocious animals. Humans are their desperate prey. Except some humans are evolving, mutating into a savage species that could save civilisation – or end it.

Zoo 2

A Private Thriller

A series of children's modern classic novels by renowned 20th century children's writers. All the titles in this series have the A Puffin Book logo, contemporary-style covers, and child-friendly endnotes.

A Puffin Book

A Ripley Novel

A Slice of the Moon

A Victorian Mystery

A Walk in...

A Women’s Murder Club Thriller

A chef Paul Delamare Mystery

Aberrations

Across the Universe

Actiphons

Adelia Aguilar

Adrian Mole

Adventures in Time

Aftermath

Against War

Age of X

Agent 21

Agent Z

Detective Aidan Waits is a troubled junior detective haunted by his past. Facing an uncertain future, and disconnected from his history, DC Waits and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe work on Manchester's streets to uncover the city's worst criminals among the grime of the underworld.

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