Aaron Robertson is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Italian literature. His translation of Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon was short-listed for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and in 2021 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Point, and Literary Hub, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Aaron Vallance

Aaron Young was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and read Politics and Communications at The University of Liverpool. He is a BAFTA-nominated director, producer and executive producer with over 20 years of experience across projects for the BBC, PBS, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV, UK Film Council and Arts Council England. A long-time collaborator of acclaimed historian, James Holland, he is the producer and director of the BAFTA-shortlisted BBC titles ‘Battle of Britain: The Real Story’ and, ‘Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams’, as well as ‘The Battle for Malta’, ‘Normandy ’44: The Battle Beyond D-Day’, the RTS-nominated ‘Imphal &amp; Kohima: Britain’s Greatest Battle.’, and the 3-part series, 'Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France. His most recent credits include 'Hidden Histories of WWII', 'Lost Temples of Cambodia', the RTS-winning ‘Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany’, and ‘Prue Leith: Journey with My Daughter’. Aaron was named in the inaugural list of BAFTA ‘Brits to Watch.’ He is the co-owner of award-winning film and television production company, Bright Button Productions, and lives with his wife and children in Poundbury, Dorset.

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Abbe Prevost

Abbey Bryant is an NYC-based award-winning illustrator. With her BFA in Children's Book Illustration, her notable illustrated books include Nautilus award winner Hazel Mist, Hypnotist as well as an Enchanted Fairy House Kit with Scholastic's Klutz! 
 
As a queer illustrator, LGBTQ+ themes and stories hold a spot near to her heart. Most days she can be found around the city drawing New Yorkers or sketching trees at the park.

Abbey Bryant

Abbey Clancy is a model, television presenter and the host of chart-topping podcast The Therapy Crouch. She was the runner-up of Britain's Next Top Model in 2006, winner of Strictly Come Dancing in 2013 and went on to present Britain's Next Top Model. Later this year she will host Celebrity Homes on ITV.

Abbey Clancy

Abbie Greaves studied at Cambridge University before working in a literary agency for a number of years. She was inspired to write her first novel, The Silent Treatment, after reading a newspaper article about a boy in Japan who had never seen his parents speak to one another before. 
 
Abbie lives in Brighton with her boyfriend.

Abbie Greaves

Abbie Ross is a British author and psychotherapist. Her first book, Hippy Dinners, a funny and poignant memoir of her bohemian childhood in 1970s North Wales, has been optioned by Baby Cow, who are developing it into an 8-part television series. 
Before turning to writing, Abbie had a successful career as a producer at Aardman Animations, the acclaimed studios behind Wallace &amp; Gromit and the film Chicken Run. 
Today, she divides her time between her thriving psychotherapy practice in Bristol, and her writing, and finds that the two careers complement each other perfectly.

Abbie Ross

Abbie Spallen

Abbie Taylor lives in Dublin. She works as a doctor and has two daughters.

Abbie Taylor

Abby L Yates co-founded the Ghostbusters with Erin Gilbert. Ghosts from Our Past was her first book, now finally back in print.

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Abby Lee

Abby Rawlinson is an integrative therapist with a private practice based in east London, UK. Her work mixes traditional psychotherapeutic theories with cutting-edge, evidence-based techniques into a style that feels relatable, down-to-earth, and compassionate. Abby regularly contributes to articles, including but not limited to Stylist, Elle, BBC, Harpers Bazaar, Sheerluxe, Women's Health, and Psychologies. She can be found on Instagram @therapywithabby or online at therapywithabby.co.uk

Abby Rawlinson

Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, FIFA World Cup champion, six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award and one of Time’s Most Influential People. She is a founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. Abby is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wolfpack and the New York Times bestseller Forward. Named one of the ‘50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting,’ she is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. Abby is an executive producer of the Sundance award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light, part owner of the NWSL’s Angel City Football Club and sits on multiple boards. Her most recent book, We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions, created with Glennon Doyle, Amanda Doyle and Treat Media, is being hailed as ‘the guidebook for being alive.’

Abby Wambach

Abel &amp; Cole’s story starts in 1988 with Keith Abel flogging potatoes door-to-door. ‘Of course potatoes are organic,’ he thought, ‘they’re vegetables’. However, he quickly discovered how unnecessarily complicated our food system had become and, consequently, realised the huge benefits of going organic and never looked back. In fact, Abel &amp; Cole still get veg from the farm where Keith's first organic spuds came from. 
To this day, their priorities remain the same. Now, selling 100% organic produce, Abel &amp; Cole believe that organic farming (a holistic system that encourages biodiversity) is the very best way to go. It protects our countryside and the critters that inhabit it, insists on the very best animal welfare, supports your local community and, frankly, tastes heaps better. Abel &amp; Cole think so anyway.

Abel & Cole Limited

Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 global thinkers. Banerjee served on the U.N. Secretary-General’s High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

Abhishek Mukherjee, 30, is a Delhi-based journalist. He holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from Delhi University, a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Raipur. He also likes dogs.

Abhishek Mukherjee

Abi Elphinstone grew up in Scotland where she spent most of her childhood running wild across the moors, hiding in tree houses and building dens in the woods. After being coaxed out of her tree house, she studied English at Bristol University and then worked as an English teacher in Africa, Berkshire and London. She is the bestselling and multi-award shortlisted author of RUMBLESTAR (first in The Unmapped Chronicles), SKY SONG &amp; THE DREAMSNATCHER TRILOGY, published by S&amp;S. When she's not writing, Abi volunteers for Beanstalk, speaks in schools and travels the world looking for her next story.

Abi Elphinstone

Abi Falase is a Black British writer and director, reimagining fundamental societal concepts in inventive new worlds. Abi has written and directed a number of plays, including The Village and Rush with the Almedia Theatre, as well as Rift for Immediate Theatre and was shortlisted for the BBC Scriptworks ‘A Thousand Stories’ scriptwriting competition in 2021.

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Abi Titmuss

Abie Longstaff is the eldest of six children and grew up in Australia, Hong Kong and France. She knows all about squabbling, chaos and bossing younger sisters around. So she logically began her career as a barrister. She started writing when her children were born. Her favourite childhood books were Hating Alison Ashley, A Little Princess, Maura's Angel and The Black Stallion and she sneakily reads them again sometimes. Abie lives in Hove with her family.

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Abigail Ahern

Abigail is a Brighton-based writer, illustrator and creative producer. Original storytelling has always been at the heart of Abigail's career and she has spent a decade leading social media campaigns for some of the biggest TV &amp; entertainment clients in the world. Abigail also used to perform stand-up comedy and won several tiny trophies for her onstage humour; which involved life-size illustrations, ridiculous songs and rambling stories about her family.

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Abigail Docherty

Abigail Foster is a Chartered Accountant and founder of Elent Finance, a financial education company designed to demystify the world of finance and empower you to achieve financial wellbeing. 
 
Abigail has worked with leading financial institutions across the UK, including HMRC, the Bank of England and Downing Street, and global companies such as Google and Goldman Sachs. She hosts a weekly money segment on LBC radio and has also appeared as a finance expert on ITV, Channel 5 and Sky News.

Abigail Foster

Abigail Owen is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling author of 30+ books that range from upper YA (18+) epic romantasy to new adult modern mythic romantasy to super spicy adult paranormal romance. She loves magical worlds with plots that move hot and fast, feisty heroines with sass, heroes with heart, a dash of snark, and oodles of HEAs! Other titles include: wife, mother, Star Wars geek, ex-competitive skydiver, AuDHD, spreadsheet lover, Jeopardy! fanatic, organizational guru, true classic movie buff, linguaphile, wishful world traveler, and chocoholic. Abigail currently resides in Austin, Texas, with her own swoon-worthy hero, their (mostly) angelic teenagers, and an adorable fur baby.

Abigail Owen

Abigail Ulman was born and raised in Melbourne. She has a BA in Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne/VCA and was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. This is her first book.

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Edith Wharton

Seth

When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she hasn't reckoned on the obstinate Mr Jones, the caretaker she's told dislikes her changes, yet never seems able to be found.

Mr Jones

Arthur Conan Doyle

A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.When the Pole-Star is trapped in Arctic ice, its voyage comes to a halt and the lives of the crew are in danger. Superstition soon takes hold as the frightened men claim to hear ghosts in the darkness – but it’s the captain’s increasingly strange behaviour that concerns them the most.

The Captain of the Pole-Star

Margaret Oliphant

A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth. 
Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on Brentwood, a mansion in Scotland that shares grounds with the ruins of an older house – including a strange, vacant doorway. When his son falls ill and eerie events begin to unfold, Mortimer must face his fears in order to save his son.

The Open Door

Camilla Bruce

Once upon a time, the townspeople of F -. did something bad . . . 
 
Local schoolteacher Catherine Evans has made writing the definitive account of what happened when Ilsbeth Clark drowned in the well her life's work. 
 
Some don't want the past raked up, but Catherine is determined to shine a light upon that shameful event. Because Ilsbeth was an innocent, shunned and ostracized by rumour-mongers and ill-wishers, and someone has to speak up for her. And who better than Catherine, who has herself felt the sting and hurt of such whisperings? 
 
And then a childhood friend returns to F -. Elena is a successful author who's earned a certain celebrity. Now in search of a new subject, she announces her intention to write a book about the long-dead woman. 
 
And Elena has everything Catherine has not. A platform. And connections. And no one seems to care that this book will be pure speculation, tainting Ilsbeth's memory. Catherine is left with no option but to blunt her rival's pen ... 
 
Before summer is over, one woman will be dead and the other accused of murder. 
But is she guilty, or are there other forces at work? And who was Ilsbeth Clark, really? 
An innocent? A witch? Or something else entirely?

The Witch in the Well

A deliciously disturbing Gothic tale of a revenge reaching out across the years

Discover the darkly addictive new historical crime based on a twisted true story, from the author of Triflers Need Not Apply'Creepy and compelling' THE TIMES CRIME CLUB 
'Atmospheric and addictive' CRIME MONTHLY 
'Sinister. A pulse-pounding read' WOMAN & HOME 
'A mixture of black humour and psychological insight' SUNDAY TIMES, 'Best Historical Fiction Books of 2023'__________ 
 
 
Blood is thicker than water . . . and murder is best kept in the family__________Kate Bender has killed before.She has felt the warm trickle of a man's blood. Known what it is like to hold his life in her hands. But that is in the past. 
 Laying low in a new town, she vows to change. When she gains the locals' trust as an esteemed medium, a life closer to virtue finally seems within reach. 
 But can Kate deny her lingering urges?For while the town praise her promising work, she is drawn to darker business behind closed doors . . .__________'I was absolutely captivated. Chilling, terrifying, utterly addictive, All the Blood We Share is a beautifully written, spellbinding read for 2023' KAREN COLES, author of The AsylumPraise for Camilla Bruce'Extraordinary' The Times'Dark glee and tragedy - you'll gobble this up' Laura Purcell 
'An amazing book, riveting, heart-breaking and intense. I couldn't put it down' My Favourite Murder Podcast

All The Blood We Share

The dark and gripping new historical crime based on a twisted true story

Simone St. James

In 1977, in the small town of Claire Lake, two men were murdered with the same gun. 
Beth Greer was the prime suspect - a rich, eccentric 23-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. Ever since her surprise acquittal, she's retreated to her mansion and never commented publicly on the case. 
 
40 years later, Shea Collins is a receptionist by day, and a true crime blogger by night. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To her surprise, Beth says yes. 
But when they meet in Beth's mansion, Shea immediately senses something isn't right. Things start happening she can't explain. And she could swear she keeps seeing a figure lurking outside the window . . .

The Book of Cold Cases

Something hasn't been right at the Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why . . . 
1982Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel, in Fell. But Viv feels that something is wrong, something disturbing and haunting. And then she vanishes. 
2017Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv. She decides to move to Fell and take a job at the hotel - as a night clerk - to try to get to the bottom of the mystery. But Carly soon discovers that, before she vanished, Viv believed she was on the trail of something truly sinister. 
And if Carly can't work out the truth soon, then she's in line to be the next victim . . ._________ 
'Deliciously creepy. A chilling blend of mystery and ghost story' RILEY SAGER, New York Times bestselling author of Lock Every Door 
'Spooky, unsettling, and brilliantly written, it will hook you early, and never let go' JENNIFER HILLIER, author of Jar of Hearts

The Sun Down Motel

Chuck Wendig

The epic sequel to Chuck Wendig's apocalyptic literary masterpiece WANDERERS. 
 
HOW DO YOU SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD? 
 
Five years ago, a group of ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country. They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. 
 
Their destination, Ouray, became one of the last outposts of civilization, because the sleepwalking epidemic was only the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world - and the birth of a new one. 
 
But the people of Ouray are not the only survivors, and their new world is fragile. Forces of cruelty and brutality are amassing under the leadership of self-proclaimed president Ed Creel. And in the very heart of Ouray, the most powerful survivor of all is plotting its own vision for the new world: Black Swan, the A.I. who imagined the apocalypse. 
 
Against these threats, they have only one hope: one another. Because the only way to survive the end of the world is together. 
 
'As great as Wanderers was, Wayward is better . . . Combines grim extrapolation, great characters, and hope.' Christopher Golden 
 
'Salient, masterful, this is an author at the top of his game.' Adam Christopher 
 
'IMAX-scale bleeding-edge techno-horror from a writer with a freshly sharpened scalpel.' Kirkus

Wayward

Conner Habib

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 
'Dripping with menace ... brilliantly written ... compelling, shocking and beautiful' Liz Nugent 
'Brilliant ... highly recommended' Sunday Times 
 
An unsettling and emotional riveting thriller about fathers and sons, revenge and forgiveness and ghosts from our past. A book not to read alone in the dark... 
 
When single father Todd Nasca is spotted on the beach by an old enemy - his high school bully Jack Gates - he is prepared for a tense encounter. But Jack, who hasn't seen Todd in fifteen years, is radiant, and overjoyed to have run into him. Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And by the way, Jack wonders, could he spend the night? 
 
Caught off guard by this chance interaction, Todd finds himself unable to escape Jack's charismatic and insistent presence in his home. One night turns into days; and as Jack begins to deepen his relationship with Todd's son, fear starts to set in. What is Jack up to? 
 
What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and violence, showing that love and hate can be intertwined until the very last breath... 
 
'Habib's debut novel is a bleak, dark adrenaline rush' Clive Barker

Hawk Mountain

A highly suspenseful and unsettling literary thriller

Kiersten White

A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White, perfect for fans of Stephen King and SQUID GAME. 
 
 The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. 
 
 The prize: enough money to change everything. 
 
 Even though everyone is desperate to win - to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts - Mack feels sure that she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she's an expert at that. 
 
 It's the reason she's alive, and her family isn't. 
 
 But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes this competition is more sinister than even she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive. 
 
 Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide, but nowhere to run. 
 
 Come out, come out, wherever you are.

Hide

The book you need after Squid Game

Rebecca Netley

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome takes up the position of nanny on a remote Scottish island. 
 
Her charge, Mary, is distracted, secretive - and hasn't uttered a word since the death of her twin, William, just days after their former nanny disappeared. 
 
No one can say what happened to William. Just as no one can explain the lullabies sung in empty corridors. Nor the whistling that comes in the night... 
 
Winter draws in. Passage to the mainland becomes impossible. Elspeth finds herself trapped. 
 
But is this house haunted by the ghosts of the past? 
 
OR THE SECRETS OF THE LIVING..?

The Whistling

India Holton

Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft. 
When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls into the wrong hands. 
Which is what happens when the evil Lady Armitage reaches it first. 
Demanding the help of rakish pirate, Alex O'Riley, Charlotte sets off to find the jewel. 
There's just one problem: pirates and witches are sworn enemies. 
But little do they know, sparks are about to fly . . .

The League of Gentlewomen Witches

The swoon-worthy TikTok sensation where Bridgerton meets fantasy

'Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror' Adam Christopher 
 
'A rich, rewarding tale' The Guardian 
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A family returns to their hometown - and to the dark past that haunts them still - in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers 
 
When Nate's father dies, he leaves behind a final gift for his son: his childhood home. Married now, Nate decides to move in with his wife, Maddie, and their son, Oliver, seeking peace from the chaos of the city. 
 
But it doesn't take long before things get strange in the night and even stranger by day. 
 
Because Nate was a child being abused by his father, and has never told his family. Because Maddie was a little girl who saw something she shouldn't have. Because something sinister, something hungry, walks in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of this town in rural Pennsylvania... 
 
And now, what happened all those years ago is happening again, and this time, it is happening to Oliver. When he meets a strange boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic, he has no idea that what comes next will put his family at the heart of a battle of good versus evil. 
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'The dread, the scope, the pacing, the turns-I haven't felt all this so intensely since The Shining' - Stephen Graham Jones 
 
'Universally horrifying and viscerally intimate, Wendig brilliantly uses The Book of Accidents to explore a painful truth: in the end, we all haunt ourselves' - Kiersten White

The Book of Accidents

Sue Rainsford

Twins Anna and Adam live in an abandoned commune in a volatile landscape where they prepare for the world-ending event they believe is imminent. Adam keeps watch by day, Anna by night. They meet at dawn and dusk. 
 
Their only companion is Koan, the commune's former leader, who still exerts a malignant control over their daily rituals. But when one of the previous inhabitants returns, everything Anna and Adam thought they knew to be true is thrown into question. 
 
Dazzling, unsettling and incredibly moving, Redder Days is a stunning exploration of the consequences of corrupted power, the emotional impact of abandonment, and the endurance of humanity in the most desperate of situations.

Redder Days

C. J. Tudor

Reverend Jack Brooks is looking for a fresh start. 
Chapel Croft appears the perfect place, but the village has a dark and dangerous 
history - and the ghosts of its past refuse to stay buried. 
Decades ago, two girls disappeared. And just months ago, the last vicar 
committed suicide - but not before leaving a message for Jack. 
Jack must uncover the truth, or risk sacrificing the village to the evils that lie 
within. 
But the truth is hard to find, when everyone has something to hide. And as long buried 
secrets of Jack's own resurface, faith alone will not save them . . .

The Burning Girls

Alex North

If it had happened to you, you would have run away too. 
 
Twenty-five years ago, Paul's friend Charlie Crabtree brutally killed their classmate - and then vanished without a trace. 
 
Paul's never forgiven himself for his part in what happened. He's never gone back home. 
 
Until his elderly mother has a fall. It's finally time to stop running. 
 
It's not long before things start to go wrong. His mother claims there's someone in the house. Paul realises someone is following him. And, in a town many miles away, a copycat killer has struck. 
 
Which makes him wonder - what really happened to Charlie the day of the murder? 
 
And can anyone stop it happening again?

The Shadow Friend

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Every slave plantation is a house of spies and intrigue. No slave walks a straight line or has a single story - deep within their hearts is rebellion. But against whom? 
 
Hiram Walker is a man with a gift and a curse. He was born between worlds: his father a white plantation master, his mother black and enslaved. And, unbeknown even to himself, he was born with a special power. When he is sold to a new mistress as punishment for attempting escape, Hiram discovers her home is a secret hub of the underground railroad: a training ground for its agents. 
 
Hiram fast becomes a highly skilled agent, retrieving the enslaved from the most dangerous circumstances and gradually learning to harness his power - but betrayals lurk everywhere. And eventually Hiram must risk everything to return to his father's plantation and free the friends he left behind.

The Water Dancer

The New York Times Bestseller

Dimitris Chassapakis

The Cypher Files is an utterly unique reading experience. In this brain-bending interactive game, you'll solve puzzles on every page, and obtain keys to move forward by submitting answers online. To solve each puzzle, you'll need to think outside the book. 
 
You are an agent of CY.P.H.E.R., the secret international agency working on 'unsolvable' code-based cases. Called upon to investigate cryptic clues discovered in the wake of a series of mysterious disappearances, the clock is ticking to crack the codes before it's too late. 
 
To escape this book, you must write, draw, search, fold and cut pages, explore virtual escape rooms and think laterally to identify the perpetrator and solve the mystery. 
 
All you need to play is a pencil, a pair of scissors, an internet connection, and a curious mind.

The Cypher Files

An Escape Room… in a Book!

Driving home one night, Gabe sees the face of a little girl he knows in the rear window of the car in front. She mouths one word - 'Daddy'. He never sees his five-year-old daughter, Izzy, again. 
 
The police believe she's dead. But three years later, Gabe still drives the roads, searching for the car that took Izzy, never giving up hope . . . 
 
Fran and her daughter, Alice, aren't searching - but running. Always one step ahead of the people who want to hurt them. Because Fran knows the truth about Gabe's daughter - and she knows what those chasing her and Alice will do if they ever catch them . . .

The Other People

The chilling and spine-tingling Sunday Times bestseller

Nuala Ellwood

Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend's rambling old home in the wilds of Yorkshire seems like the perfect place. It's miles away from the closest town, and no one there knows her or her little boy, Joe. 
 
But when Lisa meets some of the locals, and hears some disturbing rumours about the house, she realizes it might not be the sanctuary she thought. 
 
What secret has Rowan Isle House - and her friend - kept hidden all these years? 
 
 And what will Lisa have to do to survive, when her own past finally catches up with her?

The House on the Lake

The new gripping and haunting thriller from the bestselling author of Day of the Accident

A RICHARD & JUDY PICK 
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 
 
'The best crime novel of the decade' Steve Cavanagh 
'Both terrifying and utterly heartbreaking' Mark Billingham 
'Superbly creepy . . . it might just break your heart a little, too' Heat 
'A dark, creepy, thriller with a huge amount of heart' Stuart MacBride 
'Beautifully crafted, heart-rending and spine-tinglingly chilling' Sarah Pinborough 
'Shades of Thomas Harris and Stephen King but brilliant in its own right' C. J. Tudor 
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If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken... 
 
Fifteen years ago, a serial killer known only as 'The Whisper Man' wreaked havoc on the sleepy village of Featherbank. 
 
But with the killer behind bars, the village is now a safe haven for Tom and his young son Jake to make a fresh start. 
 
Until another boy goes missing. It feels like history is repeating itself. 
 
Could the killer still be out there - and can Tom protect his son from becoming the next victim? 
___________ 
 
'A true skin-crawler' Guardian 
 
'This flawlessly plotted thriller absolutely deserves to be shouted about' Sunday Mirror 
 
Richard and Judy Book Club Pick, Winter 2019

The Whisper Man

Raymond Khoury

Kamal Arslan Agha is a patriot, loyal to the Sultan and his dominion over Europe. As a Special Investigator for the Tashkeelat-i Hafiye - the secret police - Kamal is on the front lines of the empire's harsh response to the increasing political and economic turmoil throughout the continent. But the Caliphate's efforts to impose law and order spare no one, and soon, Kamal's own family draws the attention of the Hafiye's ever-watchful eye. 
 
His brother and sister-in-law have stumbled onto a secret, a piece of knowledge so profoundly dangerous that the Caliphate will do anything to suppress it. With the very foundations of the Empire under threat, Kamal's family has only one choice: they must run. And whether or not they escape the long-arm of the Hafiye will determine not only their own fate, but the existence of the Caliphate itself - its past, its present, and its future.

The Ottoman Secret

M. J. Arlidge

Adam Brandt is a forensic psychologist, used to dealing with the most damaged members of society. 
 
But he's never met anyone like Kassie. 
 
The teenager claims to have a terrible gift. With just one look, she can foresee when and how you will die. 
 
Adam knows Kassie must be insane. But a serial killer is terrorising the city. And only Kassie seems to know who his next victim will be. 
 
Against all his intuition, Adam starts to believe her. 
 
But he doesn't realise how deadly his faith might prove...

A Gift for Dying

The gripping psychological thriller and Sunday Times bestseller

Søren Sveistrup

The police make a terrible discovery in a suburb of Copenhagen. A young woman has been killed and dumped at a playground. One of her hands has been cut off, and above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. 
 Young detective Naia Thulin is assigned the case. Her partner is Mark Hess, a burned-out investigator who's just been kicked out of Europol. They soon discover a mysterious piece of evidence on the chestnut man - evidence connecting it to a girl who went missing a year earlier and is presumed dead, the daughter of politician Rosa Hartung. A man confessed to her murder, and the case is long since solved. 
 Soon afterwards, another woman is found murdered, along with another chestnut man. Thulin and Hess suspect that there's a connection between the Hartung case, the murdered women and a killer who is spreading fear throughout the country. But what is it? 
 Thulin and Hess are racing against the clock, because it's clear that the murderer is on a mission that is far from over . . .

The Chestnut Man

The chilling and suspenseful thriller now a Top 10 Netflix series

THEN 
 
One night, my little sister went missing. 
 
There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. 
 
And then, miraculously, she came back. 
 
She couldn't, or wouldn't, say what had happened. 
 
But she wasn't the same afterwards. She wasn't my Annie. 
 
Because sometimes my own little sister scared me to death . . . 
 
NOW 
 
The email arrives in my inbox: 
 
I know what happened to your sister. 
 
It's happening again . . .

The Taking of Annie Thorne

Susan Hill

'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' 
 
But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are soon installed and Hooper sets about subtly persecuting the fearful new arrival. 
 
In the woods, Charles fights back but he knows that his rival will always win the affections of the adults - and that worse is still to come . . .

I'm the King of the Castle

None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. 
 
Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? 
 
Was it the terrible accident? 
 
Or when they found the first body?

The Chalk Man

Oscar de Muriel

A woman pleads for the help of Inspectors Frey and 'Nine-Nails' McGray. Her son, illegitimate scion of the Koloman family, has received an anonymous death threat - right after learning he is to inherit the best part of a vast wine-producing estate. 
 
In exchange for their protection, she offers McGray a cure for his sister who has been locked in an insane asylum after brutally murdering their parents: the miraculous waters that spring in a small island in the remote Loch Maree. 
 
The island has long been a sacred burial ground, but the legends around it will turn out to be much darker than McGray could have ever expected.

Loch of the Dead

Frey & McGray Book 4

Roald Dahl

Do you like feeling scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl these terrible tales will have you shivering as you turn the pages. 
 
They include such timeless and haunting tales as Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. 
 
 
Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions featuring his own stories: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and War.

Fear

E Nesbit

A groom promises to be at the church on time, even if he has to come back from the grave to do it. 
 
A man inherits a property where he discovers a portrait of a woman that will change his life forever. 
 
Two newlyweds find their dream country cottage, unaware of an ancient curse from the previous owners. 
 
A gripping, unsettling and utterly chilling collection of short stories from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.

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