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A A Gill

Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

A D Swanston

A E Langsford

A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

A J Baime

A J Jacobs

A J P Taylor

Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

A J Pollard

A J Rochester

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

A K Benjamin

A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

A L Berridge

Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

A L Gaylin

A Maxwell-Hyslop

A McArthur

A P Wavell

A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

A S Webb

A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

A. A. Dhand

A. A. Gill

A. A. Milne

A. Anatoli

A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

A. B. Poranek

A. Bradley

Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

A. C. Grayling

A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
admillerbooks.com

A. D. Miller

A. E. Ellis

A. E. W. Mason

A. Humphreys

A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

A. Igoni Barrett

The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

A. J. A. Symons

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Jo Nesbo

'Many authors know how to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Jo Nesbo's one of the few who keeps them there' Linwood Barclay 
 
'A series of spectacular plot twists leads to a thrilling finale. Highly recommended' Guardian 
 
THE MARK OF THE DEVIL. 
 
A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. 
 
THE SIGN OF A KILLER. 
 
Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler, and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on his final warning and has little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor when it becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands. 
 
IS THIS AN EVIL THAT ONLY HARRY HOLE CAN STOP?

Detective Hole: The Devil’s Star

This killer has a story. 
 
When a small-time crook is shot down in the streets of Minneapolis, all signs point to a lone wolf, a sniper who has vanished into thin air. 
 
To tell it, he needs to get caught. 
 
When the shooter strikes again, it’s maverick detective Bob Oz they call in to crack the case. They don’t think this victim will be the last. 
 
And this wolf wants the world to know... 
 
As the body count rises, Oz suspects something even more sinister is at play. And the closer he gets to the truth, the more disturbed he becomes. Because this serial killer reminds him of someone dangerous: himself. 
 
He’s only just getting started. 
 
Wolf Hour is a gritty standalone thriller packed with unexpected twists, dark secrets and bubbling personal and political tension, from the king of the cliffhanger.

Wolf Hour

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

A groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism’s effects on the human heart: Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature 
 
'Buzzes with electricity… intriguing, maddening, exciting. I’m in’ Observer 
 
'Taut and intelligent… a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society' Literary Review 
 
Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together. 
 
Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong. 
 
How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape? 
 
‘A comet in Scandinavian literature’ OLGA RAVN 
 
‘Startling and irresistible’ CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT 
 
'Unusual, fascinating, and complicated in the best way' CLAIRE FULLER 
 
'Nordenhof's writing is electrifying' CHETNA MAROO

Money to Burn

Laurent Binet

'There is no living writer whose new books I fall on with greater delight than Laurent Binet. . . Perspectives is a proper treat' Naomi Alderman 
 
'A dazzling romp' Guardian 
 
Florence,1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. 
 
Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden portrait scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who made the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation. 
 
Letters fly back and forth carrying news of plots and speculation about the killer’s identity – between Maria and her aunt Catherine de’ Medici, the queen of France; between Catherine and her secret agents; and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo. And the truth, when it comes to light, is as shocking as the bold new artworks that have made Florence the red-hot centre of Europe. 
 
Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we’ve never seen it before – a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art. 
 
'Doesn’t get much better than this' Sunday Telegraph 
 
'A racy and enjoyable detective story' The Times 
 
'A dazzling romp' Guardian 
 
'Funny and very gripping' Financial Times

Perspectives

Arnaldur Indridason

'Arnaldur Indridason is a literary phenomenon - and it's easy to see why' HARLAN COBEN 
 
'Indridason writes crime novels that are as chilling as the landscape where they're set' ANN CLEEVES 
 
'The undisputed King of the Icelandic Thriller' Guardian 
 
A lifetime of secrets. A murder that will expose the truth. 
 
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad’s phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth – for her and for himself. 
As Konrad digs into the woman’s past, he is drawn into a web of secrets, lies and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life that connects her death to a decades-old murder – and to shadows from Konrad’s own family history. 
 
The Quiet Mother is a masterful blend of human tragedy and relentless suspense, where every discovery comes at a cost. Arnaldur Indridason once again proves why he is the voice of Nordic Noir, delivering a harrowing tale of guilt and redemption. 
 
'One of the greats of modern crime fiction' Sunday Times'Arnaldur Indridason is indeed an expert storyteller... The Quiet Mother is yet another feather in the author’s cap … a work of genius' Steinthor Gudbjartsson, Iceland Monitor Daily 
 
*OVER 20 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE*

The Quiet Mother

Kotaro Isaka

A LUXURY HOTEL FULL OF KILLERS. FIND THE TRUTH. CHECK OUT ALIVE. 
 
Nanao, ‘the unluckiest assassin in the world’, has been hired to deliver a birthday present to a luxury Tokyo hotel. By the time he leaves the guest's room one man is dead and more will soon follow. As events spiral out of control as it becomes clear that several different killers are taking a stay in the hotel at the same time. And they're all looking for a young woman with a photographic memory, hiding out on one of the twenty floors. 
 
Will Nanao find the truth about what’s going on? And will he check out alive? 
 
PRAISE FOR KOTARO ISAKA: 
 
‘Inventive fun...dark humour’ The Times 
 
‘Fresh and fun and full-throttle’ A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window 
 
‘The twists and turns make this a lively read’ Daily Mirror 
 
‘A near-perfect thriller' Booklist 
 
‘Laden with dark humour’ New York Times Book Review

Hotel Lucky Seven

Pedro Almodóvar

The Last Dream brings together twelve stories from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar’s personal archive. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almodóvar’s world, together they reflect his most intimate obsessions, as well as his daring evolution as an artist. 
 
Ranging from a beautiful chronicle of the death of Almodóvar’s mother in ‘The Last Dream’, to a love story between Jesus and Barabbas, a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire, these mischievous stories delight and surprise. 
 
The Last Dream is a celebration of the relationship between life and art, fiction and reality, bursting with desire and playful humour.

The Last Dream

Karl Ove Knausgaard

'Strikingly humane, unsettling, and wholly unique' Ferdia Lennon 
 
‘Ferociously readable. . . I still can't get enough' The Times 
 
If no one ever died, what would happen then? 
 
For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named Valdemar and is lured to a secret black metal gig in a remote forest. Geir, a policeman, is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees – the last bodies he sees, because, as undertaker Syvert is the first to realise, people have stopped dying since the star appeared. 
 
What is haunting the world – and why? 
As profound as it is thrilling, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Third Realm is a breathtaking novel about ordinary lives on the cusp of irrevocable change. 
 
PRAISE FOR THE THIRD REALM 
 
‘A visionary epic' Guardian 
 
‘One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I’ve ever read. . . This book made me afraid of the dark again.’ Brandon Taylor, Washington Post 
 
‘As accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama series. There is no writer I would rather devour’ Spectator 
PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD: 
 
'Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes' Torrey Peters 
 
'Addictive' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling' New York Times 
 
‘Casts an existential spell. . . captivating' Financial Times

The Third Realm

Haruki Murakami

What will you find in the city? 
 
READERS LOVE THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS‘Felt like stepping into a dream’ 
‘I really loved getting lost in this book’ 
‘Everyone on this planet should read Murakami at least once in their lifetime’ 
‘Riveting and irresistible’ 
‘It’s magical, it’s wise . . . deeply comforting’A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, a breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the Sunday Times bestseller. 
 
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own. 
 
When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s willing to lose. 
 
PRAISE FOR THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS 
‘Quietly miraculous’ Telegraph‘Bewitching’ Financial Times‘Enveloping’ Independent

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Yoko Ogawa

On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. 
 
'I read Mina’s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.' RUTH OZEKI, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness 
 
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. 
 
The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. 
 
Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse. 
 
Praise for Mina's Matchbox 
 
'Dreamy and whimsical, Mina’s Matchbox traffics in the themes at which Ogawa always excels: memory, identity, and nostalgia' Esquire, Best Books of the Summer 
 
'A conspicuously gifted writer. . . To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state. . . She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian 
‘Evokes the secret crushes and crushing secrets of girlhood with charm and elegance’ People

Mina's Matchbox

Yan Lianke

Prizewinning Yan Lianke returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptation 
 
Yahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom. 
 
Her days are measured out making elaborate religious papercuts, taking part in highly charged tug-of-war competitions between the faiths and trying to resist the daily temptation to return to secular life and abandon the ascetic ideals that are her calling. Everything seems to dangle by a thread. But when she meets a Daoist student called Mingzheng, an inexorable romance of mythic proportions takes hold of her. 
 
** Beautiful edition illustrated throughout with beautiful original papercuts ** 
 
'One of China's greatest living authors' Guardian 
 
'His talent cannot be ignored' New York Times 
 
'China's foremost literary satirist' Financial Times

Heart Sutra

FAMILY COMES FIRST. NO MATTER THE COST. 
 
'A 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' LEE CHILD 
 
'Bracingly and bleakly funny' Telegraph 
 
Brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os, where they've killed their way to the top. Carl manages the swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park. 
 
Life’s good at the top. But the local sheriff is looking to bring them down. 
 
Sheriff Kurt Olsen believes he has new evidence that will prove the brothers’ involvement in several past murders – but Carl and Roy are used to covering their tracks, and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty. 
 
The body count in Os is about to get even higher. 
 
Blood Ties is an explosive suspense novel about family, loyalty, and the lengths someone is willing to go to for both, from crime writing's king of the cliffhanger.

Blood Ties

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to its author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused of plagiarism, his reputation destroyed by the critics. 
 
Obsessed with discovering the truth about Elimane's disappearance, Faye weaves past and present, countries and continents, to follow the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina and France and to confront the great tragedies of history. 
 
Will he get to the truth at the centre of the maze?

The Most Secret Memory of Men

Édouard Louis

The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy 
 
'One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation’ Keiran Goddard, Guardian 
 
‘Change fills me with admiration and inspiration, as well as renewed faith in writing itself’ Maggie Nelson 
 
‘One of the major writers of our time' Garth Greenwell 
 
'I read everything he writes' Esi Edugyan 
 
‘A mesmeric novel’ Daily Mail 
 
Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination and violence in his working-class hometown - so he sets out to study in Amiens, and, later, at university in Paris. He sheds the provincial 'Eddy' for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug dealers alike. 
 
Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. Change is at once a personal odyssey, a story of dreams, friendship and the perils of leaving the past behind, and a profound portrait of a society divided by class, inequality and power. 
 
Translated by John Lambert

Change

A Novel

Álvaro Enrigue

'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN 
'I was so impressed that I'm on my second read' TORREY PETERS 
'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES 
'Glorious' i-D 
 
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024 
A GUARDIAN TOP FIVE TRANSLATED FICTION OF 2024 
 
In 1519, Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his troops ride into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan – today’s Mexico City – in this hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. 
 
Invited to a ceremonial meal with the steely princess Atotoxtli, sister and wife of the emperor Moctezuma, the Spanish nearly bungle their entrance into the city and its labyrinthine palace. Soon, one of Cortés’s captains, Jazmín Caldera, begins to question the ease with which they were welcomed, and wonders at the risks of getting out alive, much less conquering the empire. 
 
Moctezuma himself is at a political, spiritual and physical crossroads, relying on hallucinogens in a quest for any kind of answer from the gods. When Cortés and Moctezuma meet, two worlds, empires, languages, and possible futures collide. 
 
You Dreamed of Empires brings to life Tenoxtitlan at its height – and reimagines its destiny. 
It sets afire the moment of conquest and turns it into a moment of revolution, in a novel so electric and so unique that it feels like a dream. 
 
Translated by Natasha Wimmer 
 
'A mischievous fantasy' TLS 
 
A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

You Dreamed of Empires

A twisted spin on the classic coming-of-age horror story from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Jo Nesbo 
 
WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER... 
 
In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote town of Ballantyne. 
 
Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. 
 
No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the woods. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices start . . . 
 
When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne. 
 
Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story.

The Night House

Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller. 
 
'Addictive' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling' New York Times 
 
One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes. 
 
Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly... 
 
'I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life 
 
'Brilliant storytelling... Epic' Independent 
 
'Captivating' Observer

The Morning Star

The compulsive new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The future is no more, and eternity has begun. 
 
It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his late father, and can't shake him from his mind. Searching through his father's belongings for clues and connections, he finds a cache of letters that lead to the Soviet Union. 
 
In present-day Russia, Alevtina is trying to balance work and family. She has always sought the answers to life's big questions, but is preoccupied with care of her young son. Her friend Vasilisa offers some nourishment: she is writing a book about an ancient feature of Russian culture, the belief in eternal life. Meantime, Alevtina is heading towards a meeting that will redraw the contours of her world. 
 
A searching and humane novel, The Wolves of Eternity is an intimate journey into the experiences of a half-brother and half-sister in their two different - yet deeply connected - lives. The second novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard's extraordinary new series, it expands the universe of The Morning Star in the decades before the blazing and mysterious star descends. 
 
The Wolves of Eternity is set in the Morning Star universe 
 
PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD: 
 
'Knausgaard, master of fiction as an inquiry into the self, now revives fiction as an inquiry into the cosmos'' Guardian 
 
'Enormously compelling… The range of subjects The Wolves of Eternity explores is fascinating' Sunday Times 
 
'Compelling' Daily Telegraph **** 
 
'Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive' New York Times

The Wolves of Eternity

Ismail Kadare

**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024** 
 
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' 
 
A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. 
 
In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam. In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare reconstructs the three minutes they spoke and the aftershocks of this tense, mysterious moment in modern history. 
 
Weaving together the accounts of witnesses, reporters and writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, Kadare tells a gripping story of power and political structures, of the relationship between writers and tyranny. The telling brings to light uncanny parallels with Kadare's experience writing under dictatorship, when he received an unexpected phone call of his own. 
 
Translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson 
 
‘One of Europe's most decorated authors... Seasoned fans [of Kadare] will be enthralled’ Sunday Times

A Dictator Calls

Paolo Cognetti

The remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who has left the city of Milan behind, and with it his relationship. He takes a job as chef in a little restaurant and entrusts himself to new beginnings. 
 
Silvia is also seeking change: her sights are on the glaciers where, she has read, climbing a thousand metres towards the sky is equivalent to travelling ten times the same distance to the north. She is in search of her personal North Pole. 
 
When Fausto and Silvia meet one night, their story begins: a tender story of love and renewal; of the community that sustains them; and of lives humbled by the implacable strength and beauty of the mountains. 
 
As intimate in focus as it is epic in scope, The Lovers is a luminous meditation on our quest to understand our place in one another's lives, and in the magnificence of the world around us.

The Lovers

Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both? 
 
From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN: A seemingly ordinary family man tries to juggle his home life with his job as a hitman. 
 
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER AWARD FOR BEST THRILLER* 
 
Kabuto is an ordinary guy; stressed with work, hassled by his wife and disrespected by his teenage son. No wonder he visits his doctor so often. Except the &lsquo;Doctor&rsquo; is actually his handler, and Kabuto is a hired assassin. Because although he may seem like a small man at home, Kabuto is really good at killing people. 
 
But Kabuto is worn out with the business of murder. So he&rsquo;s trying to pay his way out with a few last jobs. But when the final assignment puts his unsuspecting family in danger, Kabuto realises he is going to need every deadly skill he knows to keep them alive. 
 
PRAISE FOR KOTARO ISAKA: 
 
&lsquo;Showcases Isaka&rsquo;s Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence&rsquo; The Times 
 
&lsquo;Unusual and thoroughly enjoyable&rsquo; Guardian 
 
Don&rsquo;t miss the next thrilling Kotaro Isaka book, HOTEL LUCKY SEVEN, available to pre-order now.

The Mantis

Stefan Hertmans

The dazzling new novel by Stefan Hertmans, author of the modern classic War and Turpentine. 
 
'Magnificent' Philippe Sands 
'Powerful and humane' Observer 
'An utterly masterly book' Jonathan Coe 
 
In 1979, Stefan Hertmans fell in love with a dilapidated old house in Ghent, Belgium, which he restored to become his peaceful sanctuary. Now, all these years later, he learns that a bust of Hitler once sat on the mantelpiece, and a war criminal and his family relaxed in its rooms. 
 
This shocking discovery sends Hertmans off to the archives, to uncover the secrets of the house and to reimagine this man's life and expose the atrocities he's responsible for. We see Willem Verhulst as a weak, narcissistic man who climbed high in the ranks of the SS; a fascinating case study for the cruel and perverse mentality of the Nazis. 
 
The Ascent portrays the deep tragedy of Flemish collaboration during the Second World War, as Hertmans masterfully brings history and the house to life, imagining individual lives to tell the greater European story. 
 
Translated from the Dutch by David McKay

The Ascent

A house can have many secrets

**HARRY HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES** 
 
*PRE-ORDER WOLF HOUR, NESBO'S BRAND NEW EXPLOSIVE THRILLER* 
 
THIS KILLER WILL GET INSIDE YOUR HEAD... 
 
'A 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' LEE CHILD 
 
*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR* 
 
 
***When a body is found in the forest, the police make a horrifying discovery: her scalp has been removed and sewn back on. But they have no idea why. 
 
With a second woman reported missing, detectives fear their worst nightmare has come true. 
 
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Oslo. 
 
With time running out to find the woman, former detective Harry Hole is called in to think like a murderer thinks... and to track down this killer before they strike again. 
 
But Harry has ulterior motives for wanting to solve this case and, if he fails, there could be more than one life at risk. 
*** 
 
'Nesbo deploys all the key ingredients of a cracking good thriller... effortless' Guardian 
 
'The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction' The Times 
 
‘Unbearably tense’ Sunday Times 
 
*** 
 
Killing Moon is the 13th novel in the Harry Hole series, although each title reads as a standalone. 
 
*OVER 60 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE* 
Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, January 2024 
A Sunday Times Book of the Year, 2023

Killing Moon

Over 18 million copies sold worldwide. The bestselling Icelandic author of all time. 
 
'One of the greats of modern crime fiction' Sunday Times 
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When a young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly grandparents have no choice but to call the retired Detective Konrád. 
 
Still looking for his own father's murderer, Konrád agrees to investigate the case. 
 
But digging into the past reveals more than he set out to discover, and a strange connection to a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavík city pond decades ago recaptures everyone's attention. 
 
A brilliant, chilling tale of broken dreams and children who have nowhere to turn. 
__________________________________ 
 
'The undisputed king of the Icelandic thriller' Guardian 
 
'An international literary phenomenon - and it's easy to see why. His novels are gripping, authentic, haunting and lyrical' Harlan Coben

The Girl by the Bridge

Emi Yagi

Discover this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive new novel that's perfect for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs. 
 
'Incredibly thought-provoking... you'll love Yagi's writing' Stylist 
 
'One of the most passionate cases I've ever read for female interiority, for women's creative pulse and rich inner life' The New Yorker 
 
 
For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions... 
 
Ms Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee and cigarette butts at work one day, because she's pregnant and can't bear the smell. The only thing is . . . Ms Shibata is not pregnant. 
 
Being a mother-to-be isn't easy. Ms Shibata has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with the help of towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app that tracks every stage of her 'pregnancy', the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve. 
 
'A subversive, surreal read that will strike a cord' Red Magazine 
 
'An insight into what it means to be a woman in our time... As a mode of resistance, Shibata's trick is perfect' Electric Literature 
 
Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North

Diary of a Void

Kristín Ómarsdóttir

'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell 
 
An astonishing, mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers. 
 
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S LITERATURE PRIZE* 
 
In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elísabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life. 
 
Elísabet likes to take long solitary walks near the lake. One day, she sees two creatures emerging from the water, half-human, half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality. 
 
Pulled into the monomaniacal, and often violent, quest of the swanfolk, Elísabet finds her own mind increasingly untrustworthy. Soon, she is forced to reckon with the consequences of her involvement with these unusual beings, and a past life she has been trying to evade. 
 
'Ómarsdottir's skills as a poet and playwright are evident' Helen Oyeyemi, New York Review of Books

Swanfolk

Werner Herzog

THE FIRST NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY FILMMAKER WERNER HERZOG 
 
1944: Lubang Island, the Philippines. With Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superior officer: Hold the island until the Imperial army's return. You are to defend its territory by guerrilla tactics, at all costs. 
 
So began Onoda's long campaign. Soon weeks turned into months, months into years, and years into decades - until eventually time itself seemed to melt away. All the while Onoda continued to fight his fictitious war, at once surreal and tragic, at first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making. . .

The Twilight World

SUZUKI IS JUST AN ORDINARY MATHS TEACHER...UNTIL HIS WIFE IS MURDERED. 
 
Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn't realise is that he's about to get drawn into a web of the most unusual professional assassins, each with their own agenda: 
 
THE WHALE convinces his victims to take their own lives using just his words. 
 
THE CICADA is a talkative and deadly knife expert. 
 
THE PUSHER dispatches his targets in deadly traffic 'accidents'. 
 
Suzuki must take on the three assassins to avenge his wife - but can he keep his innocence in a world of seasoned killers? 
 
THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE. 
 
Don&rsquo;t miss the next thrilling Kotaro Isaka book, HOTEL LUCKY SEVEN, available to pre-order now. 
 
PRAISE FOR BULLET TRAIN: 
 
'Unlike anything you're likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses' Financial Times 
 
'Entertaining...high-speed...with lots of twists and turns...it has a Tarantino-meets-the-Coen-Brothers feel to it' The Times 
 
Part high-octane thriller, part farce, this is an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable read' Guardian 
 
The action accelerates up and down the ten carriages but the question is: who will get off alive? Daily Mail

Three Assassins

A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE* 
 
'An incendiary cocktail of murder, revenge and a hitman with multiple problems' Independent 
 
The contract killer. 
 
Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone. 
 
The gangster's wife. 
 
 Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But she's his boss's wife. And Olav's just been hired to kill her. 
 
 Two very big problems. 
 
'Nesbo is in bracing form...gripping' The Sun 
 
Watch out for The Jealousy Man, the new Jo Nesbo book, out now

Blood on Snow

From the international bestselling author of the Harry Hole series

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE* 
 
'Spectacular storytelling and a beautifully judged super-twist' Daily Mail 
 
LIE. 
 
 Clever, wealthy, married to a beautiful woman: Roger Brown has it all. And his sideline as an art thief keeps him busy when his job as a corporate headhunter gets dull. 
 
 STEAL. 
 
Then his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Ambitious and talented, he's the perfect candidate for a top job Roger needs to fill - and the priceless painting he owns makes him the perfect target for a heist. But soon Roger finds out that there's more to Greve than meets the eye, and it's not long before the hunter becomes the hunted... 
 
 MURDER? 
 
'A sizeable measure of sheer entertainment' Independent 
 
Watch out for The Jealousy Man, the new Jo Nesbo book, out now

Headhunters

‘Keeps the twists and shocks coming hard and fast’ Metro

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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