Wisecracking PI Helena Handbasket juggles a jewel theft, a freezer box full of hands, and a trail of handless corpses marked with scarlet fish. As she hunts a possible serial killer, she also battles life’s real mysteries: which shoes to wear, why her neighbour smells like cheese, which lover is ‘the one’, and whether there’s anything in the fridge.
In 1982 Camden Town, Ellen Moore escapes her past, works at eccentric Leviathan Books, lives in a squat, and sings synth-pop. Love, danger, and a stolen, possibly magical book entangle her with addicts, ambition, and dark secrets that threaten her future.
An author whose life is failing on every front find it getting even worse when she’s forced to spend a week with the woman her husband left her for…
A modern-day twist on ancient mythology in this bold reimagining of the Greek gods as a family of billionaires.
At Janus Lodge, Sylvia Abercrombie and her feisty, foul-mouthed friends face eviction by a shady developer. To save their home, they launch a secret knitwear empire with a scandalous twist – but as sales soar, secrets surface, and Sylvia’s ex looms nearby, the gang must pull off the ultimate heist. Hilarious, heartfelt, and full of mischief, this tale proves age is no barrier to adventure.
In this deliciously funny romance, a scientist’s quiet world is completely turned upside-down when the AI programme she has designed creates a human body for himself – just to ask her out on a date.
A true and faithful account of the trial and punishment of the esteemed Dr Gustavus Katterfelto, the greatest natural philosopher who ever lived.
The new literary crime novel by Gold Dagger-shortlisted Burke-Patel is an atmospheric homage to Agatha Christie.
James Sallis’ World’s Edge presents five masterful novellas exploring fractured societies, human resilience, and the fragile intersections of morality and survival. Sallis’s prose, as sharp as it is evocative, captures the nuances of his dystopian and near-future settings, resonating with themes of dislocation and identity. Widely regarded as a pivotal voice in contemporary US fiction, Sallis’ stories draw readers into a world both intimate and unyielding, where existential questions lurk beneath stark, elegant narratives.
A tense and elegant literary thriller about power, peril, and the truths politicians dare not speak. A State Department interpreter witnesses a secret pact between Washington and Moscow and flees to England, only to find himself hunted on all sides. With nothing but a cryptic red-ink note as proof, he must expose a conspiracy that threatens global stability.
A dazzling portrait of Maria Callas—La Divina—whose voice, passion, and defiance transformed opera and fame, but left her tragically alone in the end.
An addictive novel about a young woman’s all-consuming obsession with a rival of her own making and the desperate lengths she goes to in order to succeed.