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THE BRAND NEW 2025 NOVEL FROM THE MASTER OF THE RACING THRILLER Imogen Duffy is a young Irish jockey whose fledgling career is given a huge boost when she wins a prestigious horse race at the Cheltenham Steeplechasing Festival But all is not well in her life She has a violent and controlling boyfriend also a jockey and he becomes increasingly jealous of her success As a result she tries to break off their relationship but he won t take no for an answer He attacks her and claims that he d rather kill her than allow her to leave him Imogen flees her home in Ireland coming to England to get away from him and to continue her riding career at a racing stable in Lambourn where she finds increasing success But the abusive boyfriend follows her across the Irish Sea stalks her steals from her attacks her again and then tries to ruin both her career and her reputation Imogen s desperate father turns to Sid Halley for help and Sid reluctantly agrees to investigate but then finds that he is also being stalked and threatened Can Sid find out what the hell is going on and before it is too late PRAISE FOR FELIX FRANCIS Felix Francis novels gallop along splendidly JILLY COOPER From winning post to top of the bestseller lists SUNDAY TIMES The mast

The delightfully down to earth debut novel from Clare Balding Sometimes home is where you least expect it Alex has perfected the art of dodging responsibility during her almost 40 years until an unexpected letter turns her life upside down She s inherited a crumbling sheep farm in wildest wettest Wales This was not her life plan Not at all Now her closest companion is a stubborn Welsh terrier she s speed reading The Idiot s Guide to Farming and her arrival has set the village gossip mill spinning With the farm near collapse Alex sets out to uncover the truth behind her mysterious inheritance But as secrets surface Alex finds her heart pulling her in a direction she never saw coming Will she pack her bags or has she landed exactly where she s meant to be Brimming with the warmth and wit that has made Clare Balding one of our best loved TV personalities Pastures New is a joyful celebration of new beginnings community and the delightful surprises of rural life Acclaim for Clare Balding s books The reading equivalent of snuggling by the fire with a labrador The Guardian Funny and moving James Herriot meets David Sedaris The Times Forthright thoughtful funny reads like a Jilly Cooper novel Sunday Times

An emotional honest and gutsy memoir that gives a deep insight into Penny Lancaster s experiences despite the pain and damage that they often caused and that pushed her into becoming a passionate advocate for keeping others especially women safe

Invite the magic into your life with these deliciously witchy recipes and rituals In Kitchen Magic you ll learn how to infuse your everyday cooking with meaning and a sprinkle of magic With 65 enchanting recipes this beautifully illustrated cozy cookbook invites you to cultivate a deeper connection to the seasons your ingredients and yourself Each of the six sections Botanical Bakes Broomstick Brews Folk Medicine Menstrual Magic Ceremonial Recipes and Practical Magic contribute to kitchen witch Laura May s unique philosophy it is ritual not habit that brings mindfulness and magic into our kitchens In the book you ll explore everything from the magical properties of ingredients and the folklore behind them to culinary spells Discover recipes like Black Magic Protection Cake Harvest Squash Cornucopia Hawthorn Bloody Mary Cocktail Memento Mori Soul Cakes Mugwort and Black Garlic Focaccia Dream Spell Forager s Hedgerow Pancakes With essential tips of witchy pantry must haves and tools Kitchen Magic has everything you need to create enchantment in your kitchen perfect for any modern witch or quirky home cook ready to turn cooking into a daily ritual of intention and magic

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker longlisted THE SWEETNESS OF WATER Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful Robert Jones Jr author of The Prophets I didn t want to put the book down reader review A writer of great lyricism and power i paper I had tears streaming down my face for the last chapter and epilogue reader review Harris will win over the hearts of many readers Financial Times It is simply A D MN GOOD BOOK reader review Masterful Oprah Winfrey Louisiana 1869 The Civil War might be over but former slaves Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they ve been promised Two years ago the siblings were separated when their old master Mr Harper took June away on a hair brained scheme to Mexico to escape the new reality of the post war South Coleman stayed behind to serve the Harper family clinging to the hope that Mr Harper would one day bring June back to him When an unexpected letter from Mr Harper arrives summoning Coleman and the Harper family to Mexico Coleman believes his prayers have been answered But what he cannot know is the tangled truth of June s tribulations and Mr Harper s true intentions As Coleman and June separately navi

A delicious neon soaked fever dream Munroe Bergdorf Nostalgic salacious and bitingly witty Joe Lycett I couldn t put it down Annie Macmanus The defining book on the iconic noughties era of pop culture in London as told by DJ Jodie Harsh who saw did and survived it all Jodie Harsh arrived in London aged fifteen in 2001 heading straight off the train from Canterbury to her first club night at the Astoria Intoxicated by this initial taste of city nightlife she didn t leave the party for years falling in with the right wrong people and exploring the sides of London best experienced under cover of darkness Throughout the noughties from Camden and Soho to Mayfair from Notting Hill and Primrose Hill to Hackney Road the city was a messy beating slick and sordid melting pot New music new fashion new art all came together in a mad dizzying rush before and during the financial crash of 2008 Different scenes collided exploded were reborn and shaped across the city at rapid speed Harsh grabs us by the hand and leads us back to those decadent times from the Astoria to The Cross the Soho Revue Bar to Mahiki Boombox to The End and her famous friends houses to a time before social media and cameraphones were ubiquitous and a life without

Filled with scenes of sizzling passion plot beats of swoon worthy romance and a cast of Black female characters that you ll fall in love with the unputdownable debut novel from Oti Mabuse brims with heat and heart Perfect for fans of Talia Hibbert Laura Jane Williams Tia Williams Farrah Rochon Hannah Grace and Bolu Babalola For dancer Lira Latin Ballroom is everything Whilst her dreams of fame were cut short aged 19 she s never forgotten the connection she felt dancing with a stranger at the Paris World Championship afterparty 13 years ago Now with her younger sisters pursuing their own successful dancing careers and the responsibility of running the family dance studio falling to her Lira s ambitious flame is about to flicker out Until a chance encounter sees her secretly auditioning for Slow Burn a new dance show about to embark on a 6 week European tour and coming face to face with a blast from her past that sends her reeling Gabriele is the quintessential bad boy of the Latin Ballroom scene Slim of hip with long lean muscles that pop a chiselled jaw dark eyes obscenely long lashes and a mouth that just won t give it s no surprise when he lands the principal male lead role on Slow Burn But with just a few weeks to go till the tour start

When a toxic hospital consultant dies of a heart attack fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play Nobody else does though including some quite crucial players like the police and the coroner But Eitan just won t let it drop and his friends and colleagues become increasingly concerned about his mental health as his chaotic investigation and equally chaotic life spiral out of control Is he making a career ending mistake or could there genuinely be a killer stalking the wards A deathly funny mix of mystery murder and medicine A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE is the brilliantly original debut novel from Adam Kay BAFTA winning author of multi million global bestseller THIS IS GOING TO HURT PRAISE FOR A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE Brilliant It will make you laugh and weep Reverend Richard Coles Amazing I was gripped right up to the last minute Joanna Lumley A work of fiendishly plotted genius Lucy Foley Wild and funny and filthy and hilarious Russell T Davies Viciously funny I m still laughing Ian Rankin Very funny very rude and very moving Kate Mosse

And so I am mad after all The shackles gouge my wrists disturbing the scars of Strangeways Prison s fetters But no matter if I bleed I will not die I am already dead Named after the funeral flower Lily has walked hand in hand with death for as long as she can remember But the fact that death has chosen to follow her through life can hardly be conceived as her fault Certainly she cannot be expected to take the blame for the slew of missing men in her wake In fact Lily is in no doubt that there has been some terrible mistake and she will be released from this asylum any day now Now she just needs to convince you too Set against the harsh realities of a Victorian asylum this compelling historical debut sees one unruly woman take her revenge on the men who would keep her caged and ultimately asks where we draw the line between villain and victim in a society where the odds are stacked against women from the start Perfect for fans of MRS ENGLAND by Stacey Halls THE MAD WOMEN S BALL by Victoria Mas and LILY by Rose Tremain

From the bestselling author of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ comes a heartbreaking contemporary novel of a dying teenager s final wish a lonely young man s journey towards connection and the unexpected friendship they find together Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes Jodi Picoult and John Green Jesse is 15 She loves her friends her little brother and her parents even when they re arguing which feels like constantly these days But most of all she loves playing video games Even from her hospital bed Alex is 29 He doesn t love a lot of things To be honest he s not really sure he knows how to His desk at work as VR games designer is empty much like his life feels sometimes Then Jesse makes a wish A simple one a video experience made of her life something to be there just in case she isn t One loving teenager One lonely adult Which one will get the happy ending Heather Morris is an international no 1 bestseller and has sold over 18 million copies worldwide This brand new novel is a fresh direction for her but speaks to all the themes that you know and love her for hope in the darkest of places family love and courage

Book 26 in the multi million copy bestselling and perennially adored No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series The rains are coming but not just yet When they do there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana Pumpkins will flourish particularly those of Mma Potokwani matron of a children s home and old friend of Precious Ramotswe Mma Potokwani and Mma Ramotswe have many other things to talk about including a new friendship that Mr J L B Matekoni has struck up with Mr Freddie Mogorosi a prominent figure in the motor trade Freddie Mogorosi has invited Mr J L B Matekoni to go fishing with him on the local dam which is home to some fairly nasty crocodiles They do not catch anything but something nearly catches them In the meantime Mma Ramotswe looks into what seems to be a straightforward matter involving a husband who thinks his wife may be having affair But there is a surprise in store she it transpires suspects that he himself has a lover This is obviously a case that will require tact which of course is a quality Mma Ramotswe has in abundance Along with kindness For Botswana is a kind country and in this latest visit to The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency we are reassured that no matter how unhappy the world may be there is always

AVAILABLE FOR PRE ORDER NOW Sarah Hall s writing has conquered the body and the soul and now it conquers the wind itself DAISY JOHNSON Ye Gods Ms Hall is talented DAVID MITCHELL Incandescently good sexy and funny and erudite and strange SARAH PERRY GUARDIAN You can always rely on Hall to blow you away I PAPER A wondrous elemental novel from a writer of show stopping genius Guardian Helm is a ferocious mischievous wind a subject of folklore and wonder who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time This is Helm s life story formed from the chronicles of those the wind enchanted the Neolithic tribe who tried to placate it the Dark Age wizard priest who wanted to banish it the Victorian steam engineer who attempted to capture it and the farmer s daughter who fell in love But now Dr Selima Sutar surrounded by measuring instruments alone in her observation hut fears the end is nigh Vital and audacious Helm is the elemental tale of a unique life force and of a relationship between nature and people neither of whom can weather life without the other I can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills surprises and staggers BENJAMIN MYERS I m awed I

John Boyne s acclaimed quartet of Water Earth Fire and Air come together at last Human life is governed by the elements water earth fire and air They are fundamental to our existence They sustain us but they also challenge us In The Elements John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction a quartet of intertwined narratives each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler the accomplice the perpetrator and the victim From a mother on the run from her past to a young football star on trial a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives Boyne s most ambitious work yet The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience In crisp spellbinding prose he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way

A thrilling anthology of 30 original stories paying homage to Alfred Hitchcock s legacy of suspense Featuring renowned authors like Lee Child and Ian Rankin the collection reimagines Hitchcockian themes of ordinary lives disrupted by peril and psychological intrigue offering a modern tribute to the master of suspense

Special Edition available to the first UK print run only Featuring a beautiful foil on board design beneath the dust jacket and origami heart design endpapers Make sure to pre order your copy Available while stocks last Pip s world is small But it s about to become a whole lot bigger For years she s tucked away her dreams shrinking herself into the space left behind like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room Then hope comes from an unlikely place an astronomer from the local observatory He teaches her to look up at the stars and to see a world far bigger and more beautiful than she ever imagined And perhaps in that big beautiful universe there s someone waiting for her If she can find the courage to open her heart Pip never stopped dreaming but now it s time for her to live and maybe even to fall in love A lovely transportive deeply felt story My heart grows a bit bigger each time I read a Cecelia Ahern book Karin Slaughter An immersive sometimes heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting rollercoaster read Her best yet Patricia Scanlan Cecelia Ahern brings you the story you need most exactly when you need it and this is a must read Beautiful heart wrenching a soaring triumph of a book Sam Blake

Raw provocative chaotic and dare I say slutty COLLEEN HOOVERA thrilling memoir by The White Lotus and Euphoria actor Lukas Gage which chronicles his upbringing in a broken family struggles with borderline personality disorder and his commitment to always being the centre of attention Lukas Gage was having one of the shittiest weeks of his life Not only was his beloved grandmother dying across from the building where months prior Lukas had grappled with the dissolution of his marriage but he was also forced to sit next to his mostly absent tit obsessed father the entire time Naturally Lukas did the smartest thing anyone can do in a crisis of death divorce and daddy issues doom scroll to see what random people on the internet were saying about him People were calling him an attention whore and they were absolutely right As a toddler he set his room on fire As a child he flirted with women at Hooters to his father s delight As a teen he fell hopelessly in love with a girl who wore an ankle monitor He became an actor and filmed that scene in TheWhite Lotus if you know you know Lukas was scared of attention and yet he craved it more than anything in the world I Wrote This for Attention is an exquisite memoir that details Lukas coming of ag

A haunting travel memoir by Mariana Enriquez exploring famous and forgotten cemeteries around the world, blending history, obsession, and the macabre.

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.My prayers are my poems are my prayers.I've always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.A prescriptionist at heart, I've always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.I've been finding that tougher to do lately. It's more than hard to know what to believe in; it's hard to believe.But I don't want to quit believing, and I don't want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential.