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Author: S.J.A. Turney

Genres: Genre Fiction

This thrilling Roman adventure novel from Simon Turney sees Agricola return to the scene of his greatest exploits, but to achieve glory he must vanquish his greatest foes yet.

Following years of distinguished military and political exploits, Agricola has been rewarded with control of Aquitania by the Emperor Vespasian.

But Agricola's greatest glories have always come in that rainy northern corner of the Empire: Britannia. When Vespasian sends him back to Britannia, this time as governor, he has a chance to cement his place in Roman history.

To conquer Britannia completely Agricola must overcome its many Celtic tribes. The Ordovices have massacred a Roman cavalry unit. The Selgovae and Damnonii resist Imperial rule fiercely. And he must take them on with ever fewer troops due to a series of changes at the heart of Roman power.

Failure will mean disgrace or death, but if he should succeed, Agricola will be forever lauded among the pantheon of Rome's heroes.

“'You should be reading Simon Turney”
- Anthony Riches

Illustrator: Steven Lenton

Genres: Children’s

Join Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam for adventures full of bravery and baking... Three hilarious and highly illustrated read-aloud stories following the hijinks and sleuthing of our favourite baker dogs!

These much-loved picture book pooches appear in a new black-and-white illustrated format, ideal for children growing in confidence as readers and beginning to read alone.

Halloween at St Spectre's school brings out the cheekiest of ghosts! And who is to blame when the weather goes crazy? A power-grabbing red panda, maybe? Certainly not the raccoon gang fixing the museum's toilets ... they've got dastardly plans of their own!

Brilliant stories hilariously told by Tracey Corderoy and beautifully brought to life by Steven Lenton's illustrations.

Translator: Sung Ryu

Genres: Genre Fiction in Translation

The genre mash-up you've been waiting for - from the award-winning Korean author Cho Yeeun comes a new novel where a young girl and a teddy bear team up to enact revenge!

A poisoned city - A grieving daughter - A boy trapped in a bear's body.

When the fledgling coastal town of Yamu was rocked by a mass-poisoning attack at The Seaview Parc, the luxury high-rise meant to revitalise the city, Hwayoung was one of many who lost family members. Except she has never believed that her mother was poisoned. Now, fuelled by grief and a desire for revenge, Hwayoung spends her time hustling to save every penny and bring those responsible to justice.

Across town, Doha wakes up in a teddy bear and realizes something sinister has taken him over. When fate brings Hwayoung and Doha together, the two team up for a revenge quest that will shake the city's glittering façade to its rotten core.

This time, revenge is not just personal - it's supernatural.

Translated from the Korean by Sung Ryu.

“The perfect mix of horror and heart”
- Kylie Lee Baker, author of Bat Eater

“Cho Yeeun is amazing. Insanely amazing”
- Bora Chung, author of the Midnight Timetable

“The epitome of Cho Yeeun's hallmark style”
- Anton Hur, author of Toward Eternity

“A grotesque, hilarious and heart-felt romp”
- Bitter Karella, author of Moonflow

“Absolutely singular”
- Megan Bontrager, author of The Sea Hides its Dead

“A savagely entertaining revenge tale”
- Jinwoo Park, author of Oxford Soju Club

Author: Emily Hourican

Genres: Children’s

Two girls who live in a hotel are drawn into a murder mystery in this charming, classic-feeling cosy-crime children's debut from bestselling Irish author Emily Hourican - perfect for fans of Murder Most Unladylike, The Swifts and Enid Blyton.

Twelve-year-old Meredith and ten-year-old Macy feel like the luckiest girls around. The Ivy Hotel in Dublin is old, beautiful and beloved, with a tight-knit staff that feel like family, and they get to call it home.

Meredith and Macy's mum is the General Manager, and their modest apartment is tucked away in a corner, but it has lots of perks. The girls make friends with long-term residents - like Colin, the quiet little boy who plays piano, and Agatha, the eccentric older lady who stays in a plush suite with her dog, Milo.

The girls love spying on fancy events, sneaky treats from the restaurant and knowing all the secret stairs and corridors that guests never see, where the staff move around invisibly, making sure everything runs like clockwork...

This is going to come in handy. Because within the cosy walls of the Ivy Hotel, there is also danger, intrigue and threat. Just as the hotel's new owners arrive, ready to sniff out any excuse to make cuts and fire staff, the girls are faced with their biggest task yet: a murder to solve.

• A welcoming and super-cosy hotel setting with a loveable cast of characters and a dash of danger, perfect for mystery fans age 9-12.

• Alternating perspectives from two brilliant sisters - responsible and emotional Meredith and fierce, logical Macy.

• Full of suspense, sleuthing and twisting discoveries, as the kids take the lead, working to cleverly uncover the identity of a mysterious guest and his even more mysterious death...

“A deliciously cosy and clever mystery with buckets of charm, and a cast of characters you can't help but adore.”
- Hana Tooke, author of The Unadoptables

Author: Barbara Fox

Genre: Genre Fiction

Everyone thinks Amy is joking when she swaps her job at a London city vets for life in the moorland village of Grassdale, but this girl has never shied away from a challenge…

From looking after bunnies and guinea pigs, her day job is now all about caring for sheep, horses and more often than not, their grumpy owners. Can this city girl cut it on the Dales?

Shying away from the village's residents, Amy finds her solace running across the fells alone – it’s a far cry from running round urban streets – but when she falls on the trail one day, will she let obnoxious fellow vet (and keen runner), Damian, come to her rescue?

As the countdown to the annual fell race gets underway, the rivalry mounts. Can these two learn to play on the same team, or will their competitiveness push them over the edge?

Translator: Gene Png

Genres: Genre Fiction in Translation

A tale of star-crossed lovers, political intrigue and mysticism inspired by Korean mythology and set in the Joseon dynasty.

'Whether I remember or not, it seems I am destined to love you.'

Lady Seomun Bin has a secret: she is a cross-dressing byeoksaga, or ghost-stalker. Born with the unenviable ability to see spirits, she is forced to disguise herself as a man to perform exorcisms in order to break the demonic curse on her which puts those around her in danger.

When she sneaks into a lavish party at the Sagokjeong, the chief state councillor's country home, she bumps into Hyun Eunho, a loyal servant to the King sent to investigate the chief state councillor's suspected treason. Eunho feels an inexplicable attraction towards Bin and tries to get closer to her, while Bin, for reasons of her own, attempts to avoid him. As they continue to cross paths, they becoming increasingly entangled by the inescapable threads of fate that keep drawing them together.

Meanwhile, a darker presence is growing in power in the Underworld and the boundaries between the physical world and the one beyond continue to grow thinner. As evil forces seek to exert their influence over the court, Bin and Eunho must work together to overpower them.

Where will their destined connection lead? Will they finally be able to break Bin's curse?

“Bound to tug at your heart strings”
- Eliza Chan

“A top-tier historical fantasy”
- Shelly Parker-Chan

“A historical K-drama brought to life on the page”
- June Hur

“A sweeping, romantic tale about reforging your own destiny”
- Electric Lit

Author: Frank Callanan

Genres: Subject-Led Non-fiction

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings

The young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of political insight unrivalled among his fellow modernists. In this biography of Joyce in his youth and early exile, acclaimed Irish historian and biographer Frank Callanan reveals a Joyce who is markedly more politically conscious, informed and complex than the Joyce of Richard Ellmann’s classic account. Written in a sparkling style and rich with historical insights, Callanan’s deeply researched biography is the first sustained account of how Joyce’s Irish and European political and cultural context shaped his life, thought, and writings.

Joyce was eight years old in 1890 when the O’Shea divorce scandal tore Irish nationalism apart, leading to the split in the Irish Parliamentary Party, the death of nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, and a long, bitter period dominated by the anti-Parnellites. This was the Ireland that Joyce grew up in and rebelled against, and which determined his literary direction. Callanan uncovers a Joyce who was a highly original and dissenting Irish nationalist, who refused to avow or vaunt his nationalism and whose understanding was refined by the experience of living in multicultural Trieste with its fraught ethnic politics and differing models of statehood. Callanan’s Joyce is as heroic as Ellmann’s defiantly modernistic artist but in a more interesting way—a writer who didn’t lack political conviction but whose views didn’t yield to the expectations of his time.

Energizing, witty, profound, and elegant, James Joyce: A Political Life is a magisterial biography that will transform how readers look at Joyce and his politics.

“Callanan does two things every good biographer should: evoke the personality of the subject and situate him vividly in his environment. . . . The character at the center of James Joyce: A Political Life has plenty of life.”
- James Campbell, Wall Street Journal

“Frank Callanan scrutinises Joyce’s views on Irish politics in astonishing detail and depth in this posthumous tour de force”
- Terrence Killeen, The Irish Times

“Frank Callanan’s James Joyce: A Political Life is a rescue act. It rescues Joyce from the lazy habit of treating him as a writer who transcended politics by transcending Ireland. . . . An important book.”
- Paul Perry, The Irish Independent

“Anyone interested in Joyce’s politics, a much-contested field, must read this book. It is authoritative, original, and richly argumentative, steering a complex course between conflicting opinions. All aspects of the topic are considered, and many errors in previous accounts are corrected. Indispensable.”
- Zachary Leader, author of Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

“In this intricate biography, Irish historian Callanan . . . challenges the notion that novelist James Joyce was apolitical—which Joyce himself sometimes seemed to endorse—and instead credits him with a deep, subtle engagement with Irish nationalism and other political issues. . . . It’s a richly detailed portrait of a civic-minded writer.”
-  Publishers Weekly

“Frank Callanan authoritatively possessed a lawyer’s forensic skills and a historian’s eye for the disregarded detail. Both abilities  illuminate this posthumously-published magnum opus, which establishes  the brilliance, originality and coherence of  Joyce’s political and historical views, and particularly his lifelong preoccupation with the fate of Charles Stewart Parnell.”
-  R.F. Foster, Emeritus Professor of Irish History , University of Oxford, and authorised biographer of W.B. Yeats

“This massive, meticulously researched biography by the late Irish historian [Frank] Callanan reveals the political and social worlds of the novelist James Joyce. . . . Joyce emerges here as a man deeply engaged with lived politics.”
- Kirkus Reviews

“This is an extraordinarily rich account of the political life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Deploying his unmatched mastery of historical and biographical detail, Callanan’s book brilliantly illuminates the context in which Joyce’s masterpieces took shape along with the controversies that haunted his imagination.”
- Richard Bourke, University of Cambridge

“An electrifying and wonderfully immersive political biography. Frank Callanan’s scrupulous narrative reveals how Joyce’s modernism and politics were inherently connected and scotches the myth of a writer who became increasingly disengaged. This detailed and often surprising investigation tracks how Joyce disdained the sentimental cult of Charles Stewart Parnell while remaining wholly convinced of his revolutionary legacy.”
- Anne Fogarty, professor emerita of James Joyce Studies, University College Dublin

Author: Eleanor Dalton

Genre: Non-Fiction, Self Help

Instagram’s Posture Ellie shows you how listen to your body and pinpoint the source of pain before changing your alignment for an all-round healthier lifestyle.

We know that moving a lot is good for us, but how do we move well? Discover posture therapy to reclaim your vitality and create a pain-free body and mind.

Many of us spend more time than we would like with buzzing brains, constant tension or recurring sports injuries. We think good posture means sitting up straight, and we have lost the connection with our body’s innate language through sedentary living.

But there is something we can do about it. Good posture is all about learning to move well, by restoring lost motion to stiff joints and weak muscles. Instagram’s Posture Ellie’s holistic approach helps us reach the root cause of pain, discomfort and lack of energy. Each body part affects everything else – including our minds, organs and bodily systems: the lymphatic, respiratory, circulatory, nervous systems and more.

With handy diagrams, case studies and practical exercises to do from the comfort of home, Posture Ellie shares her “hunches” and busts myths.

Discover:

• why you don’t need to pull your shoulders back

• why your feet don’t need as much support as you think

• how muscular collapse causes aches and pains

• how a hunch crushes everything beneath it

• how to analyse your body to understand why pain presents in one area

• why declining posture isn’t due to your age.

As you restore muscular function, you’ll see pain and discomfort melt away, energy levels increase and sports injuries decrease. You will become more peaceful and gain a confidence as the architect of your own healing journey.

Learn to change your posture, and you will change your life.