Publications
Author: Imogen Butler-Cole
Genre: Memoir
A woman re-examining her sexual past through the lens of embodiment, community and consent
At thirty-three, Imogen Butler-Cole has never thought of herself as a woman who was assaulted. Then a memory triggered by a news report from Steubenville, Ohio, about an unconscious girl at a party, lodges somewhere at the base of her spine and will not leave.
Over the next ten years seven memories come back, out of order and almost always through her body before her mind: on a therapist's table, in the garden, while reading another woman's testimony. Almost every man is someone she knew. A trusted friend. A boyfriend. A casual lover. And then, at the very moment she feels most free, a man who makes his living teaching other people about pleasure.
Asking For It is the story of a woman who wants sex and wants to be safe, and keeps finding out how rarely she has been allowed both. She goes looking for her own pleasure in rooms most of us never enter, and dances her rage in front of strangers. Then she writes to the men who hurt her, looking for repair rather than punishment. One of them sits across from her in a cocktail bar and admits everything, and lets her put his voice into the play that carries her into a community of other survivors.
And then, in love at last, she meets a memory that unsettles everything she thought she knew about harm.
This is a book about the sex women have and don't call assault, and what happens when they finally do.
For readers of Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women, Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, Chanel Miller's Know My Name and Roxane Gay's Hunger.
Author: John Paul Hurley
Genres: Genre Fiction
Entertaining Literary Fiction by Irish screenwriter and actor John Paul Hurley, THE BALLAD OF MANUS AND MONA is a wild, chokingly funny story that follows the most unpleasant man imaginable from being loathed in his local Tipperary country pub to being nationally hated in America, having been the most successful Country singer for a generation.
Think John Kennedy Toole’s A CONFEDERANCY OF DUNCES, set in Ireland and Nashville. Manus’s personal odour out-whiffs Mick Herron’s creation, Jackson Lamb. There are murders and two witless gardai (Irish police) on the protagonist’s trail. It’s a big joy with great female characters.
This unique, tragic-comic epic is compelling, disgusting, hilarious and masterful. Its eponymous anti-hero is as engaging as he is offensive, whilst the vast supportive cast of flawed humanity is drawn with great sensitivity and rare wit. Manus is unique: I doubt the existence of anything remotely like it. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it turned out to be a best seller.
- Mike Leigh, BAFTA winning, Oscar multi-nominated filmmaker
No ego-stroking, no playing it safe. John Paul’s book has got soul and guts. He’s not entertaining you politely. It’s the funniest, maddest book I’ve ever read. Fact.
- Christopher Eccleston, Actor/Author. Dr Who. Shallow Grave. The Leftovers. Emmy winnerIt’s mad, yes—but there’s genius in the madness. There’s something rare here—dangerous, absurd and bang on the money.
- George Costigan, Actor/ 2x Author/playwright, Rita, Sue and Bob Too. Happy Valley
Author: Sue Rainsford
Genres: Literary Fiction
From Out My Heart is a darkly sensuous novel about two women whose bodies become the threshold through which the living and the dead insist on speaking, from the award-winning author of Follow Me to Ground and Redder Days.
When Phyllipa, a scholar chasing the lingering pulse of Edgar Allan Poe, travels to a remote, river‑ruled community, she finds herself drawn into the orbit of Lana: a woman whose faith, exhaustion, and old wounds make her strangely open to visitation. Their encounters unfold in a landscape of heatstorms, thickets, and swollen riverlight, where possession is not a metaphor but a physical event: a tremor in the voice, a shift in the hips, a borrowed breath. As Phyllipa records Lana’s transformations, she feels her own interior loosening – the boundaries between scholarship and desire, between inquiry and complicity, dissolving into the wet dark of the woods.
Rainsford crafts a gothic of flesh and inheritance, where motherhood, harm, and spectral longing press against the skin. A novel of haunting in its truest sense: the way another life can move through a woman’s body, and the way a woman can become the echo chamber for what history refuses to release.
Author: Leona Forde
Genre: Children’s
Milly McCarthy is back – and she’s determined to prove she’s responsible enough to get her very own dog.
Her genius plan? Start a dog-walking business and show Mam and Dad just how brilliant she is at caring for pets. Sure, what could possibly go wrong?
Quite a lot, it turns out … Between a dotty Dalmatian, a precocious poodle and a lost labradoodle, Milly suddenly finds herself running a full-on doggy daycare – and the mayhem quickly spirals out of control.
Full of laughs, heart and plenty of canine chaos, this is another irresistible adventure from the beloved Milly McCarthy series.
“Like sitting beside a giddy 10-and-a-half-year old - it positively fizzes”
- Jenny Murray, The Irish Examiner
Author: Madeleine Haddon
Genres: Narrative cultural history
Fanny Eaton's face hangs in some of Britain's great institutional collections, painted by the Pre-Raphaelites as a queen, a biblical heroine and a figure of classical beauty, yet the Jamaican-born model who lived and worked in west London has been almost entirely absent from the story those paintings are usually made to tell.
Madeleine Haddon, an art historian who works in a museum and writes from the same part of London her subjects called home, begins with that absence and widens it into a recovery of the Black artists, performers and musicians who shaped Victorian culture from within it, among them the actor Ira Aldridge, the painter Robert Duncanson, the sculptor Edmonia Lewis and the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Reading each artwork as a portal onto the life behind it, she sets these figures in conversation with one another to make the case that Black creativity was foundational to Victorian culture and never marginal to it, and she does so with the narrative pull of a trade book and the authority of a curator.
For readers of Ekow Eshun's The Strangers, Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments and Miranda Kaufmann's Black Tudors.
Author: Thora Dahlke
Genres: Literary Fiction
A love story for anyone who was ever too scared to walk into the room
Edie is twenty-six, stuck in a job she hates, and so afraid of being seen wanting anything that she has stopped leaving her flat unless she has to. When her best friend Daphne flies off to Nice for six months, extracting a promise that Edie won't spend the whole time rotting alone, Edie forces herself out to a bar and is bought a drink by a couple in the corner booth: Gwen, an intimacy coordinator with a gift for making everyone feel like the only person in the room, and Minjee, a bartender with a tongue as sharp as her eyeliner. What starts as one drunk, terrifying night becomes something none of them planned for, as Edie is drawn into a relationship with both of them and has to decide whether she can survive being wanted, let alone loved, in front of people who might actually see her. Told partly through Edie's late-night emails to Daphne, who reads every confession from a beach three countries away and writes back exactly what Edie needs and nothing that she wants to hear, Angel Face is a tender, very funny, unflinching novel about desire, shame, and what it costs to stop hiding.
For readers of: Liv Little's Rosewater, Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends, and Heather O'Neill's The Lonely Hearts Hotel.
Author: Simon Palfrey
Genres: Serious Non-Fiction
A new chronology of Shakespeare’s plays: not based on presumed order of composition, or phases of genre, but the period of each play’s setting.
This book tells a story that has never been told before. Shakespeare’s history of the world is an epic journey from prehistoric beginnings to the conflict-torn unfinished present. We see the plays anew, curving through recorded history like jewels on a string. Placed in this sequence, the plays shimmer at new angles, revealing facets never seen before. Shakespeare was committed to this vision from the very start of his astonishing career. He is our greatest world-builder. Every play is a laboratory of possibilities, pushing at dreams, tethered by necessities.
Every play is a world: but every play is also a collision between different worlds. Each play begins somewhere stirring and charismatic – ancient Troy, war-torn Rome, Viking Denmark, an Ephesus both before and after St Paul, a barely built ancient Britain, medieval Verona, contested seaports of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Cyprus – but it will also travel in time. Later places and ages will interpenetrate earlier ones. England is part of the story: but there are worlds elsewhere as well. The law of history is as much repetition as slow burning alteration.
We experience the troubling and exhilarating knowledge that things could be different, they could still explode, because existing is as constructed and contingent as a play..
“One of the great Shakespeare scholars of our age”
- Julia Lupton, American Scholar of William Shakespeare and renaissance literature (University of California, Irvine; Guggenheim Fellow)“A miracle, an instant classic”
- Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and cultural theorist on Macbeth, Macbeth (2016)
Author: Carolin Würfel
Genres: Memoir/ Cultural History
When Carolin Würfel was seven, her grandmother told her the story of the girl who was sent into the woods and warned never to trust her own hunger. Nobody called it a lesson in obedience. That's what it was.
Berlin, now: in the wake of MeToo, Würfel goes back through the fairy tales the women in her family used to control what she wanted, what she feared, and what she kept quiet about, and asks who those stories were actually built to protect. AGAINST THE FAIRY TALES sets that reckoning against the two systems that shaped her: an East German state that policed women's bodies and speech through domestic mythology as much as through the Stasi, and an Istanbul where she watched a different set of rules do the same work under a different name.
What emerges, tale by tale, is an account of everything she was taught not to say, and everything she is finally saying now. This is a book about the machinery of consent and coercion running underneath the stories women are told as children, and what it takes, one state, one language and one tale at a time, to name it.
For readers of Annie Ernaux's The Years, Rachel Cusk's Aftermath, Fatma Aydemir's Djinns, and Miranda July's All Fours.
Author: Michelle Meagher
Genres: Non-fiction
Every generation has the right to reset property, so why don't we?
Generation Reset excavates an overlooked tradition running through millennia of law: private ownership was never meant to be permanent. From reverting bridge charters and expiring patents to term limits and time-limited copyright, reversion is already built into how societies work, and Michelle Meagher, a lawyer who spent years on the side of consolidating power before turning to interrogate it, argues that the same logic can and should apply to the biggest concentrations of wealth.
Structured as a journey through the doors of political and economic thought she has opened across her career, moving from how to reclaim political imagination through to releasing entrenched dominion and sounding a modern jubilee, the book shows there is a real legal mechanism at the heart of the argument: the ability to revert property to the commons without compensation, legally and democratically. It makes the case that our paralysis isn't a failure of ideas but a failure of permitted moves, and that democracy itself needs to be empowered for renewal so that it can repurpose the economy for the people. The argument arrives at a moment when democratic socialists in America and figures like Andy Burnham in the UK are already asking hard questions about ownership in everything from consumer debt to essential utilities and Big Tech.
For readers of Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland, Naomi Klein's Doppelganger, and Rutger Bregman's Utopia for Realists.
Author: Kirsteen McNish
Genres: Literary Memoir, Nature and Place Writing
Grief took her senses. Her daughter, sense by sense, is giving them back.
When Kirsteen McNish leaves London after twenty years for a life on Dartmoor, it is her young daughter, Juniper, who becomes her guide. Watching Juniper meet the world hand first, nose first, skin first, McNish begins to notice how far she has drifted from that kind of attention, and sets out to find her way back to it.
THE UNFOLDING is structured not by chronology but by sense, moving between the landscapes that have shaped her: sight in Kirkcudbright, touch in Nottingham, sound in Corby, smell in Skipsea and Gairloch, taste in Cornwall and Dartmoor, with the River Dart running through as setting and companion. Threaded through is the death of her mother, an event that reorders how McNish experiences her own senses, and how she watches Juniper experience hers.
Resisting easy categorisation as nature writing, this is a book about grief, motherhood and rebuilding a life outside a city that held her for two decades, and about learning, through a child, to notice again.
For readers of Amy Liptrot's The Outrun, Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk, Kat Lister's Elements, Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat, and Lucy Jones's Matrescence.
Author: Stef Macbeth
Genres: Literary Fiction
Dance. Eat. Sleep. Ride.
Some Berliners buy a rusting East German sleeper train off the internet and turn it into a club, a kitchen, a social experiment. To pay for it they bring in a Californian investor, pitching a version that appeals to him. For nine months the train rolls around Europe carrying the political weather and a cross-section of European society.
The contradictions are there from the start: total artistic freedom at one end of the train, lavish VIP areas at the other. Uncomfortable, and surprisingly productive. What brings it down isn't the money. It's footage nobody knew had been taken, converging with a far-right network that has been documenting the train for a year and waiting for its moment. They meet one night at a siding near the Hungarian border.
Twelve voices, one of them the train's. Nobody arrives with the whole picture. Nobody could.
For readers of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road, Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake, and Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection.
Author: Lizzie Roberts
Genres: Literary Fiction
Lyn has a plan to leave this family behind. The family has other ideas
Detroit, 1985. Gwendolyn Oldham, Lyn to everyone but her mother, is seventeen, the eldest of five, and the only adult in a house that has none. Her mother Eleanor, beautiful, charming and constitutionally unable to hold down a job, is a former back-up singer who never quite stopped hoping to hit it big. When a last-ditch move to Nashville ends with the family station wagon in a ditch on the interstate, it's Lyn who guides everyone back to the city and gets the twins to school.
She has a plan: top grades one more year, escape to Yale. Then she meets Darren in a freight elevator, all confidence plus a family with a dining table, and Adrienne, who steals what she wants and isn't afraid of anything, and the plan starts to dissolve. A birthday card arrives from the father who left, postmarked from just across the river. A storage locker suggests Eleanor has been holding back the truth, as well as money. And Lyn is carrying a secret that will not keep until spring.
Narrated in a voice as sardonic as it is tender, Circus Blood is a novel about a girl who has looked after everyone else for so long that she has forgotten how to be looked after. A debut of rare precision from a writer who makes the whole city breathe.
For readers of Angela Flournoy's The Turner House, Tayari Jones's Silver Sparrow, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, and Ann Patchett's Commonwealth.
Author: Niamh Mulvey
Genres: Literary Fiction
It was almost midday on the second day of our trip by the time I started feeling truly murderous towards Mother.
For sixty-year-old crime writer Pat, her mother’s relentless cruelty and self-obsession have cast a long shadow over her life. Words are Pat’s gift, but Mother’s weapon, and Pat is reaching breaking point. She’s afraid of what she might do.
And then, suddenly, Mother is gone. The spell is lifted and Pat’s life is transformed. Graham, her devoted former lover, re-enters her life, and Cynthia, the sister Pat never knew she had, appears from nowhere. But things aren’t quite right. Graham is holding his cards suspiciously close to his chest and Cynthia remains mysterious, and bears an unsettling resemblance to Mother herself.
Desperate to make sense of the shifting ground beneath her, Pat begins to write a memoir, trying to untangle her own voice from the insistent echo of her mother’s. But in a world where everyone is carrying secrets, and no one is telling the whole story, how can she hope to get close to the truth? Words are weapons, and Mother seems to be having the last word even now . . .
Sharp as a knife and impossibly stylish, Mother Made Me is a game of hidden truths. This is not a whodunit, it’s a who-knows-whodunit.
Genres: Fiction, Young Adult
Two families and a handful of strangers gather on a private Italian island for what should be the perfect destination wedding.
But before the celebrations begin, the news breaks that a doomsday comet will soon crash into Earth. With no way home, no phone signal and no hope, the guests are left to face the unthinkable: the end of everything. And just each other for company.
As the hours count down, love and fear collide as twelve people face themselves, each other and the fragile grace of being human when time itself runs out. With humanity stripped to its rawest form, they’re faced with the ultimate questions: what we cling to, what we let go of and who we truly are.
One asteroid and one small planet collide for a world-ending, yet life-affirming, event.
Author: Emily Hourican
Genres: Fiction, Genre Fiction
Set in January 1965, A House in Winter tells the story of the visit of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden to his sister's home in Abbeyleix, Ireland, when they faced local opposition and IRA petrol bomb attacks that confined them, without electricity, for 48 fraught hours.
As well as the conflict outside the walls, there's plenty within, with Margaret's difficult mother in law gleefully contributing to her disintegrating marriage. Meanwhile in the nearby village local woman Cait has struggles of her own, unable to escape family responsibilities and small town life.
Inspired by real events, A House in Winter is an atmospheric and richly observed novel about duty, marriage and the different forms of captivity. Blending royal intrigue with compelling Irish community drama, it will appeal to readers of The Crown, Wendy Holden's The Duchess, Daisy Goodwin's Victoria and the warm, character-driven storytelling of Maeve Binchy.
“This a beautifully crafted and poignant book.”
- Alison Weir“Resonant and compelling, it brings its complex subjects vividly to life. I loved it.”
- Irish Times“Glittering, gripping and sharply observed, A House In Winter is a riveting page-turner. I devoured it!”
- Evie Woods“Atmospheric, evocative and beautifully told”
- Louise O'Neill
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
Author: Kevin Quinn
Genres: Literary Fiction
A lyrical, polyphonic debut about a brother and sister growing up in a Black Pentecostal Church in Detroit, exploring themes of revelation and concealment; desire and its sublimation; and the ultimate cost of belief from a major new literary voice
Here is the perfect godly family: a stoic father, his dutiful wife, and their two children, a daughter and a son. On the surface, they are a shining example within their church—a beacon of God’s many promises. But the sister, older and more knowing than anyone suspects, quietly resists their religious context while the younger brother, not yet in middle school, appears destined for unwavering devotion—that is, if he can excise those parts of himself he fears God will not accept.
Told in tight, alternating narratives—Him, Her, and Them—Child and God captures both the intimacy of their individual selves and the fraught terrain of their shared world. What emerges is a haunting meditation on the American Black church—a testament to the beauty and terror of belief, the sanctity of family, and the profound psychological toll of devotion. At the novel’s heart is the child who is told he must be "trained in the way he should go," and the perilous cost of such training on the soul. In the literary tradition of James Baldwin and Douglas Stuart, Child and God is a searing, transcendent treatment of faith, identity, class, and sexuality.
Author: Clíodhna O’Sullivan
Genres: Young Adult Fiction
The second book in the No 1 bestselling romantasy series (Her Hidden Fire, 2)
The second book in the searing HER HIDDEN FIRE romantasy trilogy, perfect for fans of S. F. Williamson, Lynette Noni and Samantha Shannon.
What happens when a girl escapes her fate?
The hunt begins.
Éadha has narrowly escaped the cruel grip of the Master Channellers on the back of a dragon. Forced to the very edge of the world she knows, to a place of long-held secrets, she must create a new life for herself - in ways she'd never imagined.
Ionáin must come to terms with the fact that he has no power, nor did he ever. Deep into the Fodder holds, he faces the stark reality of what it means to be an enemy of the Masters, and tries to make sense of what happened with Éadha.
Gry must walk the careful balance between protecting his Family's secret legacy and being true to his feelings. With his newly revealed abilities, he must train with the Masters he despises and hope to find some way to undo the very system that makes him elite.
Told from these three perspectives, HER RISING FLAME is a whirlwind sequel of world-shattering secrets, heartache, and the terrible consequences of power.
What would you sacrifice for love?
Author: Clíodhna O’Sullivan
Genres: Genre Fiction
THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!
The first book in a searing new romantasy trilogy, perfect for fans of A LANGUAGE OF DRAGONS and THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE.
If he has the ability to wield magical powers, everyone will rejoice – especially the girl who loves him. But what happens when they realize she has the gift?
Éadha (A-ya) has grown up in a deeply flawed society. In Domhain, power is drawn by elites from the life force of other, “lesser” people called Fodder. Those with this innate ability, the Channellers, have reshaped society to ensure their own high status and obscure the exploitative nature of their powers. Éadha, a lowly servant girl, is in love with her close childhood friend Ionáin, the son of the keep’s ruling family. But the fate of his family’s position rests on whether Ionáin has inherited a Channeller’s ability – everyone is tense, waiting to see the result of the assessment on his 17th birthday.
However, in a twist of fate, Éadha discovers that she herself contains this power … and Ionáin doesn’t. It’s unheard of – and dangerous – for a servant, especially a woman, to be a Channeller.
Instead, Éadha tricks everyone into believing her to be gifted only as a Keeper, a Channeller’s assistant who is less powerful but can manipulate the threads of power from Fodder. She is allowed to attend the Channeller training academy alongside Ionáin, who is – unbeknownst to him – being empowered by Éadha’s own gift. Here, she is caught up in a whirlwind of patriarchy and heartache, torn between her lifelong devotion to Ionáin and her undeniable attraction to the enigmatic Gry. She also learns a devastating lesson: the human cost of the Channellers’ power – and the lengths they will go to keep it.
“A thrilling fantasy about power and patriarchy”
- The Bookseller, featured as Book of the Month“Riveting, romantic and thought-provoking”
- The Guardian“A complex web of magic, feminism, sexual desire, Irish folklore and, of course, dragons – this will leave fans desperate for the next in the trilogy.”
- Daily Mail
Author: Miriam Mulcahy
Genres: Memoir
I want to walk through time, for days, for nights, I want every kind of walk, walks under sunsets and stars, walks of rain and storms, through howling winds and the most susurrating of breezes. I want to see, I realise, not just this kind of landscape of trees and fields and fences, I want to walk on top of mountains, over endless expanses of moor, wild reaches and spaces, I want to escape all people, I want to walk alone, I look at the horizon, and realise the foolhardy extent and scale of my ambition that has taken root and now grows within me and will not be silenced, suffocated or hemmed in - an ambition to walk completely to the edge. I need to burst through all the walls, to rise past all limits, to go right to the foot of the sky.
When she first set foot on the Beara Breifne Way, Miriam Mulcahy expected a long-distance hike that would take her across some of the most beautiful scenery in Ireland. What she found instead was a living tapestry past and present: ancient landscapes where myth and memory linger; pilgrim routes and rebel roads; quiet villages, wild coastlines, hidden valleys, and the ghostly thread that ties them all together.
Following in the footsteps of Domhnall Cam O'Sullivan Beare's fateful march in 1603, she begins her journey uncertain - of the path, of herself, of what she hopes to find. But as the miles unfurl, something shifts, and she begins to carve a line of connection in time.
This is an extraordinary story of landscape and legacy, of attention and endurance, of losing sight of yourself and finding something far better: renewal. Lyrical, reflective and quietly radical, it captures what happens when you give yourself over fully to a journey - and how, in doing so, you return changed.
“A captivating odyssey”
- Richard Nairn
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
Illustrator: Clare Vacha
Genres: Children’s
A debut picture book from outstanding new talent Clare Vacha, Joy is guaranteed to bring you just that.
Meet Joy, a mischievous little elephant, who is ‘helping’ make a cake for Nanny’s birthday. But, as is often the case with little elephants, it’s not quite that straightforward. First, she eats all the strawberries, so they have to go to the supermarket. But on the way she sees the duck pond . . . and then the park . . .
An utterly charming story about how, when little ones are involved, the smallest moments become the biggest adventures! Certain to elicit a wry smile from many a long-suffering parent or carer while it delights their young reader.
Illustrator: Steven Lenton
Genres: Children’s
Join Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam for a spooky Halloween adventure.
The dog detectives are baking for a party at a posh hotel. But a ghost thief has been robbing the hotel guests, and there's something FRIGHTfully familiar about that phantom. Can Shifty and Sam solve the mystery and save Halloween?
Illustrator: Jessica Courtney-Tickle
Genres: Children’s
From the The Story Orchestra series, a beautifully illustrated first piano sound book! Press the keys to learn 8 famous classical tunes from the story books.
While other books in the series play famous pieces of classical music, in this new Story Orchestra format, young readers can now play the tunes themselves!
Colour and shape codes correspond to the 14 keys, so kids can learn easy 8-bar, one-finger melodies, so even the youngest child can learn to play music with this simple method. For best results, playing readers the original piece first is recommended so children can familiarise themselves with the pacing of the tune.
Each song includes an enchanting illustration and description of the part of the story that the music is telling, along with playing tips. All the favourite characters from The Nutcracker story are there to encourage young musicians as they play their first notes with the sound of a piano.
I Can Play:
The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy – The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
The Dance of the Reed Flutes – The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
Flight of the Swans – Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)
Dance of the Cygnets – Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)
Royal March of the Lions – The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saëns)
The Elephant – The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saëns)
The Swan – The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saëns)
Spring Dawn Chorus – The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Readers should press firmly on the pages to activate the keys, encouraging them to explore the possibilities of making music!
Illustrator: Jessica Courtney-Tickle
Genres: Children’s
From the The Story Orchestra series, a beautifully illustrated first piano sound book! Press the keys to learn 8 famous classical tunes from The Nutcracker as you follow the story.
While other books in the series play famous pieces of classical music, in this new Story Orchestra format, young readers can now play the tunes themselves!
Colour and shape codes correspond to the 14 keys, so kids can learn easy 8-bar, one-finger melodies, so even the youngest child can learn to play music with this simple method. For best results, playing readers the original piece first is recommended so children can familiarise themselves with the pacing of the tune.
Each song includes an enchanting illustration and description of the part of the story that the music is telling, along with playing tips. All the favourite characters from The Nutcracker story are there to encourage young musicians as they play their first notes with the sound of a piano.
I Can Play: The Nutcracker
Grandfather’s Dance
Clara’s Dream
Waltz of the Snowflakes
Russian Dance
Dance of the Reed Flutes
Waltz of the Flowers
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Finale
Readers should press firmly on the pages to activate the keys, encouraging them to explore the possibilities of making music!
Illustrator: Jessica Courtney-Tickle
Genres: Children’s
Who says you need lessons to start making music? With The Story Orchestra: I Can Play: Swan Lake, every child can be the star of the show. Discover the enchanting world of Swan Lake in this interactive musical storybook – just press the keys to play Tchaikovsky’s spellbinding score!
The Story Orchestra: I Can Play: Swan Lake invites children to step into the story and make the music themselves – no lessons needed, just a sense of fun. With a built-in keyboard that sounds just like a piano and colour-coded notes on every page, children can play along as they follow the scenes from Tchaikovsky’s magical ballet.
Using a simple one-finger method, budding musicians can learn 8 short, memorable melodies from Swan Lake, building confidence as they go. With a clear colour and letter-coded system, even the youngest players can follow along independently. And when they’re ready, there’s space to get creative and compose their own tunes using the full 14-key piano.
This interactive musical book brings the world of classical music to life in a way that’s playful, imaginative and completely child-led. With storytelling at its heart, The Story Orchestra: I Can Play: Swan Lake is the perfect first piano book for children who want to explore sound, story and creativity all in one.
Illustrator: Jessica Courtney-Tickle
Genres: Children’s
From the internationally bestselling series, this board book with 6 sounds is the perfect introduction for babies and toddlers to classical music.
Discover the spellbinding magic of Swan Lake in this retelling of the classic ballet story about a swan who transforms into a graceful dancer. Children will love pressing the button on every page to hear the exceptional quality music as the story unfolds.
The My First Story Orchestra series brings classical music to life for little children through illustrated retellings of classic ballets, operas and musical stories paired with 6 10-second sound clips of real orchestras playing the music.
Also available from the My First Story Orchestra Series: The Nutcracker.
Manufacturer's note: Open the white battery-case door on the back of the book. Flick the battery switch to the 'ON' position. To conserve battery, turn 'OFF' between use. Push the mesh button on each page to hear a noise. All sound clips are 10 seconds long.
Illustrator: Jessica Courtney-Tickle
Genres: Children’s
From the internationally bestselling series, this board book with 6 sounds is the perfect introduction for babies and toddlers to classical music.
The My First Story Orchestra series brings classical music to life for little children through illustrated retellings of classic ballets, operas and musical stories paired with 6 10-second sound clips of real orchestras playing the music.
Listen to the changing seasons and watch the leaves change colour in Vivaldi's Four Seasons in One Day. Children will love pressing the button on every page to hear the music, as the story unfolds.
Also available from the My First Story Orchestra series: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Carnival of the Animals.
Manufacturer's note: Open the white battery-case door on the back of the book. Flick the battery switch to the 'ON' position. To conserve battery, turn 'OFF' between use. Push the mesh button on each page to hear a noise. All sound clips are 10 seconds long.
Author: Chris Glass
Genre: Lifestyle
We have spent generations teaching people how to host. Nobody has taught them how to be hosted.
Chris Glass has spent two decades shaping how people gather at Soho House, the global members' club, while entertaining across six continents. He has watched one truth play out everywhere: one person can warm a room or rescue a silence. One can quietly ruin it. It is the guest, not the host, who decides whether an evening comes alive.
Guesting gives the invited their due, reconsidering the rules we thought we knew: how swiftly to RSVP, why you never arrive with flowers, how to leave unnoticed, and what it means to move thoughtfully through the world.
For readers of Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, Kate Fox's Watching the English, Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic and Alison Roman's Nothing Fancy.