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After spending months suffering from bizarre nightmares about whimstricks, grubblings and other strange creatures, ten-year-old Mikey has finally had enough. But finding out the truth is more dangerous than Mikey could possibly have imagined, and he soon finds himself trapped in the magical realm of Whimsburrow.

Lucy is used to moving from place to place. With her father constantly looking over his shoulder, they have never really settled in any one city. She tries not to get too attached. After all, what's the point of falling in love if you know it's going to be temporary?

On the run from the mob who killed her mother, young witch Gweneviere Baxter is running out of options. When the opportunity to wed the local baker is presented to her, she feels she has no other choice. But everything changes with the arrival of young slave woman, Kambili...

On the small island of Marrow Myre, Fjona Sarsen lives a quiet, sheltered existence, away from the chaos and mystery on the mainland of the Arvum. But when a dark-haired stranger arrives on the island, Fjona is woefully underprepared for the turn her life is about to take.

With scenes inspired by real events, Matt Graydon's Leaving Fatherland follows book-loving protagonist Oskar from his childhood in Nazi Germany to New York City and beyond, as he struggles to come to terms with his father's abuse.

Exploring the challenges of the female experience, Sarah Whitton's insightful debut novel offers an honest but deeply flawed protagonist, whose countless mistakes in her romantic relationships ultimately teach her to respect herself and her own value.

David dreams every night of a mysterious red-haired woman. But as he falls more and more in love with the concept of her, his obsession leads him to make dangerous choices, culminating in his involvement with Amsterdam's criminal underworld.

Invited to witness a lifesaving heart transplant operation, journalist Edwin Benn is thrilled to be in on the action. But when it comes to interviewing the fortunate recipient, Edwin finds himself questioning whether the man was worth saving.

Lesbian literary scholar Morgan Byrd has no time for babies, or cats. But when the disappearance of her university's resident tomcat is rapidly followed by baby snatching and murder, Morgan is drawn into the police inquiry, alongside ten-year-old Oliver Cresswell, a maths prodigy turned boy detective with a man-sized secret to hide.

Dragged through the Anahera Gate from our world into the great archipelago of Hjaltland, Isabella is determined to learn all she can and find a way home. But life doesn't always take us where we expect to go, and with the threat of the slave pits hanging over her, she is left with no choice but to marry a stranger, the Drw-ad Bryant Lathorne.

Discovering that your dad is actually a beast from an enchanted world called Elementa is a lot to process. Finding out you are also half beast; have to travel to this strange magical world, and must compete in a series of potentially life-threatening challenges in the company of almost fifty other teenagers is surely taking things a step too far.

This heart-warming picture book is a celebration of someone truly special. Beautifully illustrated, with a rhyming text, this unique story is a wonderful, glorious, celebration of love, and effortlessly teaches the lesson of not wanting to be anything other than who you are.

"The judge described my crime as 'the most heinous' he had seen in his career on the bench. I wanted to shout, cry out and protest my innocence as my sentence was handed down. But honestly, I couldn't."Convicted of a crime he has no memory of committing, Eli Kelly is serving a life sentence in Stoutbliss Prison. After seven years as an inmate, Eli is resigned to his fate, but when a solicitor is sent to Stoutbliss as part of a government scheme to investigate potential miscarriages of justice, he finds himself contemplating a future beyond his prison cell. Working with a psychiatrist, Eli revisits his traumatic past, and as they delve deeper into his memories, Eli realises that, regardless of his guilt or innocence, he is yet another victim whose cries for help were ignored by the very services supposed to keep him safe. Will Eli finally remember what happened on that fateful night? Is he guilty? Or innocent? And given the circumstances, does it matter?

"You think you're fuckin' better than me?"A dead girl's words haunt a detective's broken life as he struggles to find her killer. Returning to work after losing his wife and unborn child in a horrific car accident, Detective Senan Maguire is rapidly thrown in at the deep end, with an intense murder case that hits a little too close to home. As Senan and his team investigate, revelations come to light that will change their lives forever, unravelling a world of deceit and corruption.

'When the rains fell, the world burned...' After a childhood spent in the foster care system, failed PhD student Amy Weston attracts trouble wherever she goes. Acid rain is destroying London's trees, brain lesions are turning once-harmless pets into killer dogs, and her new work colleague, Professor Joel Harket, is the most infuriating man she has ever met. But when the media continue to insist that autumn has simply come early, and humans begin to experience the same symptoms as the killer dogs, Amy must work alongside Joel in order to convince the world of the seriousness of the situation, before it is too late. From the UN Air Health summit in Beijing to the abandoned tunnels beneath the city of London, Amy and Joel search for answers to prevent the end of the world, and as Nelson's Column crumbles and zombie-like 'howlers' wreak havoc worldwide, they discover that the only way to survive the apocalypse is to set aside their differences... and learn to trust each other.

For over forty years, former band members of Generation 27, a briefly successful band in the late seventies, have been haunted by the shadows of the group's collapse. Only when strangely familiar figures emerge from those shadows is each of them forced to confront their loss and regret.

Following eighteen-year-old Helen as she moves away from her home in Scotland to become a governess in France, Deception at its core is a novel about the moral dilemmas faced by those living in the shadows of war.

Join nine-year-old Megan as she embarks on a wild, crazy adventure beneath the waves, where she learns that her littering behaviour could have deadly consequences and that rubbish should always be thrown in the bin.

Two female friends, Jenny and Claire, first meet as psychiatric nurse and patient. Both are searching for their identity. Claire has undiagnosed borderline personality disorder and wants to be 'more like Jenny'. However, Jenny has her own issues, and wishes to be more like Claire. An intense, interdependent friendship develops over decades. Will these two women come out whole in the end? Or are the edges too blurred between them for either to survive?

Up until now, the only monsters the LAPD had ever seen were of the human variety...

After her sister‿s tragic death, Jess is forced to confront the world alone for the first time. As she fights to overcome her fears, and family secrets emerge that she could never have foreseen, Jess discovers that Denmark may hold the key to more than just her past‿

With the authorities set to rob people of their freedom of choice, in order to create a perfectly obedient and mindless society, 'The Unthinkable Truth' questions whether free will is simply an illusion, and whether our own human nature could be the catalyst to our downfall.

"We might all be killed, and all I can think of is you..."It is 1878, and beneath the heat of the South African sun, a brutal war is brewing. Yet for the soldiers based at the dreary maritime barracks of Chatham, the prospect of journeying to this exotic land is an opportunity they cannot resist.Albert Bond, a young lieutenant and academy graduate, is plagued by his family's ruin as he desperately attempts to cling to the status of his wealthy upbringing. Yet he is soon forced to reassess his aspirations, his morals, and his feelings concerning class and rank as he realises his growing affection for his handsome batman Jack Coleman. Jack grew up as the lowest of the low, but his social disadvantages fail to suppress his optimism and willingness to take risks, attributes that Bond cannot help but admire. As the two men come to rely on one another for comfort and companionship amidst the animosity and indecision of war, their relationship begins to shift. But in a time of deep-rooted institutional and societal prejudice, will their intimacy blossom into something tangible?

"The injuries to the throat were committed by metallic claws. There were no traces of DNA."Everyone knows that werewolves don't exist, not even 'up north'. But historian-cum-detective R.I. Penny isn't so sure. Whilst working with his therapist to overcome past trauma, and writing a novel, Penny is embroiled in a murder case, alongside former associates Dove and Periwinkle. But as Penny becomes ever more fixated on the murder and his writing, his fictional world and reality begin to merge, leaving Penny uncertain where the truth ends and the fiction begins.

Joan Eardley was a passionate painter who, in a short career, managed to create some of the most important works of the twentieth century. Hers was a truly wild and beautiful art. Come and take a look inside her world...

Based on a true story, Gwendoline explores the challenges facing women in the 1900s, the struggles confronted by individuals suffering from mental health issues, and the devastating impact these issues can have on their families.

If You Build It, He Will Come is the story of an eight-year project to bring the previously extinct osprey back to the beautiful Belvoir area of England, which culminated in a successful brood of two chicks in 2022, ending over two centuries of waiting.

Tyler isn't thrilled to be spending yet another mundane afternoon at Great Uncle John's. And that's putting it mildly! But after his visit sparks a chain of inexplicable events, he delightedly discovers magic at his fingertips.

From elephants to autumn leaves, this is a dancing adventure with lots of twists and turns. Join Sunny Steps and his daddy as they dance out of their playroom and into a world of imagination. Through jungles, snowstorms and rabbit warrens, Sunny and Daddy explore many exciting places, and develop a closer bond with each other along the way.

Isla is a girl with a huge imagination, who loves listening to her grandad's stories of his childhood in wild and rugged Cornwall. When Isla's dad goes missing on a diving trip in Mexico, her world is turned upside down. Based on the old Cornish folktale The Mermaid of Zennor, this is a journey of curiosity, friendship, mystery and magic.