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The Noma Guide to Building Flavour (Foundations of Flavor)
Finally, the secret sauce of Noma is revealed-the long-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling The Noma Guide to Fermentation offers more than 150 recipes for infused oils, vinaigrettes, fudges, spice mixes, rubs, sauces, and other flavour-boosting condiments that professional and home cooks can use to elevate every part of their cooking.
The Noma Guide to Flavor is a cookbook offering recipes for 150 significant seasonings, condiments, sauces, and other flavour compounds developed over two decades by Rene Redzepi and the Noma test kitchen. These are the components that define the inimitable taste of Noma, including iconic preparations such as roasted kelp salt, smoked egg yolk sauce, Nordic pesto, and lacto-koji beurre blanc. Most of the recipes are illustrated with step-by-step photo sequences detailing the techniques needed to transform surprisingly familiar ingredients into elements of Noma’s distinctive cuisine. Noma uses these recipes to create elevated preparations for the restaurant (a selection of gorgeous plated-dish photos are included), but readers-whether professionals or avid home cooks-will find plenty of inspiration for their own kitchens, aided by do-able suggestions from Noma chefs.
In conversational essays and anecdotes woven throughout the book, Redzepi shares how staff members from around the globe have influenced Noma’s flavour palette, and how Noma chefs take pristine seasonal ingredients and blend, grind, dry, smoke, macerate, reduce and otherwise elicit the most potent and desirable flavours that make up the sensory language of Noma. Between the narrative portions and the meticulous recipes, readers will become equipped to create their own Noma-inspired meals.
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Miriam’s Full English (Audio Download): Miriam Margolyes, John Murray: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Our naughtiest national treasure and Number 1 bestselling author takes on Britain and the BritishIn Miriam’s Full English, she turns her documentary-maker’s eye on her own backyard. After exploring the rest of the world through her much-loved BBC series, she’s bringing her trademark wit to get to the heart of what is up with not just England but Scotland, Wales and Ireland too.
‘It starts with the title – the joy of a Full English is in the way a whole collection of wildly different things pile together onto a breakfast plate to make a delicious whole. And well, that’s the real secret of Britain and the British – not shutting things out but welcoming in more… (I mean, even our flag is called the UNION Jack). I believe in fairness and fun, free love and free speech, and all of them are under threat. We desperately need an antidote to the naysayers and belittlers, to Nigel Farage and everyone who says “whatever”. And I’m hoping this book might do the trick.’
And who better than Miriam Margolyes OBE to reunite our not terribly united Kingdom in one unforgettable book, packed with heroes and villains, jokes and deep insights, surprises and, of course, lashings of sauce. Expect memories & mammaries, Arsenal & arseholes, politics, filth, and absolutely everything in between.
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Lonely Planet Morocco (Travel Guide)
Lonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Morocco.
Discover Morocco’s most popular experiences and best kept secrets from gazing at the impressive zellige mosaics at Marrakesh’s serene Bahia Palace; to spotting pink flamingos, rare marsh owls and wading birds in Merja Zerga National Park; and stargazing at the top of a sky-high dune in the Sahara.
Build a trip to remember with Lonely Planet’s Morocco travel guide:
- Our classic guidebook format contains the most comprehensive level of information for planning multi-week trips
- All-new structure and design that’s easy to use so you can navigate Morocco effortlessly
- Exciting itineraries help you create your perfect adventure with suggestions for extended journeys, day trips, walking tours and activity-led excursions
- Expert local recommendations on eating, drinking, nightlife, shopping, accommodation, festivals, when to go and more
- Vibrant photography and maps including a pull-out map of Marrakesh
- Get fresh takes on must-visit sights from Atlas Studios, to Tahiri Museum of Fossils & Minerals, and Crocoparc
- Essential information toolkit containing tips on arriving, transport, local etiquette, using money, LGBTIQ+ travel advice, useful words and phrases, accessibility and responsible travel
- Connect with Moroccan culture through stories that delve deep into local life, history and traditions
- Covers: Marrakesh; The High Atlas; The Southern Oases; Northern Atlantic Coast; Mediterranean Coast & the Rif Mountains; Fez; The Middle Atlas; Southern Morocco
Create a trip that’s uniquely yours and get to the heart of this extraordinary country with Lonely Planet’s Morocco.
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Cozy Friends: A relaxing cosy colouring book for all ages, from the bestselling author (Coco Wyo)
Relax and unwind with this adorable colouring book, full of tiny furry friends!
Penguin Books edition – updated with exclusive new drawings!Find comfort in the enchanting world of Cozy Friends, with 45 uplifting hand-drawn pages ready for you to colour in.
In this book you’ll find familiar everyday activities, but with your brand new Cozy Friends – super cute animal characters!
Cozy Friends has sweet and irresistible images for colouring fans of all ages, and also includes:
- 45 hand-drawn pages ready for your creativity
- Large, bold designs that are easy to colour
- Convenient 8 x 8-inch size, perfect for relaxing anywhere
- Crisp, high-resolution illustrations that bring each page to life
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Gravel Rides Loch Lomond & The Trossachs: 15 gravel bike adventures in and around Scotland’s first national park and Argyll (UK Gravel Rides)
Gravel Rides Loch Lomond & The Trossachs showcases 15 of the best gravel bike rides across the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park and west into Argyll. From 15 to 177 kilometres in length and covering a variety of terrain, there is something for every gravel cyclist.
Immerse yourself in the Gravelfoyle trails around Aberfoyle, the heart of Scottish gravel riding; sample sections of the West Highland Way and John Muir Way, two of Scotland’s Great Trails; and take on coastal adventures on Mull, while scanning the skies for Scotland’s eagles. Also included is a coast-to-coast challenge, cycling west from the Firth of Forth across the Central Belt into the national park.
Researched, ridden and written by Bikepacking Scotland’s Markus Stitz, the routes feature clear and easy-to-use Ordnance Survey maps; easy-to-follow directions; details of distance, timings and difficulty gradings; stunning action photography; refreshment stops and local knowledge; and a detailed appendix. Also included is a link to downloadable GPX files.
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Little Addictions: Freedom from our tiny but mighty compulsions (Audio Download): Catherine Gray, Catherine Gray, Aster: Amazon.co.uk: Books
They’re addictions so small we don’t need to say no.Most of us can identify a thing – or seven – which we don’t need to quit; but certainly do a little too much of.
These little addictions don’t cost much emotionally or financially, and they only have micro-consequences on our health, wealth, relationships and home life… so what’s the big deal?The ‘snowball effect’ is the big deal. The sum total of these tiny habits can be huge.
In this deeply necessary, extensively researched, and wildly empowering book, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober Catherine Gray shows us how to master our little addictions, freeing up peace of mind, disposable income, time, wellbeing and happiness.
In Gray’s inimitable and compelling style, this book is guaranteed to make you laugh, pause, reflect, and rearrange everything you thought you knew.
A little at a time, it might even change your life.
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Cross Check (D.C. Stars Book 6)
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Stars on Sunday: The History of Cricket’s John Player League
Stars on Sunday: The History of Cricket’s John Player League is a rich and colourful account of the ground-breaking domestic limited-overs competition.
In this enthralling book, players and fans recall a time when sport on Sunday afternoons meant county cricket, whether attending a fixture in person or as part of the huge TV audience guided by the comforting tones of John Arlott and Jim Laker.
Inside you will discover:
- How the pioneering matches played by the International Cavaliers in the 1960s created the template for the league
- How the John Player League hooked a generation of fans into the county game, with TV coverage that allowed new fans to quickly get to know the players and adopt new favourites
- Analysis of John Player’s use of sports sponsorship in the face of advertising restrictions on tobacco
- Lively accounts of the key matches and performances across every season from 1969 to 1986, when packed crowds and large TV audiences avidly followed the league with thrilling last-ball victories and nail-biting races for the title
- The mighty teams of different eras – from the early successes of Lancashire and Kent to the dominance of Essex in the 1980s
Whether reliving favourite cricketing memories or learning about the league that was a forerunner of the formats that dominate today’s game, this book is a must-read for cricket fans of all ages.
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The Broken Signal: A fake dating hockey romance (Pine Barren University Book 6)
A steamy new college hockey romance featuring a shy gentle giant, a fierce punk rock goddess, and a fake relationship that forces them both to face everything they’ve been hiding.
HIS WEAKNESS
Ben Kellerman is the PBU Devils’ gentle giant—a formidable defenseman on the ice who becomes a stammering disaster the moment a pretty girl looks his way. Past humiliations taught him his “jock” self is a coward and his “nerd” self is pathetic. He’s convinced he’ll never be enough for anyone.
So when a gorgeous punk singer propositions him in a bar, his first instinct is to run. His second is to wonder if this is the universe finally throwing him a lifeline.
HER ARMOR
Cassidy “Cass” Vance is the snarling frontwoman of campus punk band Pinebox—all ripped fishnets, combat boots, and weaponized attitude. But her fierce persona is armor against a world that taught her men only want the fantasy, never the real woman underneath.
Now, with aggressive fans crossing lines, she needs a human shield. Someone big enough to intimidate, sweet enough to control, and clueless enough to never see through her walls.
Ben Kellerman fits the bill perfectly. Or so she thinks.
THEIR UNSCRIPTED CHEMISTRY
The rules are simple: he plays the protective boyfriend, she fakes being his girlfriend to get the hockey guys off his back, and absolutely nobody catches feelings. But between stolen glances at dive bar gigs and unexpectedly tender moments, their fake relationship starts writing its own script.
The guy who fixes broken things is falling for the girl convinced she’s beyond repair. And the woman who always strikes first is terrified of what happens when she finally lets someone stay.
Key details:
- Fake dating (what could possibly go wrong?)
- She falls first (but he falls harder)
- Opposites attract (the stammering sweetheart and the punk rock queen)
- Touch her and die (he’s shy until someone threatens his girl)
- Sixth in series (but read as standalone!)
- Steamy ‘open door’ spice level
- Happily-ever-after and no cliffhangers.
Get it now!
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Brutality on the Beach (Max’s Campsite Mysteries Book 4)
Kidnap, murder, poison, and a paddle. All before breakfast too!Read more
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Johanna Basford’s Notes from Nature: 30 Affirmations Cards to Colour
Channel creativity, embrace calm and go mindfully with Johanna Basford’s latest creation: colour-in affirmation cards.
This beautifully illustrated deck of 30 cards invites you into a blissful botanical world. Each card features an inspiring affirmation that will bring the tranquillity, resilience and power of the natural world into your everyday.
The rest of the card is adorned with blooming flowers, luscious foliage, peaceful landscapes and carefree creatures to colour in.
Whether you’re seeking solace in the tranquillity of Johanna Basford’s illustrations, tuning in to the positive vibes of the affirmations or being uplifted by the vibrant hues of your colouring process, this collection is the perfect companion in cultivating a joyful, balanced life.Inside the box you’ll find:
- 30 inspiring colour-in affirmation cards to help you channel the tranquillity, resilience and power of the natural world in your day-to-day life.
- Artwork by Johanna Basford, the world’s bestselling colouring expert.
- A decorative stand to display your finished cards and keep your affirmation in view.
- Sustainable packaging: made entirely from FSC-certified paper and card, with no single-use plastics.
Unleash your creativity, colour your world and make these affirmations part of your daily routine.
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Girl Moments: A relaxing cosy colouring book for all ages, from the bestselling author (Coco Wyo)
Relax and unwind with this adorable colouring book, perfect for curling up with and getting cosy!
Penguin Books edition – updated with exclusive new drawings!Step into the calm and comforting world of Girl Moments, with 45 unique illustrations to help you pause and take in the little joys – from a warm cup of tea in the morning to cosying up in bed with a book.
Drift away into the soft, soothing vibes and rediscover the simple comforts that make every day a little brighter.
Girl Moments has sweet and irresistible images for colouring fans of all ages, and also includes:
- 45 hand-drawn pages ready for your creativity
- Large, bold designs that are easy to colour
- Convenient 8 x 8-inch size, perfect for relaxing anywhere
- Crisp, high-resolution illustrations that bring each page to life
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The Wild Card: Vancouver Storm 5
Tate Ward is the best coach in professional hockey, a hot single dad, one of the best players of all time, and my new boss who likes everyone but me.
The players will do anything for him, the media is obsessed, and the fans still wear his jersey. Everyone’s in love with handsome, authoritative Coach Tate Ward. Everyone except me, and the feeling’s mutual.
To save the Vancouver Storm from being sold, though, we need to work together and win the Stanley Cup, and I can’t help but push his buttons to get under his skin.
He moves me into his guest house and makes me sleep in his bed.
He encourages me with the team and tells me I belong.
He’s adorable with his daughter and makes me long for things I shouldn’t.
Beneath his controlled exterior, Tate is protective, playful, and funny. He puts everyone before himself, but when I encourage him to be selfish, I learn that Tate wants…
Me.
The Wild Card is a pro hockey single dad romance. It is the fifth and final book in the Vancouver Storm series but can be read as a standalone.
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Top Shelf: A MM Hockey Romance (Storm Warning Book 3)
Anyone can fall in love. Pickle makes it unforgettable.
Thunder Bay’s favorite chaos gremlin, Noah “Pickle” Piatkowski, is no longer the rookie, but he hasn’t lost an ounce of his wild energy. He’s fast, he’s fearless, and he’s still the guy who shows up late to practice because he got his hand stuck in a Pringles can again. Fans adore him. His teammates have stopped asking questions.
When the Storm gathers at The Drop to watch Hog’s partner, Rhett, land a deal on Shark Tank, Pickle’s world begins to tilt.
Enter Adrian Richter, thirty-four, a polished, quietly intense documentary filmmaker sent the day after the show by a streaming network sensing a story —sharp-eyed and no-nonsense. He’s come looking for an authentic slice of small-town hockey life…and instead he finds Pickle, standing in the parking lot of The Drop in Crocs, holding a broken karaoke microphone, and trying to teach Hog’s dog how to howl along to “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
Adrian is thunderstruck. Not just by Pickle’s ridiculousness—but by the heat beneath the chaos. The tenderness tucked behind the jokes. The way Pickle lights up a room without even meaning to.
Pickle, for his part, has no idea what to do when someone hot, grown, and deeply competent looks at him like he’s more than the team’s comic relief. Every instinct tells him to deflect with humor, to hide behind being “the funny one,” to pretend he doesn’t care about the idea that someone might—finally—take him seriously. Letting Adrian see the version of himself he’s been protecting? That’s terrifying. That’s impossible. That’s starting to feel inevitable.
When the production company decides Pickle makes better footage as a joke than a person, Adrian faces his own choice: protect the project that was supposed to rebuild his stalled career, or protect the man who’s stolen his heart.
An opposites attract small-town hockey romance, with a guaranteed happily ever after.
A storm is coming to Thunder Bay.
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John of John: The extraordinary new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO.
‘This book is special’ – Colm Tóibín
‘Passionate, liberating, and gorgeous’ – Min Jin Lee
‘Brilliant and rare’ – Ann Patchett
‘A masterpiece’ – Elaine Feeney
‘A fierce, glorious sting of a novel’ – Lauren GroffOut of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.
While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.
John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.
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Live Like a Girl: A Gradual Feminization Story
*BOOK 3 OF 3 IN THE “LIKE A GIRL” SERIES*
Some bold, out-of-body actions have Taylor wondering whether he’s taken femininity a bit too far. Or maybe… not far enough?
It’s his final semester of graduate school, and Taylor is still reeling from the admittedly foolish decision he made the night of the Elkhorn football game. But that’s all in the past. Now he needs to buckle down, focus up, and prepare for the final stretch of his program. There’s a lot on the line, after all!
Thankfully, he has fresh, new goal: Strike the perfect balance between his masculine and feminine selves while still prioritizing his studies. But dampening those feminine urges might be easier said than done — especially when there’s so many wonderful, girly things out there to experience. Not to mention some more… physical urges he must keep at bay.
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Margin of Error
From Rachel Lacey, author of Learning Curves, comes a tender, hopeful romance about how fate is what you’re given but love is what you choose, and how small sparks can change everything.
Two years after an accident in Manhattan almost claimed her life, Marin is determined to take advantage of her second chance. She’s left her husband, her job, even her home to pursue the life she’s always wanted. Now she’s teaching statistics at Northshire University and preparing to do something she’s spent decades dreaming about: date a woman. But the last woman she expects to encounter on her journey is the one she’s been fantasizing about since their chance encounter the morning Marin nearly died.
Charlotte has made big changes in her life since that fateful day too. Most importantly, she’s moved back to her Vermont hometown, determined to finally solve the thirty-year-old mystery of her mother’s disappearance. An unexpected―and unexpectedly intense―friendship? That wasn’t in the plan. Neither was questioning her sexuality, but the more time Charlotte spends with Marin, the more she realizes her feelings run deeper than friendship.
Surely this would be a disaster, both of them being each other’s first, except the chemistry between them feels too strong to deny. But as they get to the heart of the mystery―and the heart of who they are―what brought them together just might tear them apart.
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Off The Score Sheet: A Spicy Grumpy Sunshine Gay Hockey Romance
HENRIK
They call me The Golden Boy, and I’ve never lost a game I truly wanted to win. My next goal? To prove I belong in the NHL. That, and to crack the icy exterior of my captain, Sebastian Buchanan. He’s grumpy, disciplined, and watches me like he can’t decide if he wants to bench me or pin me against the boards. He thinks he’s immune to my charm, but I see the fire behind his eyes. And I’ve never been one to back down from a challenge.
SEBASTIAN
My job is simple: lead my team to victory. That means focus, discipline, and no distractions. Then Henrik Ljungberg shows up: a flashy, insufferable rookie who’s as infuriating as he is magnetic. He’s a walking penalty, and he’s stirring things I’ve kept locked down for years. I need him to be a professional. I need him to fall in line. Most of all, I need him to stop looking at me like he knows every secret I’ve ever kept. When we’re named roommates on a six-day road trip, keeping my distance becomes impossible, and the one rule I’ve always lived by—team first—is about to get shattered.Read more
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Red Empire: A Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International Novel (Audio Download): Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter, Macmillan Audio: Amazon.co.uk: Audible Books & Originals
In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the team faces new and old enemies alike as a bioengineered version of The Black Death surfaces.
Hundreds of years after the first waves of the bubonic plague swept through Europe, a new, more dangerous version threatens London. Joe Ledger’s old enemy the Red Empire—reborn as a far more powerful political and military group—has bioengineered a weaponized version of yersinia pestis—the bacteria responsible for The Black Death that killed tens of millions in the Middle Ages.
As Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International race against the clock to put a stop to the Red Empire’s plans, they’re sucked into the strange and mysterious past of the man called Mr. Church. Secrets come to light that make even his staunchest allies wonder who –and more precisely what—Church really is.
With whispers of an elixir vitae—or elixir of life—circling, Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International are facing the highest possible stakes in their work together yet. As the tension builds and the balance between life and death sways precariously, it seems like tragic losses among them might be inevitable.
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Molka: A hotly anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART
‘Brutal and unflinching…You won’t be able to look away as this book cuts you to pieces.’ Kylie Lee Baker, author of Bat Eater‘Combining feminist fury with creeping horror… Fans of Bunny will love this.’ Eve Kellman, author of How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways
THE NEW NOVEL BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART
Junyoung and Dahye are colleagues; he has a taste for voyeurism
and she a hunger for revenge.Molka (n): the Korean term for spy cameras secretly and illegally installed, often to capture voyeuristic images and videos.
Dahye has met the man of her dreams – Hyukjoon, who happens to be the heir to a multi-billion fortune. Till one day, a video of them having sex goes viral. She is all over the internet and he is nowhere to be found.
Junyoung is a nobody; a nothing office worker who harbours a dark secret: in every women’s cubicle, shower and bathroom in his workplace, are cameras – his secret cameras. Junyoung spends his days watching and preying on his unsuspecting female victims.
Soon his perverse obsession turns to Dahye – but, this time, he has chosen the wrong woman to wrong. When Dahye’s pain turns to blind rage – she decides that she will not rest until he has paid in blood…
Praise for THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART:
‘I was enticed from the first line’ OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER
‘An outstanding debut’ THE NEW YORK TIMES
‘Darkly funny’ FERN BRADY, author of STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER
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Greedy: The deliciously dark and seductive new psychological thriller, perfect for fans of cult Japanese bestseller Butter
*Not Suitable For Vegetarians*
‘Sinister, stylish and utterly addictive’ Lucy Rose
‘Butter meets Never Let Me Go in this wicked, stylish shocker of a novel’ Erin Kelly
________________________________Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He’s gambled away all his money and his family is at risk.
But just as he’s about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can’t refuse.A reclusive billionaire is looking for a private chef. The only catch: she has some. . . unusual tastes.
As he prepares delicious dishes – fresh crab salad with a panko crumb, lamb shank dripping in red wine juice, sweet, fluffy soufflé pancakes – he realizes that each meal is a test, a challenge to satisfy an insatiable appetite.
Caught up in a world more sinister than he could ever have imagined, Ed finds himself entangled in another debt.
As the stakes grow, he must make a choice.
Will he stay hungry? Or will he be greedy?Dinner is served.
Eat Up.
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‘Greedy is a feast of a novel. It’s playfully fiendish and a seductive blood-soaked gourmet thriller you won’t be able to put down’ Lucy Rose
‘Callie Kazumi is one to watch’ Alice Slater
‘Gripping, wicked and rich in its storytelling’ Ivy Ngeow
‘As brilliant as it is brutal. That a book this smart, this profound, and this cynical can still be this much fun is a feat’ Rachel Harrison
‘This dark and delicious story had me gripped throughout’ Chris Bridges
‘A terrific writer. . . Just read it.’ Chris Carter‘Deliciously dark. This biting thriller about wealth, morality and insatiable appetites will leave you hungry for another Callie Kazumi novel’ Asia Mackay
‘Dark and delectable, I devoured Greedy in three sittings.’ BA Paris
‘Greedy is a compulsive read that left me famished for more . . .’ Tania Tay
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He’s the Devil: ‘Stephen King meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets John Waters’
‘MAGNETIC, CLAUSTROPHOBIC, WICKEDLY ALIVE’ LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB
‘IF STEPHEN KING, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH AND JOHN WATERS HAD A BABY – ITS THIS BRILLIANT BOOK’ JODIE HARSH
‘HORNY. GORY. RELATABLE.’ KIRSTY LOGAN
FLATMATES ARE HELL…
‘Massimo lived here now. And things had begun to happen. Sounds, smells, dreams. A private horror show. A usurper in my ordered world…’
Simon has always been a good boy. He’s invariably employee of the month at the seasonal small plates restaurant where he works, he neurotically tidies his home, he keeps on top of repairs on behalf of his twenty-something, permanently-abroad landlord and tries to do right by everyone. But when his best and only friend, Josh, moves out of their shared flat, Simon is lonelier than ever – until in moves a new flatmate, the strange (and strangely sexy) Massimo.
But Massimo’s brought something with him. Odd sounds emerge from Massimo’s room, smells of earth and meat drift through the corridor and Simon’s nights fill with disturbing and tantalising dreams. Massimo is awakening something in Simon, something wild and exciting and horrifying that could be the end of him – or maybe a new beginning. But whatever’s in Massimo, whatever’s in the flat, isn’t finished. It wants more …
He’s the Devil is a wickedly funny, chillingly suspenseful modern day horror story, painfully relatable to anyone who has ever had to share their living space with someone they’d honestly just rather not share it with.
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Weavingshaw
‘Leena didn’t believe in monsters until she saw Weavingshaw.’
The Saint of Silence trades coins for every sordid divulgence uttered to him. The darker the secret, the higher the price.
Leena has a secret, one that has haunted her since she was seventeen – she can see the dead. When her brother falls ill, she knows what she must do: seek the Saint.
But Leena’s secret is more valuable to him that she could have imagined. To save her brother, she must make a deal with him to find the ghost he’s searching for.
All paths lead to Weavingshaw, a cursed estate on the moors. As Leena grows closer to the Saint, and is plunged into his world of danger, deceit and desire, she learns that he is hiding his own secrets – ones that have the power to destroy them all.
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Japanese Gothic: The all-new haunted house Samurai horror from Sunday Times bestselling author of Bat Eater!
Kylie Lee Baker returns with another witty, gory, horror PHENOMENON
‘Brilliantly inventive. A must read – I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough’ MONIKA KIM
2025
Lee can’t remember exactly where he hid the body, but he can remember the blood. Hiding out at his father’s centuries-old home in Japan, Lee knows something is wrong with him, and he knows it has something to do with his mother’s disappearance almost a decade ago.1877
A female samurai, Sen, stalks the borders of her home to protect her family from slaughter after the abolition of the samurai class. She’s not sure how they’ll ever survive, not without her father, who has returned from war with a different soul behind his eyes.When Lee and Sen find one another through a door between their worlds, they’re both looking for answers. But what they find in the creaking old house they share is beyond what either of them could imagine…
PRAISE FOR THE NEWEST VOICE IN HORROR:
🦇 ‘A profound reminder of the true horrors that lurk in the world’ TORI BOVALINO 🦇
🦇 ‘A serial killer mystery and a heartbreaking portrayal of grief’ KIRSTY LOGAN 🦇
🦇 ‘This book dug its claws into me and would not let go’ LING LING HUANG 🦇
🦇 ‘Body horror and female rage fiction combine in a powerful novel that will leave you quaking’ ALMA KATSU 🦇
🦇 ‘A poignant, searing portrait of the hostility and violence that plagued pandemic-era NYC’ VERONICA G. HENRY 🦇Read more
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Grace: an edge-of-your-seat atmospheric horror novel from the author of The Watchers
A haunting, atmospheric modern Gothic horror tale based on traditional Irish mythology, from the author of smash hit The Watchers. Ancient evil is awakened on a lonely isle off the coast of Ireland.
TO LEARN THE TRUTH
WOULD YOU DESCEND INTO HELL?Off the west coast of Ireland lies a lonely island, isolated and wilfully forgotten. Some say there hasn’t been a child born on the island for thirty years. Others speak of strange deaths there, decades ago. But no one really knows what happened. Locals believe that the dark times are behind them.
They are mistaken.
Grace, adopted at four years old, has never known where she came from. A mysterious phone call leads her back to the island where she was born – and where a terrible evil has been disturbed.
As the evil starts to spread, Grace finds herself dragged back into a living nightmare that threatens to engulf anyone who steps into its path.
Grace is perfect for fans of horror classics, Paul Tremblay, and Kealan Patrick Burke.
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The Caretaker: The next mind-bending, twisty horror story from the author of We Used to Live Here
Follow the Rites…
Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake.
From Marcus Kliewer, a new ‘titan of the macabre and unsettling’ (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes a supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater―and more dangerous―than she ever could have imagined.
EXCITING OPPORTUNITY:
Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY.Macy Mullins can’t say why the job posting grabbed her attention―it had the pull of a fisherman’s lure, barbed hook and all―vaguely ominous. But after an endless string of failed job interviews, she’s not exactly in the position to be picky. She has rent to pay, groceries to buy, and a younger sister to provide for.
Besides, it’s only three days’ work…
Three days, cooped up in a stranger’s house, surrounded by Oregon Coast wilderness.
What starts as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare. An incomprehensible evil may dwell on this property―and Macy Mullins might just be the only thing standing between it, and the rest of humanity.
Follow the Rites…
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Follow the Rites…
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Fruit of the Flesh
Behind the glamour of Gilded Age New York, a marriage of convenience between an artisan and a ballerina masks their shared appetite for revenge in this darkly seductive gothic romance.
In early 1900s New York, former ballerina Petronille De Villier makes an unconventional choice: Marry struggling sculptor Arkady Kamenev. For her, it’s an escape from her family’s unsavory legacy. For him, the De Villier name promises the patronage his art desperately needs. It should be a simple arrangement.
But beneath their marriage of convenience lurks a darker recognition. In each other, they see a reflection of their own dangerous appetites. As buried secrets surface and bodies begin disappearing, Petronille and Arkady discover their union runs deeper than social advantage. Their shared obsessions draw them into an intoxicating dance of predator and prey, though it’s never quite clear who is which.
Bound by law, God, and blood, they must decide if their monstrous natures will tear them apart or forge them into something terribly wonderful together. In a world where nothing is quite what it seems, two creatures of shadow learn that true love requires a taste for the macabre.
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A Box Full of Darkness
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases, the new pulse-pounding standalone story about the childhood traumas that haunt each of us . . .
“As creepy and unsettling as a rain-faded wreath and teddy bear found by the side of the road to mark a missing person, [it] lingers like a ghost long after it’s finished.”―Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House
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Something dark has always hung over the Esmie siblings.
Each one is haunted, but all in different ways.
Violet dreams each night of a strange and cold woman looming over her bed, Dodie wakes in a constant state of drowning and Vale sees beaming lights and probing figures.
But there’s one thing that haunts them the most . . .
The disappearance of their little brother, Ben, who went missing during an innocent game of hide and seek back when they were children.
It’s been eighteen years since the siblings fled their childhood home, Fell House, the one that holds all the ghosts of the past.
But then Violet receives a call from the house’s caretaker. He’s too scared to keep working there. He says he saw the spirit of a young boy whispering two words . . .
Come home.
She, Dodie and Vale all know Ben is back – and he’s ready to lead them to answers they both want and fear.
But there’s a more sinister presence waiting for them at Fell House. Something that’s connected to their visions as children.
Something that wants a violent revenge.
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PRAISE FOR SIMONE ST JAMES’ WORK:
“Once again, St. James has offered a gripping tale of crime tinged with the supernatural that crosses generations.” – Booklist
“From its terrifying opening to its jaw-dropping conclusion, this thriller has it all–small town secrets, ominous dark deeds after midnight. You will follow this shocking road to its climatic end!” ―Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Still See You Everywhere
“An exhilarating, haunting ride from start to finish.”―Isabel Cañas, USA Today bestselling author of Vampires of El Norte
“Simone St. James is known for brilliantly mixing thriller elements with supernatural mayhem” ―The New York Times Book Review
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Strange Buildings: ‘The biggest crime writer in Japan’ Telegraph
The addictive mystery taking the world by storm, from the author of The Times Bestseller Strange Pictures
Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret.
A lonely hut in the woods.
A hidden chamber.
A mysterious shrine.
A home in flames.
A nightmarish prison…
Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.
Look closely… and you’ll see that everything is connected.
All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won’t want to believe it.
Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsu’s dark mysteries.
Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, so far.
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Between Two Fires: Pre-order the must-read medieval horror taking BookTok by storm!
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm-that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.
Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfil her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.
As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.
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Exit Party: the brand new novel from the bestselling author of Station Eleven
From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s new mind-bending epic: a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time.
2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party.
Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn’t be there. Something is very wrong . . .
Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality – and may hold the key to a very different world.
Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s electrifying new novel about freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world.
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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness (Audio Download): Michael Pollan, Michael Pollan, Penguin Audio: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Brought to you by Penguin.
From the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and beyond
A World Appears is the story of the quest to solve the greatest mystery in nature: consciousness. How does it feel to be you with your own personal feelings, thoughts and experiences? Every one of us is intimately familiar with consciousness, but no one knows how – or why – it came to be that three pounds of grey matter can generate a subjective point of view.
The early 1990s marked the birth of a new science of consciousness, based on the assumption that the phenomenon could be explained in terms of brain activity, but that effort is faltering, and wilder ideas, such as panpsychism, are now getting a hearing. Indeed, there is now reason to doubt that ‘objective science’ as we have known it since Galileo has the right tools to plumb first-person experience. A World Appears takes Michael Pollan from the laboratories where scientists are searching for the neural correlates of consciousness to encounters with philosophers and novelists and Buddhist monks, whom he finds have just as much to teach us about consciousness, if not more.
A story that begins in a brain lab in Seattle ends, of all places, in a cave in the mountains of New Mexico, where the author discovers that explaining consciousness may be less urgent than learning to practice it in our everyday lives.
Michael Pollan 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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One Woman’s War: Rags to Riches, Book 2 (Audio Download): Rosie Goodwin, Charlie Sanderson, Zaffre: Amazon.co.uk: Books
A Rags to Riches novel .
The second book in a brand-new historical trilogy from Britain’s best-loved saga author.
Nuneaton, 1914
War is just around the corner and for Annie Lilburn and her adopted family, life will never be the same. Annie, after a difficult childhood, has never felt like she fits in, but since Levi Lilburn, the local rag and bone man, took her under his wing and she became a business woman in her own right, things have been on the up. Soon that is set to change when World War I is declared and the men of the town enlist. And as more and more casualties come in, Annie needs to step up and do her bit for the war effort.
Annie trains to become a nurse and eventually finds herself on the battlefields in France. With death and destruction all around her, Annie is experiencing things she could never have imagined, but finds an inner strength like no other. Then through the devastation of war, love starts to bloom when Annie meets a young officer. Could this orphan girl finally be finding her place in the world and someone to truly love her, or is her happiness set to come crashing down once again?
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She Wanted More: Reimagine your future and live by your rules
‘Full of wisdom and vulnerability’ CARIAD LLOYD
‘An urgent, empowering read’ FEARNE COTTON
‘A guide for living according to our own desires and drives, rather than patriarchal dictates aimed at minimising us’ SARI BOTTON*The new book for women who want to live differently – featuring interviews with fascinating, inspirational women from all walks of life*
When Poorna Bell found herself at the height of grief in her mid-thirties, she spent each day just trying to survive. As her new self began to emerge back into the world, she realised she had spent a lifetime playing by the rules that had been set for women.
But who set these rules? And why? In her powerful, inspirational new book, Poorna Bell asks you to reimagine your future. To know that you can write your own story – to find the confidence to live exactly as you want to, and reclaim your joy. To discover that if you want more, you can get it.
Join Poorna as she paves the way for a new future, including interviews with Marian Keyes, Asma Khan, Hollie McNish, Mariella Frostrup, Heidi Clements, Luisa Dunn, Cindy Gallop, Seema Anand, Catherine Gray, Sam Baker, Jennifer Cox and more.
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Ausländer: One family’s story of escape and exile
‘Profoundly moving’ – Andrew Marr
Sorting through papers and photographs after his mother’s death, Michael Moritz uncovers the history of close family members murdered by the Nazis. Exploring their journey takes him into a past of tragedy, grief and
the dark shadows cast on Jewish life by the Holocaust.Leaving Germany as child refugees, Moritz’s parents escape to London before settling in Cardiff, Wales, after the war. But the idea of being a stranger or outsider – Ausländer – haunts the family; running through Moritz’s childhood and resurfacing in his adopted home of California, where he has become one of Silicon Valley’s
most celebrated investors.‘As the shadows of Trump lengthened, the refrain I had heard from my parents rang ever more loudly … “If it did happen somewhere, it can happen here”.’
Disturbingly relevant to contemporary America, Ausländer shows what can happen to families when
ordinary people hand licence to despots.Read more
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Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs): Treason and Trust
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England’s rulers in a collectible format
Henry VII was one of England’s unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with barely a claim to the throne, his victory over Richard III at Bosworth Field seemed to many in 1485 only the latest in the sequence of violent convulsions among England’s nobility that would come to be known as the Wars of the Roses – with little to suggest that the obscure Henry would last any longer than his predecessor. To break the cycle of division, usurpation, deposition and murder, he had both to maintain a grip on power and to convince England that his rule was both rightful and effective. Here, Sean Cunningham explores how, in his ruthless and controlling kingship, Henry VII did so, in the process founding the Tudor dynasty.
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The Crystal Vase
‘Brilliant, witty and endlessly inventive’ Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine
A road-trip across Europe and back in time: the debut graphic memoir from the prize-winning author of A Funeral In Freiburg.
When her imperious, chain-smoking German Jewish grandmother dies, it falls to Astrid and her father to drive a hire van to the Black Forest and collect the family heirlooms from Gisela’s nicotine-stained apartment.
In Freiburg, they are faced with several lifetimes’ worth of belongings to sort through – infested Persian rugs, mysterious photographs, a toy monkey that started a marriage – and a grasping landlord, impatient to renovate.
As the list of demands from uncles, sisters and cousins grows longer, the rabbit-holes of history and memory grow deeper. Long-buried secrets and tales of survival are revealed – from Nazi Germany to colonial Africa – and old feuds are reignited, as father and daughter struggle with the responsibility of preserving the family legacy. More importantly, will they be able to fit everything into a medium wheel-base transit van?
Funny, bittersweet and beautifully drawn, The Crystal Vase is an odyssey of family arguments, identity crises, and late discoveries.
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The Boleyn Secret: the spellbinding new Tudor novel by the Sunday Times bestselling author (Audio Download): Alison Weir, Review: Amazon.co.uk: Audible Books & Originals
From the bestselling author of SIX TUDOR QUEENS, a captivating new novel about two Boleyn cousins, close as sisters – and the truth that will change everything.‘Nobody brings historical characters to life like Alison Weir’ TRACY BORMAN
A BOLEYN WOMAN IS NO STRANGER TO SECRETS…
At twelve years old, Kate Carey attends her aunt, Queen Anne Boleyn, to the scaffold. Horrified by what she witnesses, Kate is convinced that King Henry VIII has sent an innocent woman to a terrible death.
As the Boleyns fall from favour, Kate serves her now motherless cousin, the young Lady Elizabeth. Bound by Boleyn blood, the two girls are like sisters, until Kate marries for love – and leaves a jealous Elizabeth behind.
At court, Kate cannot ignore the sly looks thrown her way, nor the whispers behind her back. Only when her mother, Mary, lies dying, does she learn the life-shattering truth that the Boleyns have been hiding for years.
It is a secret that will haunt Kate throughout her life, as her family flee into exile, only returning home when Elizabeth becomes queen. But the bond between the Boleyn cousins will never be the same again…
PRAISE FOR ALISON WEIR’S TUDOR FICTION
‘History has the best stories and they should all be told like this’ CONN IGGULDEN
‘As always, Alison Weir is ahead of the curve – and at the top of her game’ SARAH GRISTWOOD
‘Alison Weir makes history come alive as no one else’ BARBARA ERSKINE
‘Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life’ GUARDIAN
‘Profoundly moving… lingers long after the last page’ ELIZABETH FREMANTLE
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The Country House Dining Room: A History of Georgian Feasting
The country house dining room was an elaborate theatre for Georgian elites to entertain their guests and, more importantly, show-off their wealth, power and social status. Every detail was carefully orchestrated, usually by the lady of the house, from the decor and tableware to the food and drink served. Decorated with fine art, antique sculptures, and lavish furnishings, the dining room was governed by strict dining etiquette and social rituals. It was expected for guests to eat and drink to excess, so it is perhaps unsurprising that in the Georgian era we see the development of supposed miracle cures for obesity, alcoholism and related illnesses. Drawing on previously unpublished contemporary accounts of feasts at Holkham Hall, Hardwick Hall and Blenheim Palace, among others, Amy Boyington brings the Georgian dining experience to life and charts how the dining room encapsulated the intricate cultural and political dynamics of the 18th century.Read more
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