‘The one thing you can’t fully control in a ship is the water all around you, so part of your plan is always reading and analysing the currents and the tides. You have a clear image in your head of how you think the ship will perf…

When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn't expect it to be Eddie - her former stepfather.Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she has…

Patons 4 ply 100% pure cotton knitting yarns are perfect for summer knitting. Choose from a great range of colours including classic neutrals and fresh pastels. A lustrous mercerised cotton, it's also machine washable. Please Note…

College dropout Hai doesn’t know how to face the future until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes his life.One late summer evening in the town of East Gladness, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge,…

It has never been easier to stake a bet.Wall to wall adverts have hijacked every sporting event the mobile slot machine in your pocket all you need to enter an immersive world in which gambling is faceless and frictionless, availa…

Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.When sixte…

After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future.But their victory has caused rebellion to break out ... and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss …

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice.  But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay…

A four-yearly chance for the world's greatest footballers to realise their ultimate dream. A month-long media spectacle that's watched by billions. The World Cup has changed beyond recognition since the early days, when the player…

Corman is a young giant on his first trip above ground.Two stories, two lives and two worlds collide. Jacq Dyer is the daughter of renowned giant hunters and is soon to follow in their footsteps. Everyone knows that giants are vio…

Born prematurely, weighing less than a bag of sugar, Oisin Murphy’s life has always been one of struggle. From a young age he found communion with horses.Mesmerised by their power, their spirit, he discovered a gift for the saddle…

From master storyteller Stephen King comes a thrilling new novel with intertwining storylines - one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker - featuring t…

In 2017, Hannah Murray was a successful actor whose career had taken her to Hollywood and given her the opportunity to act with A list stars and Oscar-winning directors. But as the daily costs of acting grew, from the degradations…

Twenty-one years on from his bestselling The Road to Croker, sportswriter Eamonn Sweeney set out to follow the All-Ireland championships around the country once again.But there was one problem. To make the journey, he would have t…

Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that – there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite q…

Plague and famine stalk the land, greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions, and an ancient evil lurks beyond the edges of the map.. When only dark paths lead towards the light - paths the righteous dare not tread - …

In my life, there are things that have happened to me, and things that I have done, that have proven to be moments that have a clear before and an after.One of those moments, perhaps in some ways the biggest, was the day that I me…

One of National Geographic Traveller's top six travel reads for 2024. This incredible true story of one man's 1,225-km hike across the Iberian Peninsula is a celebration of rural Spain along the road less travelled. Inspired by a …

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artistsLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembranc…

Mark Ronson was born a night person. With hedonistic creatives for parents, parties became his playground. Yet, having moved to New York City from London at a young age, he always felt like a bit of an outsider, until discovering …

‘Elizabeth was king, Then James was queen.’ – English author (1603) James Stuart, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland did not always love wisely, but he never failed to do so boldly. He fell in love three times – with a Scottis…

With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old ‘paterfamilias of queer literature’ (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so man…

The history of humanity is one of devastating, once-in-a-thousand-year events: rising seas that make land uninhabitable, decades-long droughts, civilisational collapse, epidemics like the Black Death and the Spanish Flu that reduc…

From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the sp…

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and trau…

A wandering black hole is approaching Earth, and soon, everything will be gone. For husbands Don and Rodney, forty years of marriage suddenly feels like no time at all. Don and Rodney are in a race against the clock, driving from …

They are monsters. They are legends.And they are our prey.Earth is dead.Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of fuel. And by 'fuel' I mean cerebrospinal fluid…

The world’s favourite pocket travel guidesPerfect for a short stay, Top 10 Gran Canaria is your essential Gran Canaria travel guide. Top 10 lists showcase the island's highlights, so you can spend less time researching and more ti…

What if you could come back after death to watch over your loved one, installing yourself in a treasured mug, for example, or perhaps your mother's hearing aid, a diary, or even a climbing frame, to feel the clambering limbs of a …

I never really felt like I had a home.But with Emmy next to me, I think home is wherever she is . . .Emmy Hartwell has waited for a spot on an NHL roster since she became a professional hockey player, and this season, she’ll final…