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Forgetting is terrifying. Remembering is worse...
Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning... they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love... every memory has vanished.


Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be... the more they question why they were ever together to begin with.


Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.



The Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us joins forces with the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives for a gripping, twisty, romantic mystery unlike any other.




Praise for Never Never:

Gripping' Bella


'Compelling page-turner from a great writing duo' My Weekly


'A glorious thriller - you'll be asking for more!' Chat


'A tortuous romance mystery that will keep you guessing' Sunday Post



Readers love Never Never...



'Incredible chemistry between the characters... will keep you glued to the pages'


'Thought provoking, exciting, original, and so romantic'


'Kept me on the edge of my seat'


'Never once did it disappoint'


'Didn't want it to end!'


'Such a good read'


'Couldn't put it down!'


'Refreshingly different... read it in a day'


'Such a captivating concept and plot'

Uncover the ghost animals within in this moving and uplifting story about finding help where you need it, from the highly acclaimed author and illustrator of The Hunt for the Nightingale.

Nora's mum has good days and bad days, but the bad days are getting worse. It's been just the two of them for always, and they don't need anyone else. When the rainbow-shimmering ghost animals Nora used to see when she was small start to reappear, she's convinced that they hold all the answers. Along with new friend Kwame, Nora follows a glittering ghostly fox, hare, raven and otter on the adventure of a lifetime, helping her to find the strength she needs to help her family.

In a heartbreaking and hopeful narrative, Sarah Ann Juckes' stunning novel, illustrated by the award-winning Sharon King-Chai sees a brave young girl face down her ghosts. For fans of The Last Bear and Julia and the Shark.

Praise for Hunt for the Nightingale

'Full of hope, beauty & ultimately a healing song to nature' Hannah Gold, author of The Last Bear

'An incredibly moving story of feeling lost and finding your way again' Lisa Thompson, author of Rollercoaster Boy

'Will break your heart and mend it back together again' Piers Torday, author of The Last Wild

'This poignant exploration of grief and denial seen through the eyes of a child is underpinned by lessons about kindness, acceptance and nature' Daily Mail

Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in 1891 and were published monthly for the next year. The stories, in which the master sleuth receives a stream of clients presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries in his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, were instantly popular and by the time of the publication of the final story, 'The Copper Beeches', they had become the mainstay of the magazine. They included such classic tales as 'The Five Orange Pips' and 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', and were gathered together in a collection known as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, representing some of the finest detective stories ever written.

*The New York Times and USA Today bestseller!*



'I LOVED this book! Funny, hopeful and dreamy' Ali Hazelwood



'The perfect rom-com, especially if you like your book editors as sexy as Benji Andor'
Red



'Smart, quick, delicious' Emma Straub


'An absolute delight' Christina Lauren


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Florence Day is a ghost-writer with one big problem. She's supposed to be penning swoon-worthy novels for a famous romance author but, after a bad break-up, Florence no longer believes in love. And when her strict (but undeniably hot) new editor, Benji Andor, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye.


Although when tragedy strikes and Florence has to head home, the last thing she expects to see is a ghost at her front door. Not just any ghost, however, but the stern form of her still very hot - yet now unquestionably dead - new editor.


As sparks start to fly between them, Florence tells herself she can't be falling for a ghost - even an infuriatingly sexy one. But can Benji help Florence to realise love isn't dead, after all?



If you fell in love with Beach Read, The Love Hypothesis and The Hating Game, this laugh-out-loud romance packed with sizzling chemistry will give you all the feels!



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Readers LOVE The Dead Romantics:


'Fresh, fun, thoroughly modern... truly a rom-com to die for!' Rachel Hawkins


'Made me fall in love, broke my heart then reassembled it, and left me swooning. Romantic, hilarious, heart-warming' Gwenda Bond



'A refreshing rom-com about love, loss, and hope... the sparkling dialogue makes the characters come alive'
Publishers Weekly



'This book made me sob, wow.It made me feel so many feelings... Please prepare to have nonstop tears running down your face.' Netgalley, 5 stars


'This book destroyed my life but in a hot way... I haven't cried this much because of a book in probably two years.' Netgalley, 5 stars


'Adorably romantic and an absolute pleasure to read.' Netgalley, 5 stars


'ALL THE STARS! A delight to read.' Netgalley, 5 stars


This book was EVERYTHING.' Netgalley, 5 stars

Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.






Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith, whose madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide.

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story.

From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe.


Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure.

"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.

Chosen as one of the 'best new book releases' by COSMOPOLITAN




A 'best summer read' by ELLE MAGAZINE





When you look at a woman, who do you see?




"Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, too hidden, too much, not enough."



A wedding day brings back memories of sisterhood and betrayals; a motorway service station is the site of explosive violence, but also strange bonds; a trip home forces a reminder of a life-changing, lost friendship; a woman confronts her own infidelity; an artist celebrates a life spent in observation.


This debut collection movingly explores how women and girls are looked at, look at one another, and look at themselves, and how living as an object can shape their passions, fears, and joys. With a clear eye and dark humour, Danielle Pender considers sex, parenting, grief and class as lenses for the ways in which the world watches women - and how women are always watching back.

The No. 2 SUNDAY TIMES Bestseller
An Observer Best Debut of the Year
'Intoxicating ... heralds a really good author to watch' The Times
'Hilarious and profound' Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love
'Wildly funny and almost alarmingly relatable' Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel
'Monica Heisey is a genius' Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be Cheerful

One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt's Creek and Workin' Moms screenwriter and electric new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.




I feel like when you get a divorce everyone's wondering how you ruined it all, what made you so unbearable to be with. If your husband dies, at least people feel bad for you.



Maggie's marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she's fine - she's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's alone for the first time in her life, can't afford her rent and her obscure PhD is going nowhere . . . but at the age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new status as a Surprisingly Young Divorcee (TM).


Soon she's taking up 'sadness hobbies' and getting back out there, sex-wise, oversharing in the group chat and drinking with her high-intensity new divorced friend Amy. As Maggie throws herself headlong into the chaos of her first year of divorce, she finds herself questioning everything, including: Why do we still get married? Did I fail before I even got started? How many Night Burgers until I'm happy?


Laugh-out-loud funny, razor sharp and painfully relatable, Really Good, Actually is an irresistible debut novel about the uncertainties of modern love, friendship and happiness from a stunning new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.



'Hilarious, heart-warming, wise' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train




'Monica Heisey makes me laugh hard and often' Rob Delaney




'A Sex and The City for social media-obsessed millennials ... Irresistible' Metro




'Wry, modern, self-deprecating' Independent

' ... once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.'.

Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first story, 'The Empty House', Holmes returns to Baker Street and his good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery grave. In creating this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of cunning or panache, providing Holmes with a sparkling set of mysteries to solve and a challenging set of adversaries to defeat. The potent mixture includes murder, abduction, baffling cryptograms and robbery. We are also introduced to the one of the cruellest villains in the Holmes canon, the despicable Charles Augustus Milverton. As before, Watson is the superb narrator and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed.

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor-including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother-and how she retook control of her life.

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?" She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail-just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi ("Hi Gale!"), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I'm Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.' The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller.



Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains. Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity, it turns on its maker and the novel darkens into tragedy. The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multi-layered themes in the novel.



Although first published in 1818, Shelley's masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination and has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies, television and stage adaptations.

A Nem mézes hetek és A lelkitárs-egyenlet szerzőitől

Lily Wilder mű-kincsvadászatokra viszi a turistákat Utah állam vörössziklás kanyonjaiba. Ebből éppenséggel megél, de esélye sincs visszavásárolni a szeretett ranchot, amit apja sok évvel ezelőtt eladott. A pénzszűke miatt nem mondhat nemet, amikor szedett-vedett baráti társaságával az a férfi bukkan fel, hogy részt vegyen egy kincsvadásztúrán, akibe régen szerelmes volt. Lilynek voltaképp nincs is ellenére, hogy kivigye a fickót a semmi közepére - és aztán ott hagyja a francban.
Leo Grady viszont mást sem akar, csak újra felvenni a fonalat első és egyetlen szerelmével. Lily ebben sajnos nem partner: egyértelműen értésére adja, hogy Leo csak mint túravezetőre számíthat rá.
Ahhoz, hogy a szerelmük még egy esélyt kapjon, a túrán egy csomó mindennek balul kell kiütnie. Vajon mégis igaz a kincset övező legenda? Lilynek és Leónak össze kell fognia, hogy kihúzzák a bajból a társaságot - és eközben Lily nemtörődöm apjának múltjával és a kettejük közös múltjával is szembe kell nézniük.
"Ennek a magával ragadó, érzelmekben és erotikában gazdag regénynek ott a helye idén minden strandtáskában." - Oprah Daily

New York Times Bestseller
A Spanyol szerelmi átverés szerzőjétől

A szerelemhez olykor nem kell más, csak egy kis ihlet.

"Vitán felül Elena Armas az ínycsiklandozó, fülledt, lassan kiforró romkomok királynője." - Ali Hazelwood

Rosie Graham problémába ütközött. Pontosabban nem is egybe. Amint kilépett jól fizető munkahelyéről, hogy titkos karrierjére összpontosítson - szerződése van egy romantikus regényre -, megakad a sztorival, és egy oldalt sem tud írni. New York-i lakásának mennyezete is szó szerint a fejére omlott. Szerencsére van nála egy pótkulcs legjobb barátnőjéhez, Linához, aki épp elutazott a városból. Rosie azonban nem tudja, hogy Lina már kölcsönadta a lakást az unokatestvérének, Lucasnak.

A fiú felajánlja, hogy Rosie is maradjon a lakásban, legalább amíg nem talál valami átmeneti szállást észszerű árban. Aztán segíteni akar, hogy Rosie folytathassa az írást, és határidőre kész legyen a regénnyel. Lucas pusztán szakmai megfontolásból elviszi egy sor randira, hátha a lány ihletet kap.

Rosie-nak nincs vesztenivalója, megkezdődik a kísérlet. De Lucasnak nemsokára el kell utaznia New Yorkból - vajon elég lesz a hátralevő hat hét, hogy Rosie elkészüljön az írással? És be fogja érni azzal, hogy csak szakmai megfontolásból randizzanak Lucassal?

"Ha egy lassú romantikus komédiára vágysz, egy introvertált és egy extrovertált főhőssel, néhány kísérleti jellegű álrandival, egy csipetnyi vonzalommal és egy dekadens álarcosbállal, lapozz bele Elena Armas, a 2021-es rajongói kedvenc, a Spanyol szerelmi átverés szerzőjének legújabb könyvébe, Az amerikai szobatárskísérletbe." - PARADE

"Ez az édes, két nézőpontból elmesélt románc úgy megdobogtatja a szívedet, hogy nem tudod majd letenni a könyvet!" - Buzzfeed

"Az olvasók a körmüket rágva fognak drukkolni a barátokból lett szerelmespárnak, ahogy egyre fülledtebbé válik a helyzet. Habár a könyv a Spanyol szerelmi átverés folytatása, Armas kortárs romantikus regénye önállóan is megállja a helyét; Emily Henry és Tessa Bailey rajongóinak különösen ajánljuk." - Library Journal

"Armas imádnivaló folytatása a Booktok-kedvenc Spanyol szerelmi átverés című regényhez még akkor is el fogja bűvölni az olvasókat, ha nem ismerik az előzményeket... Armas mesterien mutatja be karakterei kibontakozó érzéseit, és hagyja, hogy a romantikus feszültség vezesse a cselekményt. Igazi csemege!" - Publishers Weekly

"Habkönnyű, játékos élvezet! A Spanyol szerelmi átverés bomba jó folytatásában Armas a napbarnított, édes Lucas Martínt és az erős, mégis sebezhető Rosie Grahamet keveri egy sorsdöntő románcba, amitől szó szerint úgy vigyorogtam olvasás közben, hogy belesajdult a képem! Szikrázó a vonzerő, de ahogy az egymás iránti őszinte szeretetük és támogatásuk oldalról oldalra kibontakozik, attól elaléltam. Armas stílusa olyan gördülékeny, mint egy lebilincselő beszélgetés, azonnal magával ragadja az olvasót, és a két szereplő szó szerint életre kel a papíron. Fantasztikus szórakozás az első szótól az utolsó pontig!" - Christina Lauren, Nem mézes hetek, New York Times bestsellerszerző

"Vitán felül Elena Armas az ínycsiklandozó, fülledt, lassan kiforró romkomok királynője - minden, amit ír, olyan elbűvölő, hogy ujjongok örömömben. Az amerikai szobatárskísérlet életem legjobban eltöltött órái közé tartozik, és alig várom, hogy kiderüljön, mit tartogat Elena legközelebbre!" - Ali Hazelwood, A szerelem képlete, New York Times bestsellerszerző

"Vajon mi történik, ha egy romantikus regényíró a saját fordulatainak csapdájába esik? Szórakoztató, friss és pokolian szexi regény." - Jodi Picoult, Bár itt lennél, New York Times bestsellerszerző