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They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but if you ask Castor he'll tell you there's quite a bit of arrogance and reckless stupidity lining the streets as well. And he should know. There's only so many times you can play both sides against the middle and get away with it. Now, the inevitable moment of crisis has arrived and it's left Castor with blood on his hands. Well, not his hands, you understand; it's always someone else who pays the bill: friends, acquaintances, bystanders.

'WISTFUL, WARM AND IRRESISTIBLY CHARMING' Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries comes a healing and heart-warming fantasy with magic shops, rescue cats and a second chance at love. Reader reviews: 'Amazing...

Connor had been plagued by vivid dreams, sometimes eerily prophetic, for as long as he could remember. He has led a sheltered but lonely life under the protection of Donegal Abbey, until the arrival of a handsome and charismatic stranger, come to study at the monastery’s library. Ruarc, a low-ranking Nightwalker of House Diluthical, has been chosen to infiltrate the Donegal community, following rumors of a young man touched by Second Sight. His mission takes a dangerous turn, however, when he encounters a legendary creature of immense power and unknown intent.

A magical and chilling dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Between Two Fires. “You think you got away with something, don’t you? But your time has run out. We know where you are. And we are coming.” Andrew Ranulf Blankenship is a handsome, stylish nonconformist with...

It's Turtle Time! Chaste Witch Vagia's All-Faction Conference turned out to be a trap after all! But Takuto overturned the demand for his surrender by enacting a special ritual from Eternal Nations, buying Mynoghra a year's worth of time. Taking advantage of the brief peace brought by the ritual...

Ava has survived the Elderoak Journey and unlocked her powers, at last claiming her heritage. But with a daring rescue that brings her back to the very place where her own journey began, she must face her enemies head-on, or risk losing the one she loves. As war bears down on the realm of Eorhan...

Mit jeder neuen Phase liefert das System mehr Antworten: Warum und wozu es hier ist und was passieren wird, wenn es eines Tages nicht mehr existiert. Doch oft werfen diese Antworten noch mehr Fragen auf. Warum muss das System wieder gehen? Und da es nun einmal da ist, wäre es dann nicht besser, es würde bleiben? All das muss Kasp erst herausfinden. Und sollte er einen Weg finden, das System loszuwerden, müsste er entscheiden, ob es das überhaupt wert wäre.

Something is stirring in London's dark . . . "A startling debut" Kirkus Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into his prison...

To achieve the incredible she must attempt the impossible All her life, Alice has been haunted by visions of birds. But when the mysterious Crowley appears at Alice’s door, he reveals she’s been seeing nightjars – the miraculous birds which guard our souls. And a shadowy faction wants to...

We Burned So Bright is the heartfelt, queer, road trip of a novel from TJ Klune, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Cerulean Chronicles and The Bones Beneath My Skin Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good, long life. Together, they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family...

A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when...

Talia’s day job as the village exorcist provides the perfect opportunity to case her clients’ homes for when she moonlights as a cunning thief. When she unwittingly steals cursed jewels from a powerful soulweaver, she pays the ultimate price. The soulweaver takes her sister’s soul as...

Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life’s final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work—India, England, and the US—and feature an unforgettable cast of characters.“In the South” introduces a pair of quarrelsome old...

Brilliantly imaginative urban fantasy on a colossal scale from an award-winning author The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural...

The third novel in his amazing imaginative sequence focused on the fabulous city of New Crobuzon and its very special world It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and...

When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth pulls from Slavic folklore to explore family, duty, and what it means to be a monster in this sequel to the USA Today bestselling novella When Among Crows. This program features multicast narration. "The second volume of Roth's Curse Bearer...

The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab, Red City is a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a...

How do you find something no one wants to admit even exists? With her life turned upside down, it's almost a relief for Hallie to be asked to work a case. She is tasked with helping the Conclave Investigators follow up on a suspected theft, and also help track down one of their own - Special...

'Charming and utterly unputdownable' Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings AM Kvita's charming debut introduces New York's most powerful family of witches - and a world of secrets, spells and supernatural shenanigans. After seven long years, Joan Greenwood is coming...