Shy Trans Banshee

The much-anticipated follow-up to word-of-mouth bestseller Bored Gay Werewolf – order now to get your copy with glow-in-the-dark ink!
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Brian, Nik and Darby – three friends practiced in fighting supernatural crime (when Brian’s not committing it as a werewolf once a month) – have been sent to London to try to track down a missing colleague.

Prowling around the city, they stumble across a clairvoyancy smuggling ring. Who’s kidnapping all the fortune tellers in Soho and why? And is it coincidence, fate or something more sinister that Maeve, a timid trans woman taking time out of her job to track down her birth mother, turns up on the gang’s doorstep… and has the uncanny ability to know just what’s going to happen next?
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Readers love Tony Santorella and Bored Gay Werewolf
‘A very compelling and funny novel’
‘I absolutely loved this cosy supernatural mystery’
‘Feels like Buffy meets Euphoria‘
‘Really engaging characters’
‘Hilarious, witty and something different’

Moderation

Sometimes people just…click.

‘A highly charged, passionate and tender love story. Wonderful’
Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time

‘Castillo is a literary firecracker… If you liked Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, you’ll like this’
Pandora Sykes, Books and Bits

Thirty-something Girlie Delmundo works a day job as a content moderator, flagging and removing the very worst that makes it on to the internet. She’s one of the best at it, too – dispassionate, unflinching, maybe because she learned by necessity to wall off all her emotions when she was still a kid – so it’s no surprise to anyone when the social-media company for which she works offers her a big salary rise and an office to start moderating its new venture: virtual-reality theme parks, lush and near-perfect simulations of civilizations long since dead.

Girlie takes the job, and getting paid to spend her days wandering the crowds of medieval jousts or exploring romantic Left Bank Paris seems too good to be true. Almost. Sure, she signed up for having to deal with the sordidness of pretty much any virtual space, but as she begins to explore the intricate worlds that she moderates, she notices two deeply troubling things: that there might be something much darker built into the very code of the company, and that William, technically her new boss, a man whose barriers are as mighty as her own, might just be that long-forgotten thing… Girlie’s type.

Brightly Shining

DUA LIPA’S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR DECEMBER 2025

‘The perfect Christmas read, full of wonder, hope and magic’ DUA LIPA

Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa’s father is out of work. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job selling Christmas trees, she thinks it might be the stroke of luck they all need. Soon, the fridge fills with food and their father comes home smiling, covered in spruce needles. But the local pub has an irresistible pull and he quickly abandons his responsibilities.

Melissa decides to take his place at the Christmas tree stand, working before and after school, and bringing Ronja with her. On rare breaks in the dark of a Norwegian December they dream of a brighter place of kindness and plenty – and find there are some people in the world who might help them.

Small in stature but with an outsize impact on the reader, Brightly Shining has all the markings of a magical
modern classic.

Evensong

‘Always, [O’Nan] is a master at quotidian details, a master at human emotion. Always, he writes with a huge and generous heart. Evensong is tender and funny, poignant and true. The novel is a little miracle’ Boston Globe

The Humpty Dumpty Club is distraught when their powerhouse leader, Joan Hargrove, takes a bad fall down the stairs, knocking her out of commission. Now, as well as running errands and shepherding those less able to their doctors’ appointments, they have to pick up the slack.

Between navigating their own relationships and aging bodies and attending choir practice, these invisible yet indomitable women help where they can. Weaving together the perspectives of the four cardinal members as they tend to those in need, Stewart O’Nan has fashioned a rich and moving novel that celebrates our capacity for patience and care. Vivid, warm and often wryly funny, Evensong reminds us that life is made up of moments both climactic and quotidian, and we weather those moments with the people we choose to keep close.

Joyride

‘An exuberant, inspiring memoir’ Guardian
‘Brilliant…A high-spirited, exhilarating memoir’ Wall Street Journal
‘In Joyride, the takeaway often has as much to do with the art of living as the art of writing’ Elle
‘Wise and exuberant…It’s funny, as well. Just masterful’ David Sedaris
‘Superbly good…Ebullient, frank, moving, and inspiring’ Booklist (starred review)

‘The story of my life is the story of my stories,’ writes Susan Orlean in this exhilarating memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction of our time. Joyride is Orlean’s most personal book ever, a searching
journey through finding her feet as a journalist, recovering from the excruciating collapse of her first marriage, falling head over heels in love again, becoming a mother while mourning the decline of her own mother, sojourning to Hollywood for films based on her work (including Adaptation and Blue Crush) and confronting mortality.

Joyride is also a time machine to a bygone era of journalism, from Orlean’s bright start in the golden age of alt-weeklies to her careermaking days working alongside such icons as Tina Brown, David Remnick, Anna Wintour
and Sonny Mehta, forces who shaped the media industry as we know it today.

Infused with Orlean’s signature warmth and wit, Joyride is a must-read for anyone who hungers to start, build and sustain a creative life.

The Echo of Crows

THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES
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‘Brilliantly eerie’ PETER JAMES
‘A most original sleuth’ THE TIMES
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Welcome to the Wye Valley, exactly on the border of England and Wales, home to a dark legacy of murder…

Nestled deep in the Black Mountains, the village of Longtown is haunted by killings both ancient and modern.

When young farmer and lottery winner Eddy Davies is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Herefordshire Police find themselves handling a complicated investigation.

Things aren’t looking good for Davies’s friend, the mysterious Autumn Wise, who is found nearby holding a shotgun.

When Merrily Watkins – parish priest, single mum and renowned demon exorcist – comes to Autumn’s aid, she soon discovers that Eddy’s death is only the latest in a long string of tragedies to blight Longtown and the surrounding area.

But help is at hand from Merrily’s spiritual advisor, the Rev. Huw Owen, who has an unorthodox solution in mind to end the area’s centuries-long trail of misfortune…

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More praise for Phil Rickman
‘Cleverly illuminates the darkest corners of our imagination’ John Connolly
‘The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness – perfect’ Elly Griffiths
‘First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night’ Daily Mail
‘No one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world’ Bernard Cornwell
‘Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read’ JO BRAND

On the Ashes

Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently burnished.

‘The best cricket writer in the world’ Guardian

‘The Bradman of cricket writing’ Sunday Telegraph

‘The finest cricket writer alive’ The Australian

‘Australia’s finest writer on cricket’ The Times

‘The most gifted cricket essayist of his generation’ Richard Williams, Guardian

In On The Ashes, Gideon Haigh, today’s pre-eminent cricket writer, has captured over a century and a half of Anglo-Australian cricket, from WG Grace to Don Bradman, from Bodyline to Jim Laker’s 19-wicket match, from Ian Botham’s miracle at Headingley to the phenomena of Patrick Cummins and Ben Stokes, today’s Ashes captains.

From over three decades of covering The Ashes, Gideon has brought together an enduring vision of this timeless contest between Australia and England – the world’s oldest sporting rivalry – from the colonial era to the present day.

Superhero Leadership

‘Peter Cuneo distills a lifetime of courageous leadership into timeless lessons for a world in flux’ Soledad O’Brien

Peter Cuneo, who rescued Marvel Entertainment from near bankruptcy and orchestrated its $4.5 billion Disney sale, knows leadership. In Superhero Leadership he distils decades of turnaround expertise into leadership fundamentals. Drawing from successful transformations at Marvel, Black & Decker, Remington, and Clairol, Cuneo identifies the essential attitudes, philosophies, behaviours and instincts that define transformative leadership.

Through narratives and case studies, he teaches core competencies including company values, culture building, change management, crisis leadership, and self-maintenance – equipping readers to become leaders who inspire loyalty, drive success and unlock their team’s full potential.

Rebel English Academy

When a major Pakistani political figure is hanged, OK Town erupts in protest.

A few miles away, Sir Baghi is surprised by a knock at the door of his language school, the Rebel English Academy. An unexpected visitor, Sabiha, seeks refuge – but she has a gun, her parents are political prisoners, her husband has just died in a suspicious fire and she’s clearly hiding something.

Meanwhile Captain Gul, disgraced intelligence officer, has been banished to OK Town, where he aims to silence protesters by any means necessary. But his duties – and romantic desires – begin to overlap, and his already-dubious power is further threatened.

In Rebel English Academy, we see Pakistan coming into modernity through a vibrant cast of interconnected characters that face a changing landscape with violence, passion and sharp humour. Wry, searing and deeply relevant, this is a triumphant novel about political power, religion, education, sexuality and dissent.

The Grapples of Wrath

The unputdownable cosy crime mystery set in Brighton about pro-wrestling, ghosts and much murder
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‘Come for the spooky humour, stay for the satisfying twists’ Kristen Perrin
‘Alice Bell writes with real verve’ Janice Hallett
‘Agatha Christie meets Ghosts‘ J M Hall
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THIS MYSTERY HAS THEM IN A CHOKEHOLD…

Medium turned private investigator Claire Hendricks is excited to embark on her first official case.

Pro-wrestling manager Ken King is convinced that his late father, Eddie, is haunting the gym and show venue in Brighton. Ken hires Claire to help, unaware that her ghost best friend, Sophie, comes as part of the package.

But Eddie is adamant he did not die of natural causes, and tasks Claire and Sophie with bringing his killer to justice.

In the world of pro-wrestling, can they work out what’s real, who’s faking and unmask the killer once and for all?

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Readers love the Grave Expectations series…
‘Brilliantly funny!’
‘Witty and smart’
‘Cosy without being twee’
‘Loved every minute’
‘Loads of clever twists’