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The graduating class of Bishop Carlbus Prep has a secret. The Outing Party is a tradition at Bishop Carlbus, a semi-illicit party hosted by a senior student after the annual Outing, a weekend field trip taken by the graduating class every year. In 1995, Amy Keaton is determined to host a legendary Outing Party, but everything goes wrong.

A USA TODAY Bestseller For fans of Lights Out and You comes a dark rom-com debut about a woman who confides her fantasies to an AI boyfriend app—unaware she’s really talking to her hot, tattooed coworker who hacked her phone. When overworked department store manager Izzy Russo downloads an...

Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn.

After her messy divorce, Sienna Blake is done with men. She’s trading her wreckage for a sun-drenched future in California until a violent Montana storm sends her car skidding off the road and straight into Blackwood. A town with more cows than people, a thriving fascination with its...

Another long weekend, another family reunion for the Finch sisters. This time, Venice Beach is calling, and with it, a film about Maeve’s glamorous career as an influencer. Remi and Eliana show up for moral support, but it’s not long before things start to feel wrong. Again. For starters, documentarian Nadia Cullen bears an uncanny resemblance to Maeve—from her hairstyle down to her signature scent. Chalk it up to superfan behavior, maybe, but the weekend is far from over, and every day seems to bring something new to worry about.

Brought to you by Penguin. When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among...

Brought to you by Penguin. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Doll’s...

Brought to you by Penguin. Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry’s atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes...

Brought to you by Penguin. John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John's...

Brought to you by Penguin. Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson’s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story just waiting...

Tall Oaks is an idyllic small town, until the disappearance of a young child throws the tight-knit community into crisis. Jess Monroe, the boy's distraught mother, is simultaneously leading the search and battling her own grief and self-destructive behaviour. Her neighbours watch on, their sympathy masking a string of dark secrets. This is a small town where nothing is as it seems, and everyone has something to hide. And as the investigation draws towards a climax, prepare for a devastating final twist.

How far would you go to bring back the only person who ever felt like home? 'A riot in novel form by an author with an utterly singular, original vision. Public Access Afterworld will leave you breathless and desperate for a sequel' KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time 'Jane...

She needs nothing short of a miracle . . . Sister Agatha lies on her deathbed. But as she takes her final breath, the 124–year–old nun experiences a vision. At the Pearly Gates, St Peter will only allow her entry into heaven if she can atone for her past wrongdoings. And so, the Irish nun is...

Ever since she was a little kid, Batya has worked as hired muscle in her hometown of Fort Hook, a hardboiled port city filled with cutthroats and gangsters and wraiths. Then one afternoon she’s kidnapped by Mina, her estranged sister and ex-partner. Turns out Mina’s big mouth got her in trouble (as usual). Now she has to deliver a very tiny envelope to a very cursed ship, and needs Batya’s muscle to help her pull it off. Standing between the sisters and their payday is a pirate queen, a talking severed hand, a lonesome deer demon, a hot tub sniper, and a lifetime of old grudges and bad ideas.

Ein bayerisches Dorf im Märchenfieber – In oberbayrischen Fackenreuth ist scheinbar alles wie immer – bis Lucia Montagmorgen die Zeitung austrägt und plötzlich ein junges Mädchen vor ihr steht. Spärlich bekleidet und mit einer roten Kappe sucht sie ihre Großmutter. Die Verwunderung ist Dorfpolizist Xaver ins Gesicht geschrieben, als sich das Mädchen als Rotkäppchen vorstellt. Dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse im Dorf. Am Keilerberg wird die Leiche von Basti gefunden.

We join the action just as our ‘hero’ Tom, (early thirties, reads the ‘news’ on the radio) finds out that his girlfriend has NOT left him. Tom, I have not left you. But I am gone. Please carry on as normal. Love always, Hayley Has Hayley gone or hasn’t she? Is she coming back? If she...

It all starts with a girl... (because yes, there's always a girl...) Jason Priestley (not that one) has just seen her. They shared an incredible, brief, fleeting moment of deep possibility, somewhere halfway down Charlotte Street. And then, just like that, she was gone - accidentally leaving him...

It’s salmon season, the summer of 2022, in Sitka, Alaska. Emily Morrison is a seasonal office intern. Jasper Patchett is a seafood processor at the bayside plant, along with his friends Mason and Luis. And Alma Mendoza, Jasper’s cousin, is a social media influencer—beautiful, charming, and manipulative—and she’s tagging along for the ride. Jasper has fallen obsessively under his cousin’s spell, but he doesn’t know that Alma and Emily are lovers.

PRAISE FOR BELLA MACKIE: 'Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES 'You know Diana Leyland… she climbed the ladder by marrying a...