The most dangerous stories are the ones we tell ourselves… No. 36 Westeryk Road, an imposing flat-stone house on the outskirts of Edinburgh. A house of curving shadows and crumbling grandeur. But it’s what…
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1921: a boy, a girl, a moonlit midnight kiss. A terrible, repulsive kiss. Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young,…
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‘It’s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after…’ 1902, Brookhants School for Girls: students Flo and Clara…
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Within the boroughs of London, nestled among its streets, hides another city, filled with magic. Magic is the first sin. It must be bound. Ever since Anna can remember, her aunt has warned her…
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A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet, fakery and illusion On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a young woman snoops…
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For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the story of…
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From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger, to go somewhere better. Hungry traces Grace’s story from growing up eating…
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‘Devastating, prescient, compelling and confronting, not only because it’s the first thing I’ve read that even touches the sides of the very real pandemic we’re living through’ Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our…
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A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight’ Jess Kidd, author of Things in Jars ’Those who live in the walls must adjust, must twist themselves around in their home,stretching…
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‘Evocative and enchanting – a future classic and a star in the making’ Veronica Henry Romilly lives in a ramshackle house with her eccentric artist father and her cat, Monty. She knows little about…