What if I told you that sleep was just a habit? What if the third of your life you spend asleep, you could be awake instead? Grafton is a single dad who works in local radio, but he's always dreamt of being a 'real' journalist. When he gets a whiff of a story - a Scottish commune whose residents believe that sleep is a social construct - he decides to investigate... something tells him 'the Sleepless' might finally provide answers about his wife, Liz, who abandoned him and their son Isaac ...

"requite (verb): to return love and affection or, on the other side of the coin, to retaliate for injuries inflicted.”MALTA 1941. Eleven-year-old Joe Zarb's life is about to change. The war has created a rubble-strewn, dogfight-watching, soldier-saluting adventure, until a telegram arrives with news of his papa, Victor, that will shatter everything.Twenty years later, with Malta seeking independence from the British Empire, a nurse and a former RAF pilot travel to ...

Liam Bell s name will be familiar to Shooting Times readers as our gamekeeping contributor. In this well-designed book featuring friendly and down-to-earth advice on creating and running your own partridge and pheasant shoot. Topi covered include habitat management, gamecrops, stock selection, rearing game and managing a shoot day. -Shooting Times : On Your Shoot by Liam Bell collates a wide range of relevant and interesting topi for all game managers, from those helping on a small shoot t...

In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom … at devastating cost…'The dystopian future landscape of The Forcing comes with a heightened realism that grips and shakes you … provocative and insightful, visceral and terrifying' ...

In a world ravaged by climate change, a young woman's job of enforcing Britain's one-child policy is compromised when she discovers an illegal sibling on the ministry hit list, and that sibling is hers…`A tightly paced plot set in an all-too imaginable future … a page-turning, thought-provoking read´ Jo Callaghan'With echoes of V for Vendetta, ONE serves as a stark warning, challenging societal norms and individual...

In a future devastated by climate collapse, a secret library is destroyed and a teenage girl gifted with perfect memory becomes the last refuge of human knowledge, hunted by those in power as she fights to save the last hope for humanity. The searing, unforgettable conclusion to the internationally acclaimed The Forcing trilogy.`A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world´ The Times`Utterly compellin...

A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever … a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart…'Set against a tech heavy backdrop Beautiful Shining People blooms into an emotional and soulful tale that reckons with the isolation we can all feel as outsiders' SciFi Now Book of the Month'Th...

***A FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL*“Like the objects collected in this deliciously haunting book, Midnight Timetable will absorb you in the shadows of its imagination, marvelous oddness, humor, and heart."** *—***Gerardo Sámano CórdovaFrom the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed obj...

**Ranked a Best Book of 2025 by Vulture • CrimeReads • BookBub • Ms. Magazine and more!A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines.In this game, there’s one rule: survive.**Orphaned after her father’s political campaign ended in tragedy, Josephine is alone taking care of the family home while her older brother is off in Manila, where revo...

The discovery of an injection that wards off ageing is hijacked by ruthless men who hunger for immortality, with catastrophic consequences. Two women race against time to stop them, before it's too late … a chilling, prescient, high-stakes speculative thriller by the bestselling author of One and The Waiting Rooms.`Like most speculative fiction, Eve Smith's novel is a commentary on the contemporary … a thought-provoking thriller with much to say a...

A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us.“A feast for the literary senses.”—Anton Hur, Judge of the International Booker PrizeOn an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her partner murdered in the street. Time freezes. She lifts his body from the pavement, cradles...

As featured on BBC News and TIME'The potential of seaweed, or marine algae, to transform our world is huge… excellent book' New ScientistThe seaweed revolution is a fresh hope for tomorrow.Seaweed develops in water everywhere, from the eternal glaciers to lagoons heated by the sun, from seas saturated with salt to the fresh water of our rivers. Yet we only know how to cultivate a few dozen varieties, at most. Incredibly diver...