'A collection of stories that feel like worlds in their own right, masterworks in miniature. This book is the short story form in the hands of a master. Anna Bailey is a once-in-a-generation talent’ C J CookeWasteland Girls is a collection of lyrical, incisive and luminous stories by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones and Our Last Wild Days.These stunningly powerful stories explore the wild...

**For fans of All the Colours of the Dark and Where the Crawdads Sing, a beautiful atmospheric thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall BonesTHE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH**'Propulsive, bold and brutal...A truly atmospheric thriller.' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark'Bewitching... thought provoking, character driven crime fiction.' Paula Hawk...

It can happen to anyone. No matter how intelligent you are, how self-confident and capable you are, you can become the prey of a malignant narcissist. Especially if you are an empath and unaware of your gift. We do not label ourselves as victims, but without a victim, narcissists get away with the crime. It happened to Anna Bailey not once, but twice throughout her adult life. She just never knew there was a name for what she was and what they were.. She had been driving her life blind to ...

The gripping Sunday Times top ten bestseller, Book of the Month in the Guardian, Grazia and Observer, longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year.'Irresistible, a compelling and nuanced psychological thriller suffused with small town prejudice and dark family secrets.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of bestselling The Girl on the Train**'**Conjuring up... Twin Peaks and Gillia...

A woman, exhausted by work and motherhood, hires the services of a sinister firm that promises her a brand-new life…Journeying across America to make a claim to an inheritance, a man must confront the shame and bigotry that has haunted his family for generations…A picture-perfect holiday threatens to unravel as two daughters come to terms with the uneasy dynamic of their new blended family…The stories shortlisted for the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award with Camb...

Brought to you by Penguin.A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH'A wonderfully haunting debut.' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry'Irresistible, compelling.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the TrainWhen seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things ...

Brought to you by Penguin.**In Jacknife, Louisiana, menace comes not only from the lurking 'gators, but from the secrets harboured by everyone in town...From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a compelling, utterly immersive thriller**The Labasques aren’t like other families.Living in a shack out in the swamps, they scrape a living hunting down alligators just to get by. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisi...

'Hellishly good fun' The Times‘A blackly funny twist on the Country House mystery, with bodies and wit galore’ John ConnollyAnd Then There Were None meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.Ten strangers.An old dark house.A killer picking them off one by one.And a missing girl who's running out of time . . .Ten strangers wake up inside an old...

Brought to you by Penguin.This is the story of three women - one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfire between her mother and a father she adores.Amelie is first drawn to Henri Matisse as a way of escaping the conventional life expected of her. A free spirit, she sees in this budding y...

Bloomsbury presents Mother May I written and read by Joshilyn Jackson.Brilliantly unnerving ... expertly crafted' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month'Jackson raises the stakes again and again' Guardian'Finely paced, shrewdly observed ... Mother May I is a thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller' Wall Street JournalIt's every mother's worst nightmare.'If you ever want to see your baby again, GO HOME.Tell no one.Do not call the police.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Cloisters comes a slow-burn psychological drama about an opulent family that unravels when a decades-old crime resurfaces.“Full of chills and darkness.”—Oprah Daily“Fans of family dramas and thrillers will devour this tense, suspenseful novel.”—Woman’s WorldIn 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri...

Black Swan meets Killing Eve - the brilliant new novel from Erin KellySwan Lake is divided into the black acts and the white acts. The Prince is on stage for most of the ballet, but it's the swans audiences flock to see. In early productions, Odette and Odile were performed by two different dancers. These days, it is usual for the same dancer to play both roles. Because of the faultless ballet technique required to master the steps, and the emotional range needed to perform bot...