Elias Doever, accused of being a warlock by the residents of the Village of Bedfordshire, Massachusetts in 1692, is executed via the “ducking chair” into a well of holy water. A force erupts from his chest, killing him and escaping the well. Three hundred years later, the force from the well, Beladon, contacts Dorian Leeves, a young man with supernatural abilities, and informs him that he possesses the same powers as Elias Doever. Dorian will accomplish his ascension into powers beyond his...

Not long after their move into Blackstone, married couple Mitch and Buck begin to witness strange sightings of shadowy figures, physical manifestations and inexplicable events taking place in the former Sheppard family estate nestled in the Northern Poconos of Pennsylvania. Through séances, they learn from the spirit of Jedidiah Sheppard that he has not been able to cross over into the afterlife because the truth behind his sudden disappearance in 1965 has never been solved. During this jo...

Jodi Picoult’s powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment.Sometimes finding your own voiceis a matter of listening to the heart...For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones. But during an escalating argument, Jane turns on him with an alarming volatility. In anger and fear, Jane leaves with their teenage daughter, Rebecca...

'An immensely powerful, cannot-look-away novel of heart and bone and muscle and blood. The war novel has a rival... and it is breath-taking.' The HeraldLore arrives at the hospital alone: no husband, no partner, no friends. She is in labour. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward, herself newly pregnant, is assigned to her care. Over the spiralling course of eleven hours, the women are thrown together into a fierce, physical intimacy, and they begin to ...

‘A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal – and brilliant’ – Zadie Smith, author of The FraudLonglisted for the Women's Prize For FictionWinner of the Dylan Thomas Prize**Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Debut of the Year‘The most delicious novel I’ve read’ – Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie**Edie is just trying to survive.She’s messing up in her dea...

A heart-stopping debut thriller about a woman named Freedom, who will stop at nothing to save the daughter she only knew for two minutes and seventeen seconds.Call me what you will: a murderer, a cop killer, a fugitive, a drunk…Freedom Oliver has spent the last eighteen years living a quietly desperate life under Witness Protection in a backwater of Oregon after being exonerated of her husband’s murder.But now Freedom’s daughter Rebekah is missing, the same one who ...

The first collection of poems and short stories by young writer, Kate Greenlee. Thirteen poems and two short stories make up a varied selection of styles and subjects; from the supernatural to the political, Greenlee deals with themes around feminism and femininity, mathematics, body image and violence in the modern world. ‘Ghosts in the Attic’ is a short selection of crafted works, a well-fitting debut.

The eco-sci-fi adventure that began with Yesterday continues with a thriller which can also be read as a standalone.2063, United North America: Climate change has rendered great swathes of the country uninhabitable, the rise of robot workers has created mass unemployment, eco-terrorism is a constant threat and a 2059 nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India has torn large holes in the world's ozone layer and pushed humanity's existence towards a cliff.Nineteen-year-old G...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Survival is not a guarantee in this chilling horror novel where a teenage medium doesn’t know which is worse . . . confronting a school-shooter-turned-vengeful-ghost or enduring his racist high school.“Spine-chilling YA horror.”—The Boston Globe“A teenage version of Get Out . . . Douglass looks at race and trauma and death with a comical and horror-esque twist.”—The Root**Living in two worlds ...

Girl meets boy. Girl never thirsts again.In the desert, water becomes the central concern of life. When fetching that water becomes an excruciating ordeal both emotionally and spiritually, one woman wrestles with the decisions and events that have defined her existence. Obscure, ashamed and marginalized, everything changes one dusty afternoon when she meets a man beside a well.This is neither her story, nor his, but merely the moment when their stories coll...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZEScrubsThe Maltese Falcon and The Crying of Lot 49Janwar Gupta, a brilliant but neurotic medical student intern, has a patient die under suspicious circumstances during his placement at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. Certain of his innocence, Janwar bumbles his way through an amateur investigation of two feuding groups of anaesthesiologists and navigates a romance with journalism st...

A gripping, imaginative, and darkly funny debut novel about a young woman's struggle to find her place in a dystopian world ravaged by a memory-stealing epidemic.After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us her highly anticipated debut novel, Find Me. Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston, nursing an addiction to cough syrup to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins wit...