ND-5 and Jaylen Vrax embark on their descent into the galaxy’s underworld in search of answers and opportunity, in this essential prequel to Star Wars Outlaws.Jaylen Barsha, heir to his family’s immense power and wealth, had his life charted out for him neatly and meticulously by his parents, even though he suspected his neglected half-brother Sliro would be a better fit for the bright corporate future his parents envisioned. Then the Empire stripped it al...

'One of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.' Erin Kelly**Available to pre-order now**There are rules to first dates: don't talk about your ex, do ask lots of questions, always meet in a public place.Digby Coombe-Watson didn't think they applied to him. He had other worries: how to get rid of his great-grandfather's crumbling property, and whether his family would let him.So he ignored the rules, and invited someon...

From an award-winning debut novelist, Born of Guilt is a powerful and heartrending novel about the intense bond between mother and child and the consequences of freedom.' I am calm only when alone. That's what my mother used to say. As a child I hated her for this because it meant I shouldn't have existed. Now I'm frightened by how much I understand her.'Newly arrived in America, Yana spends her days in a series of dead-end service jobs an...

'A joyful and generative novel about running away to make a new home for a new self.' Sarah Moss'An outstanding sense of place and inner space: unsettling as well as memorable.' Margaret Drabble'Beneath the radical disquiet is a beautiful hymn to the hearts and minds of women.' Sarah HallI swear I loved them all, and I did the best I could. And then I left them, left all of it.Abra h...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE REST OF OUR LIVES'Human, astonishing, superb; and sublime.' Guardian'A formidable voice . . . the bastard son of Philip Roth and A. S. Byatt.' New Statesman'A remarkable achievement.' ObserverTaking place over the course of one year, shifting between uptown Manhattan and a private high-school campus in Riverdale, Either Side of Winter moves sea...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE REST OF OUR LIVESA SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZETen years out of Yale and drifting, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now influential and wealthy from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a ne...

From a world-renowned neuroscientist comes a revelatory exploration of the neural processes in our brains that shape our day-to-day existence: how they work, what happens when they falter and how we can maintain them throughout our lives.'Owen is not just one of our top scientists, but a great storyteller.'DANIEL LEVITIN'From jewelry heists to the nature of free will, Owen's exploration of our cognitive powers is both a gripping stor...

Betrayal charts the dramatic collapse of the post-1945 international system. Ours is now a world in which Trump's America has endorsed Putin's land-grab in Ukraine, painted Europe as an enemy, and toppled and kidnapped Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, an anti-western alliance has taken shape featuring China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Countries find themselves in an uncertain and dangerous era. It is a return to nineteenth century imperialism and spheres of infl...

NARRATED BY JACK LOWDEN'A quirky and original debut that sizzles with scintillating prose.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Michael Pedersen is a rare writer of real passion and power and this debut is phenomenal.' MATT HAIGLife on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger's arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer's future hanging in the balance.It's no ordin...

Introduced by Sinéad Gleeson, John McGahern's Booker Prize-shortlisted Irish 'masterpiece' (Colm Tóibín) is essential reading for admirers of Claire Keegan.As he weakened, Moran became afraid of his daughters.Moran's life is defined by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Now, he is simply an ageing widower, eking out an existence on the small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. He keeps contr...

With a new foreword by Colin Walsh, this is 'one of the most volatile, vital and unsafe novels in Irish literature', banned by the censor for obscenity in 1965 - and just as explosive today.He was coming and there was nothing to do but wait and grow hard as stone and lie.Mahoney grows up in fear of his father: of his beatings with the heavy leather strap; of the nights he wants love. Seeking to escape the claustrophobic family farm, he contemplates...

This beloved memoir of an Irish childhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of classics like Amongst Women is a 'healing book' (Sebastian Barry)'McGahern is about as close as we get to Proust.' GuardianI am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is ...