Unbound: 203 books

Appeals to an existing audience as a new edition with its fidelity to the original and extensive research, and serves as a clear and helpful introduction for new readers; includes glossaries, notes and historical context. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author’s own intricate...

Army deserter Abel de Santiago has all but avenged his murdered wife, when he is captured and sold as a galley slave. As the Spanish Armada sails for Calais Roads in May 1588, there cannot be a soul aboard more reluctant than him. After a crushing defeat to the English fleet, the Spanish ships...

1950s England. Five-year-old Gracie Scott lives with her Mam and next door to her best friend Billy. An only child, she has never known her Da. When her Uncle Joe moves in, his physical abuse of Gracie’s mother starts almost immediately. But when his attentions wander to Gracie, an even more sinister...

It begins with a ghost story around a campfire. Teenagers out on a walking trip, trying to act brave in front of each other. But as the walk gets underway and the boys begin to fall out, odd things start to happen. Noises in the night. A severed rabbit’s foot outside someone’s tent. Soon,...

The writing of the The Life of Death is as remarkable as the story it tells. Lucy Booth was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and died in 2016. During those five years she wrote this novel and it was her last wish to have it published posthumously. The novel is made all the more compelling...

Earth is tidal locked. One half of the planet is a desert, scorched and desolate. The other is completely frozen. In the twilight shadow between the two extremes there exist pockets of life. They are all disconnected, isolated. Each assumes they are alone. In the city of Axiom, time has erased...

When a swan crashes through her window at the height of a winter storm, journalist Mitzi Fairweather decides to nurse the injured bird back to health. But at sunset, the swan becomes a woman. This unexpected visitor is Odette, the swan princess – alone, adrift and in danger in 21st-century...

‘Violent but whip-smart… This thrill-ride will delight and enthral’ – heat magazine ‘Introduces a truly badass heroine to the world of YA’ – Book Riot A fresh and fiercely unique thriller, Vicious Rumer features one of the most complex and unusual heroines in years. The...

‘Strange, intense, brilliant’ S. J. Watson ‘A witty, zappy fable ... Powerful’ Guardian Depression can be hell. Heartbroken and lonely, the narrator has made an attempt on his own life. Whether he meant to or not he can't say. But now he’s stuck in his own head, and...

Meet Detective Louis Green, the strangely gifted socialite Robert Walker who stalks Manhattan’s upper reaches, the Rev James Bulley sequestered away in his Soho basement calling God down to wash away the sins of the world and Red Henley, a presence rarely seen, but never out of sight. Red’s...

Can desire really transform reality? From award-winning novelist Jonathan Coe and distinguished Italian artist Chiara Coccorese comes The Broken Mirror, a political parable for children, a contemporary fairy tale for adults, and a fable for all ages. One day Claire, to escape her quarrelsome...

Can you ever truly know someone? And what if you suspect the unthinkable? London, 2005. Georgie is attracted to Nikolai, a volatile ex-soldier she meets in a pub. Despite her friend Julian's warnings, she’s tempted to risk everything. Then she begins to suspect that the Russian is hiding...

Everything about John is off-kilter. He’s sixteen now, out of school and out of work. It’s the early 1970s: shipyards in Clydebank are no longer hiring and a long stretch on the dole is imminent. But on a day when the town is covered by a deluge of snow, his life is changed by an act of...

Meet Malek Khalil. In his mid-40s, Malek is a brilliant reporter with decades of experience in the field. If there has been a war, natural disaster or political crisis, Malek has been there and will be there. But the years of conflict reporting have taken their toll and Malek is slowly unravelling....