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‘compelling’ marie claire ‘immensely enjoyable’ observer ‘fascinating’ red one week into lockdown, the tenants of a manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel. with each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned buckets. gradually the tenants – some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now – become real neighbours. with each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice – from margaret atwood to john grisham and celeste ng, fourteen days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. includes writing from: margaret atwood, sylvia day, emma donoghue, dave eggers, diana gabaldon, tess gerritsen, john grisham, erica jong, celeste ng, tommy orange, doug preston, r. l. stine, nafissa thompson-spires, meg wolitzer and many more. ‘a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console and perhaps even change their readers’ financial times

Abbie wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. the man by her side explains that he’s her husband. he’s a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of silicon valley’s most innovative startups. he tells abbie she’s a gifted artist, a doting mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. five years ago, she suffered a terrible accident. her return from the abyss is a miracle of science, a breakthrough in artificial intelligence that has taken him half a decade to achieve. but as abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins questioning her husband’s motives – and his version of events. can she trust him when he says he wants them to be together for ever? and what really happened to her, half a decade ago? a gripping psychological thriller, perfect for fans of the woman in the window and the wife between us.

Two girls dream of being dancers – but only one, tracey, has talent. the other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. it’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them

‘finally — a map for the troubled human mind. and it’s funny.’ – caitlin moran ruby wax – comedian, writer and mental health campaigner – shows us how our minds can jeopardize our sanity. with her own periods of depression and now a masters from oxford in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to draw from, she explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress. if we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world. helping you become the master, not the slave, of your mind, here is the manual to saner living.

‘totally gripping’– simon sebag montefiore ‘pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of the second world war … this insightful book is likely to be the definitive version of this extraordinary life’ — economist would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? in the summer of 1940, after the nazi occupation of poland, an underground operative called witold pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interned at a new concentration camp on the border of the reich. his mission was to report on nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. the name of the detention centre — auschwitz. it was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the nazi’s terrifying plans. over the next two and half years, witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of nazi atrocities out of auschwitz. his reports from the camp were to shape the allies response to the holocaust – yet his story was all but forgotten for decades. this is the first major account to draw on unpublished family papers, newly released archival documents and exclusive interviews with surviving resistance fighters to show how he brought the fight to the nazis at the heart of their evil designs. the result is an enthralling story of resistance and heroism against the most horrific circumstances, and one man’s attempt to change the course of history.

Are you a watcher or a player? film tie-in edition of 2016’s hottest ya film, starring emma roberts, dave franco & juliette lewis. black mirror meets pretty little liars – perfect for fans of the hunger games and the maze runner. a high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly. when vee is picked to be a player in nerve, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. it tempts her with amazing prizes taken from her thisisme page and teams her up with her perfect boy: sizzling-hot ian. at first it’s exhilarating – vee and ian’s fans cheer them on to riskier dares with higher stakes. but the game takes a twisted turn. just how far will vee go before she loses nerve? debut author jeanne ryan delivers an unputdownable novel full of action, suspense and hot romance.