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From bestselling author of the shatter me series and the national book award-nominated a very large expanse of sea, tahereh mafi, comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating dual-identity as a muslim teenager in america, and reclaiming your right to joy. it’s 2003. it’s been several months since the us officially declared war on iraq, and the political world has evolved. shadi, who wears hijab (a visible allegiance to islam) keeps her head down. hate crimes are spiking. undercover fbi agents are infiltrating mosques and interrogating members of the congregation, and the local muslim community is beginning to fracture. shadi hears the fights after services, the arguments between families about what it means to be muslim, about what they should be doing and saying as a community but she does not engage. she’s too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots. shadi is named for joy, but she’s haunted by sorrow. her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. and then, of course, there’s the small matter of her heart it’s broken. shadi has tried to navigate the remains of her quickly-shattering world by soldiering through, saying nothing, until finally, one day, everything changes. she explodes. perfect for fans of the shatter me series as well as angie thomas’s the hate u give and nicola yoon’s the sun is also a star.

Neverwhere is the stunningly original first novel from neil gaiman, the bestselling and prizewinning author of the ocean at the end of the lane and american gods. wired called it ‘the sort of book terry pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cellar with frank kafka’. this is a must-read for all those who loved susanna clarke’s jonathan strange and mr norrell or the magical world of j. k. rowling. under the streets of london there’s a world most people could never even dream of. a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. richard mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other london. a single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre. there’s a girl named door, an angel called islington, an earl who holds court on the carriage of a tube train, a beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining . . . and richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city. includes extra material exclusive to this headline review edition.

Two of the greatest storytellers of our time join forces to create an epic thriller of unsurpassed power, a twisting, compelling story of a small american town held in the grip of evil beyond all reason. abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the wisconsin town of french landing, ten-year-old ty marshall spots a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. then it calls his name. fascinated, ty gets off his bike for a closer look — and is dragged into the shadows. is ty destined to become the fourth victim of the fisherman, the serial killer who’s stalking this sleepy town? if so, only ex-detective jack sawyer may be able to save him. jack left his old life behind precisely to avoid such madness, but lately he’s been visited by strange nightmares and visions. could the doomed past he thought he’d escaped forever be reaching out for him … from the black house?

The scorching new thriller from the bestselling author of the girl on the train and into the water ‘what is wrong with you?’ laura has spent most of her life being judged. she’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. some even call her dangerous. miriam knows that just because laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes, that doesn’t mean she’s a killer. bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. carla is reeling from the brutal murder of her nephew. she trusts no one- good people are capable of terrible deeds. but how far will she go to find peace? innocent or guilty, everyone is damaged. some are damaged enough to kill. look what you started.

Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist matthew clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. this smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of anne rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism. deep in the stacks of oxford’s bodleian library, young scholar diana bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. but her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.

They are london’s most scandalous couple. isabel, lady pelham, and gerard faulkner, marquess of grayson, are well matched in all things – lusty appetites, constant paramours, provocative reputations, and their absolute refusal to ruin a marriage of convenience by falling in love. it is a most agreeable sham – until a shocking event sends gerard from her side. when, four years later, gerard returns, the boyish rogue is now a powerful, irresistible man determined to seduce isabel. he is not the man she married – but is he the one to finally steal her heart?

Hbo’s hit series a game of thrones is based on george r r martin’s internationally bestselling series a song of ice and fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. a storm of swords: steel and snow is the first part of the third volume in the series. ‘martin has captured the imagination of millions’ guardian winter approaches westeros like an angry beast. the seven kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud. in the northern wastes, a horde of hungry, savage people steeped in the dark magic of the wilderness is poised to invade the kingdom of the north where robb stark wears his new-forged crown. and robb’s defences are ranged against the south, the land of the cunning and cruel lannisters, who have his younger sisters in their power. throughout westeros, the war for the iron throne rages more fiercely than ever, but if the wall is breached, no king will live to claim it.