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16-year-old clary fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in brooklyn with her friends. but everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry.

Dreamwalker is the first spellbinding novel in the new epic fantasy series from j. d. oswald – the ballad of sir benfro. in a small village, miles from the great cities of the twin kingdoms, a young boy called errol tries to find his way in the world. he’s an outsider – he looks different from other children and has never known his father. no one, not even himself, has any knowledge of his true lineage. deep in the forest, benfro, the young male dragon begins his training in the subtle arts. like his mother, morgwm the green, he is destined to be a great mage. no one could imagine that the future of all life in the twin kingdoms rests in the hands of these two unlikely heroes. but it is a destiny that will change the lives of boy and dragon forever … and so begins the ballad of sir benfro – the unputdownable tale of the great dragons returning to the kingdom of men. breathtakingly compulsive and beautifully written, the ballad of sir benfro is for readers hooked to the world of george r. r. martin’s game of thrones and those longing for the next tolkien film adaptation. dreamwalker is followed by the rose cord and the golden cage. j. d. oswald is the author of the epic fantasy series, the ballad of sir benfro. currently, dreamwalker, the rose cord and the golden cage are all available as penguin ebooks. he is also the author of the detective inspector mclean series of crime novels under the name james oswald. in his spare time james runs a 350-acre livestock farm in north east fife, where he raises pedigree highland cattle and new zealand romney sheep.

In the gunslinger, stephen king introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, roland of gilead, the last gunslinger. he is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. in his first step towards the powerful and mysterious dark tower, roland encounters an alluring woman named alice, begins a friendship with jake, a kid from new york, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the man in black. both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, the gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. and the tower is closer…

Ingrid waverly is a girl to be reckoned with. faced with their beloved brother’s mysterious disappearance, ingrid and her sister gabriella move to paris, determined to find him. but instead the sisters are drawn into a terrifying underworld – watched over by luc and nolan, two impossibly handsome protectors with dark secrets of their own. amongst the gothic streets and alleys of 19th century paris, otherworldly secrets, deadly attractions and hidden powers stalk ingrid and gabriella, and love is found in the most unexpected ways.

As featured on desert island discs, big scottish book club and the zoe ball bookclub, a book of the year in the sunday times, the times, guardian, irish times, observer, red and the telegraph. *shortlisted for the pen ackerley prize for memoir and autobiography 2018* i am, i am, i am is a memoir with a difference – the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman’s life in near-death experiences. insightful, inspirational, gorgeously written, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life’s fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count. a childhood illness she was not expected to survive. a teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. a terrifying encounter on a remote path. a mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. shocking, electric, unforgettable, this is the extraordinary memoir from costa novel-award winner and sunday timesbestselling author maggie o’farrell. it is a book to make you question yourself. what would you do if your life was in danger, and what would you stand to lose?

“lake wobegon days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions–and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding mr. keillor’s full design, is a genuine work of american history.” –the new york times “a comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in american life… keillor’s strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary.” –chicago tribune “keillor’s laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength…. his true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears… to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. he is a brilliant parodist.” –san francisco chronicle

The runaway sunday times no.1 bestseller and thriller of the year, now a major film starring emily blunt ‘really great suspense novel. kept me up most of the night. the alcoholic narrator is dead perfect’ stephen king rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. she knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. she’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘jess and jason’, she calls them. their life – as she sees it – is perfect. if only rachel could be that happy. and then she sees something shocking. it’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. now everything’s changed. now rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train…