Convinced his empire is doomed, Orhan hires mercenaries to assassinate its ruler and clear the way for a new order. Among the soldiers is Marith, a young man whose concealed past threatens to turn an already brutal mission into something far more destructive.
The apparent death of Chicago’s Four Monkey Killer does not end his crimes: evidence suggests another victim may still be alive. Detective Sam Porter follows clues from a disturbing diary while racing to find the captive before the killer’s final plan succeeds.
A four-year-old girl disappears near Fjällbacka, recalling a child’s murder in the same place thirty years earlier. Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck investigate the possible connection as old suspicions return. The case exposes secrets within a community increasingly divided by fear and by its memories of the earlier crime.
Retired screen legend Evelyn Hugo chooses an obscure journalist, Monique Grant, to record the truth about her life. Behind the account of seven marriages lies a career shaped by ambition, intimacy and carefully managed appearances. As Monique listens, the reason for Evelyn’s unexpected choice becomes increasingly significant.
James Hawes traces German history from the Roman frontier to the modern state, following divisions and continuities across two millennia. His concise account connects political change, regional differences and major conflicts with the question of how Germany came to occupy its place in Europe.
Rupi Kaur brings poems and drawings together in five sections organised around the life of a flower. The collection moves through loss, recovery and growth while considering love, family roots and migration. Its short pieces connect personal vulnerability with the effort to rebuild a sense of belonging.
The ritual murder of a woman from Kraken’s past draws him into a case targeting people expecting children. Memories of an archaeological summer return as the investigation crosses sacred sites, old friendships and anxieties about becoming a parent.
Lovelace was once a ship's artificial intelligence. After a shutdown and reboot, she starts again in a synthetic body, a form of existence that is illegal in her world. Pepper, an engineer involved in her new beginning, helps her adapt to changed ways of perceiving and acting. Becky Chambers places support, embodiment and belonging at the centre of a self-contained story in the Wayfarers setting. First published in 2016, this is the series' second book and can be read independently. Its starting premise reveals a change from The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, which readers can read first to discover events in order.
Sentenced to house arrest in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov must exchange his privileged life for an attic room in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel. Within its corridors, friendships and unexpected responsibilities create a new existence, while the transformation of Russia reaches him through the people crossing its doors.
In Northern California during the 1960s, lonely teenager Evie Boyd is drawn to Suzanne and the girls surrounding a charismatic leader. Their ranch appears to offer belonging and freedom. Evie’s desire for acceptance carries her towards a group whose intimacy conceals an increasingly disturbing capacity for violence.
Brianna Wiest gathers essays on purpose, emotional habits, routine and the assumptions shaping everyday thought. The collection encourages readers to reconsider familiar explanations of success and fulfilment, placing individual reflections alongside questions about cognitive bias, discomfort and the stories people use to interpret their lives.
Changed by her ordeal Under the Mountain, Feyre struggles with new powers and memories she cannot leave behind. Her bond with Tamlin and her bargain with Rhysand pull her between two courts, where political danger and questions of freedom begin to reshape her future.
Stories set across several worlds of the Cosmere explore characters and corners beyond the main novels. This collection includes shorter adventures, hidden perspectives on familiar events and Edgedancer, accompanied by material connecting the settings within Sanderson's wider universe.
Documentary filmmaker Jeremiah Salinger moves with his family to an Alpine community and becomes obsessed with an unsolved triple murder from 1985. The surrounding mountains hold both geological history and human secrets. As he presses for answers, the unwillingness of those around him to revisit the past makes his investigation increasingly isolating.
David and the Reckoners confront an exceptionally powerful Epic as they seek a way to save Prof. The trilogy’s final instalment turns their fight against superhuman tyranny into a test of whether someone they love can still find redemption.
Raquel takes a temporary teaching post in her husband’s Galician hometown, hoping for a fresh start. Learning that her predecessor died by suicide changes the meaning of her welcome. Threats and concealed relationships draw her into an investigation where the school’s tensions spill into her own life.
In the autumn of 1936, former arms smuggler Lorenzo Falcó receives a dangerous infiltration assignment during the Spanish Civil War. Moving through a world of competing intelligence networks, he relies on calculation and adaptability. The mission makes allegiance a practical dilemma in a landscape shaped by violence.
Nineteen years after the earlier story, Harry Potter balances Ministry work with family life while his son Albus struggles with an inherited reputation. Presented as a play script, this continuation brings a new generation into conflict with an unsettled past.
Two families in a Basque town are pulled apart by ETA’s violence. Threats against Bittori’s husband collide with her friend Miren’s loyalty to a son drawn into militancy. Moving through their shared past, the novel follows the damage done to friendship, family ties and the possibility of reconciliation.
Lily builds a new life in Boston and begins a relationship with Ryle, a surgeon whose attraction is difficult to resist. The return of Atlas, her first love, reconnects her with a painful past. Her hopes for the future become entangled with questions about love, trust and the choices she can make.