A curated selection of upcoming titles & special editions that we’re looking forward to – ready for pre-orders!
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Signed & Dedicated Pre-orders
Unicorn Post by Emma Yarlett
– SIGNED & DEDICATED
An enchanting novelty book about a quick-thinking little girl and a unicorn, with magical surprises to open throughout.
On a day full of rainbows, a little girl finds a unicorn knocking on the door of her treehouse. The unicorn must be lost! Luckily the girl knows just what to do. Together they visit places all around the town to see if they can find the unicorn’s home. From the pet shop to the funfair, children will love lifting the flaps to find out more about where the girl and the unicorn are heading on their delightful adventure. And they might just discover that the perfect home was a lot closer than they imagined.
Unicorn Post by Emma Yarlett
Hardback, £12.99
Published 28th August 2025 – signed pre-orders will be posting in early September
A Totally Big Umbrella by Sarah Crossan & Rebecca Cobb
– SIGNED & DEDICATED
Get your copy of A Totally Big Umbrella, signed & dedicated by illustrator Rebecca Cobb!
A tender picture and insightful read-aloud picture book about anxiety: showing children aged 3-7 years old they do not have to carry their worries alone – there’s always room under your umbrella for someone else.
Tallulah doesn’t like the rain.
It spoils her new dress. It makes her favourite biscuits soggy. It ruins EVERYTHING.
So, she gets an umbrella from Grandma. For a while, she feels better… But is one umbrella enough? Talullah worries about rain thundering down, and washing her away. She decides that she needs complete protection.
So she gets another TOTALLY BIG umbrella and under her umbrella house, Talullah feels safe. But … is Talullah missing out on all the fun happening around her? How can she manage her fears and still BE in the world?
A Totally Big Umbrella illustrated by Rebecca Cobb
Hardback, £12.99
Published 28th August 2025 – signed pre-orders will be posting in early September
The Vanishing Act by Jo Jakeman
– SIGNED & DEDICATED
Life as a missing person is absolute murder…
When artist Eloise Ford hears that human remains found in an abandoned mine are believed to be those of long-missing teenager Elizabeth King, the shock sends her reeling. It can’t be true.
Eloise knows this for a fact because she is Elizabeth King. Now, her carefully curated life in Cornwall is falling apart.
Her husband is acting strangely, her children aren’t speaking to her and she can’t sell a painting for love nor money. But much more worrying are the signs that someone knows exactly who she is… and why she had to vanish thirty years ago.
Eloise needs answers. Is her son’s ex-girlfriend just plain annoying… or does she know something? Will the detection skills of the online ‘Truth Seekers’ group prove more than amateurish? What’s the real story behind those village newcomers? And just how far would she go to keep her family, her friends, and her fraudulent life, safe?
The Vanishing Act by Jo Jakeman
Hardback, £21.99
Published 11th September 2025
My Husband’s Wife
– SIGNED & DEDICATED FIRST PRINT RUN EDITION
Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be.
Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.
One house. One husband. Two women.
Someone is lying.
Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls.
But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.
My Husband’s Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.
My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney
Hardback, £16.99
Published 19th February 2026
Books we’re excited for & indie editions
Kataraina by Becky Manawatu
– BOOKSELLER FAVOURITE ★★★★★
The much-awaited follow-up to the award-winning international bestseller Aue.
In Aue, eight-year-old Arama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikoura, setting in motion the ensuing tragedy, which resulted in Stu’s death. Aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but, silenced by abuse, her voice was absent from the story.
In Kataraina, Kat and her whanau take over the telling. As one, the family recounts her childhood and the time when she first began to feel the greenness of the swamp in her veins — the swamp that holds her tears and the tears of generations of tipuna; the swamp on the land owned by Stu that has been growing since the day the girl shot the man.
Unflinching in its portrayal of intergenerational trauma and violence, tender in its harnessing of the hope that future generations represent, Kataraina is a stunning novel that confirms Becky Manawatu as one of the most talented and powerful writers working in Aotearoa New Zealand today.
Kataraina by Becky Manawatu
Paperback, £12.99
Published 14th August
9781917189194
Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson
– SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
– BOOKSELLER FAVOURITE ★★★★★
Jacqueline Wilson is back with an adult sequel to her beloved children’s novel The Illustrated Mum!
Will Dolphin retrace old patterns – or illustrate her own?
‘Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here who’s not very well. She says she’s called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?’
Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, she’s painfully aware that not much has changed.
She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night. Dol yearns to climb out of the rut she is stuck in, but has no idea where to begin. Could gardener Lee and his daughter Ava be her chance for a wholesome family life? Or maybe a steamy romance with roguish actor Joel is just what she needs.
And what about the offer from her sister Star, now a successful doctor, to move to Scotland and live with her young family?As the choices threaten to overwhelm her, will Dol fall into the role of extra in someone else’s story once again – or find the strength to forge a brand new path of her own?
Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson
Hardback, £22
Published 28th August
The Predicament by William Boyd
– SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, is back in the shadows. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has returned to a life of secrets and subterfuge. Dax is sent to Guatemala under the guise of covering a tinderbox presidential election, where the ruthless decisions of the Mafia provoke pitch-black warfare in collusion with the CIA.
As political turmoil erupts, Gabriel’s reluctant involvement deepens. His escape plan leads him to West Berlin, where he uncovers a chilling realization: there is a plot to assassinate magnetic young President John F. Kennedy.
In a race against time, Gabriel must navigate deceit and danger, knowing that the stakes have never been higher.
The Predicament, the second novel in the bestselling espionage trilogy starring Gabriel Dax, William Boyd weaves a masterful tale of suspense, loyalty, love and the dark temptations of spy craft.
The Predicament by William Boyd
Hardback, £20
Published 4th September
Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon
– BOOKSELLER FAVOURITE ★★★★★
Yscalin, land of sunshine and lavender, will soon be ablaze.
It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind. Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso. Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name.
Together, they intend to usher in a better world. A better world seems impossibly distant to Estina Melaugo, who hunts the Draconic beasts that have slept across the world for centuries. And now the great wyrm Fýredel is stirring, and Yscalin will be the first to fall…
A story of human resilience in the face of dire circumstances, Among the Burning Flowers leads readers through the gripping and tragic events that pave the way for the opening of the million-copy bestseller The Priory of The Orange Tree.
Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon
Hardback, £18.99
Published 11th September 2025
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
– limited signed indie exclusive
Who’s got time to think about murder when there’s a wedding to plan? It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving.
Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who fears for their life, the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code and will stop at nothing to get it.
Plunged back into their most explosive investigation yet, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
Hardback, £22
Published 25th September 2025
Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
One day you’ll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did’
Charlie Mackesy’s four unlikely friends are wandering through the wilds again. They’re not sure what they are looking for. They do know that life can be difficult, but that they love each other, and cake is often the answer.
When the dark clouds come, can the boy remember what he needs to get through the storm?
Always Remember by Charlie Macksey
Hardback, £22
Published 9th October 2025
The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer
– INDIE EDITION SIGNED WITH SPRAYED EDGE
Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him.
He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury apartment. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back.
But, as events unfold, it starts to dawn on him that perhaps she didn’t leave of her own accord after all…?
The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer
Hardback, £22
Published 9th October 2025
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
– INDIE EDITION
It’s happening – Book of Dust Volume Three! Preorder your indie exclusive copy (details to be confirmed)
‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?’
‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’
When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra . . .
In The Rose Field, their quests converge in the most dangerous, breathtaking and world-changing ways. They must take help from spies and thieves, gryphons and witches, old friends and new, learning all the while the depth and surprising truths of the alethiometer. All around them, the world is aflame – made terrifying by fear, power and greed.
As they move East, towards the red building that will reunite them and give them answers – on Dust, on the special roses, on imagination – so too does the Magisterium, at war against all that Lyra holds dear.
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
Hardback, £25
Published 23rd October 2025
The Murder at World’s End
– SIGNED INDIE EDITION WITH STENCILLED EDGE
Cornwall, 1910. On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparations for the apocalypse that he believes will accompany the passing of Halley’s Comet.
The Hall must be sealed from top to bottom – every window, chimney and keyhole closed off before night falls. But what the pompous, dishonest Viscount has failed to take into account is the danger that lies within… By morning, he will be dead in his sealed study, murdered by his own ancestral crossbow.
All eyes turn to Steven Pike, Tithe Hall’s newest under-butler. Fresh out of Borstal for a crime he didn’t commit, he is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. His unlikely ally? Miss Decima Stockingham, the foul-mouthed, sharp as a tack, 80-year-old family matriarch.
Fearless and unconventional, she relishes chaos and puzzles alike, and a murder is just the thrill she’s been waiting for. Together, this mismatched duo must navigate secret passages, buried grudges and rising terror to unmask the killer before it’s too late…
The Murder at World’s End
Hardback, £16.99
Published 30th October 2025
The Everlasting
– BOOKSELLER FAVOURITE ★★★★★
A legend. A lie. A love story. A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame.
He’s sent back through time to make sure she plays her part… even if it breaks his heart.
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters – but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.
Centuries later, Owen Mallory – failed soldier, struggling scholar – falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives, and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.
But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend, and finally tell a different story, they’ll have to rewrite history itself – and change their lives in the process.
The Everlasting
Hardback, £22
Published 30th October 2025
Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders
– SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Rory Stewart spent nearly a decade as a MP of Britain’s most rural constituency, Penrith and the Border. As he came to know and love this part of Cumbria, he found inspiration in the beauty of its landscape, its rugged history as a frontierland, and in the spirit of its people.
Drawing on pieces originally written for a local newspaper, Debatable Land is an unforgettable portrait of rural Britain today – a place caught in tensions between farming and the natural world, between the need to preserve and to grow, between local and national politics – as well as a timeless evocation of the history, people and landscape of Cumbria.
Middleland by Rory Stewart
Hardback, £22
Published 30th October 2025