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Brought to you by Penguin. **Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023** **WINNER Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023** **SHORTLISTED for The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award** **SHORTLISTED for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024** Sally Diamond cannot...

Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours, he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins. The victims are all men. Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries. Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation?

Tippy Chan is eleven years old, and she lives in a small town in a very quiet part of New Zealand. Her Uncle Pike and his new boyfriend Devon are looking after her while her mum is on a Christmas cruise. Tippy can’t get enough of her uncle’s old Nancy Drew books. So, when her teacher’s body is found beside Riverstone’s only traffic light, it looks like Tippy’s moment has arrived.

It's four months after Christmas, and Tippy Chan, Uncle Pike and Devon are reunited in Riverstone for the first anniversary of Tippy's father's death. When an early-morning explosion destroys the town hall and kills three people, the town is thrown into chaos. An arrest is made and Riverstone decides the case is closed except for Tippy and the Nancys, who immediately know something is wrong. With rumours spreading, tempers flaring and the threat of another attack hanging over the town, they must work out who to trust, who to ignore, and how to stop a killer before he strikes again.

Summer love was never supposed to behave. Summer Lovin’ is a Spellwings Press anthology filled with romance, fantasy, darkness, humour, heat, heartbreak, and beautiful chaos. Across this collection, love takes many forms: dangerous vampires drawn together by blood and desire, ancient gods playing at war and seduction, a spicy ghost story, a chaotic Carnivale romp, longing and duty, and vulnerability beneath the summer sun. These stories range from sweet to spicy, dark to playful, tragic to satirical.

THE AWARD-WINNING, WORD-OF-MOUTH NEW ZEALAND BESTSELLER NOMINATED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF NEW ZEALAND'S JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE 'I was dazzled by this book's intimacy, truth and complexity. It has everything I truly love in fiction' Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard...

A beautiful young law student dies on the concrete below her third-story window in chilly Dunedin. It's clear enough how she died. What isn't is why—or who's involved. Plenty of people had a reason to hate Ashleigh, with her straight As and perfect looks. She'd fallen out with her flatmates, and her boyfriend Xander was having second thoughts about their future together. And then there are the weird messages . . .

Outside, white death is raging. Inside, the real hell is waiting. When Suzanna’s car breaks down in the middle of a snowstorm, a lonely cabin becomes her last hope. But instead of shelter, she finds Benjamin—massive, bleeding, and dangerously unstable. A man without morals. A hunted predator guarding a bag full of money and a loaded gun. To Benjamin, Suzanna is nothing more than an inconvenient witness he cannot afford. In her terror, she offers him a bargain: she will treat his gunshot wound if he lets her live. What begins is a cruel game of power and submission.

Three bombs shook Dublin in May 1974. Angie and Joe meet in the wake of the single worst atrocity of the Troubles. Brought together by the effect of the bombings on their lives, these two young people set out to discover who is responsible, facing confrontation with dark forces in Irish and British society. As Angie and Joe navigate the aftermath of the bombings, their journey leads them deep into the underbelly of 1970s Dublin, a time and place rife with cultural and political turmoil.

It's been four months since Tippy, Uncle Pike and Devon were together for Christmas. Now back for the first anniversary of Tippy's father's death, the Nancys are reformed when Riverstone is rocked by an early morning explosion that kills three people and destroys the town hall. A new case is born, and once again, it is up to the Nancys to go against the flow and ignore police orders to get to the truth. It's great to be back in Nancy business, but this time it's all different.

Future-proof your mindset and sharpen your performance with science-based tools from one of Australia's top corporate wellness providers. Who has time for self-care? Chelsea Pottenger didn't. In May 2015, the successful entrepreneur found herself battling postnatal depression so severe, she...

The chin tattoo confirms the victim is Maori. The whorls of ink from her lower lip to her chin - the moko - is worn only by Maori women. So her ethnicity is a given. Finding who murdered her and dumped her body in the pool at the base of Mason's Rock waterfall is DI Nyree Bradshaw's latest case.

“Shocking, disturbing, and utterly original.” —Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author This “haunting and poignant tale, one that won’t be easy to forget any time soon” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine), follows an enigmatic woman confronting her unknown past—from...

A pitch-perfect new rural romance from the bestselling author of Once Burnt, Twice Shy. When a drought dries up the contents of a water hole on her uncle's property, the last thing Investigative journalist Phillipa Davenport expected to find was a body. On a deadline and with a severe case of...

When Finn and Zoe meet, they fall in love hard and fast. But Finn is about to go travelling, fulfilling a promise to his late sister to raise money in support of her illness. It's terrible timing, but Zoe knows their feelings are strong enough to stand the test of time. While Finn is away, however, Zoe suffers a life-changing injury. And it leaves her wondering whether Finn could possibly still love her when he comes home....

"Some lessons have to be learned the hard way, Casey." When my father died, I thought I had already lost everything. I was wrong. To save my sister, I sold myself at a secret auction. I became Lot 42. An object. A commodity. A price. I told myself I could survive anything as long as she was safe. Anything. Except this.

The stunning second novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts After the death of their young daughter, Penny Whittaker and Adam Riggs are struggling. Penny's lifelong dream of becoming a successful artist has stalled, and Riggs, battling an addiction to...

From the best-selling Karly Lane comes a pitch-perfect story of rural tragedy, old flames reawakened and the meaning of home. A tribute to the Rural Fire Service and the work they selflessly do. Recently divorced mother-of-two Samantha Murphy agrees to house-sit for her parents for a few...

Four selected episodes from the two BBC Radio 4 series of Touchline Tales. In these programmes, old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce, and trade tales...

Build a better financial future for yourself and the world. Former monk turned financial advisor, Doug Lynam, shares the rules of money management that will change your approach to earning, saving, and investing. From Monk to Money Manager is an entertaining and self-deprecating journey through...