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In March, we publish Kate Collins’ scintillatingly sinister folk horror debut #AGoodHouseForChildren. The story follows two women – separated by forty years – as they move into The Reeve, a large house that stands on the edge of the Dorset cliffs. Soon, Lydia and Orla realise that the longer they stay at the Reeve, the more deadly certain their need to keep the children safe from whatever lurks inside it...

To be in with a chance of winning one of five proofs of this brilliant gothic novel, simply follow @serpentstail and @katecollinsetc, like this post and tag a friend below. Competition ends midnight Thursday 26th January. UK only.

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‘I am my soul adrift / the whole night sky denies me light / without you’

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We are thrilled to be publishing June Jordan’s vital modern classic #Haruko/#LovePoems, first published in 1994. A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan's spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Romantics and poetry lovers – don’t miss this! Publishing 26th January.

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POV: you are an ageing creative writing professor at a small university in Vermont. When your sister passes away, you are forced to adopt her son - a good-looking, rich, and cold 17-year-old. You worry that he is influencing your two young daughters. When he joins your class his writing is chilling. You wonder: is he evil?

Then you start following him. You can't stop thinking about what he might be doing. Who he's with. What crimes he may - or may not - have committed...

Surely you're not the psychopath. But here you are, on a freezing winter's evening, waiting in your car, watching as he goes into the house of a pretty student in your class. And things are only going to get darker…

Who's the psychopath now?

Nathan Oates' impeccable A FLAW IN THE DESIGN is an intense, page-turning novel for fans of We Need to Talk About Kevin that we can't WAIT for you to read. And we have proofs. Think you can handle the tension? Let us know in the comments...

#aflawinthedesign #nathanoates #bookstagram #igreads #thriller

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'This Patricia Highsmith-esque tale [features] an untrustworthy narrator judging her employer's life of excess and desperate attempts to infiltrate a glittering world' Evening Standard 'The debuts you'll love in 2023'

The most hotly anticipated debut of spring 2023 is almost here - and we have finished copies! Look at the gloss on this... 💎

Are you ready to step inside the dark world of a Russian oligarch's family - seen from the perspective of their daughter's tutor? This is dark academia with a whole new slant...

On a balmy evening in late March, an oligarch's wife hosts a luxurious party on a superyacht moored in the Maldives. This is what Kata has wanted for a long time: acceptance into the glittering world of high society. But there are those who aim to come between Kata and her goal, and they are closer to home than she could have imagined.

Mel, a young English woman employed to tutor Kata's precocious daughter and navigate her through the class codes of English privilege, watches from the sidelines. The closest Mel gets to such privilege is as hired help to the wealthy, and she is deeply resentful.

Exquisitely written and deliciously unreliable, Queen K is a pageturner with a cruel, addictive heart. Out 16th Feb.

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