Flyleaf

As inspirational as it is aspirational, Perfect Hideaways in South Africa Book 3 will whisk you away to spectacular settings all over the country. The homes featured all boast great architecture, fabulous interiors and unique locations. Perfect for armchair travellers! You can really lose yourself in these glorious pages!

Picador Africa

Herman Charles Bosman is believed to have said ” When a city has got enough incongruities you feel that you can live in it.” Jeepers, Joburg certainly ticks that box! Join Ivan Vladislavic as he strolls the streets of Joburg – on “the paths and stories walked into them” –  meeting its ghosts and journeying through time and space, finding meaning in the everyday and incidental. “Walking and thinking turn out to be close cousins”  Ivan’s thoughts and musings as he strides through streets that you’ll recognise are at times amusing, at times serious, thought-provoking and often heartening.  A beautiful ode to this crazy city we call home.

‘Ivan Vladislavić occupies a place all of his own in the South African literary landscape: a versatile stylist and formal innovator whose work is nevertheless firmly rooted in contemporary urban life.’ – J.M. Coetzee

Some of the most moving prose ever written about this former mining town… What a chronicle of a city in perpetual crisis. – Jacob Dlamini

Bloomsbury

Are you a true crime fan? Are you intrigued by internet voyeurism? Rabbit Hole is for you! This is Teddy Angstrom’ story. Teddy’s older sister, Angie, disappeared a decade ago, and her case remains unsolved. When Teddy’s father takes his own life, she discovers that he had been active in an online community obsessed with Angie’s cold-case disappearance. And so Teddy embarks on her own investigation, leading her down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, gun-nut boyfriends, and a mysterious amateur sleuth named Mickey…

A twisty, pacy crime thriller with wit and unusual plotlines … Has some telling things to say about the voyeuristic and entitled nature of fetishistic true crime fans – independent.co.uk,

A compelling study of grief, betrayal, the slippery nature of memory and our complicated relationship with other people’s tragedies – The Guardian

Tor

No one in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the house – and its last, lonely heir – go to rot. Starling House is uncanny and ugly and fully of secrets, just like its heir. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but it might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. It feels dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.

But Opal isn’t the only one interested in the house, or the horrors and wonders that lie beneath it. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it. She’ll have to dig up her family’s ugly history and let herself dream of a better future. She’ll have to go down, down into Underland, and claw her way back to the light . . .

‘Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent’ – Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six

A Reece Witherspoon Book Club pick

Bantam

New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is not sure what she’s doing with her life. She lives quietly, sharing an apartment with her best friend, Izzy. Then a favourite customer gives her an old book. Full of strange writing and mysterious drawings, at the very front there is a handwritten message:

This is the Book of Doors. Hold it in your hand, and any door is every door.

Cassie is about to discover that the Book of Doors is a special book – a magic book. A book that bestows extraordinary abilities on whoever possesses it. And she is about to learn that there are other magic books out there that can also do wondrous – or dreadful and terrifying – things.

Because where there is magic there is power and there are those who will stop at nothing to possess it.

Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is Drummond Fox who has a secret library of magical books hidden in the shadows for safekeeping, a man fleeing his own demons. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all . . .

Because this book is worth killing for.

“A stunning fever dream of a story that feels completely real – don’t miss this fantastic thriller debut.” — Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author

“A brilliant page-turner – a clever and beautiful novel about the power of books, and a tribute to those who champion them.” — Sunyi Dean, bestselling author of The Book Eaters

“A whirlwind journey that opens doors into other worlds but also into the heart of the human experience.” — Kirkus Reviews

Bloomsbury

Desire. Consumption. Reckless abandon. Money. Indiscretion. Bad behaviour.  Its all there in the new campus novel from Kiley Reid, author of the smash hit, Such a Fun Age.   Everyone is doing something slightly wrong – not criminally wrong – but just not right!

It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks and illicit intrigue.

The story unfurls like a magic trick, its breeziness disguising an incisive and damning exploration of economics and ethics in America…Reid is a social observer of the highest order, knowing exactly when a small detail or beat of dialogue will resonate beyond the confines of the scene. . . . It’s a testament to Reid’s gifts that . . . she never judges her characters. Her world, like the real one, is populated by people whose shortsightedness lives alongside good intentions. . . . With her perceptive eye and ear, Reid imbues her novel with the stuff, literally and figuratively, of life. . . . Her characters feel unique, often lovable — and always human. Money drives them in the way it drives us all, and that’s the beauty (and the terror) of Reid’s point. With her remarkable examination of American monoculture — from fast food to pop culture to handed-down ideals — she tells a story about economics that’s neither poverty porn nor finance fantasy. Instead, it’s about the hows and whys of everyday consumerism and the insidious toll it takes on our lives. . . .” —The New York Times Book – New York Times

Reid really shines. The dialogue and personalities she created for each dorm resident, each classmate and each parent are so complete, it’s like tuning into a juicy reality show already in progress. . . . Consumerism, race, desire, grief and growth are key themes in Reid’s novel, but connection might be the thread through them all.” —USA Today

“Kiley Reid is an expert at teasing apart the messy, complicated, nuanced layers of social dynamics, and has a rare gift for making the unknown feel intimately familiar and the familiar feel brand new. In Come and Get It, she’s crafted a story that moves with the momentum and inevitability of a snowball rolling down a mountain. I couldn’t put it down, and I didn’t want to either.” —Emily Henry, author of Happy Place

Michael Joseph

On an idyllic private island off the coast of Mykonos, movie star , Lana Farrar invited a small group of friends and family away for the Easter weekend.  As the terrifying wind – known to the Greeks as The Fury – whipped up so too did the events on the island and one person lands up dead…

“This is a tale of murder.

Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it?

Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island.

I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ― it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder.

We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge. What followed was a game of cat and mouse ― a battle of wits, full of twists and turns, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered.

But who am I?

My name is Elliot Chase, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard.”

“Gloriously atmospheric and utterly riveting, this is my favourite Alex Michaelides yet. Readers you are in for a treat! But then what else would you expect from the undisputed master of the twist?”
—Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment and The Guest List

“Alex Michaelides hits the trifecta with his third novel, The Fury. The highly original story presents the reader with the king of all unreliable narrators, enough twists and turns to power two novels, and a host of characters that bleed right on the page. For fans of erudite, locked room mysteries told with style and theatrical panache, The Fury delivers, on all counts.” —David Baldacci

Headline

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.

Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job will be different. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes–especially after what happened last time.

Because the one thing she’s worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to—her real identity—just walked right into this town. Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn’t be higher–but then, Evie has always liked a challenge…

“This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.”—Reese Witherspoon

“You’re in for a thrill ride of twists in this fast-paced novel that kept me on my toes from start to finish.”—New York Post

Cool and clever and full-on fun, the sort of slippery high-stakes now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t thriller that few novelists are bold enough to attempt these days.”—A.J. Finn

Pan MacMillan

Firstly, we meet the Abrahamson family – Becca, her husband Michael and their three children; teenagers, Rachel and Felix and the youngest, Petey.  Petey is handicapped.  He’s non-verbal and requires 24 hour care but is responsive and much loved by his family.   Then we meet Ruth and Meshach, members of a survivalist cult hidden away in a forest living lives totally removed from the modern world.  And finally, in the aftermath of an appalling terrorist attack, we meet FBI Special Agent in Charge, Aalia Knox and her team who are under enormous pressure to locate the perpetrators.

You feel like you’re watching the news as it happens live, with twists and turns that you honestly don’t see coming.  I was gripped!!

“Fast-paced and gripping, Snyckers builds the tension perfectly in this chillingly realistic and contemporary portrayal of right-wing domestic terror and survivalist cultism.” – Andrew Brown

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