‘A cracking futuristic adventure, told with pace and panache and packed with vivid, shiver-inducing description’ Daily Mail‘Read this in one sitting. DEEPLY satisfying.’ Lucy ManganForget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth.Forget anything that doesn’t help you surviveLynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease....

‘A cracking futuristic adventure, told with pace and panache and packed with vivid, shiver-inducing description’ Daily Mail‘Read this in one sitting. DEEPLY satisfying.’ Lucy ManganForget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth.Forget anything that doesn’t help you surviveLynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease....

A post-apocalyptic debut novel in a tradition that includes The Hunger Games and Station Eleven, this vision of a possible future shows humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, the forging of vital bonds when everything is lost, and, most centrally, a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny.Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As the m...

“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent.”...

“It’s ‘Deliverance’ encased in ice… Denfeld’s novel is indeed loaded with suspense, its resonance comes from its surprising tilt towards storytelling restraint, a rarity in this typical crackling genre. Elegiac, informative and disquieting. . . . The novel gallops to a suitably heart-racing finish.” — New York Times Book ReviewA haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchante...

Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER - IBA Crime Fiction Book of the YearBy the author of the No. 1 Bestselling Strange Sally Diamond'I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.'Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story.He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Alice, who illustrates his award-winning children's books and gives him her unstinting devotion....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor, read by Andrew Scott and Asa Butterfield.None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning.Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own?Was it the terrible accident?Or when they found the first body?'If you like my stuff, you'll like this' STEPHEN KING

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Fierce by Gin Phillips, read by Cassandra Campbell.Lincoln is a good boy. At the age of four, he is curious, clever and well behaved. He does as his mum says and knows what the rules are.'The rules are different today. The rules are that we hide and do not let the man with the gun find us.'When an ordinary day at the zoo turns into a nightmare, Joan finds herself trapp...

From the multiple-award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II—a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day.On June 5, 1944, as dawn rises over a small town on the Normandy coast of France, Emmanuelle is making the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers in the dark days since the Germ...

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." – The Washington PostFrom the author of When We Lost Our Heads, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans – in love with each other since they can remember – whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future.**...

From the author of The Bear, the enthralling story of two women separated by millennia, but linked by an epic journey that will transform them both.Forty thousand years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate.But the unforgiving landsc...

**NATIONAL BEST SELLERFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.**In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nat...