The gods of the Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Then one day they rose up and tore each other apart, killing many hundreds of islanders and changing the Myriad forever.
On the jumbled streets of the Island of Lady’s Crave live Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: living off their wits, diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But now there is something stirring beneath the waves, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it.
Something valuable. Something dangerous. Nothing is quite as it seems, and when the waves try to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save him.
Even if it means compromising not just who Jelt is, but what he is . . .
Deeplight is available in hardback for £12.99.
Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first title in Cassandra Clare’s internationally bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy with this sumptuous new edition. Brand new content, including the first chapter of Chain of Gold. Love is the most dangerous magic of all…
First in the bestselling prequel series to The Mortal Instruments, set in Victorian London. Something terrifying is waiting for Tessa Gray in London’s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Tessa seeks refuge with the Shadowhunters, a band of warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons.
Tessa finds herself fascinated by – and torn between – two best friends…
This is a must have for any Cassandra Clare fan. The limited edition, clothbound hardback is available in hardback for £16.99.
By Holly Bourne
This is a clever and intelligent book dealing with a very difficult subject matter. I would recommend it to adult readers as well as YA. There are some explicit details in the book which some parents may prefer younger YA readers to stay away from.
It looked like love. It felt like love. But this isn’t a love story.
Amelie fell hard for Reese. And she thought he loved her too. But she’s starting to realise that real love isn’t supposed to hurt like this.
So now she’s retracing their story, revisiting all the places he made her cry. Because if she works out what went wrong, perhaps she can finally learn how to get over him.
The Places I’ve Cried in Public is available in paperback for £7.99.
Imogen says: “YA is always my hardest pick – I read so much of it and love so many (and honorary mention to Maggie Stiefvater’s Call Down the Hawk which I read only a day after finishing the Scythe series and ALMOST got this years pick) but the Arc of a Scythe really blew me away.
It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read – instead of a dystopian, government controlling world, Scythe is set in a perfect utopia. Illness has been cured, there is world peace – all watched over by the all-knowing Thunderhead, a Super AI that cares for the world and all its people. And nope – before you start thinking ‘oh, no, evil computer AI controlling everything!’ it really really doesn’t go there.
Instead, with illness being non-existent (and war and crime…), death too has been irradicated. The Thunderhead can bring the dead back to life – but to stop the world being overcrowded, the most moral people in the world are tasked with being Scythes – hired to kill randomly to keep the population down.
Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes’ apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe’s apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom, it becomes clear that the winning apprentice’s first task will be to glean the loser.
The first book is awesome, the second even better, and the third takes you to heights even I wasn’t expecting. It is a brilliant series – and the box set cover art is pretty cool too!”
The Arc of Sythe Boxed Set is available for £23.97.
Frank Li is a Korean-American high-school student whose parents have strict views that their children should only date other Koreans. Frank has already lost his beloved older sister who broke these rules, and now he likes his white classmate, Brit. Facing similar predicaments, and at risk of being ostracised from their families, Frank, and fellow Korean-American, Joy, pretend to date each other to keep their parents happy and hide their real non-Korean love-interests. But with college looming and the lies mounting, how long can they keep up the act?
Available in paperback for £7.99. Get in touch to order your copy.
The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series. It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman’s internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.
The Toll is available in paperback for £7.99. Click here to order your copy.
Spensa’s world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity’s only defense is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the skies.
Pilots have become the heroes of what’s left of the human race. Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them; of soaring above Earth and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father’s – a pilot who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, placing Spensa’s chances of attending flight school somewhere between slim and none.
No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, but she is still determined to fly. And the Krell just made that a possibility. They’ve doubled their fleet, making Spensa’s world twice as dangerous .
. . but their desperation to survive might just take her skyward .
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Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams – but he can’t pull it off alone. A convict with a thirst for revenge.
A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith.
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Six dangerous outcasts.
One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction – if they don’t kill each other first.
In a perfect world, what is there left to fear? A chilling and thought-provoking sci-fi novel from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. A dark, gripping and witty thriller in which the only thing humanity has control over is death. In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (“gleaned”) by professional scythes.
Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes’ apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe’s apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom, it becomes clear that the winning apprentice’s first task will be to glean the loser.