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An exciting 2025 release by bestselling Piatkus author!

<b>From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Priory of the Orange Tree </i>- the soaring fifth novel in the bestselling Bone Season series.</b> <b>'A fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ... Lavish, ebullient, escapist' <i>The Times</i></b> <b>'Samantha Shannon is a master storyteller and wordsmith' Katherine Webber </b> <b>'Blazing a trail for a new generation of feminist fantasy authors' <i>Grazia</i></b> <b>Everything is about to change. </b> Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade - but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory. As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret - one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals. Before she can return to London, she must help the Domino Programme unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist. And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover her memories - Arcturus Mesarthim - might also hold the key to saving Italy. <b>Lyrical, touching and action-packed, <i>The Dark Mirror </i>drives the bestselling Bone Season series forward, showing Samantha Shannon at the height of her powers.</b>

<p></p> <p> <strong>Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.</strong> </p> <p>Two academic rivals from Cambridge must travel to hell to rescue the soul of their advisor. Getting there was easy. Surviving it - and each other - is another thing entirely.</p> <p>2025's most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by <em>Sunday Times </em>Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.</p>

A Curse Carved In Bone [Bok / Inbunden]

<p><b>Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death.</b><br/><br/><b><i>The hardcover edition features beautiful interior illustrations.</i></b><br/><br/>"Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath."<br/><br/>In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family.<br/><br/>There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family's latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees.<br/><br/>But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters' bond but also their lives will be at risk...<br/><br/><b><i>The River Has Roots</i> is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar.</b></p>

<p>This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum's fourteen Oz novels in which he developed his utopian vision and which garnered an immense and loyal following.<i> The Wizard of Oz</i> (1900) introduces Dorothy, who arrives from Kansas and meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and a host of other characters. <i>The Emerald City of Oz</i> (1910) finds Dorothy, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry coming to Oz just as the wicked Nome King is plotting to conquer its people. In Baum's final novel, <i>Glinda of Oz</i> (1920), Dorothy and Princess Ozma try to prevent a battle between the Skeezers and the Flatheads.<br/><br/>Tapping into a deeply rooted desire to live in a peaceful country which values the sharing of talents and gifts, Baum's imaginative creation, like all great utopian literature, holds out the possibility for change. Baum's classics spawned many adaptations, including the 1939 Judy Garland-starring classic film <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> and Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, <i>Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. </i>The latter was adapted into the second-highest grossing Broadway musical of all time, <i>Wicked, </i>which is also phenomenally successful in London's West End. Included in this edition are a selection of original illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill, a jacketed hardcover, top-staining and coloured endpapers.</p>

<strong><em>Howl's Moving Castle </em>meets <em>The House in the Cerulean Sea</em> in Andrea Eames' debut cosy fantasy: a cheeky butcher's daughter, a befuddlingly handsome sorcerer, and his clever talking cat unlock magical secrets in the dark heart of their kingdom -</strong> <strong>and just might discover the meaning of true love.</strong> <p>Everyone in Foss Butcher's village knows what happens when the magic-workers come; they harvest human hearts to use in their spells. That's just how life in her kingdom works. But Foss, plain, clumsy, and practical as a boot, never expected anyone would want hers.</p> <p>When a sorcerer snags a piece of Foss's heart without meaning to, she is furious. For once a heart is snagged, the experience is ... well, unpleasant. So, Foss finds herself stomping toward the grand City to keep his enchanted House and demands that he fixes her before she keels over and dies, or whatever happens when hearts are Snagged.</p> <p>But the sorcerer, Sylvester, is not what she expected. Petulant, idle, and new to his powers, Sylvester has no clue how to undo the heart-taking, or how to do much of anything really, apart from sulk. Foss's only friend is a talking cat and the walls themselves have moods.</p> <p>As Foss searches for a cure, she accidentally uncovers that there is much more to the heart-taking - and to the magic-workers themselves - than she could have ever imagined...</p>