We’re thrilled to announce some exciting upcoming releases—and to celebrate, we’re offering a handpicked selection of special editions. Look out for signed, dedicated, and exclusive indie editions of Katherine Rundell’s eagerly awaited follow-up to Impossible Creatures, as well as signed copies of Tristan Gooley’s latest exploration of the natural world.
Here are just some of the titles we have lined up:
The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell
The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There is justice to be done.
Return to the magic of the Archipelago… The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell’s epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.
When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the Archipelago – the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon’s lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice…
The unmissable sequel to Impossible Creatures, British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year, Foyles Children’s Book of the Year and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award
We are offering signed and dedicated indie editions available for pre order.
The Hidden Seasons by Tristan Gooley
In The Hidden Seasons, Tristan Gooley shows us how to read the clues that the sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather give us – but that we continually miss, because we don’t know how and where to look.
Spring is the time of wildflower signs, unique cloud shapes and curious animal behaviour. Summer is a time of coastal clues, astronomical extremes and secret grass patterns. Autumn is a time for reading leaves, deciphering scents and investigating fungi. And in winter, we learn to read snow, deepen our star knowledge and use rare methods to find clues in overlooked places, including indoors.
As with Tristan Gooley’s bestsellers The Walker’s Guide, How to Read Water and How to Read a Tree, The Hidden Seasons inspires us to explore these signs for ourselves, giving us many rich insights into our turning year. Soon we will be able to anticipate and celebrate daily changes that few notice, however surprising they may be.
And the seasons will never look, sound or smell the same again.
We are offering signed copies.
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.
But his idyll – and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot – is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library.
Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for help: the wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren; brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen. Together they dream up an impossible, fantastical scheme that they scarcely imagine will work: to summon the fabled dragon King Sorrow to kill those tormenting Arthur.
But the six stumble backwards into a deadly bargain – they soon learn they must choose a
new sacrifice for King Sorrow each year or one of them will become his next victim.
Unleashing consequences they can neither predict nor control, this promise will, over the
course of four decades, shape and endanger their lives in ways they could never expect.
We are offering signed editions.
The House of the Wolf by Sir Tony Robinson
Rome
Father Asser is waiting to die.
His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on false charges of heresy, but then salvation arrives in an unexpected form. Cardinal Balotelli also dreams of a better Europe, free from the ravages of the Norlanders. He has an important job for Asser, one that will take him home to Wessex.
Wessex
King Aethelwolf’s power is fading, but none of his feckless children are fit to rule.
His eldest sons would rather fight each other than the blood-thirsty Norlander invaders. His daughter, Swift, is clever and cunning, but sometimes blinded by her ambition. Finally there’s Alfred, his once-promising younger son, whom nobody has seen in years.
Then Wolf meets a young priest with a proposition from Rome that could change everything.
Lindisfarne
Rhiannon is a slave who wants to see her Saxon captors punished for their crimes. So when she meets Guthrum, a Norlander hell-bent on wiping Wessex from the map, she sets out on a journey of destruction.
So begins an epic struggle between greed and idealism, ambition and betrayal, freedom and tyranny. Because change always meets with resistance and, on the path to power, nobody can be trusted.
We are thrilled that Sir Tony Robinson is going to spend some time signing and dedicating copies of his book especially for our customers! If you’d like a dedicated copy, please select a signed edition and tell us the name for the dedication. We’ll post signed & dedicated copies at publication.