Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?

Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.

No one knows this better than...

A forthcoming Penguin Random House book publishing in 2023

Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment. Moon tortoises aren't suited to racing and Eli is no natural adventurer.

And he's the 100th caller to a local radio contest, winning him a pair of coveted concert tickets, which he uses to ask out the popular girl he's been crushing on. He struggles to reclaim his good fortune while fighting off long-buried feelings for his best friend - who is definitely not the girl he's supposed to be in love with.

From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for the first time in one edition, complete with an introduction from the author.

Here are twenty meticulously plotted, intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst, featuring assassins, CIA agents, gangsters, and more. A drug-dealing hit man unburdens his fears to a stranger. An overlooked rookie cop is assigned to the department’s file room. A ruthless killer only kills bad guys. A metho...

A sparkling celebration of Paris by some of the greatest writers in the world.

Esteemed social psychologist Mary Murphy offers a definitive reconsideration of teamwork, showing how to implement growth mindset in any organisation to achieve success together.

The scintillating new novel from the author of The End of Mr Y

Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this compulsive and brilliant gothic thriller

‘Like a darker, funnier The White Lotus, The Sleepwalkers is horrifying in the best possible way. I loved every moment of it.’ James Smythe

‘The Sleepwalkers is brilliant, savage and hilarious. The voice is so strong and so distinctive from the get-go, so bold and pitilessly funny. There is no whingeing here, just a fearless takedown which ...

An explosive new thriller from #1 bestselling author Joanne Harris, her first standalone for over a decade

The Secret History meets horror meets Jonathan Safran Foer - with a dash of The Royal Tenenbaums.

An exciting debut novel about a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.

Intriguing, propulsive and profoundly disturbing, this is a fearless look into the dark heart of family politics from a naturally gifted storyteller' JONATHAN COE

THE ROSENTHALS ARE NOT LIKE OTHER FAMILIES

Hannah and Eric are devout Jews living in North London with t...