category: Fiction

It’s not dust she’s looking for . . . it’s dirt.

Esmie is meant to be invisible. A cleaner for an exclusive gated neighborhood in Ireland, Esmie fades into the background, slipping in and out of kitchens and closets, quietly observing her clients’ perfect domestic lives. These entitled families only see a quiet woman with a mop in hand, who speaks with an accent they don’t bother to place, and this is exactly what she wants.

Esmie is well aware that her employers don’t truly see her. To them, she’s a foreigner who cleans up their messes. But there’s one mess she refuses to clean up. Because Esmie is not a cleaner. She’s come to this neighborhood for one purpose and one purpose only. Revenge. Armed with a duster and a cunning plan, Esmie could soon find herself entangled with the very people she came to destroy.

The Cleaner exposes the dark underbelly of a protected society, revealing the dirty truths that lie beneath its polished facades of privilege.

Spring, 1985. Twelve year old Phoebe MacDonald’s world is falling apart.

She has just buried her parents, a fire at their family home claiming both in a freak accident. Now she must leave Scotland, the only place she has ever known, and go to live with her uncle Louis and aunt Maude in their home in the Welsh woods.

As spring turns to summer, Phoebe falls slowly into the rhythm of life with her eccentric guardians in their curious home. But there is no one her age in the nearby village, and she is lonely until she meets a strange girl, Gwyneth, who wanders the surrounding forest barefoot and alone.

Outsiders both, the two girls form a strong bond, though nobody else seems to believe that Gwyneth is real. Phoebe knows better, and soon with her new friend’s help, she begins to see the woods for what they truly are – a place of magic and wonder, where the line between life and death is blurred. Where spirits roam and secrets fester.

Something happened here, a lifetime ago. A wrong that yearns to be put right. The answer is within Phoebe’s grasp, but will revealing it put her in grave danger?

For the woods hold a dark truth, and some will do anything to keep it in the shadows.

‘A great book, an important book that will start a discussion that needs to be had…my heart was in my mouth’ Marian Keyes

‘Exhilarating, viscerally thrilling and SO timely – an ambitious dark comedy that really delivers. Hugely smart, with so much emotional depth and resonance’ Daisy Buchanan

‘More relevant with every day that passes, Don’t Make Me Laugh is written with a comedy insider’s knowledge and a woman’s rage. Sharp, dark and outrageously funny, it’s the #MeToo book we’ve all been waiting for’ Marianne Levy

‘This is an honest, funny, devastating and timely book’ Jenny Colgan

Don’t Make Me Laugh balances anger and humour with the deftest of touches. It is a story about power and control and manipulation, about gendered roles in both the workplace and our personal lives, and about how women are set up in competition with each other. And ultimately – satisfyingly – it’s a story about fighting back.

Two sisters find themselves falling for imaginary men . . . but are they both too good to be true?

Jemma has always loved books. Fiction, non-fiction, the dictionary. She has lived a thousand lives apart from, maybe, her own.

Her favourite book is a romance called Too Good to Be True. She’s got a first edition and all the special editions, but it doesn’t stop her from taking it out from the library whenever she can. Except recently someone keeps taking it out too and she’s forever on the waiting list for it. And worse still, one day there is a note from the mystery borrower – scolding her for bending the cover!

Her twin sister, Clara, can’t understand Jemma’s obsession – surely you should only ever need to read a book once. Clara likes reality and drama – even more so when it’s on TV. Her latest infatuation happens to be the TV adaptation of Too Good to Be True. Especially because the actor is gorgeous.

When Jemma and her book thief start to exchange longer and longer notes, and Clara’s infatuation grows, both sisters find themselves falling for men they have never actually met.

The razor-sharp, hilarious new 2024 black comedy thriller from the bestselling author of Bad Men – now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook.

Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers.
Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian.
Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru.

These three women have absolutely nothing in common – except for the charming, attractive man who’s been
lying to all of them. Now that he’s tied up in a basement, they may just have something to bond over.

But how far is each willing to go to get revenge? As this shared secret brings them closer together, other, deadlier problems come crashing into their lives. Can they put their differences aside to save themselves – and each other?

PRAISE FOR JULIE MAE COHEN:

‘The feminist serial killer you didn’t know you were waiting for. Sensational’ – CLARE MACKINTOSH
‘I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a thriller this much’ – ERIN KELLY
‘Had me turning the pages like a fiend’ – CJ SKUSE
‘Fast and furious and very, very funny’ – TAMMY COHEN
‘Bloody brilliant. Sharp and darkly hilarious’ – ANNA MAZZOLA
‘Will have you cheering and laughing in equal measure’ – PRIMA

At seven o’clock, in a perfectly ordinary tower block near Westminster, four strangers meet for the first time. They each share two things in common: a traumatic experience six months earlier and an inability to put it behind them.

DENIAL
Victoria is a sharp-tongued senior partner at a cut-throat city law firm who refuses to admit she’s grieving. Her privileged upbringing is one she’d rather forget – but might be the one thing she needs to acknowledge in order to move on.

ANGER
Callum is a 29-year old musician who found success way too young. Struggling to stay on the straight and narrow, and forced to keep out of the public eye by his record label, he rages against the world so he can forget what happened that day.

BARGAINING
Mischa is an impressionable young woman from an east London council estate, who left school to be a full-time carer. Plagued by loneliness and blackouts she can’t control, all she wants is something or someone to live for.

DEPRESSION
Freya is a 32-year-old interior designer who had a picture-perfect home, marriage and career but can now barely bring herself to leave the house – nor admit the life she had isn’t one she necessarily wants back.

ACCEPTANCE
Four strangers brought together by the unconventional Genevieve: a determined woman with an unusual theory to test.

But this isn’t a novel about psychotherapy or self-forgiveness. Because there is another reason these four people have been brought together. And when that perfectly ordinary tower block near Westminster turns out to be not quite so ordinary, all five are forced to make some unexpected – and, for some, impossible – decisions . . .

A novel about friendship, strength and love, The Seven O’Clock Club is a reminder that life can give you hope. Even in the darkest of spaces.

Amelia Ireland wrote The Seven O’Clock Club in memory of her mother, who died shortly after being diagnosed with early onset dementia. She travels extensively for work, beginning the novel on a flight to Kampala and finishing it in a Hilton in Frankfurt.

A lawyer by profession, Amelia lives and works in London. The Seven O’Clock Club is her first novel.

THE FESTIVAL is the gripping new psychological thriller by Welsh author, Louise Mumford. Set in the beautiful Welsh countryside and taking place over a festival that’s steeped in folklore and eeriness this is an atmospheric novel that takes us on a wild ride into the heart of the UK’s coolest festival

Libby can’t believe her luck when she wins two tickets to the biggest event of the summer: Solstice, a music festival celebrating the longest day of the year.

Wanting to escape their problems for a few days, Libby, and her best friend Dawn head deep into the Welsh countryside for a weekend of sun, fun and festivities. But what promised to be an exciting trip quickly turns into Libby’s worst nightmare.

The scorching heat intensifies, the music becomes wilder, the people more unpredictable. When Dawn goes missing, Libby worries that something sinister has happened to her friend. And as Libby learns more about the festival’s dark origins, she begins to fear that something might happen to her too…

Louise Mumford was born and lives in South Wales. From a young age she loved books and dancing, but hated having to go to sleep, convinced that she might miss out on something interesting happening in the world whilst she dozed – much to her mother’s frustration! Insomnia has been a part of her life ever since. She studied English Literature at university and as a teacher she tried to pass on her love of reading to her students (and discovered that the secret to successful teaching is . . . stickers! She is aware that that is, essentially, bribery). Louise lives in Cardiff with her husband and spends her time trying to get down on paper all the marvellous and frightening things that happen in her head.

 

After losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home in the Korean countryside to look after her elderly father. There, the discovery of a chest of letters compels her to piece together the violent, vibrant story of his life.

More than just a portrait of one man, I Went to See My Father asks us to look at the ones we love, uncover the secrets they keep, and finally see who they really are..

The new girl in her West Country school, she recently arrived with her troubled mother, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.

But from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan, she’s no longer alone.Bonded by violence, they grow so close they feel like one being: wrapped around each other in bed  at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town.

over the course of the school year, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives ,Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange  and terrifying.