Book of the week

Family, faith, and friction collide in this hilarious yet heartfelt novel about two sisters divided by their choices. Can they bridge the gap before it’s too late?

Follow Karen Hamm, a relentless researcher whose discovery at an airport sets off a dangerous chain reaction. Suspecting corruption and child abduction, she risks everything to unravel a web of deceit and organized crime. This gripping narrative blends real-world intrigue with personal vengeance, challenging you to question how far you'd go for justice.

Sedentary lifestyles, high-calorie diets, emotional stress and thousands of other toxins test our immune system and health daily. “Intermittent Living” provides science-based, concrete advice for the dormant dangers our modern society poses, whether you have a condition or are in great shape. Everyone benefits.

Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA TODAY bestselling author of regency and contemporary romance.

Winner of the prestigious Naoki Prize and a Japanese bestseller, First Love is part psychological drama, part legal thriller.

Petrified is an original and terrifying fantasy horror thriller from the Master of Horror himself, Graham Masterton.

It is a witty, insightful book about the American workplace which no boss will ever find witty or insightful.

'A heady mix of corrupt coppers, dodgy drug dealers and Japanese gangsters, all spiced with dark humour' – Sally McDonald, Sunday Post

For centuries our only real guide to future weather was folklore, but with the introduction of the first weather forecasts and maps in Victorian times, attempts were made to give some warning of the weather to come.

Until relatively recently, these forecasts could be wildly inaccurate - consider Michael Fish's denial that a storm was on its way on the eve of the Great British Storm of 1987. This was due to the mathematically chaotic nature of weather systems, first discovered in the 1960s, the understanding of which would transform forecasting from the 1990s onwards and see meteorologists become some of the first users of supercomputers.

Weather Science (2024) explores the science behind weather patterns, the role of mathematical chaos in weather forecasting and the use of supercomputers in meteorology.

Part memoir, part manifesto, part history, We Are What We Read is not just about how education can place you back on the right side of the tracks. It is also a rallying cry for the importance of literature in a world where the arts are being squeezed out at every level and where book bans in schools and libraries have surged to record highs.

At Ottersea Oceanworld, Jane the Octopus hears people’s secrets and understands everything during a sweltering summer of strange deaths, new friendships, and a whole lot of ice cream.

Two people. Two pasts. One summer to fall in love.

Brand-new for 2024, the next captivating, historical novel from Jan Casey about a female war artist in World War 2.

Fox Bites is a dark coming-of-age horror fantasy about pain, loneliness, and stepping back from the abyss.

A fiercely hopeful novel about family, sexuality, grief and how we as individuals can rediscover our political agency in the face of continued uncertainty.

Over the course of the eight-week Sleep Well programme, you will learn the surprising and effective habits necessary to optimise the length and quality of your sleep and transform your relationship with rest, resulting in long-term benefits to your health, mood and productivity.

At the age of twelve, Pat Sheedy placed his first 10p bet and concocted his first scam. This marked the beginning of his descent into a compulsive gambling addiction that would lead to close to one hundred criminal convictions, over a million euro squandered on bets and time served in some of Ireland's most unforgiving prisons. Now, almost four decades later, Pat Sheedy has, against all odds, got his life back on track and taken control of his addiction.

Heartwarming and uplifting, Every Shade of Happy will make you laugh, cry and want to call your grandfather. The first adult novel by award-winning British author, Phyllida Shrimpton.

Acclaimed cooker writer Ghillie Basan embarks on a journey around Scotland's coastline and over to the islands to capture the essence of our nation's seafood through the stories of fisherman, farmers, artisan smokers and curers, boat builders and net makers, creels and shacks, skin tanners and age-old traditions.

'Roman military adventure at its best. Ranks with the best historical fiction available today.' Simon Turney