New Books

Do you love everything about video games? You can’t wait to explore the coolest open worlds, and peek behind the scenes of the most popular consoles, developers and games? Then we’ve got exactly what you need: Gamer’s Edition 2026, the brand-newmust-have from the ultimate authority on record breaking. WHAT’S NEW? This year, we focus on the top 100 Greatest gaming characters of all time. From Lara Croft to Link and the crew of Mass Effect, to Minecraft’s Creepers to Cloud Strife and his one-winged nemesis Sephiroth, read about some fan-favourites in video gaming history and see where the most iconic characters ranked. Because the cake might be a lie, but the worldwide success of these characters is very much real! Did your favourites make the list? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781913484842    • Author: Guinness World Records • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 192 • Dimensions: 26.4 x 18.9 x 1 cm

Bring Halloween Town to life in this official colouring book, perfect for young fans of Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. With Jack, Sally and a whole host of favourite characters, this delightfully frightful colouring book is filled to the brim with perfectly spooky scenes to complete. Bring the residents of Halloween Town back to life, adding colour to Lock, Shock, and Barrel, Oogie Boogie, Dr. Finkelstein, the Mayor and more. With intricate patterns and plenty of creepy details, this book will keep young fans of the stop-motion animation entertained for hours. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781835870716 • Author: Walt Disney • Publisher: Bonnier Books UK Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 64 • Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.8 x 0.6 cm

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and – inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. That’s if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008501860 • Author: R.F. Kuang • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Hardback • Pages: 560 • Dimensions: 24 x 15.9 cm

Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, she’s painfully aware that not much has changed. She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night. Dol yearns to climb out of the rut she is stuck in, but has no idea where to begin. Could gardener Lee and his daughter Ava be her chance for a wholesome family life? Or maybe a steamy romance with roguish actor Joel is just what she needs. And what about the offer from her sister Star, now a successful doctor, to move to Scotland and live with her young family? As the choices threaten to overwhelm her, will Dol fall into the role of extra in someone else’s story once again – or find the strength to forge a brand new path of her own? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780857507631 • Author: Jacqueline Wilson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.2 x 3.1 cm

This year, Guinness World Records paints the world yellow to bring you an endless source of inspiration. Guinness World Records 2026 opens the ultimate window on record-breaking: our experts have compiled the most remarkable records from around the world to take you on a journey through the best, biggest and brightest records in the world. From high-end hotels to deserted ghost towns and talented pets, this page-turner will have you screaming “wait, what!?” from cover to cover. •    Filled with awe-inspiring photography •    Online bonus content and activities •    Exclusive record holders' interviews •    Brand new records, in the iconic best-seller you know and love Product Information: • ISBN: 9781913484811    • Author: Guinness World Records • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Hardback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 30.3 x 22.6 x 1.8 cm

A BEAUTIFUL, LIMITED EDITION HARDBACK OF QUICKSILVER, THE FIRST BOOK IN THE FAE & ALCHEMY SERIES. This edition will feature brand new cover jacket artwork, silver metallic gilded edges, character art endpapers, hidden cover case foil and a bonus scene by Callie Hart. From global phenomenon Callie Hart comes a highly addictive enemies-to-lovers Romantasy with razor-sharp banter, heart-stopping action, and blistering hot romance that you won’t be able to put down! Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares… but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her. Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home. Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the details . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399751285 • Author: Callie Hart • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton • Format: Hardback • Pages: 624 • Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.2 x 5.2 cm

She was promised a miracle. She got more than she bargained for. Abby wants a baby more than anything. But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer to serve as a surrogate. It’s an offer that will make all of Abby's dreams come true. But soon, strange things start happening. And it turns out Monica isn't who she says she is. The woman now carrying Abby's child has an unspeakable secret. And she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781464228605 • Author: Freida McFadden     • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2 cm

Come on a bug hunt in this little book and discover ants building their nest underground, bees making honey in their hive and a bug hotel where lots of creepy crawlies have found a home.  With colourful illustrations, flaps to lift and holes to peep through, there's so much to discover in this fascinating introduction to insects and where they live. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781474950824 • Author: Anna Milbourne • Publisher: Usborne Publishing • Format: Board Book • Pages: 14 • Dimensions: 20 x 17 cm

Enjoy lots of fun with Percy the Park Keeper and friends! Includes a wide range of stickers to have fun and get creative. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008751760 • Author: Nick Butterworth • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 16

Never told in detail before, this is the account of how, for four years, British and Allied codebreakers decrypted secret SS and Gestapo messages detailing the mass killings of the Holocaust, and how the Germans in turn deployed cryptanalysis to try to conceal their persecution of Europe's Jews. The compelling and fast-paced narrative is told from the perspectives of two central and opposing characters, who never meet. At Bletchley Park, there is the legendary but unsung British codebreaker Nigel de Grey, shy, determined, nicknamed 'the Dormouse' by his colleagues. In Nazi-occupied Poland, SS Major Hermann Höfle, a former taxi driver from Salzburg, and one of the Third Reich's ruthless bureaucrats of mass death, oversees the operations of five concentration camps, including Treblinka. De Grey fought hard to make sure the vital intelligence from decrypted signals reached Allied leaders and was acted on. Höfle, meanwhile, used complex coded messages to try to conceal the mass killings. De Grey worked with his American counterparts, as well as codebreakers and intelligence agents from the Soviet Union, France, the Vatican, Switzerland and Poland. Yet he had dangerous enemies closer to home: a cabal of senior British government and intelligence officials disbelieved or ignored repeated intelligence reports about the ongoing Holocaust. Flawlessly researched, this is the story of a battle between good and evil, between life and mass death, a cat-and-mouse war of electronic wits. More than eighty years on, as Russian leaders face war crimes charges in international courts, the words 'Never again' seem more pertinent than ever. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781789467277 • Author: Christian Jennings • Publisher: Bonnier Books UK Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.5 cm

Join Peter and friends on a fun-filled treasure hunt! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241692202 • Author: Beatrix Potter • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback

A colourful and charmingly illustrated non-fiction book for very small children, with lots of flaps to lift, holes to peep through and farm animals to spot.~ Children can peep inside the hen house at sunrise in search of eggs, watch the cows being milked behind the big barn doors and spot the lambs frolicking in the fields. Little hands will love to lift the flaps to see the vegetables growing underground, or the peas inside their green pods, and to spot all the produce being sold in the farm shop, from cheese, bread and honey to knitted hats and lambswool jumpers. An engaging and interactive introduction to life on a farm and where food comes from. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781409582045 • Author: Anna Milbourne • Publisher: Usborne Publishing • Format: Board Book • Pages: 14 • Dimensions: 19.2 x 16.7 cm

The definitive biography and ultimate origin story of Ange Postecoglou, one of the most-talked about Premier League manager and instigator of the ‘Angeball’ phenomenon that has taken the football world by storm. Now updated in July 2025 after Ange Postecouglou’s sudden sacking from Tottenham Hotspur. It took no time at all for fans of Tottenham Hotspur to fall completely in love with Ange Postecoglou and his ‘Angeball’ brand of front-foot football. But after he delivered Tottenham Hotspur’s first trophy for seventeen years, winning the Europa Leauge in 2025, Ange Postecoglou was sacked just sixteen days later. Drawing on dozens of interviews with Postecoglou and his players, Angeball delves into the heart and soul of a man who has reshaped the football landscape. Vince Rugari follows the Greek immigrant through his journey starting in football management at his boyhood club, becoming a marauding left-back in the Australian National Soccer league, and then as Tottenham Hotspur’s unique and exciting head coach. Explore the dynamics behind his coaching brilliance, his complicated relationship with the game in his homeland, and the profound impact he has had on fans worldwide, fuelled by an unshakeable belief in himself and his ideas. This is the story of more than just a man, this is the story of ‘Angeball’. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035417216 • Author: Vince Rugari • Publisher: Hodder Headline • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.79 x 13.51 x 2.41 cm

Join Stitch and his amazing friends in this epic 2-in-1 activity pack! This 2-in-1 activity pack is full of colouring, activities, stickers and pens featuring your favourite extra-terrestrial and his adorable friends! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836503866 • Author: Walt Disney • Publisher: Igloo Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 27 x 19.6 x 0.2 cm

A lovely picture book all about happiness. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836535881 • Author: Timothy Knapman & Mike Byrne • Publisher: Curious Universe Bookoli • Format: Paperback

When Jack climbs up an enormous beanstalk, he discovers a giant's castle high up in the clouds. But the giant likes to eat little boys...  How ever will Jack escape? My First Fairytales are a magical introduction to the well-loved stories that are a key part of every childhood. With fresh and fun illustrations, these simple re-tellings of classic fairy tales make a perfect bedtime read for three to six year olds.  Product Information: • ISBN: 9781848957077 • Author: Liz Eeles • Publisher: Little Tiger Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 28 x 24.5 x 0.3 cm

Fall head over heels for this 3-book set of Abby Jimenez’s bestselling Part of Your World series! The perfect gift for romance readers. Includes: • Part of Your World • Yours Truly • Just for the Summer Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349446974 • Author: Abby Jimenez • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Box Set

Welcome to The Diamond Back Ranch: where the cowboys are hot, the drama is real, and city girls like Lottie Wright are in way over their heads. Lottie has spent her whole life chasing success – or at least what it’s supposed to look like. The perfect corporate job. The perfect banker boyfriend. The perfect life in London. But when she’s suddenly fired and catches her boyfriend cheating, she does what any totally rational person would do . . . and gets on a plane to her family’s ranch in Wyoming. Cole Miller is a rugged ex-rodeo star and absolutely not interested in a city girl playing cowgirl on the Diamond Back ranch – even if they did end up in a steamy tangle on her arrival in Jackson Hole. But as Lottie trades designer suits for cowboy boots, she starts to realise she might be a little more country than she thought. And when a rival ranch threatens everything, she’s not about to let them win, especially when it means proving to Cole – and herself – that she’s got what it takes to earn her place. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035076253 • Author: Gemma Morr • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 288 • Dimensions: 20.32 x 12.7 x 2.54 cm

Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book… 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of women determined to rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen – children’s libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her obsession, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York’s famed library, but she has no idea their paths will converge in surprising ways across time. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035417902 • Author: Janet Skeslien Charles • Publisher: Hodder Headline • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them. He walked the route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid the mud of northern France. And as he did so, a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him. Great-Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. A blend of biography, history, travelogue and personal memoir this is Michael Palin at his very finest. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804959077 • Author: Michael Palin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm