Join the darkly, dangerous world of medieval courts with a magical twist this October as we follow Bianca navigate the unsettling truths that shroud her childhood friend’s death.

A wonderful and unique premise for a book: a human trapped within a vampire world until she can find a cure for her sister.

I wish I could read this book again for the first time and I know I’ll be picking it up again soon as the colder months draw in and I need something cozy.

The parasocial, fame hungry novel for reality TV fanatics!

This is the impossible scenario Amanda finds herself in when one of her children’s teenage classmates takes her own life due to sexual bullying and it’s revealed that her son, Nathan, was involved. How could this be when he’s always been such a nice boy?

Set against the backdrop of the Gaza genocide, this is a bold and importantly timely debut exploring silence and complicity.

Late one night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on the bizarre case of a man driven mad in a desolate lighthouse in Argentina.

An easy-read horror for fans of Black Swan.

A cutting workplace thriller on toxic work relationships and what happens when you believe your workplace has become a crime scene.

A generational story that follows a line of Māori mothers and their daughters, navigating the world.

This book is dark and gritty, filled to the brim with the tangible grime of London and the shady goings on in back alleys and abandoned buildings.

Settle down, put on Young Sherlock or Enola Holmes and join Mrs Hudson as she embarks on the first of, what I can only imagine to be, many mysteries.

Another corker for cannibal-themed horror fans!

A masterclass in pace and storytelling, this is a novel that will force you into the main character’s shoes and have you spiralling into a moral grey area.

This is a raw and unflinching memoir of family, motherhood and a son’s struggles with mental ill health (bipolar disorder) and addiction.

The Strangling Fig is a gorgeously written ghost story that follows generations of women from the 1940s Partition of India through to 2000s America.

The story gives voice to some difficult themes and while it does offer them space, it never makes them the focus of the plot or the characters, never turning them into a caricature and instead fleshing them out past their troubles.

The story itself felt passionate about nature, the planet and the ocean, and all of that came across through the characters. It moved me greatly and I couldn’t stop thinking about it, long after I’d put it down.

This book took me by surprise in the best way. I feel in love with each character and the themes were beautifully woven together.

I couldn’t tell where it was going to go; the ending was spectacularly hair raising, my teeth on edge.