From the mind of the iconic Emmerdale actress, comes one of the most original and captivating debuts I’ve read all year. Full of deliciously gross femgore and underpinnings of feminist folklore, The Ladie Upstairs is perfect for fans of weird literary fiction with plenty to sink your teeth into.

A domestic thriller for fans of Desperate Housewives...

A silenced world. A child in danger. Barnaby Martin imagines a future wherein humanity has become nocturnal...

Vale and Clara’s friendship is toxic. Living together in London, Vale works at a bookshop and races home every evening to Clara who’s waiting for dinner to be cooked and to be bathed...

A heart-warming and powerful novel on female friendship, fertility, dating and finding yourself in your thirties.

A striking and all consuming novel on race and class set within the Black Lives Matter movement.

An astutely sharp and observant story, The Boys has the energy of a Sally Rooney novel met with the vibrancy of London, reminiscent of Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna.

The debut novel from Saba Sams, the author of the short story collection Send Nudes...

I adored this read. From cover to cover, I could not put it down. If you lap up Irish fiction in the same way, this is an unmissable debut.

With lyrical, observational style prose that drew me in from the first page, this is a short debut that packs a punch.

Sara is 25 and has never used a tampon without having a panic attack and when she starts dating Miles, its not long before her struggles around sex come to the fore.

A dark story set in the dark ages, perfect for fans of folk tales.

‘The missing boy is ten-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he’s a little shit...’

With a cast of characters including a butler, gardener and a housekeeper, suspicion begins to glow and the claustrophobic atmosphere begins to take it’s toll in this taut locked-room mystery...

Where Shadows Meet is a delicious queer romantasy which features vampires AND Gods - and of course the humans entangled up in the immortality and curses.

Agatha Christie meets F. Scott Fitzgerald in this utterly captivating tale, where not everything that sparkles is gold.

This is the first in a duology, and to be perfectly honest, I need book two STAT!

At the age of seventeen where sexual experiences are like currency exchanged between the boys on the football field, John is trying to soak in all that’s there in his small Irish hometown before going away to college. It’s the summer before the rest of his life...

A razor sharp, perceptive and spectacular debut collection of short stories set primarily in New Zealand. With observations of human behaviour, connection and experiences...

For fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Sally Thorne, Work Trip is the workplace enemies to lovers a rom-com you don’t want to miss!

A striking and experimental collection of 30 short stories and flash fictions, interspersed with palette cleansers.