Debut

  • The Other Bennet Sister

    The Other Bennet Sister

    £10.99

    Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own. What if Mary Bennet’s life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized…

  • The Girl With Gills

    The Girl With Gills

    £7.99

    An original, middle grade fantasy debut awash with adventure. A determined heroine and a sinister villain clash to reveal river lore in a watery world of fantastical creatures and colossal challenges. In a time and place which might be now, people with gills, outcast larkers, live in secret communities. They have houseboats along the river….

  • The Lamb

    The Lamb

    £9.99

    A folk tale. A horror story. A love story. An enchantment. Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot isn’t at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them…

  • She Who Became the Sun

    She Who Became the Sun

    £9.99

    In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a…

  • Cemetery Boys

    Cemetery Boys

    £8.99

    Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost…

  • Detransition Baby

    Detransition Baby

    £8.99

    A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex. Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn’t hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of…

  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

    The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

    £8.99

    A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very rich Catholic school. But at least…

  • Lord of the Empty Isles

    Lord of the Empty Isles

    £20.00

    Interstellar fugitive Idrian Delaciel will die by inches, and Remy Canta will laugh as he goes… Five years ago, Idrian ordered a withering—a death curse—cast on Remy’s brother that cost him his life, and Remy hasn’t been the same since. Now Remy finally has the materials he needs to return the favour, but he has…

  • Mina and the Undead

    Mina and the Undead

    £7.99

    New Orleans Fang Fest, 1995. Mina’s having a summer to die for. 17-year-old Mina, from England, arrives in New Orleans to visit her estranged sister, Libby. After growing up in Whitby, the town that inspired Dracula, Mina loves nothing more than a creepy horror movie. She can’t wait to explore the city’s darkest secrets –…

  • The Last Hope in Hopetown

    The Last Hope in Hopetown

    £12.99

    A debut novel about one girl’s dilemma over the decision to save her vampire parents or do what’s right for the greater good. Twelve-year-old human Sophie Dawes lives a good life in Hopetown. There, vampires and humans live in harmony and Sophie and her adoptive vampire moms are living (or unliving) proof. There are a…

  • Frontier

    Frontier

    £9.99

    Saints and preachers, librarians and horse thieves, lawmakers and lawbreakers, and a crash-surviving spaceborn vagrant searching for her lover on a scarred Earth. Earth, the distant future: climate change has reduced our verdant home into a hard-scrabble wasteland. Saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, travellers and gunslingers and horse thieves abound. People are as diverse…

  • Floating Hotel

    Floating Hotel

    £20.00

    This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the stars. Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to…

  • Til Death Do Us Bard

    Til Death Do Us Bard

    £20.00

    Marriage isn’t always sunshine and unicorns… sometimes it’s monsters and necromancy. It’s been almost a year since Logan ‘The Bear’ Theaker hung up his axe and settled down with his sunshiny bard husband, Pie. But when Pie disappears, Logan is forced back into a world he thought he’d left behind. Logan quickly discovers that Pie…

  • Such a Fun Age

    Such a Fun Age

    £9.99

    striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a…

  • The Blood Trials

    The Blood Trials

    £8.99

    Blending fantasy and science fiction, N. E. Davenport’s fast-paced, action-packed debut kicks off a duology of loyalty and rebellion, in which a young Black woman must survive deadly trials in a racist and misogynistic society to become an elite warrior. It’s all about blood. The blood spilled between the Republic of Mareen and the armies…

  • Clytemnestra

    Clytemnestra

    £8.99

    For fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious villainess of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best… You were born to a king, but you marry a…