Comics and Graphic Novels
7th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Vinland Saga Vol. 10 Makoto Yukimura After months of hard labor as a farm slave, Thorfinn begins to realize what his father meant by the words, “A true warrior needs no sword.” Perhaps he can find a new purchase on life in the mysterious land he heard tell of in his childhood: the continent to the west known as Vinland. |
19th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Runaways Omnibus Brian K. Vaughan & Adrian Alphona All young people believe that their parents are evil…but what if they really are? Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly and Nico. Their lives are about to take an incredible turn. When these six young friends discover that their mothers and fathers are all secretly super villains, they flee their homes together and head straight into the adventure of their lives – vowing to turn the tables on their parents’ evil organization, the Pride! But will all of them survive into the next stage of their runaway lives? Cloak and Dagger, the New Avengers and the X-Men await, on an unparalleled emotional journey that takes the Runaways from Los Angeles to New York – and beyond! |
26th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Rivers of London Volume 5: Cry Fox Ben Aaronovitch Vengeful Russian mobsters are looking to hire members of London’s own more-then-natural underworld to bring bloody retribution down on the witch Varvara. However, the ex-Soviet sorcerer is under the protective wing of London’s own wizarding cop, Peter Grant (now a proper detective and everything), and to get the attention of Grant and his colleagues, the the daughter of a prominent Russian oligarch is kidnapped by parties unknown but possibly fox-like. What makes it worse is that Peter is going to have to leave his beloved London and *gasp* go out into the countryside! And when there’s trees and fields and wildlife involved, things never end well… |
26th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Dark Nights: The Nightmare Batmen Peter J Tomasi and Joshua Williamson The Red Death. The Devastator. The Merciless. The Murder Machine. The Drowned. The Dawnbreaker. And the Man Who Laughs. These seven Batmen—seven twisted mirror images of the Dark Knight himself—have been unleashed upon Earth-0 and the Justice League with only one thing on their minds: total devastation. How can the World’s Greatest Heroes stop a horde of deadly beings that appear to be powerful nightmare versions of familiar figures? |
26th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Gears of War: The Rise of Raam Kurtis J. Wiebe FOR THE HORDE! Before he was a general leading the assault against humanity on the surface, RAAM was an upstart commander tasked with waging an unwinnable war against the Lambent to protect the Locust homeland. With the enemy pushing inexorably forward, he knows the Horde must turn its attention to more vulnerable prey, and he’ll use every atrocity and deception at his disposal to bring the high council around to his way of thinking. |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Little Moments of Love Catana Chetwynd What began as stray doodles on scraps of paper became an internet sensation when Catana Chetwynd’s boyfriend shared her drawings online. Now, Catana Comics touches millions of readers with its sweet, relatable humor. Little Moments of Love collects just that – the little moments that are the best parts of being with the person you love. |
Contemporary
1st March | Amazon | Waterstones | Look At Me Mareike Krugel Katharina’s husband isn’t coming home for the weekend – again – so she’s on her own. When their chaotic daughter Helli has a nosebleed, Kat has to dash off to school to pick her up. |
1st March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Seasonaires Janna King For a twenty-something, there is no summer job better than seasonaire. No responsibilities, school is months away, and you’re surrounded by chic, beautiful people. Intoxicating and seemingly carefree, what could possibly go wrong? |
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Hello, Sunshine Laura Dave Sunshine Mackenzie has it all…until her secrets come to light. Sunshine is living the dream–she’s a culinary star with millions of fans, a line of #1 bestselling cookbooks, and a devoted husband happy to support her every endeavor. Sunshine Mackenzie has it all…until she gets hacked. |
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | A Dark and Stormy Night Tom Stacey To that which we give the name of Love, be it of the flesh or of God, is it ever less than divine? In a space of mere hours, a life and faith in their entirety are to be re-lived by Simon Chance. One-time missionary and bishop, Chance had withdrawn in mid-life to research and teach his enduring mentor Dante, creator of The Divine Comedy. He is recently widowed, after the prolonged descent into dementia of his devoted wife Marigold, violinist and composer. To recuperate, he is invited by a life-long confidante, Clare, to her son s villa in the hills behind St Tropez in southern France, to join a house party of old friends from their university days, each now reaping the rewards of their worldly careers. The reunion coincides with the collapse of global banking confidence and the playing-out of Clare s own loss of love. Such is one weave of this narrative. On a walk in the forest of the Massif des Maures surrounding the remote villa, in search of a church abandoned centuries ago, Chance loses his way in a dark wood , as once experienced by Dante. The night turns wild. Such is a second weave. Marigold has not been the only love of Simon Chance. The passionate liaison of his earlier life, pre-ordination, was with a student botanist. This very Evie, with her Parliamentarian spouse, is about to join the house party of Clare, her greatest friend. A vital element in that searing, abandoned youthful liaison is yet to be reconciled with this scholar-cleric Chance had come to be. Now it rises to confront him. Here is the binding and defining weave of this night, unraveling in dark and storm and dawn. The working-through of the nature of love, physical and spiritual, in love s innocence and purity, will redeem Simon Chance or destroy him. Or both. |
12th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Ayesha at Last Uzma Jalaluddin AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn’t want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is conservative and judgmental. She is irritatingly attracted to someone who looks down on her choices and dresses like he belongs in the seventh century. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Ever After Sarah Pekkanen osie and Frank Moore are happy…at least Josie thinks they are. As parents of two young girls in the Chicago suburbs, their days can be both busy and monotonous, and sometimes Josie wonders how she became a harried fortysomething mother rather than the driven career woman she once was. But Frank is a phenomenal father, he’s handsome and charismatic, and he still looks at his wife like she’s the beautiful woman he married more than a decade ago. Josie isn’t just happy—she’s lucky. |
1st March | Amazon | Waterstones | Disbanded Kingdom Polis Loizou Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London, looking for love and distraction. But this isn’t quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London’s gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an emotionally stunted young man who lives in upscale Kensington with his foster mother, novelist Charlotte Fontaine. But all of this changes when he meets Tim, Charlotte’s thirty-something literary agent with whom Oscar becomes hopelessly infatuated. While he struggles to understand Tim’s politics and his rejection of religion, Oscar’s developing friendship with Tim affects a profound change in the young man, making him want to understand the world and his place in it. |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Coming Home to Ottercombe Bay Bella Osborne Daisy Wickens has returned to Ottercombe Bay, the picturesque Devon town where her mother died when she was a girl. She plans to leave as soon as her great uncle’s funeral is over, but Great Uncle Reg had other ideas. He’s left Daisy a significant inheritance – an old building in a state of disrepair, which could offer exciting possibilities, but to get it she must stay in Ottercombe Bay for twelve whole months. |
Fantasy
7th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Brief Cases Jim Butcher Magic. It can get a guy killed. |
7th March | Amazon | Waterstones | A Sacred Storm Theodore Brun Forged in fire. Bound by honour. Haunted by loss. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | A Reaper at the Gates Sabaa Tahir Beyond the Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. |
19th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Storm Glass Jeff Wheeler Theirs is a world of opposites. The privileged live in sky manors held aloft by a secretive magic known only as the Mysteries. Below, the earthbound poor are forced into factory work to maintain the engine of commerce. Only the wealthy can afford to learn the Mysteries, and they use their knowledge to further lock their hold on society. |
19th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Mermaid Christina Henry Once there was a fisherman who lived on a cold and rocky coast and was never able to convince any woman to come away and live in that forbidding place with him. One evening he pulled up his net and found a woman in it. A woman with black hair and eyes as grey as a stormy sea and a gleaming fish’s tail instead of legs. |
21st March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Skaar Invasion Terry Brooks Tensions in the Four Lands are high. The mysterious force that laid waste to Paranor has revealed a more human face. While some gain a new understanding of the invaders and what they are after, others continue their existing quests even as the peril rises. For what looked to be a formidable invading force proves only the forerunner of a much vaster army – one that is now marching against the Four Lands in all its fury. |
22nd March | Amazon | Waterstones | Invaders Bella Forrest The thrilling PENULTIMATE book of Navan and Riley’s journey |
27th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Darkblade Outcast Andy Peloquin Can a killer escape the evil inside him? |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Ravencry Ed McDonald For Ryhalt Galharrow, working for Crowfoot as a Blackwing captain is about as bad as it gets – especially when his orders are garbled, or incoherent, or impossible to carry out. |
30th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Rough Justice Kelley Armstrong Olivia assumes the mantle of Welsh heroine Matilda of the Hunt, only to find her first quest complicated by doubts about her quarry’s guilt, in a novella-length tie-in to the fan-favorite series. By the author of the Casey Duncan mysteries. |
Historical Fiction
1st March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Encircling Sea Adrian Goldsworthy Flavius Ferox, Briton turned Roman centurion, is charged with keeping Rome’s empire intact. But from his base at Vindolanda on the northern frontier of Britannia, he feels enemies closing in on him from all sides. |
7th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Smoke and Ashes Abir Mukherjee India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Iberian Flame Julian Stockwin 1808. With the Peninsula in turmoil, Napoleon Bonaparte signs a treaty to dismember Portugal and put his brother, Joseph, on the throne of Spain. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The King’s Witch Tracy Borman As she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth, Frances Gorges longs for the fields and ancient woods of her parents’ Hampshire estate, where she has learned to use the flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer. |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Peacock Summer Hannah Richell If she could reach back through the years and warn the person she once was, what would she say? … What would she say to the ghosts who now inhabit her days? So many of those she has loved are now nothing but dust and memory.’ |
Horror
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Blood Will Out Jo Treggiari Ari Sullivan is alive–for now. |
12th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Hangman Jack Heath A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It’s only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, an FBI consultant with a knack for solving impossible cases but whose expertise comes at a price. Every time he saves a life, he takes one, trying to satisfy an urge he fears he can only control for so long.And this time Blake may have met his match. The kidnapper is more cunning and ruthless than any he’s faced before. And he’s been assigned a new partner within the Bureau: a woman linked to the past he’s so desperate to forget. Because he has a secret, one so dark he will do anything to keep it hidden.For fans of Dexter and Hannibal, Hangman introduces a darkly mesmerizing character whose skill at finding criminals comes from a knowledge that can only be learned firsthand. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Tall Man Phoebe Locke A SENSELESS MURDER. A TERRIFYING LEGEND. A FAMILY HAUNTED. |
20th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Palm Reader Christopher Bowron Jackson Walker once again faces his demons in this haunting sequel to Devil in the Grass. Now working as an investigative lawyer for Peter Robertson, Jack teams with Janie Callaghan to solve the disappearance of a sleazy client specializing in taboo pornography. Meanwhile the evil head of the Church of Satan weaves an intricate web to lure Walker as the sacrificial lamb in an Everglades Black Mass ritual. |
26th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Cabin at the End of the World Paul Tremblay Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Book of M Peng Shepherd In the middle of a market in India, a man’s shadow disappears. As rolling twenty-four-hour news coverage tries to explain the event, more cases are discovered. The phenomenon spreads like a plague as people learn the true cost of their lost part: their memories. |
Mystery/Thriller
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Man Between Charles Cumming One simple task for British Intelligence takes him into a world of danger. |
7th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Rogue J B Turner Nathan Stone was killed in action while serving as a covert CIA operative. Or so everyone thought. In reality he’s become a ghost, a black-ops asset with a new identity and controlled by a secret government organization. The Commission has one aim: to hunt down and assassinate anti-establishment enemies of the state. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Killing Habit Mark Billingham We all know the signs. Cruelty, lack of empathy, the killing of animals. Now, pets on suburban London streets are being stalked by a shadow, and it could just be the start. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Tom Clancy’s Line of Sight Mike Maden On a break between missions, Jack Ryan Jr is asked by his mother to visit Sarajevo and track down a girl whose life she saved during the war. Finally, he thinks, life might be quietening down. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Thirteen Steve Cavanagh To your knowledge, is there anything that would preclude you from serving on this jury?’ |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Three Little Lies Laura Marshall Sasha North has gone missing. |
Sci Fi
1st March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Speed of Sound Eric Bernt Harmony House is more than a “special place for special people.” It’s a think tank where high-functioning autistic savants harness their unique abilities for the benefit of society. Resident Eddie Parks’s contribution is nothing less than extraordinary: an “echo box” that can re-create never-recorded sounds using acoustic archeology. |
1st March | Amazon | Waterstones | Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man Tahir Shah Through a life cloaked in mystery, Edwardian polymath Hannibal G. Fogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking – producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterity. Hailing from a landed family, Fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have lived. |
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Hills Have Spies Mercedes Lackey Mags, Herald Spy of Valdemar, and his wife Amily are happily married with three kids. The oldest, Justyn, has the Gift of animal Mindspeech, and his dream is to follow in his father s footsteps as a Herald Spy. Mags regularly trains his children, preparing them for the complicated lives they will likely lead. As the next stage of training, Mags proposes that Justyn joins a group of traveling players and musicians, to get experience out in the world. |
11th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Child Thief Bella Forrest In a world where we have government of the rich by the rich for the rich… |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Freeze-Frame Revolution Peter Watts She believed in the mission with all her heart. But that was sixty million years ago. |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Awakened James S Murray and Darren Wearmouth After years of waiting, New York’s newest subway line is finally ready, an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning communities across the Hudson River. The shining jewel of this state-of-the-art line is a breathtaking visitors’ pavilion beneath the river. Major dignitaries, including New York City’s Mayor and the President of the United States, are in attendance for the inaugural run, as the first train slowly pulls in. |
YA Contemporary
1st March | Amazon | Waterstones | Not the Girls You’re Looking For Aminah Safi Mae Lulu Saad doesn’t need your advice, thank you very much. She’s got her three best friends and nothing can stop her from conquering the known world. Sure, for half a minute she thought she’d nearly drowned a cute guy at a party, but he was totally faking it. And fine, yes, she caused a scene during Ramadan. It’s all under control. Ish. |
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Invisible Ghosts Robyn Schneider Rose Asher believes in ghosts. She should, since she has one for a best friend: Logan, her annoying, Netflix-addicted brother, who is forever stuck at fifteen. But Rose is growing up, and when an old friend moves back to Laguna Canyon and appears in her drama class, things get complicated. |
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Summer of Salt Katrina Leno Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Suma’s Imaginary Girls and Laura Ruby’s Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno. |
7th March | Amazon | Waterstones | A Thousand Perfect Notes C. G. Drews Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day after day. He will never play as she did before illness ended her career and left her bitter and broken. But Beck is too scared to stand up to his mother, and tell her his true passion, which is composing his own music – because the least suggestion of rebellion on his part ends in violence. |
12th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Final Draft Riley Redgate Laila Piedra doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and definitely doesn’t sneak into the 21-and-over clubs on the Lower East Side. The only sort of risk Laila enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and robots. Her creative writing teacher has always told her she has a special talent. But three months before graduation, Laila’s number one fan is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who sees nothing at all special about Laila’s writing. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Summer of Us Cecilia Vinesse Aubrey and Rae have been planning their European tour since the moment they met. It was meant to be the perfect way to spend their last summer together before university, but now it’s not just the two of them . . . |
26th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Wild Blue Wonder Carlie Sorosiak Last June, the summer camp Quinn’s family owns in Winship, Maine, was still a magical place. A place where wild blueberries grew no matter the season, a legendary sea monster lurked in the waters, and Quinn fell in love with her best friend, Dylan. |
26th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Your Destination Is on the Left Lauren Spieller Seventeen-year-old Dessa Rhodes is torn between leaving her modern nomadic life and pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist in this fun, contemporary debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Morgan Matson. |
26th March | Amazon | Waterstones | My Plain Jane Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester–and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she? |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Monday’s Not Coming Tiffany D Jackson Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. |
30th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Save the Date Morgan Matson Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait–for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend, before the house is sold and everything changes. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster–all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect. |
YA Fantasy
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | The Memory of Fire Callie Bates Jahan Korakides is the hero who saved the life of the crown prince in battle, helped win the revolution in Eren and earned the heart of Elanna, the legendary Wildegarde reborn. |
7th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Smoke in the Sun Renee Ahdieh After Okami is captured in the Jukai forest, Mariko has no choice – to rescue him, she must return to Inako and face the dangers that have been waiting for her in the Heian Castle. She tricks her brother, Kenshin, and betrothed, Raiden, into thinking she was being held by the Black Clan against her will, playing the part of the dutiful bride-to-be to infiltrate the emperor’s ranks and uncover the truth behind the betrayal that almost left her dead. |
11th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Ash and Quill Rachel Caine Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealously guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its tyranny…. |
13th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Carnival Magic Amy Ephron Tess and Max are back in England for another summer with their Aunt Evie – this time by the seashore in South Devon. And they’re incredibly excited about the travelling carnival that’s come to town. There are rides, games, acrobats, The House of Mirrors – and even a psychic, with a beautiful wagon all her own. In a visit to the psychic’s wagon, while Tess is being hypnotized, the wagon seems to move. Before Tess can shake herself out of the hypnosis, before Max can do anything, they seem to be travelling – along with the rest of the carnival – too quickly for the two of them to jump out. But where are they going and what awaits them? Will they be caught in a world different from their own? And do the Baranova twins, acrobats who miss their sister almost as much as Tess and Max miss their family, hold the keys to the mystery? Internationally bestselling author Amy Ephron returns with a companion novel to The Castle in the Mist and creates a magical tale filled with adventure, mystery, fantasy, family, and fun. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Wild Rescuers: Guardians of the Taiga Stacy Plays Stacy was raised by wolves. She’s never needed humans to survive and, from what she sees of humans, they’re dangerous and unpredictable. For as long as she can remember, Stacy’s pack of six powerful, playful wolves—Addison, Basil, Everest, Noah, Tucker and Wink—have been her only family. |
14th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Iron Tide Rising Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis Best friends and fearless explorers Fin and Marrill have shared countless thrilling adventures on the waters of the Pirate Stream, but neither could have predicted the evil that lies behind the mask of the Master of the Iron Ship. |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Onyx and Ivory Mindee Arnett They call her Traitor Kate. It’s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he tried to assassinate the high king of Rime. |
YA Sci Fi
5th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Elites of Eden Joey Graceffa Yarrow is an elite: rich, regal, destined for greatness. She’s the daughter of one of the most powerful women in Eden. At the exclusive Oaks boarding school, she makes life miserable for anyone foolish enough to cross her. Her life is one wild party after another…until she meets a fascinating, lilac-haired girl named Lark. |
13th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Brightly Burning Alexa Donne But no one warned Stella that the ship seems to be haunted, nor that it may be involved in a conspiracy that could topple the entire interstellar fleet. Surrounded by mysteries, Stella finds her equal in the brooding but kind, nineteen-year-old Captain Hugo. When several attempts on his life spark more questions than answers, and the beautiful Bianca Ingram appears at Hugo’s request, his unpredictable behavior causes Stella’s suspicions to mount. Without knowing who to trust, Stella must decide whether to follow her head or her heart. |
28th March | Amazon | Waterstones | Fugitive Six Pittacus Lore It’s a year since John Smith and the Lorien Garde helped defeat the Mogadorian invasion of Earth. |
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I cannot wait to read the mermaid and save the date