Winter is a time for slowing down, relaxing and focusing on self care – and there isn’t a greater way to treat yourself then with a dazzling new read to set your soul on fire!
Not only has Winter entered the chat, but so have heaps of amazing new fantasy, YA, romance, and non-fiction titles. We can’t wait to share our top picks with you!
Let’s dive in to our Winter TBR list!
FICTION
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor and an even better serial killer. She’s made it her mission in life to track down predatory men on campus and kill them and she’s preparing for her biggest murder yet.
Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year at college – keeping her head down and focussing on work. But when her roommate Allison is assaulted at a party Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay.
When police start investigating the spate of local deaths, Scarlett starts to realise it’s only a matter of time before her secret life is exposed and everything she’s built comes crashing down with it…
Release Date: 8th July
Ruins by Amy Taylor
A simmering, provocative novel about a couple whose affair with a young Greek woman over the course of a summer in Athens threatens to crack their relationship wide open, from the author of Search History.
Voyeuristic and thrilling, Ruins delivers the drama of a modern Greek tragedy while exposing the tensions between privilege, power and desire.
Release Date: 1st July
FANTASY
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Two academic rivals from Cambridge must travel to hell to rescue the soul of their advisor. Getting there was easy. Surviving it – and each other – is another thing entirely.
2025’s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang.
Release Date: 26th August
Silvercloak by Laura Steven
From bestselling author of the dazzling YA novel “Our Infinite Fates”, comes a new adult fantasy set in a dark and enchanting society with a fierce heroine set on vengeance.
An addictive new fantasy series set in a world where magic is fuelled by pleasure and pain, in which an obsessive detective infiltrates a brutal gang of dark mages – knowing that one wrong move will get her killed . . .
Release date: 22nd July
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
Funny, kind and forgiving, The Enchanted Greenhouse by New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst is a story about giving second chances – to others and to yourself.
Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a
magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium.
This should have been the end of her story…
Release date: 15th July
Arcana Academy by Elise Kova
An enthralling new fantasy romance to sink your teeth into this winter…
A woman who wields magical tarot cards lands herself in a false engagement to the headmaster of a mysterious academy in this first instalment of an enthralling fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of A Deal with the Elf King.
Release Date: 29th July
Terror At The Gates by Scarlett St. Clair
The first in an all-new fantasy series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair. In this biting, feminist retelling of Lilith’s story, Lilith will rise from the ashes of her former life to destroy the ancient power that stole everything she loves.
She is the beginning and the end.
She is peace and chaos.
She is terror knocking at the gates.
YOUNG ADULT
Tenderly, I Am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone
Perfect for fans of Saltburn, For the Wolf, and Wuthering Heights, Tenderly, I Am Devoured is a moody, monstrously Gothic romantasy in which a young woman must bind herself to a dangerous chthonic demon to save her family’s legacy-and herself-from ruin.
Release date: 1st July
Of Flame And Fury by Mikayla Bridge
A fiery alliance. An explosive secret. The race is on.
Phoenix racing: it’s profitable, it’s deadly. No one knows this better than Kel Varra and her crew, the Crimson Howlers. They live on the edge of survival.
Embroiled in political scheming, volatile phoenix magic and a smouldering romance, Kel and Coup discover a conspiracy that threatens them all.For in this world of extreme stakes, there are two options only: win or burn.
Release date: 15th July
Heir of Storms by Lauryn Hamilton Murray
An epic new YA fantasy world for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Suzanne Collins in “Heir Of Storms”.
Blaze, a Rain Singer, is born into one of the most powerful fire-wielding families in the empire. Her birth summoned a devastating storm that resulted in the deaths of thousands, and she has spent her life as an outsider. When Blaze and her twin brother, Flint, are selected to compete in the Choosing Rite, the trials which decide the future rulers of the empire, she’s suddenly thrust into the limelight – and into battle…
Release date: 10th June
NON-FICTION
Unstuck by Dr Emily Musgrove
Dr Emily Musgrove, resident psychologist on the popular podcast The Imperfects, shares the key psychological processes and practical skills we need to know for transformative and lasting change.
Change can seem impossibly hard, but staying stuck is harder. UNSTUCK gives you the tools to cultivate a life without limits, in times of pain, in times of change, in times of joy.
Release date: 20th May
Main Character Energy by Bianca Hunt
Bianca Hunt has hosted TV shows, rocked runways, given multiple TEDx talks and founded a talent agency – all before her mid-twenties. But while her ambition was to take centre stage in her own life, limiting expectations hadn’t always given Bianca top billing in her own story.
This is your life, and it’s time to live it with main character energy – revising, changing and starting new chapters whenever you want. So, if you’re ready to take the wheel and pursue your own narrative, Main Character Energy will put you in the driver’s seat.
Release Date: 20th May
We would love to know what are your most-anticipated releases this season!
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