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No better time to snuggle up with a good book
October is here. We are ready to wrap up as the days become shorter and the nights become longer. The witching hour is just around the corner and there’s nothing better than getting cosy at this time of year.
Grab your blanket, grab your cuppa and tuck into a juicy book. Thankfully, October is choc-a-blocked with new books hitting shelves. From legendary authors to viral BookTok series, there’s something for everyone. This rivalry is setting the literary world on fire – but who will survive the flames?
When Selina Chan, New York’s fiercest literary critic, slams Parker Navarro’s latest novel, he is pushed to his breaking point. Once was painful enough. But this time, it’s personal. What begins as a private feud quickly erupts into a viral online spectacle, captivating a bookish audience who are eager to fan the flames.
The Sixth Faction – Veronica Roth The worldwide sensation as you’ve never seen it before. Step into a bold new Divergent series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. Beatrice Prior stands on the brink of a decision every person in her world must make: five factions, five futures, five lives. She has a plan: she’s going to make the bravest choice, and leave Abnegation behind to join Dauntless, even though it means leaving her family behind.
But when tragedy strikes at her Choosing Ceremony, everything changes―her world, her plans, even Beatrice herself. Her ensuing decision thrusts her into the crosshairs of an underground rebellion, and into the path of a boy with secrets as dangerous as her own ― a boy with only a number for a name. Caroline Hirons, the globally adored skincare expert and international bestselling author, is now back with Skin Rules – a ground-breaking guide to healthy skin.
With over 400,000 copies of her previous books sold and her brand, Skin Rocks, becoming an award-winning global sensation, Caroline’s expertise is unmatched. Whatever your skin type or concern, Caroline’s no-nonsense approach will arm you with all the knowledge you need to simplify your routine and feel confident in your own skin. Life on the resource-poor planet of Fortune is challenging, but for its inhabitants, it’s home.
For two of them, Signy and Cora, this home might no longer be enough. Signy is a brilliant but reclusive botanist who bio-prints medicine from her small plant shop, often bending the rules to help those the system leaves behind. Her life is filled with the green of her store, the warmth of her one elderly friend, and the quiet determination to help others without putting herself in danger.
Cora is a rorqual pilot, one of the few with the unique ability to navigate the massive, living ships that connect the scattered settlements of their solar system. Her bond with her rorqual, Colibri, is profound—a connection that is both her greatest gift and a threat to her career. It is that threat—the “mindbleed,” a dangerous side effect of her piloting—that brings her to Signy’s shop, and her appearance puts Signy in the danger she so fears.
But it’s soon apparent it’s not just about losing her license—this delicate balance between risk and trust has the potential to change everything for them. Turning to her Celtic ancestors, whose observance of micro-seasons offers an alternative way of looking at wintertime, Rosie Steer has reframed her mindset when it comes to the darker half of the year, choosing to embrace, rather than fear it.
Split into four parts, Hairst , Samhain , Howe o’the Year and Waretym , this book celebrates the glimmers of joys throughout the darker months through step-by-step projects such as Clay Pressed Botanical Imprints and an Upcycled Hot Water Bottle Cover; easy-to-make bakes, like Spiced Pumpkin Loaf Cake and Clementine and Almond Buns; and stories of Scottish Winter folklore. BookTok is going to lose their mind as one of the platform’s most beloved authors returns.
Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he’s been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands. The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked.
But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day. But to defeat Koschei’s creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other and resurrect their former alliances. To survive, they must find a way to repair the splintered harmony all around them.
This is the epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King’s iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It is also a wonderful stand-alone novel that will appeal to new readers, as well as the Constant Reader.
Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and ‘the territories’ to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King . In Other Worlds Than These Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds.
Jack is older now; his Ka-tet is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible. When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family’s sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she’s there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she’s hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear.
Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her. Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia’s bedroom door. As Julia digs into the house’s dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692 ― and realises the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet.
When decades of family lies begin to surface, Julia must confront a terrifying truth: Pemberton may be haunted by women whose voices refuse to stay silent. A powerful, uplifting call to reimagine ageing not as decline, but as a bold return to self. What if growing older wasn’t about fading away, but finally stepping into your full power? Here, one of Ireland’s most beloved voices invites us to rethink what it is to age – personally, socially and spiritually.
With warmth, openness and insight, Mary shares her own experience of growing older, alongside the reflections of wise and remarkable elders who have lived, strived and thrived through life’s seasons. Mary doesn’t shy away from the realities of ageing – loneliness, forgetfulness, slowing down – but she also celebrates the gifts of later life: greater freedom, self-understanding, and the quiet joy of prioritising your own needs.
She shows how age can be a time of healing, of returning to the past not to dwell on it but to liberate ourselves in the present. A beautiful celebration of the richness of age, and a reminder that the later chapters may be the most powerful of all.
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