A group of girls does Death incarnate's bidding in this haunting speculative young adult novel by the author of The Year of the Witching.Roslyn isn’t herself anymore. It’s been a year since her sister, Adeline, died under mysterious circumstances, and Roslyn is still tormented by her absence. So when the elusive caravan of girls that Adeline spent her last summer with rolls back into town, Roslyn joins them to finally figure out what happened to her sister.Strange, beautiful, and intriguing, the girls are closed off from the world. And as it turns out, they’re brought together by a force more sinister than Roslyn’s nightmares could’ve conjured up: Death himself.Death has spared the girls from untimely endings, and to pay for their lives, the girls travel the country reaping souls on his behalf. Now Roslyn must decide if finding closure is worth the price of striking the same deal.

This dark yet hilariously satirical state-of-an-era novel sees Will Self's middle-class, middle-English characters apparently trapped in a timeless go-round of polite chitchat in dinner parties that refract like a hall of mirrors, until one day someone says something to the effect of, 'This way to the gas chamber, please, ladies and gentlemen.' The Quantity Theory ofMorality finally solves the equation of time and money that dominates our lives, in a way that is simultaneously deranging, destabilizing and hilarious, showing Self to be both a master of satire and slapstick humour and a sublime and thoughtful critic of the alienation of modern life. With The Quantity Theory of Morality, Self provides the sequel to his award-winning debut of 35 years ago, The Quantity Theory of Insanity. That literary psycho-surgery proved there wasn't enough sanity to go around - now he's established what many of us fear to be the absolute truth: there isn't enough good to go around, either.

Homeless on Auckland's streets, Max Grimes fights to survive when someone starts killing the city's forgotten. Pulled into a dark past, he must stop the killer – or be next. The gripping second instalment in a breathtaking series, from New Zealand's queen of crime.___A killer is hunting Auckland's homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people.Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland – among the forgotten, the invisible. But now someone is hunting the homeless, killing them one by one. No one cares. Except Max.Trying to put his shattered life back together, Max is pulled into a deadly game when a face from his past reappears, reopening wounds he thought were long buried.As whispers of a Grim Reaper spread terror through the city, Max must race against time – not only to find the killer, but to outrun the ghosts chasing him.Because if he fails, he'll be next.____

What if humanity was never meant to be alone—only unfinished? When geneticist Quinn Serrano uncovers an anomalous strand of DNA hidden deep within the human genome, she believes she’s found a long-dismissed evolutionary artifact. But as similar fragments surface in populations across the world—each one different, each one incomplete—Quinn realizes the truth is far larger and far more dangerous. Together, these fragments form a puzzle. A message. And proof that humanity was deliberately seeded long ago by a vanished extraterrestrial civilization. As Quinn and her allies race to decode the fragments, they draw the attention of a powerful secret faction within the Church—guardians of the final piece, sworn for centuries to keep humanity from learning its true origin. What begins as a scientific breakthrough becomes a global reckoning, blending genetics, ancient theology, and first contact into a single, irreversible revelation. When the last fragment is finally assembled, it does not deliver a command or a weapon—but a farewell. A cosmic invitation. And a challenge that forces humanity to confront what it means to grow beyond its creators. A science-fiction epic grounded in real genetics, global history, and quiet wonder, this novel asks a haunting if our makers trusted us to finish their work… are we ready for the truth they left behind?

"A powerful novel set in a Hong Kong that feels remarkably universal." —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West"A dazzling, page-turning novel...Gripping, specific, important, and highly satisfying.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/OrA powerful, award-winning novel that follows the lives of two women as democracy starts to crumble in Hong KongOn a weekend morning, college roommates Ah Lei and Panda wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Lei can’t get out of bed, her heart heavy with the lingering images of the police and the violence on the streets, and her worries about the future of her hometown. Panda, whose resistance is no less ardent, puts on a sundress, lines her eyes, and...