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Moira Buffini
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Songlight is an extraordinary debut from a renowned screenwriter. A cinematic masterpiece in storytelling, the explosive first book in the Torch trilogy is the hottest…
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Ian X. Cho
It's Black Friday - and the apocalypse is on sale!
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sydney khoo
Uncover an extraordinary world of demons and witches, where the ones you love can hurt you the most and hiding your true self can get you killed.
Emma Lord
A high-octane YA debut from an exciting new Australian writer.
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Joelle Wellington
What happens when a horror movie becomes reality? Karen M. McManus meets Scream in this spine-tingling YA horror thriller that cleverly explores themes of race and class.
What happens when…
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Sami Ellis
Sami Ellis’s Dead Girls Walking is a shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at the summer camp that was once her serial…
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Erik J. Brown
A queer dystopian romance about courage, hope and humanity.
Clare Furniss
How I Live Now meets Exodus – a startling YA dystopia that imagines London as the epicentre of the refugee crisis, from critically acclaimed author Clare Furniss.
Asphyxia
Future Girl explores what it means to come of age as a Deaf teenager, against the backdrop of a near-future Melbourne on the brink of environmental catastrophe.
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Philip Reeve
In this stunning literary debut, Reeve creates an unforgettable adventure story set in a dark and utterly original world. A brilliant construction that offers new wonders at every turn. –…
When Tom and Hester’s scrapyard aircraft is pursued by rocket-firing gunships, they seek sanctuary in the speeding ice city of Anchorage. But it is no safe refuge. Devastated by plague…
Tom and Hester’s daughter, Wren, longs to escape the peace of static Anchorage. She craves the dangerous adventures her parents once had-and a charming submarine pirate is ready to take…
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Agents for peace are bringing an end to the devastating conflict between the roaming Traction Cities and their fanatical enemies while Wren and her father Tom travel the Bird Roads…
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Ellie Marney
Eighteen-year-olds Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, recruited by the FBI to interview juvenile serial killers, must turn to a notorious teenage sociopath to help track down a new murderer.
The electrifying sequel to New York Times bestselling YA thriller None Shall Sleep.
Kalynn Bayron
An electrifying twist on the classic fairytale that will inspire girls to break out of limiting stereotypes and follow their dreams!
Grady Hendrix
A heartwarming story of friendship and demonic possession.
Rory Power
Visceral and devastating, Rory Power’s New York Times bestselling debut is an extraordinary tale of survival and female friendship.
Patrick Ness
A new edition of the award-winning first novel in the Chaos Walking trilogy, with a bonus short story, The New World.
A new edition of the award-winning second novel in the Chaos Walking trilogy, with a bonus short story, The Wide, Wide Sea.
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness…
Darcy Coates
From bestselling horror/thriller author Darcy Coates comes the chilling legend of a monster no one can escape.
Jamison Shea
This unforgettable novel lifts a veil on the institutions that profit on exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back.
Neal Shusterman
Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe–a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn’t.
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in this chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe from the New York…
Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and…
Olivia Chadha,Olivia
A rare, searing portrayal of the future of climate change in South Asia. A streetrat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down a…
Anthony Horowitz
Seventeen brilliantly chilling tales from the master of storytelling.
Tahereh Mafi
X-Men meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this first instalment in an epic and romantic YA fantasy trilogy...
X-Men meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this second instalment in an epic and romantic YA fantasy trilogy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard’s The Red Queen, Netflix’s…
The heart-stopping third instalment in the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series, which Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City, called a thrilling…
Marie Lu
When a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths in this sci-fi thriller by #1 New York Times -bestselling author…
The incredible sequel to sci-fi thriller Warcross by bestselling author Marie Lu.
Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling…
John Marsden
Somewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. The first book in the bestselling the Tomorrow series.
Suzanne Collins
Coriolanus Snow has one shot at glory as a mentor in the tenth annual Hunger Games. He plans to outcharm, outwit, and outmanoeuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning…
In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games.
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are still alive. Katniss should be relieved, but now there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that…
Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans…
Lois Lowry
In a perfect world, Jonas begins to see the flaws… THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre.
Kim Liggett
Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and…
Sara Farizan
In this "terrifyingly fun" (New York Times) horror comedy two friends must solve the mystery of their long-missing former friend's supernatural reappearance-perfect for fans of Stranger Things.
S.J. Wills
In the dead of night, the Immortal rises . . . welcome to the Town of the Turned.
Caleb Finn
From the chilling mind of Caleb Finn comes his debut collection of ten stories to haunt your thoughts and fuel your darkest fears.
Ernest Cline
It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into…
Sabaa Tahir
Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death.
In 2015, one book emerged as the most highly acclaimed fantasy debut. Now, the sequel will set the world on fire.
Pam Smy
A darkly gripping tale of two girls separated by thirty years but pulled together by a house.
Emily Carroll
A fantastically dark and timeless graphic debut, for fans of Grimm Tales, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and the works of Neil Gaiman.
