Here are some brand new picks for summer 2026! Have a browse through to help focus your gift buying for this season, and beyond!

Little Wild by Laura Evans

Absolutely mesmerising' - Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The Lamb

Atonement meets Weyward in this striking historical debut from new talent Laura Evans about queer love, privilege and the intoxicating dangers of embracing the wild . . .

Suffolk, 1937. During a sweltering heatwave, preparations for a party are in full swing at Snare House. The Winthers’ only daughter, Joanie, is returning from a summer abroad before starting university.

Only Margaret, ward of the family and Joanie’s closest friend, knows the truth: Joanie and Margaret are in love and plan to run away together. But when Joanie’s father discovers their secret, Margaret’s world is turned upside down. Exiled to a tumble-down lodge in the woods with her estranged father and his colony of magpies, she finds herself becoming wild.

As the heatwave refuses to break, Margaret must decide whether to give in to her new, dark impulses in a bid to get what she most desires . . .

'Debut novels don't get much better than this' - Erin Kelly, author of The House of Mirrors 'A country house novel with claws' - Danielle Giles, author of Mere

Platform Decay by Martha Wells

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children.

Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact!(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)

A New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie Bestseller!

Everyone's favourite lethal SecUnit is back in the next instalment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.

 

John of John by Douglas Stuart

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO. An Oprah's Book Club pick, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades. While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved.

As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.

'Stuart’s most consummate work of literature to date' - Observer

'Intimate yet epic in scale... enthralling' - Guardian

'Miraculous... This beautiful story of literal and metaphorical homecoming is wholly satisfying' - Daily Mail

Raveheart by Graeme Armstrong

An absolute riot of a read' THE SCOTSMAN

 ‘A gleeful state-of-the-nation dystopia' DAILY MAIL

A high NRG, whip-smart look at the state of modern Britain through the eyes of a disparate band of rave rebels, from the author of the acclaimed, bestselling debut The Young Team and one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. William Patterson – better known as DJ Turbo – is living a dystopian nightmare after his glory days as resident spinner at a local Coatbridge ice rink, The Time Capsule, have been snatched from him. As an ultranationalist regime sweeps to power, ‘The New Greatest Britishest Party’ cracks down on youth culture, drugs and – the final straw – electronica.

Incensed by a blanket ban of their beloved tunes, Turbo and his comrades launch a rave revolt – resurrecting the illegal warehouse parties of the past in this new darker, monolithic Greatest Britain, as a powerful act of resistance. But, as the political situation escalates and secret police surveil every corner of society, Turbo and his troops fly ever closer to the sun in the dangerous world of the anti-rave abolition paramilitary. Mixing euphoric anthems, psychotropic chemicals and peaceful insurrection, they will fight the war of the rave.

Deciding who to trust – and who may betray the cause – is everything. The future of the whole nation is on the line … can Turbo be the hero not just of rave, but of Scotland? Hilarious, tragic and incredibly clever all at once, this narcotic trip of a novel is a meta, mayhem-filled, cultural coup d'état and cult classic in the making, from one of the most electrifying young writers in Britain today.

Whistler by Ann Patchett

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE DUTCH HOUSE AND TOM LAKE'

Few writers are more adept than Patchett at delineating the collisions between present and past' Observer

'Whistler is top-shelf comfort food, the literary equivalent of pricey ice-cream' Guardian, Book of the Day

When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn’t expect it to be Eddie – her former stepfather. Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn’t seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again now, Daphne and Eddie feel that time has fallen away.

Their earlier relationship was brief but had a profound impact on both of them. Together, they consider not only their past, but the joys of the present and their commitment to face the future together. A moving, luminous story about how family, memory and love endures, Whistler paints an intimate portrait of how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.

'This generous-hearted, clever and poignantly revealing tale feels another sure-fire hit. Spend a day on the couch in its warm, riveting company and you won’t regret it' Times

'A quietly compelling story about the power of familial love to transcend time and blood' Harper's Bazaar, Best Books of 2026

 

Land by Maggie O'Farrell

'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow'

A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy.

'A heart-bursting story of resilience and love' Louise Kennedy

On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland.

The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse.

His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.