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Duologie THE CHOSEN d’Emily Bähr

Her beautiful sister was meant to be the one competing for the crown prince’s hand – but now shy girl Iris is forced to take her place. Yet if she wants to be queen, she must first survive a deadly contest… Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Blood and Ash, Sarah J. Maas’ Throne of Glass and Tracy Wolff’s Crave

THE CHOSEN DUOLOGY
by Emily Bähr
Heyne/PRH Germany, 2025

The Hunger Games meets The Royals

Book 1: TRÄUME AUS GOLD (February 2025)

This is the day the daughters of Vesmon’s aristocracy have been preparing for all their lives: the day of the Royal Games, whose winner will marry the crown prince. Without her training in magic, Iris would never have qualified for the contest, but now that her sister Hyacinth is suddenly out of the running, she has no choice.

The moment Iris arrives at the royal court, she is drawn into a web of intrigue. Her mentor Cylus is her only hope of survival – but despite his stand-offish ways, he soon makes her lose sight of her original goal…

Book 2: HAUS AUS ASCHE (June 2025)

Young noblewoman Iris fights for her life – and true love.
After the assassination of Prince Cilian and the revelation that Prince Cylus is the true crown prince, the king will do anything to preserve the integrity of the Royal Games. Iris is faced with a cruel choice: continue to take part in this fatal contest, or be executed. Only the top three will survive, but victory – and thus a chance at happiness with Cylus – is impossible. While Iris keeps up her tough fighter’s façade in front of the cameras, deep down she’s finding it increasingly harder to hide her true feelings for Cylus. But ever since his cousin Cilian’s assassination, the prince is convinced he can’t trust her. Will she be able to win his heart – and survive the Royal Games?

Emily Bähr and her cats live in magical Northern Ireland, somewhere between Narnia and Westeros. She makes a living as a graphic designer, while also being a self-confessed nerd who loves sci-fi, the cinema and Pokémon. Bähr would jump at the chance to move to Mars – but since that’s unlikely to happen, she instead travels to the fantastic realms inside her own mind. At night, under cover of darkness, she combs Wikipedia for useless knowledge.

PAPER DOLLS d’Andrea Stewart

The daughter of a famous YouTube family – who left her past long behind her – is forced to go home to save her sister. The debut thriller from two times Sunday Times bestselling fantasy novelist Andrea Stewart that will appeal to readers of Girl A, Sharp Objects and Luckiest Girl Alive.

PAPER DOLLS
by Andrea Stewart
on submission
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Ellie Campbell grew up online: the child of YouTubers, everything from her first period to first boyfriend was put up for the world to pick over, and her family to monetise. Until she grew up.  She changed her name. She changed her hair. She barely speaks to her family anymore.     

But when she spots some unnerving details in her parents’ videos, and gets the news that a close family friend has gone missing – she decides that she has to go back, to make sure that her younger sister Olivia is safe.  

She arrives to a house full of secrets, including one that her parents have kept from the world: Olivia has run away. But Olivia would have come to Ellie if she’d run. Ellie knows it. So where is she? And could it be connected to the disappearance of their neighbour? When a body is found, Ellie is forced to confront the realities of her childhood – and the darkness that lies beneath the perfect façade.

Andrea Stewart is the daughter of immigrants, and was raised in a number of places across the United States. She now lives in sunny California. Her debut fantasy novel, Bone Shard Daughter, was published in the US and UK by Orbit, as well as in 7 other translation territories. Bone Shard War, and the first in her next trilogy, The Gods Below, were both Sunday Times bestsellers. 

LISTEN TO YOUR SISTER de Neena Viel

For fans of Jordan Peele’s films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, LISTEN TO YOUR SISTER is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel from electrifying debut talent Neena Viel.

LISTEN TO YOUR SISTER
by Neena Viel
St. Martin’s Press, February 2025
(via Dystel, Goderich & Bourret)

Most Anticipated by GoodreadsPeopleBookRiotReactorScreenrant, and more

Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same time. Dre, their brother, promised he would help raise Jamie–but now the ink is dry on the paperwork and in classic middle-child fashion, he’s off doing his own thing. And through it all, The Nightmare never stops haunting Calla: recurring images of her brothers dying that she is powerless to stop.

When Jamie’s actions at a protest spiral out of control, the siblings must go on the run. Taking refuge in a remote cabin that looks like it belongs on a slasher movie poster rather than an AirBNB, the siblings now face a new threat where their lives–and reality–hang in the balance. Their sister always warned them about her nightmares. They really should have listened.

« Deliciously terrifying and belly laugh-inducing…Viel incorporates well worn genre tropes in new ways and provides plenty of bloodcurdling surprises along the way. » — BookPage, Starred review

« Unique and compelling … a terrifying and immerse supernatural horror story that is clearly underpinned with love. » — Library Journal

« [An] addictive supernatural thriller. » — Publishers Weekly

« Heartfelt and darkly humorous…Fans of Jordan Peele’s films will want to check this out. » — Booklist

« Anxiety metamorphoses into terror for a young Black woman fiercely protecting her own… A relentless descent into familial fears made manifest, both haunting and terribly familiar. » — Kirkus

Neena Viel is a horror writer who lives in a cabin in the Washingtonian woods with her husband and the best dog on the planet. Her passion for philanthropy (almost) rivals her love for ghost stories. LISTEN TO YOUR SISTER is her debut novel.

THE LAST ICEBERG TASTING MENU d’Erin Jones

THE LAST ICEBERG TASTING MENU explores themes of climate change, wealth inequality, queer lives, and immortality, combining the ensemble storytelling of Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin, the speculative nature of Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark and C. Pam Zhang’s Land Of Milk and Honey, with the humor and heart of Glass Onion.

THE LAST ICEBERG TASTING MENU
by Erin Jones
Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic, publication 2026-2027
(via Frances Goldin Literary Agency)

In a not-too-distant future, the world’s last glacier has been downgraded to the world’s last iceberg. While society mourns another natural wonder lost to climate change, the billionaire—a former tech mogul turned restaurateur—becomes obsessed with obtaining a piece of the ice to serve at his restaurant. The iceberg has been deemed a protected entity by the United Nations, but that doesn’t worry the billionaire. He needs the ice.  

THE LAST ICEBERG TASTING MENU is a speculative, propulsive literary novel-in-stories following the waning days of the world as we know it, and the nine people who find their fates intertwined with the iceberg and one another across space, time, and class. There’s the helicopter pilot who aids and abets the billionaire’s heist despite physical and emotional scars from what she saw while working in search and rescue amid environmental catastrophes wrought by global warming; the billionaire’s wife, who reserved her place in a future Mars colony by allowing her consciousness to be contained in a box as the world burned; a pair of twins who have only ever lived at sea and now lead scuba tours of communities drowned by rising waters; and finally, the security guard who will do whatever it takes to provide protection (and air conditioning) for his young family, and becomes embroiled in a plot to reclaim the little of the iceberg that remains in containment before it’s gone forever.

Erin Jones is the author of the YA novel Tinfoil Crowns (Flux Books, 2019), a 2020 Moonbeam Awards Silver Medalist, and one of Barnes & Noble’s most anticipated YA books of the year. Jones graduated with her MFA in fiction from Emerson College where she is now affiliated faculty and a writing consultant for ELL students. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

THE TWELVE de Liz Hyder

From the award-winning author of Bearmouth, a haunting and captivating teen fantasy that explores the power of love and friendship in the face of ecological turmoil.

THE TWELVE
by Liz Hyder
Pushkin Children’s Books, October 2024

WINNER OF THE NERO PRIZE FOR CHILDREN’S FICTION

It’s supposed to be a treat for Kit, a winter holiday by the coast with her sister Libby and their mum. But when Libby vanishes into thin air, and no one else remembers her, Kit is faced with a new reality – one in which her sister never existed.

Then she meets Story, a local boy who remembers Libby perfectly. Together they embark on a journey beyond their wildest imagination into a world steeped in ancient folklore. Can Kit and Story uncover the secret of the Twelve and rescue Libby before Time runs out?

Channelling the dark menace of classic British fantasy writers such as Susan Cooper and Alan Garner, this is a beguiling tale of ancient magic, good and evil, deeply rooted in the Welsh landscape. Haunting illustrations by Tom de Freston add to the eerie atmosphere.’ The Guardian

The ancient past is rendered vividly in this book that is ideal for tweens and teens who love beachcombing for fossils’ The Times Children’s Book of the Week

Liz Hyder has been making up stories ever since she can remember. She has a BA in drama from the University of Bristol and, in early 2018, won the Bridge Award/Moniack Mhor’s Emerging Writer Award. Her first novel, Bearmouth, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Older Readers, the Branford Boase Award, and was The Times‘s Children’s Book of The Year.

Tom De Freston is an artist based in Oxford with his wife, Kiran Millwood Hargrave. His practice is dedicated to the construction of multimedia worlds, combining paintings, film and performance into immersive visceral narratives.