You Took the Last Bus Home
£10.99You Took the Last Bus Home is the delightfully charming first collection of poetry from Brian Bilston, one of Britain’s best loved poets.
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You Took the Last Bus Home is the delightfully charming first collection of poetry from Brian Bilston, one of Britain’s best loved poets.

An adventurously oceanic jigsaw puzzle from the amazing imagination of Maria Rivans. For the fourth in her successful line of ‘great journey’ puzzles, Maria Rivans takes a dive into the deep. Taking Jules Verne’s classic adventure 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as her starting point, she explores the ocean and sea bed with her trademark collage juxtapositions, at once surprising and stylish. Discover colourful fish, fearsome sharks, kelp forests, wrecks, squid and more as you recreate her amazing submarine illustration!

Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time-loop in which he is obliged to re-live the same day a total of 9 times. Little does he know how useful this ability will be, until one day, his grandfather mysteriously dies. As he returns to the day of the murder time and again, Hisataro begins to unravel its secrets. With a sizeable inheritance up for grabs, motives abound, and everyone is a suspect. Can Hisataro solve the mystery of his grandfather’s death before his powers run out?

‘Dead-End Memories’ collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery. Yoshimoto’s gentle, effortless prose reminds us that one true miracle can be as simple as having someone to share a meal with and that happiness is always within us if only we take a moment to pause and reflect.

Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his ‘toothpaste-white smile’ for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotel’s overprivileged clientele, he muses over self-help books and draws life lessons from the game of chess. But Able’s ordinary life is upended when an early morning room service order leads him to interfere with Akudo, a sex worker involved with a powerful but dangerous hotel guest. Suddenly caught in a web of violence, guilt, and fear, Able must run to save himself – a journey that leads him into the desert with a group of drug-addled migrants, headed by a charismatic religious leader calling himself Ben Ten. The travellers’ dream of reaching Europe – and a new life – is shattered when they fall prey to human traffickers, suffer starvation, and find themselves on the precipice of death, fighting for their lives and their freedom.

A funny, gruesome and addictive guide to surviving your camping experience at the horror-filled Goat Valley Campground, from camp manager Kate. Based on the popular reddit r/nosleep series, for fans of Welcome to Night Vale and Grady Hendrix.

Saving the city one rainbow at a time! A brand?new, funny and action?packed graphic novel series starring the cutest and toughest superhero around, Super Unicorn Princess!
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When a frustrated young writer stumbles across an elderly woman at a Melbourne pool, he realises the scoop of a lifetime is right in front of him – the woman is the reclusive cult author Brenda Shales, whose disappearance from the public eye remains one of Australia’s last unsolved literary mysteries. He’s determined to pursue her, to discover what happened to her all those years ago, and to possibly fulfil his dreams of stardom through a tell-all biography. But a case of mistaken identity and Brenda’s own terrible secrets begin to derail his ambitions, and ultimately, his entire life.Â
From brilliant debut novelist Dominic Amerena, I Want Everything is a wickedly sharp story of desire and deception, authorship and authenticity, and the devastating costs of creative ambition.

Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return for a life-changing amount of money, it’s hard to turn down. But how much of herself will she be forced to give away? Retired ballet star Motoi and his wife, Yuko, have spent years trying to conceive. As Yuko begins to make peace with her childlessness, Motoi grows increasingly desperate for a child to whom he can pass on his elite genes. Their last resort is surrogacy; a business transaction, plain and simple. But as they try to exert ever more control over Riki, their contract with her starts to slip through their fingers.

A taut and elegiac novel that follows a man determined to uncover the truth about the father who vanished from his life

From Six Dinner Sid and T.S. Eliot’s rebellious Rum Tum Tugger to the infuriating Cheshire Cat of Wonderland and Behemoth the Cat, the demonic shapeshifter of Bulgakov’s ‘The Master and Margarita’, ‘A Literary Cat for Every Day of the Year’ draws together quotes and passages from poems and stories in celebration of the most famous cats in literature. A must-have for all cat-lovers and book lovers, this inspirational collection – with vintage line illustrations – is the perfect gift for feline fans to treasure all year long.

The bestselling cult classic in Korea; for fans of Mariana Enriquez, Asako Yuzuki, and Bora Chung
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