Books

Linh’s world is bound by the ancient traditions of her father, the master physician of Tam Ky. But when the Vietnam War arrives at her doorstep, her ancestral home is requisitioned by American forces. Among the occupiers is Thomas Walker, a reluctant combat medic who draws a yellow chalk line across her floorboards to separate his men from her...

From the rain-slicked streets of Oregon to the burning skies of Canton, Hazel chases a single, impossible dream: to fly. When World War II erupts, she joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), a band of pioneers ferrying lethal warbirds across a divided nation.

In the cockpit of a P-63 Kingcobra, Hazel finds her freedom. But on the ground,...

In the heart of occupied France, the Gestapo is hunting a ghost. They only know one thing about their most dangerous enemy: her limp.

Sent to Lyon, a city built for conspiracy, an American spy with a wooden leg codenamed “Cuthbert” begins a one-woman war against the Third Reich. Under the guise of a naïve journalist, Virginia Hall orchestrates...

Alex Zhang didn’t build a weapon. She built a roommate.

In the damp silence of a Cambridge boathouse, renegade scientist Alex Zhang downloads a Level-5 intelligence into a decommissioned hospice robot smuggled from China. Her name is Laura. She can calculate the trajectory of a falling star, recite every poem ever written, and analyze the...

DCI Ellie Blackwell trusts the certainties of history, the clean lines of a 17th-century map. Her life is a fortress of order built against the chaos of her job. But when she’s called to the scene of a wealthy developer’s apparent suicide, the clues are a maddening mess of contradictions. At the heart of it all: a three-line Japanese poem that...

In 1868, Japan is a nation tearing itself apart. The age of the samurai is ending. The Emperor’s modern, rifle-wielding army marches to erase 700 years of warrior tradition, and their final target is the fiercely loyal Aizu clan, the last bastion of the old world. Based on the extraordinary true story of the Boshin War, this novel brings to life...

Some secrets are kept in the heart. Hers were kept in a diary.

To the world, Akiko Sato was a success story in the cutthroat world of Tokyo finance. But behind the serene smiles and perfectly executed strategy was a private war, chronicled in the pages of a book no one else was ever meant to read.

It reveals a game played not with money, but...

In 1930s Tokyo, a young woman uncovers a secret that rewrites her family’s heroic samurai past. Now, the truth her grandmother has spent a lifetime protecting might just be the death of them both.

She was raised on a legend of glorious death and battlefield honour. But when a hidden document exposes a link between that legend and a modern...

For DCI Eleanor Blackwell, a punishment for being too sharp has landed her on the Gnome Squad, investigating the absurd serial theft of garden ornaments. But a call from the university’s gleaming Advanced Computing Laboratory pulls her from bureaucratic exile into a world of chillingly clean logic and a death that is anything but simple.

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Hiromi’s life was going nowhere fast, until the day it went everywhere, all at once. All it took was a stolen tube of Pringles, a mysterious inheritance from a mad uncle, and one very, very bad decision.

One minute, she’s a stressed-out IT worker in London. The next, she’s the unwilling owner of a doomsday weapon, the reluctant leader of a crew...

As Caesar’s legions occupy the palace and the Great Library turns to ash, Arsinoe must trade her silk for rough wool and her invisibility for an iron circlet. While her sister sits in a Roman garden, Arsinoe becomes the fire the world forgot to count. She will poison the water, burn the theaters, and lead a desperate rebellion to reclaim a...

Jin, an Imperial Scribe, lives by a single rule: control. His world is a fortress of straight lines and balanced ledgers, a rigid defense against the chaotic memories of his past. He despises the fluid, “horizontal” world of his rivals, believing his meticulous perfection is the only path to advancement.

But his precision earns him only a...

Hiromi Tanaka is a digital janitor. She’s underpaid, underappreciated, and officially done with quests. When a trio of cosmic beings offers her a destiny, she refuses. Their counter-offer? They steal her crisps.

Big mistake.

Now, with a pipe that can edit reality and a crew of galactic misfits, Hiromi is on the run from an agency that deletes...

Washington D.C., 1939. To the Navy, Elizebeth Smith Friedman is a “consultant” in a glorified supply closet. To her husband William, the man who broke the Japanese “Purple” code, she is the only mind that matches his own. But while William descends into the madness of a “Purple Fever,” Elizebeth catches a scent on the wind: a rhythmic,...

Isla Rhys-Jones is a woman of letters, logic, and very specific definitions. An Oxford-educated linguist living in the salt-crusted town of Bracken Cove, Maine, Isla’s life is a perfectly structured sentence. She has her research, her tweed blazers, and her husband Frank—a mechanic who speaks in monosyllables but fixes things with the soul of a...

Isla Rhys has a PhD in Linguistics, a perfectly organized bookshelf, and a color-coded life. She definitely does not have a plan for being evicted by a cardboard cutout named Angus.

Displaced by her landlady’s sudden pivot to “Highland Immersive Tourism,” Isla is left with one option: moving into the chaotic, grease-stained, sawdust-covered home...

Isla Rhys has lost her flat, her fiancé, and her faith in the possessive apostrophe—all in the span of twelve minutes.

When her Oxford academic fiancé dumps her via a text message that reads “Your to intense,” Isla doesn’t just mourn the relationship; she mourns the grammar. Needing an escape where syntax doesn’t matter, she flees to her cousin’s...

History is written by the victors. Or, in this case, by a panicked linguist with a quill and a plan to commit a felony. Isla Rhys-Jones, former Oxford academic turned boat mechanic's wife, thought the hardest part of Maine life was the weather. That was before a November gale stripped the mud from the harbor floor, revealing the skeletal remains...