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✨THE TIME HAS COME✨ You can officially preorder ACOTAR 6 (October 27, 2026) & ACOTAR 7 (January 12, 2027) from your favourite book retailer.

Sarah J. Maas just announced that we have not one, but TWO new ACOTAR books landing in bookstores October 27, 2026 and January 12, 2027. Save the date(S!) and get ready to experience a double release of epic proportions.

Preorder links coming soon!

A vivid, human and radical history of one of the most powerful revolutionary movements of the twentieth century.

Available to pre-order now, publishing on April 7th.

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Their childhood was yours. They want it back...

Unveiling the cover for Melissa Albert's The Children.

Told in alternating narratives between 1990s Vermont and present-day New York, The Children is a twisting tale of family secrets and long-held resentments.

Out 4th June.

(Re)discover the beloved novel that spawned the cult classic film with our gorgeous 50th anniversary edition.

An adventure filled with sword fights and giants, evil princes and pirates, revenge, and true love, all wrapped in a dazzling satire of fairy tales. 👑⚔️

Out now!

🛥️ Twist- Colum McCann

'Twist lingers long after you've put it down' GUARDIAN

As taut and propulsive as a thriller, and a timeless exploration of narrative and truth, it is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/twist-978...

🔴 This Side of Brightness - Colum McCann

'Vivid, potent, beautiful' Maggie O'Farrell

Reissue: A love story of other times for these, our times, it is an unforgettable story of race, faith and family.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-side...

⬛️ The Waiting List - Matilda Wilding

'Extraordinary ... unpredictable' Daily Mail

A powerful and completely gripping novel about love, sacrifice and how life forces you to do the unthinkable.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/waiting-l...

👑The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Reissue: An iconic adventure filled with sword fights and giants, evil princes and pirates, revenge and ridiculousness, all wrapped in a dazzling satire of classic fairy tales.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/princess-...

🗺️ The Far Edges of the Known World - Owen Rees

Owen Rees explores the powerful empires and diverse peoples beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome, in doing so offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/far-edges...

📷 Songdogs - Colum McCann

Reissue: The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother.

🔵 Minority Rule - Ash Sarkar

We live under minority rule. But who is the ruling minority? Sarkar exposes how a strategic misdirection of blame over who is really screwing everything up is keeping the majority divided.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minority-...

🇧🇷 Lula - Richard Lapper

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's extraordinary career spans five decades. He has gone beyond 'a Brazilian politician' and become one of the most fascinating political operators of our young century.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lula-9781...

🐈‍⬛ Lean Cat, Savage Cat - Lauren J Joseph

A story of obsession and excess, doppelgängers and disassociation, fame and the terrible things we do to feel loved, it is an unforgettable novel from one of the most exciting writers at work today.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lean-cat-...

🌊 It Comes from the River - Rachel Bower

'A gritty and captivating tale of resilience, violence and the power of female solidarity' Harper’s Bazaar

'Haunting, lyrical and thoroughly gripping' Clare Fisher

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/it-comes-...

🪄 Dickens the Enchanter - Peter Conrad

See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, this is a kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's imagination and the world he created.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dickens-t...

🕺 Dancer - Colum McCann

Reissue: Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it.

🐝 Beauty of the Beasts - Jo Wimpenny

While it may be tempting to imagine a more pleasant world devoid of animals that scare and repulse us, learn why losing them would devastate many ecosystems.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beauty-of...

📚 Happy publication day! Look at this beautiful stack of new books just begging to be read! Which takes your eye? 👀

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From the prize-winning author of Saltblood… 🏝️ ⚓

Cast Away by Francesca De Tores is a tale of adventure and endurance, isolation and friendship, despair and hope, this gripping, singular novel asks who we are – and who we become – when everything else is stripped away.

🎉📚 For one week only, enjoy 30% off hardbacks and paperbacks and 40% off ebooks in our February Flash Sale!

Browse titles here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/february-flash-sale/?utm_content=1771668600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

🎉📚 For one week only, enjoy 30% off hardbacks and paperbacks and 40% off ebooks in our February Flash Sale!

Browse titles here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/february-flash-sale/?utm_content=1771501920&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

A devastating event. Many versions of the truth.

We’re thrilled to share the cover for #TheSummerWeLied, the clever, multi-voice, twist-after-twist debut from Rebecca Hardy.

Coming July 2026. Available to pre-order now.

Couldn't be more delighted with this #bookpost - Louise Kennedy's new novel, Stations which I'm about to start. Huge fan of Trespasses. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in September

📖 Unsafe - Karen McCarthy Woolf

A moving, critical and highly intuitive epic weaving together poetry, documentary and lyric essay, it's an interrogation of what it means to be a citizen and testimony to the remaining spaces we can call free.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsafe-97...

🥄The Spoonie Survival Guide - Jodie K Ranu

Written by a spoonie for spoonies, this is your kind and reassuring guide to moving through your day with confidence – one spoon at a time.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spoonie-s...

🎨 The Shape of Things Unseen - Adam Zeman

Neurologist Adam Zeman brilliantly guides us through the latest scientific studies in the world of the imagination and how we understand the minds of others.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shape-of-...

❄️ The Blood in Winter - Jonathan Healey

A nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by the people. A society on the brink of collapse. From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling history about the months that sent England into civil war.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-...

🇺🇦 Strong Roots - Olia Hercules

Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family, it brims with hope and grief whilst being an uplighting reminder.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/strong-ro...

🔴 Red Dawn Over China - Frank Dikötter

Frank Dikötter reveals how thirteen delegates gathered in a dusty room in 1921 ended up raising the red flag over the Forbidden City in 1949, forever altering the course of history.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/red-dawn-...