Showing titles in Coming of Age

Sara and Mia are more than just mother and daughter—they’re best friends, confidantes and partners in adventure. Mia’s dad’s identity may still be a mystery, but Mia’s independent, adventurous mum has more than made up for it over the years. So when Sara suggests a sun-soaked escape to Kos, the stunning Greek island shaped by volcanic forces, Mia jumps at the chance for their perfect summer getaway.

When Lieutenant James Bowman steps off the train in 1920s Salisbury, Rhodesia, he carries more than his kitbag—he bears the weight of war trauma and abandoned love. His encounter with Colonel Voss, an aging adventurer with tales of ancient civilisations and promises of glory, offers an escape from his haunted past. "The legend has it there was a great civilisation here when we in Europe were still climbing trees and living in caves," Voss claims, drawing Jim into a dangerous expedition into Africa's heartland.

Mordecai's simple life as the son of a blacksmith is transformed by the discovery of his magical birthright. As he journeys to understand the power within him he is drawn into a dangerous plot to destroy the Duke of Lancaster and undermine the Kingdom of Lothion. Love and treachery combine to...

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green.And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees.The...

There are angels and demons at war inside my head. I had it all figured out: finish high school, attend seminary, and finally answer my calling of becoming a priest. What I hadn't counted in the equation was her. Grace Miller. The girl who was always out of my reach. The girl who still makes me lose my breath with just a look. Little did I know she would become my temptation and vice, and quite possibly, my ruin. Now I'm standing at a crossroads, and my head is a battlefield. How do I choose sides when it means losing a part of who I am? 

A brilliantly provocative and compulsive novel in which a husband and wife conceive an unorthodox plan to preserve their late son’s memory, and bend the rules of motherhood to their will . . . Georges is dead. Charlotte’s darling son has died, still dressed and lying on top of his sheets. It...

The Sixth Book in the Historical Collection A cursed desert, a stolen dowry, and a love that refuses to break. For five years, Tuffer and Sariyah have exchanged letters across the desert—bound by an arranged betrothal neither of them expected to welcome. But when Tuffer finally arrives with a...

Giovanni Diotallevi ha sedici anni quando suo padre gli comunica la grande notizia. Ha ottenuto per lui un colloquio con un gerarca, una persona importante. Se saprà fargli una buona impressione, per Giovanni si apriranno le porte del meraviglioso luogo che il Duce ha voluto costruire in fondo alla Tuscolana, una piccola metropoli destinata a creare pellicole che incanteranno il mondo intero.

War. Rebellion. Magic. Celka’s innovative magic let her assassinate the Stormhawk—Bourshkanya’s unkillable dictator. Alongside Filip, a State-trained mage and Army officer, she now joins the resistance, fighting to turn that single victory into a revolution. Gerrit, Celka’s...

Wren Poole has eight months left in Millhaven. Eight months of familiar streets, quiet routines, and a life that already feels decided—until a single letter changes everything. Accepted to a college four hours away, Wren makes a choice she doesn’t share with anyone. Not her best friend. Not her counselor. Not even her mother. Instead, she moves through senior year as if nothing has changed. But everything has. As questions about the future grow louder, Wren finds herself caught between two versions of her life—the one everyone expects, and the one she’s already chosen.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the most dangerous view is not the landscape before you, but the truth it awakens within? In A Room with a View, E. M. Forster turns Edwardian manners into a quiet battlefield of desire, class, beauty, and self-deception. Known for his humane...

Mirror, Mirror, a new The Borough Press book, full description to follow when available...

Due famiglie legate al mare e alla terra. Tre donne unite da una maledizione. Salento, primi del Novecento. Alla vigilia dell'Immacolata, Cosma Guadalupi perde il marito in una notte di tempesta. Mesi dopo nasce Minerva, la loro ultima figlia, che tutti chiamano Mina. Fin dal principio, Mina si dimostra diversa dalle sorelle, poiché porta in sé i doni della nonna masciara, Nilde, la strega alla quale il paese si è sempre rivolto per guarigioni e malefici. Ribelle e oscura per natura, Mina è esclusa dalle altre bambine e allontanata da Cosma.

When Ambrosia first arrives at prestigious college Wesleyan, she’s desperate to fit in. But Amb struggles to navigate the rules of this strange, elite world, filled with privileged ‘nice’ young women - until she meets the charismatic but troubled Sully, with whom she forms an obsessive friendship. Intoxicated by Sully’s charm and determined to impress her, Amb finds herself drawn deep into her new best friend’s dangerous manipulations. But if she wants to play Sully at her own game, Amb has no idea just how devastating the consequences will be.

One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah’s mother tells him three things: don’t use drugs, don’t use weapons, don’t steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn’t there. They have fled their village in Ghazni to seek safety outside Afghanistan but his mother has decided to return home to her younger children.

The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections. Includes an interview with the author. Young Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she’s squatting with anarchists in...

Brookhants School for Girls: infamous site of a series of tragic deaths more than a hundred years ago. Soon to be the subject of a controversial horror movie about the rumoured ‘Brookhants curse’: in the early 1900s, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir. A few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close. 

An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle. Rowan is visiting her aunt – Winne the hedge witch – in the Welsh countryside, to get back to nature and hone her skills, as well as taking a break from her annoying sisters and enjoying some peace...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Whistle in the Dark by Emma Healey, read by Julia Deakin and Laura Aikman. In the award-winning Elizabeth is Missing debut novelist Emma Healey explored grandmother Maud's attempt to solve a 70-year-old mystery as she succumbed to dementia. Now, in her...

"Monsters aren't real." That's what sixteen-year-old Lucy Brannigan has always believed, until, broke and desperate, she and her father move to an isolated farmhouse in the small Scottish town of Helsbridge. It's their last chance, and they have to make it work. For Lucy, life appears to be over. With no friends, and surrounded by miles of thick woodland, there's nothing to do. But why did the previous occupants leave their belongings behind?