The first book in Maggie Stiefvater's #1 NYT bestselling series The Raven Cycle, now gorgeously illustrated as a graphic novel!Blue Sargent comes from a family of psychics. Only, she has never had the same clairvoyant abilities they had and has always felt too ordinary within the magic that surrounded her. Enter Gansey, a rich student from Aglionby, the town’s all-boys private school teeming with wealth, privilege, and trouble. Blue's always made it a point to stay away from its students, the Raven Boys.But when Gansey asks her to join him and three other Raven Boys on his quest to find a long-forgotten Welsh king rumored to be sleeping beneath the mountains of their quiet Virginia town, Blue doesn’t hesitate. She jumps at the chance to finally be a part of something real and full of magic, a world she was born into yet one that always stood just out of reach. Soon enough, she’s swept into a strange and shifting world woven into theirs, one far more dangerous than anything they could have dreamt up.Now reimagined as a stunning full-color graphic novel adapted by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge, The Raven Boys unravels a thrilling plot around a cast of characters impossible to forget.

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not aloneThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn’t hurt yourself like that.He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.Got your special meds, nutcase?He is escaping Last Chance, a home for “very disturbed young men,” and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future.The night is huge and it hurts.In Shy, Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation.

You’re behind bars, framed for a crime you didn’t commit. Midwife Ciara Duffy goes to sleep and wakes in the small hours to find her husband beside her – stabbed through the heart. Soon she is arrested and charged with his murder. You get one chance to run. Ciara knows she is innocent. She has no one to rely on. Meanwhile, her young daughter is gravely ill. Ciara has to fight – by any means necessary. Do you take it? The day comes when getting out might be possible. But Ciara’s choices are hope justice prevails and she gets to her daughter in time. Or become a fugitive on the hunt for a killer. A compulsive thriller that grips and never lets go from the Irish Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Andrea Mara, Catherine Ryan Howard and Lisa Jewell. Praise for Amanda Cassidy ‘Sublime storytelling’ ANDREA MARA ‘Grips and won’t let go’ CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD ‘Will keep you hooked to the twisty last page’ SAM BLAKE ‘Propulsive plotting, beautiful prose … the perfect read’ LIZZY BARBER What readers are saying about The Stranger Inside ‘A brilliant book with cliffhangers at every turn’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review ‘A fast-paced, gripping read full of uncertainty and suspense’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review ‘WOW this novel has left me stunned. My jaw is still on the floor! The perfect one-sitting read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review ‘I couldn’t read this quick enough! Action-packed and heart-racing. One of the best, most fast-paced books I have read in a while’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review ‘A must-read… I was engrossed from start to finish. It had many jaw-dropping twists – prepare to be on the edge of your seat until the very end as I was!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review