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If you live and breathe books like we do, this is the place for you! From the latest thrillers to feel-good sweeping romances, we want to help you find your next read and introduce you to new authors that may just become your new favourite. Run by the team at Transworld publishers, part of Penguin Random House, the What Shall I Read page is the perfect place to share your love for books and keep u

p to date with our brilliant authors including Lee Child, Paula Hawkins and Bill Bryson… just to name a few! We want to hear all about your favourite reads and are always happy to help with specific recommendations – just send us a message! Happy reading,
The Transworld team x

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07/02/2025

She didn't see it coming.
And neither will you ...

We are thrilled to reveal the cover of the brand new, twisty and obsessive thriller from #1 bestselling author Shari Lapena - SHE DIDN'T SEE IT COMING arrives this July!

Pre-order here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/461823/she-didnt-see-it-coming-by-lapena-shari/9780857506191

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Bryden and Sam have it all - thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter.
The perfect life for the perfect couple.

Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden – working from home that day - has failed to collect their daughter from daycare.

Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall.

Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It’s as if she just walked out.

How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all?

With every minute that passes – and as questions swirl around their community – Bryden and Sam’s past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbours and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . .

29/01/2025

THE SECRET’S OUT!

We’re so excited to announce the new novel from the worldwide bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown.

A race-against-time thriller which sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon.

THE SECRET OF SECRETS
09.09.25

https://linktr.ee/TheSecretOfSecrets

24/01/2025

He may not know what lies ahead

But REACHER always lines up his…

EXIT STRATEGY

The 30th Reacher Adventure begins on the 4th of November, 2025

Pre-Order now: https://linktr.ee/exit_strategy_30

20/12/2024

Are you looking forward to the final episode of Gavin & Stacey on Christmas Day? Well, we have some exciting news for you…

We are delighted to share that we will be publishing When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between: A Story Of Love And Friendship by James Corden and Ruth Jones. Full of revelations and never-before-heard stories, this is a one-of-a-kind book about a show that’s already gone down in history.

James and Ruth say: ‘We’re so excited to be sharing the story behind the story of Gavin and Stacey. The show has played a huge part in our twenty five year friendship and we hope this book will give readers a fresh insight into how it all came about.’

Available to pre-order now: https://linktr.ee/gavinandstaceybook

12/12/2024

Dear reader,

You Are Fatally Invited has continued to set the literary world alight, so much in fact that many of you have been in touch with my associates at Bantam and with my esteemed colleague, , to share words of support. Thank you; it’s not gone unnoticed and is greatly appreciated.

I have also been intrigued by correspondence that my novel is in such high demand that many of you remain eager to procure a copy before wider publication. I hate to disappoint my loyal readers, and consequently I’m eager to extend an invite to some discerning crime and thriller aficionados to join in a little gathering by way of an online book club commencing in January.

If you’re eager to be on the guestlist, then simply like this post and comment below to be considered, and my assistant, Mila, will be in touch in due course if you’re selected.

Regards,
J.R. Alastor

11/12/2024

Romance readers, do you love everything on this list?!

Enemies to lovers • Forced proximity • Book about books • Slow burn • He falls first • Set in New York

If this sounds like a book you’d fall for then we’ve got lovely news for you - we’ve got five book bundles of Not in My Book by to giveaway! To enter and be in with a chance of winning simply like this post and comment below.*

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Rosie Maxwell has a plan: move to New York, get her creative writing degree from NYU, become a bestselling romance writer. But that plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington, an obnoxious, surly, unreasonably gorgeous literary fiction writer who has no patience for romance – or for Rosie.

Exhausted by Rosie and Aiden’s constant verbal sparring, their professor gives them an ultimatum: leave her class, or cowrite a novel that blends their respective genres.

As Rosie and Aiden collaborate on their (accidentally steamy) novel, they try to put their differences aside. Could their manuscript-in-progress be just the outlet they need to confess their feelings – and explore their mutual attraction?

But a potentially career-changing opportunity soon reignites the flames of their old rivalry. Rosie and Aiden’s once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved – unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms…

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T&Cs apply

09/12/2024

🎄✨ MISTLETOE MONDAYS GIVEAWAY! ✨🎄

Make your holidays even brighter with this ultimate bundle of books! Whether you’re a quiz whiz, a music maestro, or a nature lover, we’ve got you covered:

📚 Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld – Dive into the magic behind the iconic fantasy world!
🌲 Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman – A celebration of creativity and craftsmanship.
🎶 PopMaster – 1,500 music quiz questions for pop fans!
🦌 A Natural History of England – Explore the beauty of British wildlife.
🧠 The 1% Club Quiz Book – Test your brainpower with the ultimate quiz for the family!

Here’s how to enter:
1️⃣ Follow us.
2️⃣ Like this post.
3️⃣ Tag a friend who loves books in the comments!

🌟 Bonus entry: Share this post to your story and tag us!

Winners announced next Monday! 🎁 Good luck, book lovers!

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🏆 Last week’s Mistletoe Mondays winner is congratulations!

06/12/2024

🎄✨ FESTIVE FRIDAYS GIVEAWAY ✨🎄

We’re spreading some holiday cheer with a stack of must-read books (which you can watch too👀)! 📚 Enter for a chance to win these incredible titles:

📘 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
📘 Rivals by Jilly Cooper
📘 Disclaimer by Renée Knight
📘 Argylle by Elly Conway
📘 Killing Floor by Lee Child

Perfect for cozy nights, these reads are guaranteed to keep you entertained all season long ❄️

🎁 Here’s how to enter:
1️⃣ Follow us.
2️⃣ Like this post.
3️⃣ Tag your book-loving friends in the comments (1 tag = 1 entry).

📅 Giveaway ends Thursday at 11.59pm. Winner will be announced in next week’s post. Open to UK residents only.

Good luck and happy reading! 💫

06/12/2024

There can be only one.
Introducing the 30th adventure.

EXIT STRATEGY - arriving October, 2025.

Pre-order for half price from WWaterstoneshttps://www.waterstones.com/book/exit-strategy/lee-child/andrew-child/9780857505613

27/11/2024

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Have you ever gossiped about your neighbours? Seen something you shouldn’t have whilst curtain twitching? Well then, you’d fit right with the women who live in the exclusive Briar Hart Estate, where appearances are everything but everyone has something to hide…

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For fans of Big Little Lies and The Real Housewives, this unforgettable debut explores the lengths women will go to when life leaves them feeling caged

Coralie King, Emma Brooks and Twig Dorsett are friends. Sort of. They're neighbours on an exclusive Sevenoaks estate who get along. It's convenient.

But one May bank holiday, Coralie's husband insists he saw a panther on the bonnet of his car. And cracks between the elite of the Briar Heart Estate begin to emerge.

As the summer wears on and there are more sightings, the big cat frenzy reaches a fever pitch. Tensions between neighbours threaten to boil over. Everyone is watching their back. But is the real predator a seventy-kilo cat with razor-sharp claws? Or is the actual danger of a much more domestic variety?

25/11/2024

We’re delighted to announce that there will be a
Exclusive Edition of Water Moon!

This beautiful edition features an exclusive case, foil endpapers and sprayed edge – we’re completely obsessed with it, and you will be too!

Available to pre-order now.

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Early readers have already been completely transported…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Felt like a Studio Ghibli movie in all the right ways’
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Completely swept me away’
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Magical… I’ve never read a book like this before’
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Full of whimsy, emotion and twists’
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Bursting with life on every page’

07/11/2024

Bombshell, the debut rom-com from , is out today!

Her worst nightmare might just be the making of her . . .

Family has always meant everything to Madison. Married to the nation’s heartthrob, TV handyman Rich, with two beautiful children, she’s always put their needs first. And she’s never regretted a second, even if her own career has taken a backseat.

Then, out of the blue, Rich drops a bombshell. He needs some space and he’s moving out.

Overwhelmed by this revelation, Madison turns to her tight-knit group of friends for help. But when their support isn’t enough, Madison resolves to find out what’s really going on. Even if it means turning detective on her own husband.

And with her own interior-design career about to take off (once her manager stops squashing her bold ideas for his terrible ones, and provided she doesn’t get distracted by the new guy in the office), Madison’s about to rediscover her own worth.

She’s a bombshell, after all…

Enjoy hilarious hijinks and heart-warming romance in this sparkling new rom-com – perfect for the festive season!

07/11/2024

WARNING ⚠️ off the chart spice, dark romance and non stop plot twists ✨ Proceed and read with caution 🧛✨

Wishing a very happy publication day to and the second book in the spicy Coven of Bones series: The Cursed.

Out now!

01/11/2024

It truly ‘tis the season to solve a mystery…

We’re absolutely delighted that Murder at Holly House by is Thriller of the Month at this November!

Unwrap the exclusive edition in shops and online today.

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A village of secrets.
It’s December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney of Holly House in the snow-covered town of Elderby. Is he a simple thief, or a would-be killer? Either way, he wasn’t on anyone’s Christmas wish-list.

A mystery that can’t be solved.
Inspector Frank Grasby is ordered to investigate. But as is often the way for him, things don’t go according to plan.

A Christmas to remember.
When the local doctor’s husband is murdered, Grasby begins to realize that everyone in Elderby is hiding something – and if he can’t uncover the truth soon, the whole country will pay a dreadful price.

01/11/2024

It truly ‘tis the season to solve a mystery…

We’re absolutely delighted that Murder at Holly House by is Thriller of the Month at this November!

Unwrap the exclusive edition now.

🎄🎄🎄

A village of secrets.
It’s December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney of Holly House in the snow-covered town of Elderby. Is he a simple thief, or a would-be killer? Either way, he wasn’t on anyone’s Christmas wish-list.

A mystery that can’t be solved.
Inspector Frank Grasby is ordered to investigate. But as is often the way for him, things don’t go according to plan.

A Christmas to remember.
When the local doctor’s husband is murdered, Grasby begins to realize that everyone in Elderby is hiding something – and if he can’t uncover the truth soon, the whole country will pay a dreadful price.

30/10/2024

Dare to confront your deepest fears this Halloween with Spotify's 'Spine-Chilling Audiobooks'! Featuring Marcus Kliewer's terrifyingly chilling horror, guaranteed to leave you sleeping with the lights on 😱

Brave enough to listen? Click here:
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29/10/2024

Introducing Rose Burnham: designer, dressmaker . . . detective? 🪡👗🕵🏻‍♀️

Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel 🧶

Our glitzy early proofs are coming soon! You can now submit your interest in receiving a proof via our link in bio🔗

Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread is the uplifting and evocative historical book club novel by Lynn Knight. Coming March 2025.

🧵Synopsis:

South-east London, 1925.

Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room’s closed doors.

So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor.

Rose is determined to bring the swindler to justice. To begin with, playing the detective is a grand adventure, but as pressures mount and an old friend receives a troubling string of poison-pen letters, Rose discovers there is more to investigating – and these investigations – than she’d bargained for.

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She didn't see it coming. And neither will you ... We are thrilled to reveal the cover of the brand new, twisty and obsessive thriller from #1 bestselling author Shari Lapena - SHE DIDN'T SEE IT COMING arrives this July! Pre-order here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/461823/she-didnt-see-it-coming-by-lapena-shari/9780857506191 👀 Bryden and Sam have it all - thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple. Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden – working from home that day - has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall. Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It’s as if she just walked out. How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all? With every minute that passes – and as questions swirl around their community – Bryden and Sam’s past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbours and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . .

THE SECRET’S OUT! We’re so excited to announce the new novel from the worldwide bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown. A race-against-time thriller which sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. THE SECRET OF SECRETS 09.09.25 #THESECRETOFSECRETS https://linktr.ee/TheSecretOfSecrets

He may not know what lies ahead But REACHER always lines up his… EXIT STRATEGY The 30th Reacher Adventure begins on the 4th of November, 2025 Pre-Order now: https://linktr.ee/exit_strategy_30

There can be only one. Introducing the 30th #REACHER adventure. EXIT STRATEGY - arriving October, 2025. Pre-order for half price from WWaterstoneshttps://www.waterstones.com/book/exit-strategy/lee-child/andrew-child/9780857505613

We've teamed up with Spabreaks.com as part of their Spabreaks Relax and Read Book Club to offer you the chance to win an incredible prize package: a £250 classic spa break for two voucher, an exclusive Summer Reads book bundle, plus a luxurious Sensory Retreats Hamper filled with all your favourite pampering delights! 🌼📖 Three lucky runners-up will also receive amazing prizes. Don't miss out on this opportunity to find your perfect moment of calm. Enter now for your chance to win: https://www.spabreaks.com/relax-and-read

Arriving this November, Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld takes readers behind the scenes of the amazing partnership between Sir Terry Pratchett and artist Paul Kidby. This is an unmissable insight into one of the great literary partnerships, packed full of hitherto unseen art and the real stories behind it. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/terrypratchett

Introducing book 2 in The Martini Club series from internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsent... Checking in March, 2025 🔅THE SUMMER GUESTS 🔅 ...just don't trust any of them. https://amzn.to/3XGWUpd

Horrible Histories - for adults! A History of Britain in Ten Enemies by Terry Deary is out this October. It's a fun-filled gallop through history that will have you laughing as you find out what they DIDN'T teach you in school... Pre-order your copy today 🗡️ https://amzn.to/4bMsrKe 🗡️

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