Natalie Xenos

The festive break is fast approaching and one of the best things about the holidays is curling up with a blanket and a good book. If you need a little fiction inspiration, here are six reads that are perfect for the yuletide season.

The magic of Christmas is all around us but if you’re looking for enchantment of an especially bookish kind, you’ll find it in the pages of Georgia Summers’ spellbinding new novel, The Bookshop Below.

The arrival of 2026 brings with it a plethora of new and exciting fantasy books, many of which bear Hodderscape's distinctive dodo emblem.

What do you get if you strand six struggling authors on a remote island and ask them to compete for a game-changing book deal and two million dollars? In the case of

In the wake of World War I, the world is a damaged and decidedly unmagical place. Mouse Dunne once dreamed of becoming a Faerie anthropologist but with her beloved cousin lost in the Somme, and her brother suffering from devastating shell shock, she knows she must put aside such youthful dreams. When she receives news that her late uncle has left her Thistlemarsh Hall, a crumbling manor once blessed by the Faerie King himself, Mouse travels back to the English countryside to salvage what's left of her crumbling ancestral home. But there's a catch: if she doesn't restore the house to its former glory in one month's time, she will forfeit her inheritance and any hope of caring for her ailing brother.

Just when I thought I'd had my fill of books featuring dragons, Blood Bound came along and reminded me why I love the romantasy genre so much.

With the recent release of Amazon Prime's Off Campus , the adaptation of Elle Kennedy's ice hockey romance novel The Deal , fans are going wild for contemporary romance set in the world of competitive sport.

As readers, we're forever falling in love with fictional people and wishing we could pull them out of the pages so that we can meet them in real life. Kirsty Greenwood's new novel,

Every book lover has their own idea of what makes the perfect summer read, which is why this year's round-up of summer book recommendations was written with mood readers in mind. Sometimes you yearn for a tender love story, other times a twisty thriller. Sometimes you don't even know what you're looking for until a synopsis draws you in with the promise of an unputdownable read. With the inclusion of YA and New Adult titles to please our fellow crossover readers, here are twenty books to suit every bookish mood.

Failed actress Ash has finally hit rock bottom. She's drifted apart from her friends, she barely has a relationship with her family, and now she's been passive-romantically ‘let go' from her lacklustre admin job. She's so far away from the theatrical life she once dreamt of having and she can't envisage any kind of future that appeals to her. That is until she happens upon a job advertisement on Instagram posted by Retro, a recreational time travel agency who are hiring agents to escort the ultra-wealthy on trips into the past. For a woman who has nothing – no hopes, no house, no career, no personal ties – it's a golden opportunity to start afresh.