‘A marvel of a collection’ Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time
‘A consummate storyteller’ New York Times

The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love – and of the monstrosities of patriarchy.

The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth.

Actaeon, changed into a stag after glimpsing the naked Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about how humans use and misuse animals.

From genetic engineering to the eternal complications of family, Haddon showcases how we are subject to the same elemental forces that obsessed the Greeks, as he reimagines stories from Laika the Soviet space dog on her fateful orbit to St Anthony wrestling with loneliness in the desert.

‘In sentences as precisely cut as paper sculptures, Mark Haddon fits ancient myth to the cruelties and wonders of the present’ Francis Spufford, author of Cahokia Jazz

 ‘A moving coming-of-age family story’ Observer
 
 ‘Iconic’, Radio 1

I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination
room.
 
Gabriel’s skin is falling off.
 
His dad is dead.
 
He owes his editor a novel.
 
His girlfriend won’t answer his calls.
 
Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel’s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents’ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there’s a hideous man in the garden.

Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,  Brat  is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.  
 
From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.  

‘This original, clever story is brilliant on grief, madness and creativity. It’s beautifully written, hilarious and heart-breaking. I raced through it.’ Daily Mail

?‘For readers looking for something that will grip you from start to finish,  Brat  is sure to be your breath of fresh air. The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won’t soon shake.’ Chicago Review of Books
 
‘Smith’s picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabriel’s foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel’s brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.’ Booklist

‘[Smith’s] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.’  Kirkus
 
‘It’s a book about loss and the anxiety of the modern age, tinged with humor and deep insight that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.’ Town & Country

‘Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.  Brat  is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.’  Rachel Connolly, author of  Lazy City

‘Messy with glitched realities and body horror,  Brat  breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as  Inland Empire  and  Ubik. It’s a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I’ve read in ages.’  Ed Park, author of  Same Bed Different Dreams
 
‘Gabriel Smith’s prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.  Brat  is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.’  Jordan Castro, author of  The Novelist
 
‘Gabriel Smith’s jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace’s sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  for a new, quaking generation.  Brat  will unnerve and seduce you.’  Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted

‘Smith’s picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabriel’s foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel’s brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.’  Booklist

‘[Smith’s] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.’  Kirkus
 

Carrie meets The Cabin in the Woods in this terrifying Halloween horror novel!

Your worst nightmare is about to come true?

When an overnight camping trip in the woods on Halloween night goes wrong, and a girl ends up dead with what looks like animal wounds, the whole neighbourhood is shocked.

How did it happen?

And more importantly what was it that killed her?

Carrie meets The Cabin in the Woods in this terrifying Halloween horror novel!

‘Chilling and unforgettable, this imaginative and atmospheric tale has enough twists and turns to leave you travel sick right up until the spine-tingling finale. CJ Tudor meets Riley Sager in this unpredictable treat‘ John Marrs

‘A fun and highly readable spiderific romp, with a satisfying bite of horror!’ Susan Stokes-Chapman

‘Brilliantly fun and astute spidery genius’ Natasha Pulley

‘An instant cult horror classic’ Michael Wood

‘Frightening yet credible? a total banger. I can’t recommend enough’ John Boyne

‘Chilling and thrilling, Scuttle is a masterclass in horror writing. Barnaby Walter pulls off that clever trick of blending highly relatable characters with a darkly compelling plot’ Marion Todd

‘A really dark and disturbing thriller with elements of horror? packed with “horrific” surprises and twists against a backdrop of a plausible coming of age theme’ ?????

‘Be careful with this book, it might change how you see your environment and you will certainly think twice before camping!’ ????

‘I was immediately sucked in by the first few chapters and, after that, the book did not let me go? highly recommended’ ?????

‘Like a horror film you might watch from behind the sofa or peeping between your fingers? it becomes scary if not terrifying on occasions? I love the book’ ????

‘Dark and melancholy but entertaining’ ????

‘It’s creepy and dark but so well-paced that even as your skin is crawling, you’ll be glad you read it!’ ????

From the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time come eight mesmerising stories exploring care, genetics, how we treat animals – and how we treat other people.

Mark Haddon weaves ancient fables into fresh and unexpected forms, and forges new legends to sit alongside them. The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love – and of the monstrosities of patriarchy. The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth. Actaeon, changed into a stag after glimpsing the naked Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about how humans use and misuse animals.

From genetic engineering to the eternal complications of family, Haddon showcases how we are subject to the same elemental forces that obsessed the Greeks. Whether describing Laika the Soviet space dog on her fateful orbit, or St Anthony wrestling with loneliness in the desert, his astonishing powers of observation are at their height when illuminating the thin line between human and animal.

‘In sentences as precisely cut as paper sculptures, Mark Haddon fits ancient myth to the cruelties and wonders of the present’ Francis Spufford, author of Cahokia Jazz

 
‘A moving coming-of-age family story’ Observer
 
 

‘Iconic’, Radio 1

I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination
room.
 
Gabriel’s skin is falling off.
 
His dad is dead.
 
He owes his editor a novel.
 
His girlfriend won’t answer his calls.
 
Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel’s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents’ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there’s a hideous man in the garden.

Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,  Brat  is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.  
 
From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.  

‘This original, clever story is brilliant on grief, madness and creativity. It’s beautifully written, hilarious and heart-breaking. I raced through it.’ Daily Mail

?‘For readers looking for something that will grip you from start to finish,  Brat  is sure to be your breath of fresh air. The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won’t soon shake.’ Chicago Review of Books
 
‘Smith’s picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabriel’s foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel’s brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.’ Booklist

‘[Smith’s] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.’  Kirkus
 
‘It’s a book about loss and the anxiety of the modern age, tinged with humor and deep insight that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.’ Town & Country

‘Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.  Brat  is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.’  Rachel Connolly, author of  Lazy City

‘Messy with glitched realities and body horror,  Brat  breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as  Inland Empire  and  Ubik. It’s a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I’ve read in ages.’  Ed Park, author of  Same Bed Different Dreams
 
‘Gabriel Smith’s prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.  Brat  is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.’  Jordan Castro, author of  The Novelist
 
‘Gabriel Smith’s jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace’s sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  for a new, quaking generation.  Brat  will unnerve and seduce you.’  Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted

‘Smith’s picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabriel’s foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel’s brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.’  Booklist

‘[Smith’s] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.’  Kirkus
 

‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.’

Inspired by Mary Shelley’s gothic classic Frankenstein, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire.

As Brexit grips Britain, Ry, a young transgender doctor, is falling in love. The object of their misguided affection: the celebrated AI-specialist, Professor Victor Stein. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his Mum again, is set to make his fortune with a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.

Ranging from 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley pens her radical first novel, to a cryonics facility in present-day Arizona where the dead wait to return to life, Frankissstein shows us how much closer we are to the future than we realise.

‘Intelligent and inventive…very funny’ The Times

‘One of the most gifted writers working today’ New York Times