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Table of Contents: The Grave of Perfection……………………………………………………………………………………….…1 The Twice-Cursed Heir………………………………………………………………………………………..…2 Blood Gold………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…3 Target Schweinfurt………………………………………………………………………………………….….…4 Limelight and Shadow……………………………………………………………………………………..….…5 The Blade and the Last Sacrifice…………………………………………………….…………………….…6 Skin Deep……………………………………………………………………………………………..………….…7 Circus……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…8 Execute, Repeat, Execute: Operation Pocket Money and the End of the Vietnam War.….…9 The Health Data Heist……………………………………………………………………………………….…10 Power Up Your Pelvic Floor……………………..………………………………………………………….…11 David Hockney………………………………………………………………………………………………...…12 The Harvey Girl…………………………………………………………………………………………..…….…13 The Last Starborn Seer……………………………………………………………………………………...…14

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F E B R U A RY 20 27

The Grave of Perfection The Concluding Volume in the Tyrant Philosophers Quintet Adrian Tchaikovsky A return to Ilmar, the “City of Last Chances,” a decade after our story began. Has the Palleseen campaign to impose “perfection” on a chaotically magical world reached breaking point? In the final instalment of the Tyrant Philosophers quintet, Adrian Tchaikovsky takes us back to Ilmar, the “City of Last Chances,” a decade after our story began. Has the Palleseen campaign to impose “perfection” on a chaotically magical world reached breaking point? F I C T I O N / FA N TA S Y / E P I C Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book | 2/9/2027 9781035915040 | $30.99 / $40.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 496 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9 in H | 5.8 in W

It’s almost ten years since the Gownhall Rising, in which time the Palleseen grip on the city has only strengthened. Landmarks like the Mahanic Temple and even the Gownhall itself have been torn down to be replaced by Palleseen edifices. The Grove, gateway to the infinite wood and all the worlds beyond, is scheduled for destruction. Only the haunted Reproach remains too much for even the Pals to extinguish. Istri is a playwright, writing plays contrary to perfection and keeping ahead of both the censors and her creditors. In a bad spot, she is commissioned by Fidel, the “Old Owl” of the resistance, to write her last and greatest work. Innocent enough, except it is to be a play touching on the most forbidden topic, the Reproach itself. Orlandt, soldier of fortune and Istri’s former lover, has been over a decade away from the city since fleeing into the Grove to escape the Pal occupation. Now he’s back, looking for familiar faces. But his past is always with him, what he did in the war, and what was done to him within the Wood. Yasnic the ex-priest, the conjurer, the beloved of Hell, has come home to find his city under threat not just from the Palleseen, but other sini... Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and many others. Children of Time and its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.

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The Twice-Cursed Heir Venetia Constantine The second installment in Venetia Constantine’s epic romantic fantasy trilogy. Every scepter demands a price, and every truth cuts deeper. Following the events at the Astral Mountain, the Quaternity is lead into Xylia’s diseased forests, where the Sickening spreads as fast as suspicion. Leilani, drawn to Astrophel but bound to Blayze by a newfound telepathy, can’t escape the echo of Arden’s memories—or the fear that her own bloodline began the ruin.

When Endellion unleashes storms and stirs uprisings to seize the Healing Bough first, old loyalties splinter. As Endellion’s Shadow-fueled vengeance ignites, Leilani vows to master her magic—or muzzle it—before the realms burn. Venetia Constantine read English at King’s College, Cambridge and holds a PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute. She paused a cherished career in the art world to pursue her dreams of becoming an author, swapping galleries for an enchanted windmill, where she now writes full-time. Venetia lives in London with her husband and their three children.

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Blood Gold The Shocking True Story of the Amazon Gold Rush Dan Collyns A shocking exposé of the dirty trade of gold and how it is pushing the world’s biggest rainforest to the brink of collapse. Gold has a powerful hold over our civilization. The precious metal first attracted the Spanish conquistadors to the new world. For the Incas, only royalty could wear gold. Louis XIV covered Versailles from floor to ceiling in gold. It is excess, wealth, domination and power.

In this gripping investigation into the murky origins of gold, journalist Dan Collyns explores the world of gold mining in South America. From the Inca palaces stripped of their riches and the craters of illegal mining in the Amazon, to the Indigenous peoples fighting for survival to the firms laundering gold via the Swiss refineries, jewellery makers and bank vaults of the world - Collyns shows how the extraction and sale of ‘blood gold’ in South America grew from a colonial history of plunder and oppression. More urgently, he will show how we can stem its flow. Traveling to the illegal mining operations deep in the Amazon, Collyns reveals the extraordinary levels of toxic mercury which are being spilled into the world's largest biome, the shocking sister trade of the many underage girls trafficked into sex slavery and the corruption the western hunger for gold has unleashed across South America - for criminal mafias, gold is an even bigger business than cocaine. Dan Collyns is based in Peru reporting for The Guardian, the BBC and CGTN America, as well as The New York Review of Books, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Chatham House and Mongabay, on topics including Amazon oil spills, earthquakes, Inca descendants and the drugs war. He interviewed one of the last Shining Path commanders, joined raids on illegal gold, timber and wildlife in Peru’s Amazon, and was one of a handful of journalists to report on “isolated” tribes.

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Target Schweinfurt The Eighth Air Force's Darkest Days Thomas McKelvey Cleaver A vivid account of the US Eighth Air Force’s raid on Schweinfurt in October 1943, their most difficult and costliest mission of World War II. Based on the first-hand accounts of those who survived, renowned aviation historian Tom Cleaver tells the story of the Eighth Air Force’s Mission 115, when 291 bombers were sent to Schweinfurt to destroy the ball bearing factories on which the Wehrmacht depended. H I S TO RY / W A R S & C O N F L I C T S / WORLD WAR II Osprey Publishing | 5/4/2027 9781472878427 | $32.00 / $42.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt 8 pages of black and white illustrations

In the face of an unrelenting German anti-aircraft defence, the mission became a bitter fight as the bomber crews of the B-17s of the Eighth found themselves under attack from nearly every Luftwaffe fighter unit in Western Europe. Sixty B-17s were lost and 600 men died or became prisoners of war. October 14, known forever after as “Black Thursday,” the day the Luftwaffe won. This dramatic narrative of the mission takes us through the build-up to the mission before focussing on the desperate struggle for the survival in the skies above Germany. The raid was to have profound implications as the Luftwaffe regained air superiority over Germany and the US Air Force conducted no more raids until long-range fighter escorts were available. A new air war had begun. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the bestselling Osprey titles The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, Clean Sweep (2023), Turning The Tide (2024) and most recently Mediterranean Sweep (2025). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

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Limelight and Shadow American and Soviet Jet Aces of the Korean War Bill Yenne This fascinating history reveals the Korean War as the birth of modern jet combat, where historic dogfights forged heroes in the limelight of fame and the shadow of secrecy. Limelight and Shadow presents a gripping dual narrative of the Korean War’s jet age, contrasting the celebrated exploits of American fighter aces with the hidden war waged by their Soviet adversaries. It follows figures such as Joseph McConnell, whose victories in the F-86 Sabre made him a public hero in the United States, and Nikolai Sutyagin, the highest-scoring ace of the war, who flew MiG-15s under false markings and vanished into Cold War secrecy. H I S TO RY / W A R S & C O N F L I C T S / KO R E A N W A R Osprey Publishing | 4/6/2027 9781472875938 | $32.00 / $42.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.2 in H | 6 in W 8-pages of black-and-white photographs

Drawing on decades of suppressed history, the book reveals how Soviet pilots were the primary opponents of United Nations airmen in “MiG Alley” – a truth long dismissed as rumor, even as American pilots heard Russian voices over the radio and were ordered to remain silent. The Korean War marked the world’s first jet-on-jet air war and produced more such combat than all later conflicts combined, redefining aerial warfare forever. By placing American and Soviet aces side by side, Limelight and Shadow explores how courage, competition, and ideology collided at supersonic speeds, turning elite pilots into instruments of propaganda and pawns in a global struggle that was anything but cold. Some men flew into history’s spotlight; others into its shadows – and only now can their stories be told together. Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen non-fiction books, his most recent being America’s Few (2022) and The Ones Who Got Away (2023). His work has been selected for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List. He is the recipient of the Air Force Association’s Gill Robb Wilson Award for the “most outstanding contribution in the field of arts and letters... whose works have shaped how thousands of Americans understand and appreciate air power.” He lives in California.

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The Blade and the Last Sacrifice Elizabeth May The second instalment in Elizabeth May’s thrilling and sexy romantasy trilogy, perfect for fans of Raven Kennedy. An empress bound by blood. A god bound by hate. A choice that could shatter two worlds. Theodora Devaliant wasn’t born to rule—she was born to bleed. The last Anchor of a cursed royal bloodline, her body alone upholds the fragile veil between divine and mortal realms. When her life is threatened and demigods are found slaughtered in her streets, the god-king issues an ultimatum: marry, produce an heir, or watch the realms burn. To ensure she survives long enough to comply, he sends his most lethal Enforcer to guard her. F I C T I O N / FA N TA S Y Aria | 2/16/2027 9781035932498 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 560 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9 in H | 5.8 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781035907175

Bastien has spent centuries nursing his hatred for the Devaliant family. Convinced Theodora is behind the murders, he’ll use his assignment as her bodyguard to gather proof and watch her empire crumble. But as desire blurs the lines between enemy and ally, the body count rises, and evidence points to a conspiracy that could shatter both their worlds. Because when duty and desire collide, and the veil between gods and humans begins to tear, choosing wrong doesn’t just mean death—it means apocalypse. Perfect for fans of enemies to lovers, touch her and die, villain gets the girl, forced proximity, and he falls first. Elizabeth May is the Sunday Times bestselling author of To Cage a God, the Seven Devils duology (co-written with Laura Lam), The Falconer series, and romance novels under the pseudonym Katrina Kendrick. Originally from California, Elizabeth holds a Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews. She currently resides on an 18th-century farm in the Scottish countryside with her husband, three cats, and a lively hive of honeybees that live inside the wall of her old farmhouse.

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Skin Deep How Our Skin Works, and Why it Matters Alice Klein The science of skin, blending the latest research, interviews with experts and investigative journalism to explore our largest organ. The skin is a fascinating organ—it’s the largest one we have and the only one visible to others. It has to hold the rest of our organs in, maintain our precise body temperature, keep out toxins and radiation, and manufacture vitamins. We use it to feel the world and each other. SCIENCE Bloomsbury Sigma | 3/2/2027 9781399425537 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.2 in H | 6 in W

Skin Deep explores why the skin is so important for our health, from why wrinkles form and whether collagen supplements actually work, to how Botox affects not just faces but emotions and what the long term impacts are of tattoos. It asks: can we really stop our skin from aging? Is there such a thing as a healthy tan? And does washing with soap actually make us smell worse? Blending the latest research with expert interviews, Alice Klein meets burn survivors, spends a day in a Botox clinic, talks to dermatologists and tattoo artists, meets scientists working on radical new gene therapies, and visits a lab in Japan making robots with living skin; all to provide a deep understanding of the body's boundary. Alice Klein is a staff journalist at New Scientist, reporting on health and environment news. She has won several awards, including an Association of British Science Writers’ award for Feature of the Year in 2021, two National Press Club of Australia awards. Her work has also been featured in the Best Australian Science Writing Anthology.

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F E B R U A RY 20 27

Circus When Tyranny Came to Ancient Rome The untold story of how propaganda and power struggles toppled the Roman Republic – once the world’s most powerful democracy. In 49BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon and Rome fell into a brutal civil war. The institutions that gave its people a voice crumbled and, after the dust settled, Rome was forevermore ruled by emperors.

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But Rome didn’t fall in a day. For centuries, its people had taken pride in the fact that they had overthrown their King and vowed that they would never have another. So why did the Romans give up their freedom? After the violent assassination of Caesar, why wasn’t the Republic restored? And why did those fighting for democracy lose the battle? This is not just another history of Rome; Jessica Clarke takes us right into the heart of the wars, back-stabbings, uprisings and creeping normalisation of propaganda and disinformation that fractured the Republic. Lifting the veil on the political machinations of a series of ruthlessly ambitious oligarchs, Circus is a page-turning exploration of the spectacular culture and theatrical politics of the final battle for the Roman Republic. Jessica Clarke is a historian and archaeologist with a PhD from the University of Oxford. She is a regular contributor to The Classics Podcast and the BBC HistoryExtra Podcast, and has written for several publications, including The Times Literary Supplement, BBC History Magazine, History Today and La Repubblica.

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Execute, Repeat, Execute: Operation Pocket Money and the End of the Vietnam War Barrett Tillman Execute, Repeat, Execute is the first comprehensive account of the 1972 U.S. mining of Haiphong Harbor told through vivid first-hand accounts and unmatched historical expertise.

Barrett Tillman’s Execute, Repeat, Execute: The Mining of Haiphong and the End of the Vietnam War delivers a long-overdue, deeply researched account of one of the most strategically impactful – yet largely overlooked – operations of the entire conflict. With the precision of a seasoned historian and the flair of a novelist, Tillman revisits Operation Pocket Money: the 1972 U.S. naval mining of Haiphong Harbor, a bold maneuver that sealed North Vietnam’s key maritime lifeline and helped force Hanoi back to the negotiating table. For fans of aviation and Vietnam War history, this book offers a rare cockpitto-Command Room perspective. Uniquely, Tillman incorporates both American and North Vietnamese sources, including translated official Hanoi documents and first-hand Vietnamese accounts – many appearing in English for the first time. This dual narrative deepens our understanding of the conflict’s technological, tactical, and human dimensions. With insights into Cold War geopolitics, aerial tactics, and naval coordination, Execute, Repeat, Execute is an essential read for those who study warfare in all domains. Barrett Tillman is a professional author and speaker with more than 40 nonfiction books as well as novels to his credit. He holds seven awards for history and literature including the 1996 Tailhook Association Lifetime Achievement Award and third place in the US Naval Institute Prize in 2009. Tillman has appeared in more than a dozen documentaries including The History Channel’s Dogfights.

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F E B R U A RY 20 27

The Health Data Heist Why Big Tech Wants Your Body Matt Evans This book explores why health data is so valuable, how we’re giving it away, who wants to access it, and how we can wrestle back control. Through wearables, consumer DNA tests, and even just the phones in our pockets, a vast and growing quantity of health data is collected every day. It can of course be helpful for health agencies to improve public health and can even allow us to perform better at sports. H E A LT H & F I T N E S S Bloomsbury Sport | 2/23/2027 9781399429580 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt

But it all comes at a cost. In a world of increased surveillance, tech companies and cybercriminals are now in control and put profit above all else. This misuse risks not only our privacy, but perhaps even democracy itself. Tech journalist Matt Evans shows us what we are giving away, how the data is used, and how we might reap the benefits without paying such huge costs. Featuring exclusive interviews with tech CEOs, lawyers and even reformed hackers, this is a deep-dive into the value of our health data and a manifesto for a new age of personal autonomy. Matt Evans is Senior Fitness and Wearables Editor at TechRadar. He has also written for Runner’s World, Women’s Health, Men’s Fitness, T3: Tomorrow’s Technology Today, Tom’s Guide, Fit & Well, and many more outlets. Matt is passionate about digital privacy and data security, having covered stories about menstrual tracking data and big data breaches.

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Power Up Your Pelvic Floor A practical guide to change your life Suzanne Vernazza This must-have guide explores the hidden world of pelvic floor health and gives you all the information you need to take control. Let’s face it, pelvic floor problems aren’t sexy. But with 1 in 3 women showing pelvic health dysfunctions, such as incontinence, prolapse and pelvic pain, it’s something we need to talk about.

Power-up Your Pelvic Floor is the go-to, trustworthy and supportive bible for all your pelvic health concerns. Providing easy-to-understand, evidence-based information, specialist pelvic health physiotherapist Suzanne Vernazza covers the basics of what everyone should know, but rarely does. Structured around answering the FAQs that Vernazza receives day-in, day-out in her clinic and online, each chapter looks at a different topic: from how to do pelvic floor exercises properly, what to do if pelvic floor exercises aren’t working for you, pregnancy, periods and more. Together you can stop the heartbreak that pelvic health issues can cause – because bladder and bowel problems can range from a slight nuisance to being really embarrassing and life limiting. Vernazza is on a mission to empower you with the information you need to prevent and improve your problems—and to know where to go for more help if needed—because everyone deserves to have a happy and healthy pelvis! Suzanne Vernazza is a specialist pelvic health physiotherapist with over two decades of experience and the founder of Know Your Floors and #SqueezeSquad. She is a speaker, a visiting lecturer and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, and has featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5 Live, Radio 1, Katie Piper’s Breakfast Show, and the BBC documentary Prolapse and Me. Suzanne is an ambassador for the Every Woman festival. @knowyourfloors

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David Hockney An Artist for Life Paul Morley An exploration of David Hockney's story through a series of locations that transformed the way he saw the world - from the swimming pools of California and the landscapes of Yorkshire to the ligh...

From the swimming pools of Los Angeles to the hills of Yorkshire, from the bright light of California to the changing skies of Normandy, David Hockney spent a lifetime seeing the world differently. One of the most celebrated and influential artists of our age, Hockney continually reinvented both his art and himself. His paintings are among the most recognisable images in modern culture, yet the story of the places that shaped his imagination has never been told quite like this before. In David Hockney: An Artist for Life, acclaimed writer Paul Morley takes us on a journey through the landscapes, cities and communities that inspired Hockney's remarkable career. Bradford, London, California, Yorkshire, France: each location reveals a different side of a restless, curious and endlessly innovative artist. More than a biography, this is a vivid exploration of creativity, freedom, identity and belonging. As Morley traces Hockney's rise from working-class Bradford to international fame, he shows how friendship, love, curiosity and place fuelled one of the most extraordinary artistic lives of the modern era. Insightful, entertaining and rich in cultural history, David Hockney: An Artist for Life offers a fresh and captivating portrait of an artist who has never stopped looking, questioning and creating. Paul Morley has been one of the UK’s finest music journalists and broadcasters since the late 1970s. He wrote for the New Musical Express for almost a decade and has written for the Guardian and Telegraph. His book The Age of Bowie was hugely critically and commercially successful and sold over 16,000 copies in HB. It was also a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and was selected as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

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The Harvey Girl Dana Stabenow This thrilling historical mystery sees a young female Pinkerton detective take on the lawless American frontier of the 1890s. Welcome to the gilded age. Where not everything glitters. 1890. The New Mexico Territory is a lawless frontier where criminals steal money and land alike with impunity. Everyone wears a six-gun and is ready and willing to draw it.

In the new city of Montaña Roja, Fred Harvey’s growing empire is threatened by the robberies plaguing his newest Harvey House restaurant. To get justice, he needs a skilled detective to go undercover and procure answers to questions the law will not ask. The assignment falls to Clare Wright, a young Pinkerton agent. Disguised as one of Harvey’s famous hostesses, Clare travels west where she risks being exposed at every step of her investigation. To get answers—and to get out alive—there are only two things she can trust: her instincts, and her derringer. Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fishing tender. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. Her first book in the bestselling Kate Shugak series, A Cold Day for Murder, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Follow Dana at stabenow.com

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The Last Starborn Seer the INSTANT Sunday Times bestselling romantic fantasy debut for 2026, perfect for fans of love triangles, epic quests and intricate world-building Venetia Constantine The first instalment of an epic romantic fantasy trilogy, charting a deadly quest through a fractured realm of light and dark magic. “A Tolkienesque journey through a gorgeous, shimmering world . . . Venetia Constantine is a bright new star.” —Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree F I C T I O N / FA N TA S Y Aria | 1/26/2027 9781035914425 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Carton Qty: 40 7.7 in H | 5 in W | 1.4 in T | 0.7 lb Wt Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781035914456

Leilani Stellarion is cursed. The last of a ruined bloodline, she’s shunned for her volatile Starborn magic, which grants her prophetic visions but is slowly corrupting her mind. Branded a pariah, Leilani is blamed for the Sickening, a wasting curse that fractured the realms of Arcelia and plunged them into war. When her dying mother’s health deteriorates and a forced marriage threatens her future, Leilani seizes the chance to reclaim her fate. A prophecy speaks of an ancient relic that could end the Sickening—and she’s determined to find it. To retrieve the sceptre, she must survive the deadly climb to the Astral Mountain, forge alliances with enemies, outwit rebel forces, and navigate her own treacherous feelings for a rival envoy, which grow under the watchful eye of her betrothed. Hunted by a vengeful spectre and haunted by her magic, Leilani must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice in the name of redemption—before her powers consume her. Venetia Constantine read English at King’s College, Cambridge and holds a PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute. She paused a cherished career in the art world to pursue her dreams of becoming an author, swapping galleries for an enchanted windmill, where she now writes full-time. Venetia lives in London with her family.