Hodder & Stoughton

From legendary storyteller and No. 1 bestseller Stephen King, whose ‘restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained’ (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and […]

The first book about De La Soul, High and Rising is a stunning cultural biography of the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever. De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaking 1989 album 3 Feet High & Rising, an “anything goes” hip-hop masterpiece. Between their dusty […]

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a Midwestern town. Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and […]

Sceptre’s lead debut fiction title, Other People’s Clothes is a Berlin-based literary thriller for fans of The Girls and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. 2009. Berlin. Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems. Zoe is grieving for her high school best friend, murdered months before […]

Stephen King’s beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption – the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption – about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book. A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth […]

The romantic, sci-fi, comedic, literary, genre-defying bestseller ‘The hit of the year’ Guardian ‘Addictive’ Independent ‘Crack this book open and you’ll see how time can disappear’ Financial Times ‘Readers, I envy you: There’s a smart, witty novel in your future’ Washington Post A civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government […]

A timely, short and essential book about the power of facts in a post-truth world, by late international sensation Hans Rosling (‘a true inspiration’ – Bill Gates) and his long-term collaborators Ola and Anna. ‘One of the most important books I’ve ever read – an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.’ BILL GATES […]

‘They float…and when you’re down here with me, you’ll float, too.’ To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made […]