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Read of the month

Meet Me in the Darkness by Martta Kaukonen

1st June 2026

Once Ida nearly died at the hands of a killer. Now she’s trying to live again, to forget the monsters in her head. But the nightmares are coming back, more terrible than ever. Because Ida, now working as a journalist, has uncovered evidence of …

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Featured author

Ned Hoste

I began my professional design career at 15 and after art college went on to work in-house as a designer at Sphere Books before founding my own studio, 2H Design in 1988. In 2007, I founded The Big Ideas Collective and its publishing arm The Big Ideas Library. In over 40 years in publishing and desi…