The list of anticipated books, movies, shows and music releasing in May 2024.
A time travel romance, a speculative spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingeniously constructed exploration of the nature of truth and power and the potential for love to change it Welcome toĀ The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project sheāll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering āexpatsā from across history to establish whether time travel is feasibleāfor the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
She is tasked with working as a ābridgeā: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as ā1847ā or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklinās doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so heās a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as āwashing machine,ā āSpotify,ā and āthe collapse of the British Empire.ā But he adjusts quickly; he is, after all, an explorer by trade. Soon, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a seriously uncomfortable housemate dynamic, evolves into something much more. Over the course of an unprecedented year, Gore and the bridge fall haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences they never could have imagined.
Supported by a chaotic and charming cast of charactersāincluding a 17th-century cinephile who canāt get enough of Tinder, a painfully shy World War I captain, and a former spy with an ever-changing series of cosmetic surgery alterations and a belligerent attitude to HRāthe bridge will be forced to confront the past that shaped her choices, and the choices that will shape the future.
An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, The Ministry of Time asks the universal What happens if you put a disaffected millennial and a Victorian polar explorer in a house together?
There's only one way out of these woodsā¦
Ever since that night, twin sisters Cassie and Lenora have been inseparable. As the sole permanent residents of Cabin Two, their refuge on an isolated Tennessee campground, they manage to stay away from prying eyes, probing questions, and true crime junkies. Just the two of them, Cassie and Lenora against the world. The peace and quiet is almost enough to make them forget what happened all those years ago. Almost.
Until a teenage girl camping at the neighboring cabin goes missing, and the memories come rushing back. As the crime becomes ever more recognizableāthey know better than anyone that so-called 'happy families' can be anything butāeach sister suspects the other knows more than she's letting onā¦.
Trapped in the isolating, claustrophobic wilderness, Cassie and Lenora must piece together the truth of what happenedāand the sinister truth lurking in their own pastsābefore it's too late.
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real?
Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruthāstrange, corpse-like, and dead for centuriesāis the only good thing in Roosā life, which is filled with sordid backroom sĆ©ances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these sĆ©ances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes is palpable. So how does someone end up dead?
Roos is caught red-handed, but she claims a spirit is the culprit. Doctor Montague, a psychologist tasked with finding out whether Roos can be considered mentally fit to stand trial, suspects sheās created an elaborate fantasy to protect her from what really happened. But Roos knows spirits are real; she's loved one of them. She'll have to prove her innocence and her sanity, or lose everything.
Step into a city where monsters feast on human emotions, knights split their souls to make their weapons, and witches always take more than they give.
Pain is Dymitrās calling. To slay the monsters heās been raised to kill, he had to split his soul in half to make a sword from his own spine. Every time he draws it, he gets blood on his hands.
Pain is Alaās inheritance. When her mother died, a family curse to witness horrors committed by the Holy Order was passed onto her. The curse will claim her life, as it did her motherās, unless she can find a cure.
One fateful night in Chicago, Dymitr comes to Ala with a bargain: her help in finding the legendary witch Baba Jaga in exchange for an enchanted flower that just might cure her. Desperate, and unaware of what Dymitr really is, Ala agrees.
But they only have one day before the flower dies . . . and Ala's hopes of breaking the curse along with it.
As an Empyreal, Nicole has the ability to kill any deadly supernatural. But if her power ever awakened, the Wakeāthe organisation that governs supernaturalsāwould force her to be their loyal huntress. Or kill her, like they did her mother.
To stay safe, Nicole hides in a small university town, convinced the mythological art collection at a local manor contains a final message from her mother. But before she can study it, Kyan McCarter, the Wakeās most skilled Empyreal, arrives on his own hunt. When they discover his prey has stolen a painting for leverage, theyāre forced to work together.
As the creature threatens to expose Nicoleās powers, her tenuous alliance with Kyan threatens her heart. If her true identity is revealed, Kyan will hunt her next. No one disobeys The Wake and survives. Especially when the art theyāre seeking unveils a conspiracy that would change the lives of creatures and humans forever...
But Nicole may only be able to resist one: her wicked impulses, or a love that could repaint their world. And after a life of hiding her true nature, who could resist the temptation of magic...
When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.
The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and team-up with Mad Max.
A man is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could've lived, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from a most terrifying foe: himself.
A secret and sweet real-life romance between veteran academy instructor Seo Hye-jin and her flirty student Lee Joon-ho, who returns after 10 years and stirs her heart.
The eight close-knit siblings of the Bridgerton family look for love and happiness in London high society.
āRight Place, Wrong Personā is an 11-track album that captures some of the universal emotions that we all experience at some point in life, such as the feeling of being an outsider who doesnāt fit in.
The album falls within the alternative genre, boasting a rich sound coupled with frank, honest lyrics.
