January 2024

Brand new books for the new year! 

For the start of the new year, we've chosen the recently published, instant bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year 2023 'Impossible Creatures' by Katherine Rundell.

We've also chosen some of our favourite books which have either been very recently, or are soon-to-be published. Have a browse through a range of books we consider to be #BeanstalkBrilliant fiction, non-fiction, picture books and graphic novels for a range of ages. 

About the book

'Impossible Creatures' by Katherine Rundell

Christopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil – before it's too late.

Watch Katherine talking to Waterstones about Impossible Creatures

Equally brilliant new books to try this year

Buy or pre-order any of these books here and Coram Beanstalk receive a 10% donation