It’s Met Season

Chappell Roan walked the Met Gala red-carpet for the first time this year. Many described her look as perfection for the “Pink Pony Club” signer. The look consisted of a gigantic hot-pink patchwork coat trimmed with glittery fur. Underneath, she continued the pink streak in a bedazzled jacket and a pair of matching bell-bottoms. She was definitely HOT TO GO in this look!

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lightlark Saga, this is Alex Aster’s debut romance novel.

Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter, Elle, has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due by the end of the summer.

Desperate for inspiration, Elle returns to NYC – the city she hates – and tries to throw herself into her writing. But then she meets her new neighbour: Parker Warren. He’s the city’s favourite handsome tech billionaire and he’s also the guy Elle hooked up with in a stairwell two years ago. When seeing him again turns into a night of hate-fuelled writing, Elle realises Parker might just be her twisted muse.

So, when Parker needs to fake a steady relationship during his company’s precarious acquisition and Elle needs to research a list of classic date spots in the city for her screenplay, they suddenly find they might just be exactly what each other needs.

Summers always end, and so will this agreement.
It’s all pretend.
Until it isn’t.

Custom aquamarine lurex wool jacket embellished with a satin collar with matching pants and an aquamarine satin blouse with a tone on tone satin bow and an aquamarine chiffon cape, inspired by look 67 from the CHANEL Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2015/26 collection. CHANEL camelia brooches, hat and shoes.

Three siblings. Two human, one robot. The spectacular new debut about what it means to be alive. 

‘Wildly and, yes, luminously emotional.’ Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library

In a recently reunified Korea, robots have integrated seamlessly into society. They are our teachers, our bus drivers and policemen. They are our lovers. They are even our children. 

Eleven-year-old Ruijie sifts through scrap metal in a Seoul junkyard, searching for anything that might repair her failing body. There amongst the piles of junk she happens across a robot boy: lifelike, strange and unlike anything she’s seen before. 

Across the city, estranged siblings Jun and Morgan Cho haven’t spoken since the abrupt disappearance of their robot brother Yoyo, which shattered their childhoods and left a gaping hole in their lives. But Ruijie’s discovery is about to bring the lives of brother and sister hurtling back together, forcing them to confront the reality of Yoyo’s true nature, and the dark purpose their father never revealed. 

At once a dazzling work of speculative fiction and a poignant family drama, Luminous is a timely, unforgettable story about what it really means to be human. 

Clothed in a zoot suit by Willy Chavarria, Maluma paid tribute to Pachucos and the history behind the suit design. The thoughtful designs ruled the night—and were an intentional, tailored way to respect the exhibition’s theme.

Lucy is running from what she’s done – and what someone did to her.

There’s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister’s desolate cliff-top house, Jess is gone.

Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour. Stories of men disappearing without a trace. A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave. And women’s voices murmuring on the waves…

As Lucy searches for her sister, those voices get ever louder. They tell of two sisters, two centuries ago, bound and transported across the world. A world where men always get their way. A world that is at once distant, and achingly familiar.

Are these voices luring Lucy closer to her sister? Or will the secrets of the past pull them both under?

In collaboration with two icons in their own right, Ruth E. Carter and Marc Jacobs, Teyana donned the most sumptuous concoction of oxblood and chalk stripe: a feathered fedora, red cane, jumbo rosettes, leather gloves, stacked wallet chains, custom Kiki boots, and a durag with a train of pleated fabric trailing behind.

A twisty Victorian mystery featuring quick-witted detective Eliza Mace

The Welsh borders, 1870s: on the cusp of adulthood, Eliza Mace is battling for her independence. Stuck in a crumbling manor house on the fringe of a small town, she is thwarted by powers that conspire to protect, control and deceive her. But when her father goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Eliza’s determination to uncover the truth is unstoppable.
 
Joining forces with the charismatic new police constable, Dafydd Pritchard, she sets out to solve the case, but that’s no easy task. Her father has run up debts in town and beyond, and there are many who bear him a grudge. As she searches for evidence, Eliza exposes dark secrets that threaten to tear her world apart… 

This year’s Met Gala theme was made for Ncuti Gatwa. The dress code, Tailored For You, is inspired by the Met’s exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, and couldn’t be more on brand for an actor whose fits and characters have always been extremely and deeply well-dressed.

From an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy comes the Sunday Times bestseller title – a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue, cutthroat competition, and one scholar’s quest to uncover the truth.

She might win the throne. She might destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with murder.

After twenty-four years on the throne, it is time for Bersun the Brusque, emperor of Orrun, to bring his reign to an end. In the dizzying heat of mid-summer, seven contenders will compete to replace him.

Trained at rival monasteries, each contender is inspired by a sacred animal – Fox, Raven, Tiger, Ox, Bear, Monkey, and Hound. An eighth – the Dragon proxy – will be revealed only once the trials have begun. Eight exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists – the best of the best.

Then one of them is murdered.

It falls to the brilliant but idiosyncratic Neema Kraa to investigate. But as she hunts for a killer, darker forces are gathering.

If Neema succeeds, she could win the throne – whether she wants it or not. But if she fails, she will sentence herself to death – and set in motion a sequence of events that could doom the empire . . .

Gigi Hadid pays tribute to the women of the time from her hair right down to her shoes. The look is inspired by the designs of Zelda Wynn Valdes, who was known for work that shaped and styled the female form—and designing the Playboy Bunny uniform.

To understand the icons Beyoncé, Solange and Kelly, you have to understand where they came from… A deeply personal and revelatory memoir by Ms Tina Knowles – as you”ve never seen her before.

Tina Knowles, the mother of icons Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M: the woman who raised and inspired some of the great artists of our time. But this story is about so much more than that.

For the first time ever, Tina Knowles shares her remarkable story in Matriarch. A life of grief and tragedy, love and heartbreak, the nurturing of her superstar daughters – and the perseverance and audacity it takes for a girl from Galveston, Texas to change the world.

This intimate and revealing memoir is a multigenerational family saga and a celebration of the wisdom that women, mothers and daughters pass on to each other across generations.

A glorious chronicle of a life like none other and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.

Domingo’s longtime stylist Wayman Bannerman, part of the styling duo Wayman and Micah ultimately decided to focus on the history of the Moors, specifically, and their influence on the Harlem Renaissance. Using that as a starting point, they brainstormed color ways, accessories, silhouettes, shapes, appliqués and brocade — detailing central to Black dandyism that would help tell that story.

Where there is wonder, there is love – a magical story of a family encountering the Alaskan wilderness from the author of the million-copy international bestseller, The Snow Child.

Birdie”s keeping it together, of course she is. So she”s a little hungover on her shifts, and has to bring her daughter to the lodge while she waits never tables, but it”s a tough town to be a single mother, and Birdie just needs to get by.

And then Birdie meets Arthur, who is quieter than most men, but makes her want to listen; who is gentle with Emaleen, and understands Birdie”s fascination with the mountains in whose shadow they live. When Arthur asks Birdie and Emaleen to leave the lodge and make a home, just the three of them, in his off-grid cabin, Birdie”s answer, in a heartbeat, is yes.

Out in the wilderness Birdie”s days are harsher and richer than she ever imagined possible. Here she, and Emaleen, will learn the whole, fearful truth about Arthur.

Actor Joey King brought a retro essence to dandyism in her forest green Miu Miu suit. Experimentation is what made her look shine. Adorned in mirror crystals, her checkerboard shirt and 3D abstract tie were the cherry on top of a perfect look

He had everything he could’ve wanted . . . except her.

Dangerous. Powerful. Reclusive.

Vuk Markovic is notorious for shunning human interactions. The scarred billionaire rarely talks, and he has no interest in relationships outside his small but trusted circle.

His only exception? Her. The beauty to his beast, the object of his obsession.

He saw her first. He wanted her first. But now, she’s engaged to his oldest friend-and the closer the wedding looms, the more he’s torn between loyalty and desire.

She should be his . . . and he might just risk it all to have her.

***

Beautiful. Successful. Glamorous.

To the world, supermodel Ayana Kidane leads the perfect life. Her career has skyrocketed, and she’s engaged to one of New York’s most eligible bachelors.

What people don’t know is that the engagement is only a business arrangement. He gets his inheritance when they marry; she gets the money she needs to leave her abusive agency.

Pretending to be in love should be easy-until she finds herself increasingly drawn to her fiancé’s enigmatic best man.

Vuk thrills and terrifies her in equal measure. She knows she should stay away, but when her wedding is thrown into chaos, he’s the only person who makes her feel safe…

Until his past catches up with them and threatens everything they love.

2025 is officially Whitney Peak’s year. On top of being cast in the new Hunger Games movie—The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping—the actor just stepped out at the 2025 Met Gala for “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” Her look? An extremely cool Chanel outfit featuring red accents and a hat, with hair styling from Naeemah LaFond using OLAPLEX.

At night, the garden comes alive… Mexican Gothicmeets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li’s completely addictive and beautifully haunting gothic page-turner.

Vivian Yin is dead. The trailblazing starlet was the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar ­- but at what should have been the peak of her career, she became a recluse. The rest of her life was shrouded in mystery…

Now, her daughters gather for the reading of her will. They expect to inherit their childhood home: a grand Southern California manor house with a sprawling, labyrinthine garden. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead. The two families haven’t seen each other for decades – not since the tragedy that fractured all of their lives.

Vying for the estate, both families move into the crumbling, vine-covered manor. As Vivian’s daughters race to piece together what happened in the last weeks of their mother’s life, they soon discover they are being haunted by something far more sinister and vengeful than just their memories.

After so many years of silence, will the families finally confront the truth behind the house’s origins and the last, tragic summer they spent there? Or will the manor of dreams – and its deadly secrets – finally lay claim to its owners?