Fiction

Kevin Powers / The Yellow Birds

   WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTAN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK: BEST BOOKS OF 2012A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF...

Lisa Zeidner / Layover

   Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether - like her job...

Rex Collins / Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories

    This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this...

Piers Paul Read / Monk Dawson

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Simon Armitage / Kid

    Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of...

Arnaldur Indridason / The Shadow District

   OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCESTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as `the shadow district'. An Icelandic detective and a member of the...

Reginald Hill / An Advancement of Learning

   All is not well at Holm Coultram College.All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches' sabbaths, a body buried under a statue.Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of...

Hwee Hwee Tan / Foreign Bodies

    Mei, a young Singaporean lawyer, receives a call from Andy, her English boyfriend. He's in jail, accused of masterminding an international soccer gambling syndicate. As Mei attempts to clear Andy's name, we learn of secrets buried in...

Viet Thanh Nguyen / The Sympathizer

   WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will...

Julia Llewellyn / Love Nest

   Roll the diceGrace's childhood home, Chadlicote Manor, is being sold to settle family debts. Will losing her home break her heart or is it the chance for a new life?... move two spacesKaren's husband has the Manor in his sights as a chance...

Helen Warner / Stay Close to Me

   Amy has enjoyed a charmed life, shopping and lunching while the nanny looks after her children. Until her world is thrown into disarray when husband Ben's business collapses overnight, taking their house and savings with it. Suddenly Amy...

Simonetta Agnello Hornby / The Almond Picker

    In the Sicilian village of Roccacolomba, La Mennulara ('the woman who gathers almonds') lies dead.For more than 40 years she had been at the heart of the Alfallipe family, one of the richest families in Roccacolomba first as a humble...

Terri Paddock / Come Clean

   Mesmerising, moving novel from exceptional new author about one girl's struggle to cope after being wrongly admitted to a boot-camp-style rehabilitation centre. A powerful and page-turning read.Justine is trying to cope with the desperate...

Michaels Russell / The City of Strangers ( Stefan Gillespie Novels - Book 2 )

   The SUNDAY TIMES top 20 bestseller!Shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger AwardNew York, 1939: A city of hope. A city of opportunity. A city hiding dark secrets ...A brutal murder in an affluent suburb of Dublin and the...

Kate Lord Brown / The Taste of Summer

    Every summer, in a rambling castle in Kenmare, south west Ireland, the TV crews descend to film the nation's favourite cookery competition. For Diana, a celebrated TV chef, it's a way to keep her castle running. But this summer, it will...

Karen Rose / Edge of Darkness

   The fourth book in Karen Rose's nail-biting Cincinnati Series revisits your favourite characters battling crime in the city's dark underbelly. Fans of Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson and Karin Slaughter will not be able to tear themselves...

Chris Ryan / Agent 21

   Some authors just write about it. Chris Ryan has been there, done it, and lived to tell the tale. Agent 21 is the first in the action-packed adventure series by the real-life SAS hero.When Zak Darke's parents die in an unexplained mass...

Alexandra Sokoff / The Shifters

   The streets of New Orleans can be a dangerous place for the heart Charged with overseeing the city's shapeshifters, Caitlin has her reasons to be wary of their kind. So when charismatic shifter Ryder shows up, claiming to be on the trail of...

Josh Lacey / The One That Got Away

   Ben's family is complicated. And being stuck in a remote cottage with his irritating elder sister, his silly half-sister and his weird step-brother drives him crazy - until a night-time intruder leads the children to make a shocking and...

Nele Neuhaus / Ice Queen

   Some secrets remain buried forever . . .When holocaust survivor, Jossi Goldberg, is found dead near his house in Frankfurt, a five-digit number is discovered scrawled in blood at the scene of his murder. The autopsy shows the victim has an...

Clive Cussler / The Pharaoh's Secret ( Numa Files - Book 13)

   A Kurt Austin NUMA files adventure, The Pharaoh's Secret is a gripping, action-packed and suspense-filled tale that delves into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt and is set in and beside the sparkling Mediterranean Sea.A deadly poisonOn the...

Glenn Cooper / The Devil Will Come

   A terrifying secret.A shocking discovery has been made deep within Rome's ancient catacombs. One that the Vatican is determined must never be made public - for the sake of all mankind.A deadly conspiracy.But there are others who want to...

Owen Laukkanen / The Professionals

   Four friends, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise works like a charm - until they kidnap the wrong man.Now two groups are...

Holly Hepburn / A Year at the Star and Sixpence

   The perfect escapist read, for all fans of Cathy Bramley and Jenny Colgan. A Year at the Star and Sixpence is Holly Hepburn's four Star and Sixpence novellas collected together as a novel for the first time.When sisters Nessie and Sam...

Lionel Shiver / The New Republic

   A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin.`A superbly witty political satire' THE TIMESEdgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for...

Emma Donoghue / Stir-fry

    Maria has just arrived in Dublin. Staying with her aunt, Maria decides to move out, so she answers an advertisement pinned up in the students' union. She finds herself sharing a flat with Ruth and Jael, two older, more sophisticated,...

Conor Fitzgerald / The Namesake : An Alec Blume Novel

   When it comes to murder it's all in a nameWhen magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazzale Clodio, it's a coded warning to the authorities - a clear message of...

Winston Graham / Marnie

    The novel that became a classic Hitchcock film. Marnie seems a charming woman, but no one knows her real name or anything about her at all. Now Marnie has walked into a trap. The game is over - or would be - if the man who trapped her...

Maggie Gibson / First Holy Chameleon

    Cash Ryan's life is a mess. A property developer has made her homeless, her boyfriend has decided to lead the celibate life, and her big acting break in a TV soap has just fizzled out like a damp squib. She gets sympathy and support...

Stanley Pottinger / The Last Nazi

    Lawyer Melissa Gale has dedicated her life to tracking down Nazis, in memory of her Holocaust survivor grandmother. Happily married to a Washington Post journalist, she is on the trail of a particularly elusive Nazi, Adalwolf, who...

Elliot James / Cold Cold Heart

    Mike Culley, a former agent who was sold down the river by the CIA , has nothingto live for but the daughter he loves, is forced back into harness by the men who betrayed him. His mission: to hunt down a brilliant and ruthless Russian...

Reginald Hill / Ruling Passion

    'One of the modern masters of the police procedural' Sunday Telegraph Peter Pascoe is in shock. A weekend in the country with old friends turns into a nightmare when he finds three of them dead and the missing fourth a prime suspect in...

S. D. Robertson / Stand By Me

   'A heartbreaking tale' THE SUN'Exceptionally beautiful' MIRANDA DICKINSONThey'll always have each other...won't they?Lisa and Elliot have been best friends ever since the day they met as children. Popular, bright and sporty, Lisa was...

Lewucka / Various Pets Alive and Dead

    For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't. What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. Their daughter...

David Wellington / Monster Island

   As the shambling zombie masses cover the globe, advanced nations quickly succumb to the feeding frenzy. Civilization's only hope rests in war zones like Somalia, where fighting for survival is the norm. From this quarter emerges an unlikely...

Julian Stockwin / Mutiny

    It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master's mate on Achilles, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, on his way back from the Caribbean. After a dangerous rescue mission to Venice Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home after many...

Patrick McGrath / Port Mungo

    Throughout their privileged but highly eccentric childhood Jack Rathbone has enjoyed the constant adoration of his sister Gin. When both attend art school in London, Jack plunges into a passionate affair with Vera Savage, a painter some...

Suzanne Kingsbury / The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me

   Four young people come of age in small-town Mississippi where racial tension lies just below the surface - as does an unknown body in a shallow grave.Fletcher Greel, the Judge's son, is home for the summer; he falls instantly for beautiful...

Trudi Canavan / The Rogue ( Traitor Spy Trilogy - Book 2 )

   Kyralia is facing threats at home and abroad, as a rogue killer stalks its capital's streets, while the neighbouring kingdom of Sachaka is breeding a rebellion that could destabilise the entire region.High Lord Akkarin and Sonea's son...

Laura Zigma / Her

    I had vowed, as they say, at long last to get a grip. On my demons. On my nemesis. On her. Her is Adrienne. A maddeningly significant other. On the Delta shuttle between New York and Washington, Rachel finds herself sitting next to...

Holly Bourne / The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

   Bree is a loser, a wannabe author who hides behind words. But when she's told she needs to start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is born. Six steps on how to be interesting. Six steps that will see...

Victor Canning / The Python Project : A Rex Carver Mystery

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Sergei Lukyanenko / The Twilight Watch

   Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes...

B M Carroll / The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy

   'Intriguing, compelling. Impossible to put down and irresistibly good' Liane MoriartyShe's the victim.But is she so innocent?Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and brilliance at work. She's tough, but only because she...

John Cleland / Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

   Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open...

Natasha Farrant / Some Other Eden

   Deep in the English countryside, Marshwood has always been much more than just a house. It has been a place to escape to and a trap, the backdrop for elegant parties and a wartime hospital, an idyllic escape from trauma and unhappy...

Linda Francis Lee / Tantrums & Tiaras

   As soon as she could, Carlisle Wainright Cushingescaped the stifling social confines of Willow Creek, Texas, to make a new life for herself as a hotshot lawyer in metropolitan Boston. Now, against her will, Carlisle has been dragged back to...

Jessica Brody / Unremembered

   Sixteen-year-old Sera is the only survivor of an explosion on a plane. She wakes up in hospital to find that she has no memory. The only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she was part of a top-secret science experiment...

Anna Richards / Little Gods

   An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challenges the very balance of nature and whose body resists all attempts to contain it.A girl -...

Martina Reilly / Proof

   Sash Donnelly has done her best to move on - from Applegate, the small town where nothing ever seems out of the ordinary, and from that night, fifteen years ago.Then it happens - the vicious murder that stuns Applegate's tight-knit...

Eric Van Lustbader / Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Enigma

   Jason Bourne is in Moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster General Boris Karpov. But amid the celebrations, the General has an important message to deliver to Bourne - 'a lifeline,' he says, 'for the end of the...

Alafair Burke / The Wife

   In our age of accusations, blurred lines, and shifting allegiances, what would you do?When Angela meets Jason Powell, a brilliant university professor, she assumes their romance to be a fling. But when they marry the following summer and...