Fiction

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...

K. M. Grant / Hartslove

   Young Daisy and her six brothers and sisters love Hartslove, the crumbling castle that has been in their family for hundreds of years. But their kind but feckless father, scarred by his experiences in the Crimean War, and by his wife's...

Martha Long / Run, Lily, Run

   Lilly and Ceily Carney are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them, leaving them at the mercy of the Church and the authorities.This is a terrifying prospect in 1950s Dublin, where it is likely that the girls will...

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...

James Patterson / Hunted : BookShots

   James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.When former SAS captain David Shelley goes looking for an old comrade who has taken to a life on the streets, he finds his friend is dead. An MI5 agent contacts...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sue Fortin / The Birthday Girl

   USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Lied and Sister SisterDear Carys, Zoe and AndreaCome and join me for my fortieth birthday adventure weekend,full of mysteries and surprisesthe like of which you can't imagine.When Joanne's...

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...

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...

Sheila Roberts / What She Wants

   What do women want?Jonathan Templar wishes he knew. He's been besotted with Lissa Castle since they were kids, but, geek that he is, she's never seen him as her Mr Perfect. So he starts to do some research and comes up with a list:Women...

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...

Elmore Leonard / Djibouti

   Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered neo-Nazis and post-Katrina New Orleans, but now she's looking for an even bigger challenge.So Dara and her right-hand man Xavier head to Djibouti, on the Horn of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

David Foenkinos / Delicacy

    He was passing by, she kissed him without thinking. Now she wonders whether she did the right thing. But Natalie isn't certain of anything anymore. One minute she was a happily married young woman, successful in her career, and...

Louise Phillips / Last Kiss

   He thought he was in control. But he was wrong. And after the final blows of the knife, she stole his last breath with a kiss...Will criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson uncover the identity of this vicious killer before it is too late?At...

Nicole Richie / Priceless

   A wonderfully entertaining riches-to-rags story with the glitz of a celebrity mag expose, mixed with an old-fashioned tale of comeuppance and self discovery.Meet Charlotte Williams...Rich, gorgeous, blonde and a talented singer, she has...

Rhiannon Navin / Only Child

   A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Compelling, compassionate and powerful, Rhiannon Navin's Only Child will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.We all went to school that Tuesday like normal. Not all of us came home.When...

Luke Jennings / Codename Villanelle

   The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh'Gloriously exciting' MetroShe is the perfect assassin.A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers...

Ali Shaw / The Girl with Glass Feet

   Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize (2010)Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009)Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009)Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010)Shortlisted Tahtifantasia Award Nominee...

Melissa Benn / One of Us

   How would Antigone fare in a New Labour milieu? One of Us is a subtle and poignant novel about the dangerous space between private and public lives, about kingmakers and power, by a writer who should know...The narrative opens in March 2003...

A. O'Connor / The Footman

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Isla Dewar / Two Kinds of Wonderful

   When Roz's silent, compulsive husband refused to discuss his problem, when her children seemed embroiled in their own lives, Roz did the unthinkable - she walked out. She did not know that her children would not understand, would not...

Mark Helprin / A New York Winter's Tale

   The New York Times No. 1 bestseller.One night in New York, a city under siege by snow, Peter Lake attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home . . .Thus...

Michael Dobbs / Wall Games

    From the No 1 bestselling author of HOUSE OF CARDS, a new-cover reprint of a highly acclaimed thriller of international intrigue that brilliantly captures the tense atmosphere of Berlin -- just before the wall came down. The dawn of...

Edward Falco / The Family Corleone

   New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which...

Eva Ibbotson / Magic Flutes

   Spring, 1922Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess - who's given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairytale castle is missing its...

Gareth Roberts / Whatever Happened to Billy Parks

   2014 JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE WINNERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 GORDON BURN PRIZEOctober 17th 1973: the greatest disaster in the history of English football.All England had to do was beat Poland to qualify for the World Cup.They didn't...

Tony Parson / Catching the Sun

   Just how badly do you want to find paradise?When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.Phuket is all the Finn...

Clair Allen / The Mountain of Light

    The Mountain of Light, a London Indian Restaurant, is Balu's great love, the delicious kulfis and dansaks he devises in its kitchen his sole connection to the land of his childhood. When a young woman, Sarah, rents the flat upstairs,...

Robert Allison / The Letter Bearer

   The Rider has no memory of who he is, or how he came to be lying - dying - in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and...

Mario Vargas Llosa / The Bad Girl

    When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both her name and her...

Martin Lukes / Who Moved My BlackBerry?

    Hi! Let me introduce myself. I'm Martin Lukes, Special Projects Director at A-B Global (UK). In your hands is a highly unique book, which pushes the envelope literature-wise. As you will see, it is a 120 per cent honest account of a...