Fiction

Sam Thompson / Communion Town

 The Man Booker longlisted Communion Town reveals the shadows and sinister inhabitants of a city that never appears the same way twice.On crowded streets, in the town squares and half-empty tower blocks, the lonely and lost try to make a connection...

Ian Mcewan / The Innocent

 Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his...

Ita Ryan / It Can be Dangerous

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Douglas Kennedy / Five Days

 Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special...

Brian Kennedy / The Arrival of Fergal Flynn

   His father and brothers despise him; he's his mother's crutch one day, her punching bag the next; he has no idea what he wants to do with his life; and he fancies one of the boys in his class... Fergal just wants to belong - but knows he...

Liz Lyons / Barefoot Over Stones

 What would it take to destroy your closest friendship? Alison and Ciara meet at college in Dublin and soon become firm allies, sharing a flat and facing the world together. Ciara is all that Alison aspires to be - sassy, confident and fearless...

Karen Joy Fowler / The Sweetheart Season

 Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key elements appear to be uniforms and travel.' It is 1947 and...

Elsa Lewin / I, Anna

 IT WASN'T YOUR TYPICAL MURDER! Fifty, middle-class, divorced and respectable Anna lived with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment. And one night, after a singles party, in a strange man's apartment, all the loneliness and frustration...

Susanna Kearsley / Named of the Dragon

 When one of her authors invites her to Wales for the Christmas holidays, literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw hopes to escape the nightmares that have plagued her since the death of her baby five years before. But Lyn's painful memories are brought to the...

Clare Dowling / My Fabulous Divorce

   Jackie Ball knows that happiness is hard to find, so when Dan Lewis jogs into her life with his skin-tight shorts and sexy smile things start to look up. One night he presents Jackie with a diamond ring and suggests he trade in his BMW for a...

Sheena Wilkinson / Taking Flight

 Moving from a harsh West Belfast estate to the glamour of the showjumping ring, Taking Flight is a fast-paced story of courage overcoming jealousy. The only riding fifteen-year-old Declan has ever done is joyriding. When he's forced to stay with...

Malcolm Bradbury / The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories

 This anthology is in many was a 'best of the best', containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of...

Gerald Seymour / The Collaborator

 Deadlier than the Mafia, the Camorra never forget, and never forgive. She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after...

Eliza Kennedy / I Take You

 Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man. Lily's fiance Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no...

John O'Brien / Rachel's Tears and Mary's Songs

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Polly Samson / The Kindness

 Julia is married and eight years his senior; Julian is a gifted English student, a life of academia ahead. Ignoring warnings from family and friends they each give up all they have to be together. Their new life in London offers immense happiness,...

Ali Smith / How to be Both

 WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014NOMINATED FOR THE...

Miriam Toews / All My Puny Sorrows

   Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015Sunday Times Top Choice Summer ReadElf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to...

David Lodge / Thinks

 Ralph Messenger is an international academic star in the highly trendy field of language and thought research. Novelist Helen Reed arrives at the university to teach creative writing and to recover from the unexpected death of her husband. Despite...

Kate Griffin / Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders

 Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of...

Penelope Fitzgerald / The Blue Flower

 From the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam.The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his...

Steve Feasey / Changeling

 Teenage werewolf Trey is facing the most important and dangerous mission of his life. He must journey into the dark Netherworld and rescue Alexa, daughter of his vampire guardian Lucien, who is being held hostage by a powerful demon lord. But...

Fiona Barton / The Widow

 THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton. Engrossing. Suspenseful' Stephen KingWe've all seen him:...

Eamon Delaney / The Casting of Mr. O'Shaughnessy

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Graham Swift / The Light of Day

   Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits - and the days between - lead George back into Sarah's past and into events he can...

Peter Carey / Theft: A Love Story

 Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia...

Daniel Handler / Adverbs

 A dramatic meditation on love both fleeting and everlasting, `Adverbs' is a serious work of fiction by one of today's most innovative voices, and famed author of the Lemony Snicket series.`Adverbs' marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult...

Catherine Lim / Following the Wrong God Home

 In modern-day Singapore, a successful society upheld by stern government and a respectful population, a young woman is about to break all the rules. Yin Ling, enigmatic, beautiful, and engaged to the wealthy, politically ambitious Vincent Chee,...

Siobhan Mckenna / The Lingerie Designer

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Gin Phillips / The Well and the Mine

   An assured, inspiring debut which demonstrates the power of the human spirit to give comfort in times of hardship. In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches from the darkness of her back porch as...

Clare Donoghue / Never Look Back

   Never Look Back is a chilling and compelling debut crime thriller from Clare Donoghue set in South East London. For all those who enjoy Peter James, Mark Billingham and Peter Robinson.Three women have been found brutally murdered in south...

Judy Finnigan / I Do Not Sleep

   Do not stand at my grave and weep;I am not there. I do not sleep.There is nothing more powerful than a mother's love.Five years ago, Molly Gabriel lost her twenty-year-old son, Joey, to a terrible sailing accident. His empty boat was washed...

Dilly Court / The Orphan's Dream

 The heartwarming and nostalgic new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast...

Jean Plaidy / Murder Most Royal

 The fifth book in Jean Plaidy's Tudor series telling the tragic stories of two Queens betrayed and beheaded - Katharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. At the decadent French court of King Francois, the young Anne Boleyn grows into an enigmatic and...

Gustaf Sobin / The Fly-truffler

   Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled every winter since childhood on his family estate. Since the death of his young wife Julieta, however, the truffles come to represent far more than a delicacy for his palette. They trigger now a series of...

Julie Mayhew / The Big Lie

   Shortlisted for the Peters Book of the Year.A shocking story of rebellion and revelation set in a contemporary Nazi England.Jessika Keller is a good girl: she obeys her father, does her best to impress Herr Fisher at the Bund Deutscher Madel...

Anne Michaels / The Winter Vault

 Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new...

T.C. McCarthy / Germline : The Subterrene War: Book On

 A hundred years from now, Russia and the USA are at odds again. This time, the cold war has gone hot. Heavily armored soldiers battle genetically engineered troops hundreds of meters below the icy, mineral rich mountains of Kazakhstan.War is Oscar...

Susan Hubbard / The Society Of S

   Ariella Montero is a teenage vampire with a lot to learn about her family and who she really is. She is a sweet, sensitive 13-year-old girl from Saratoga Springs. Unbeknownst to her, she is also a vampire. Raised by her widowed father, Ari...

Andrew Kaplan / Homeland : Saul's Game

   The second, edge-of-your-seat prequel novel based on Showtime's hit series, HOMELAND, `the best thriller on American television' New York PostDamascus, Syria, 2009. Carrie Mathison is leading an operation to capture or kill al Qaeda...

Tim Lott / Fearless

 Award-winning author Tim Lott's inspirational tale of a girl who risks everything in pursuit of justice. The smartly painted exterior of the City Community Faith School hides a disturbing secret. Behind its walls, one thousand girls are forced...

Jennifer McMahon / Island of Lost Girls

 While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognises it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having...

Kate Kerrigan / It Was Only Ever You

 Set, like Maeve Binchy's early bestsellers, in late 1950s Ireland and New York, this is the story of three women and the charismatic man with whom their lives are interwoven. Patrick Murphy has charm to burn and a singing voice to die for...

Christopher Ransom / Beneath the Lake

   Thirty Years AgoOn a camping trip by a remote lake, the Mercer family enjoyed the vacation of a lifetime - until a violent tragedy forced them to make a decision that would haunt them for ever. This SummerWhen the younger Mercers learn their...

Kate Holmquist / The Glass Room

   On the morning of her thirty-seventh birthday, Louisa Maguire takes a long hard look at her life and doesn't much like what she sees. Her mother didn't want her. Her husband is a womanizer. Her best friend keeps trying to seduce her. All she...

Colin Bateman / Dr. Yes

 The hilarious new Mystery Man crime caper from the master of menace and mirthYou don't say no to Dr. Yes, the charismatic plastic surgeon on the fast track to fame and fortune. But when the wife of obscure and paranoid crime writer Augustine Wogan...

Amanda Prowse / Will You Remember Me?

 How do you say goodbye to your family for the last time? Poppy Day is thirty-two and married to her childhood sweetheart. She's a full-time mum of two gorgeous children and loves her homely little cottage in the countryside. It's the life she...

Jessie Burton / The Muse

 A picture hides a thousand words . . .On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she...

Simon Scarrow / The Eagle's Conquest ( Eagles of the Empire - Book 2 )

 IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!THE EAGLE'S CONQUEST is the thrilling second novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Praise for Simon...

Virgina Andrews / Family Storms

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Harold Robbins / The Secret

   Jerry Cooper of THE PREDATORS is back to launch his new empire of intimate women's apparel. He now has a son, Les Cooper, a streetwise young lawyer who slowly uncovers the family's mob involvement, a secret which Jerry has desperately tried...

James Patterson / Confessions: The Paris Mysteries

 WHEN YOUR FAMILY IS ALL YOU HAVE . . .Scarred by the deaths of their parents and accusations of murder, Tandy Angel and her siblings start a new life in Paris under the watchful eye of an uncle they hardly know.BUT THEY'VE BETRAYED YOU TIME AND...