Fiction

Fiona Gibson / Mum On The Run

Laura Swan was dreading the school sports day Mum's race - but whoever would have thought it could be quite so life-changing?Laugh-out-loud funny, Fiona's writing deals with the real life cringe-worthy moments we all know so well...Sports Day at her...

Gao Xingjian / Soul Mountain

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, `Soul Mountain' is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China. In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist...

Sarah Webb / Amy Green: Wedding Belles

From boy troubles to wardrobe dilemmas, first dates to embarrassing parentals - agony-aunts extraordinaire Amy and Clover are back in their sixth novel, solving problems for pre-teens everywhere!Wedding fever! Amy's mum is preparing to tie the knot with...

Bill Beverly / Dodgers

WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2017 FOR BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER WINNER OF THE CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER 2016 FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER 2016 FOR BEST DEBUT CRIME NOVEL FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY...

Lindsey Kelk / I Heart Hollywood

I Heart series book 2. Celebs, sunshine and beautiful boys...enough to lead a girl astray? Angela Clark can't believe her luck... she's an English girl living in New York with a dream job at hip magazine The Look and a sexy boyfriend. Her latest...

Stef Penney / The Invisible Ones

Rose Janko is missing. It has been seven years since she disappeared, and nobody said a word. Now, following the death of his wife, her father Leon feels compelled to find her. Rumour had it she ran off when her baby boy was born with the family's...

Miguel De Cervantes / Don Quixote

Translated by P. A. Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams,...

Sean Black / Gridlock

Adult movie actress, Raven Lane, is one of the most lusted after women in America, with millions of fans to prove it. But when a headless corpse turns up in the trunk of her car, she realises that fame carries a terrible price. Fearing for her life, and...

Tatiana De Rosnay / The House I Loved

Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighbourhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city. In the midst...

Carol Coffey / The Penance Room

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Jess Walter / Beautiful Ruins

The No. 1 New York Times BestsellerJess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio.The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper,...

Paullina Simons / Road to Paradise

Love, passion and the road trip of a lifetime in this breathtaking novel, perfect for all fans of Jodi Picoult, from the internationally bestselling author of The Bronze HorsemanTwo girls, an open road and a shiny yellow Mustang; it could have been the...

Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth

Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us...

Alison Lurie / The Last Resort

Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the naturalist Wilkie Walker. She is as rare a creature as the endangered species he works to preserve. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him...

Anita Shreve / The Lives of Stella Bain

Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an...

Claire Hennessy / Good Girls Don't

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Robert Kirkman / Rise of the Governor ( The Walking Dead Series - Book 1 )

Based on The Walking Dead graphic novels/comic books and the series starring Andrew Lincoln (Teachers, This Life and Love, Actually) and written/produced by Frank Darabont whose previous credits include The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, this...

Andrew Michael Hurley / The Loney

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD. THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016.A brilliantly unsettling and atmospheric debut full of unnerving horror - 'The Loney is not just good, it's great. It's an...

Elliot Perlman / Seven Types of Ambiguity

A novel of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism, Seven Types of Ambiguity is Elliot Perlman's stunning follow-up to his highly acclaimed debut novel Three Dollars. Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to...

M.R. Lovric / Carnevale

1782. The 13-year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova - the legendary seducer of women. Twenty-five years later Cecilia is in Albania, now a portrait painter of...

Michael Frayn / Spies

In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is very little evidence of the Second World War. But the two friends suspect that the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the...

Dorothy Koomson / When I Was Invisible

Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. `Even if I do, what difference will it make?' In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the...

Johanna Moran / The Wives of Henry Oades

In 1899 Henry Oades discovers he has two wives - and many dilemmas...In 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. Here they settled on the lush but wild coast -...

Amin Maalouf / Balthasar's Odyssey

There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is to find the secret that could save the world. Before the dawn...

Sadie Jones / Small Wars

Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him. But the island is in the heat...

Sarah Webb / Amy Green: Summer Secrets

Everyone's favourite agony aunt is back solving problems for teen girls everywhere.Teen problem-solving supremos Amy and Clover are trapped in family holiday hell - a week in rainy Ireland with a neurotic aunt, nagging mum, crazy step-dad and irritating...

Dorothy Koomson / The Flavours of Love

A gripping psychological drama from the beloved Sunday Times bestselling author of That Girl From Nowhere . . .'I'm looking for that perfect blend of flavours; the taste that used to be you.'It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've...

Katharine McMahon / The Rose Of Sebastopol

The Ukraine, Russia and the Crimea are taking centre stage in the world today but this spellbinding story of courage and love takes us back to the original Crimean war.Russia, 1854: the Crimean War grinds on, and as the bitter winter draws near, the...

Anna Godbersen / Rumours: A Luxe Novel

December 1899 - New York CityManhattan has bid farewell to its brightest star, the dazzling Miss Holland. Yet the rumours about her untimely demise continue. Meanwhile, her sister, the irrepressible Diana, has been seen in the company of not one, but...

Caro Fraser / Beyond Forgiveness

A wealthy elderly man knows that he is dying. Haunted by memories of a woman whom he loved, had a child by, but never married, he goes through a secret wedding ceremony with her, and in his will leaves her and their daughter, Abby, 200,000 each. After...

Anna Godbersen / The Luxe

Imagine, if you will, New York City, 1899 . . .Society's elite: the glamour, the grandeur, the glittering parties, the most handsome beaus, the most beautiful debutantes . . . the rich girl, the humble boy, the forbidden love, the hushed whispers, the...

David Levien / City of the Sun

Twelve-year-old Jamie Gabriel gets on his bike before dawn to deliver newspapers in his suburban neighbourhood. Somewhere en route, he vanishes without a trace. Fourteen months later, still with no sign of Jamie and having lost all faith in the police,...

Charlie Higson / The Enemy ( Enemy Series, Book 1)

Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive. When the sickness came, every parent, police...

Hugo Hamilton / Hand in the Fire

You have a funny way of doing things here.The voice is that of Vid Cosic, a Serbian immigrant whose immediate friendship with a young Dublin lawyer, Kevin Concannon, is overshadowed by a violent incident in which a man is left for dead in the street one...

Mary Morrissy / The Pretender

Berlin 1920. A young woman throws herself from a bridge into the Landwehr Canal, intent on suicide. But she is saved. She refuses to give any clue to her identity. She is literally a nobody. After two years of silence, she claims to be Anastasia, the...

Julie Otsuka / The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, the follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012.Between the...

Joanna Cannon / The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

THE SUNDAY TIMES DOUBLE BESTSELLER `Part whodunnit, part coming of age, this is a gripping debut about the secrets behind every door' RACHEL JOYCE `A very special book' NATHAN FILER`An utter delight' SARAH WINMAN`A delight' PAULA HAWKINS`A treasure chest...

Shalom Auslander / Hope: A Tragedy

The humour, at times can leave you gasping ...comic brilliance' Sunday Times Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened...

Andrea Levy / Every Light in the House Burnin'

The remarkable, emotional debut novel, both funny and moving, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, from the critically aclaimed Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG...

Simon Mawer / Tightrope

Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to...

David Vann / Legend of a Suicide

Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts...

Rachel Caine / Kiss of Death

Claire Danvers has a few things on her mind. First of all there is the laundry, which is now an unfortunate shade of pink. Then there is her boyfriend, Shane, who is never too far from her thoughts. Finally there is her best friend Eve's relationship...

Will Hill / Department 19

In a secret supernatural battle that's been raging for over a century, the stakes have just been raised - and they're not wooden anymore. DEPARTMENT 6 IS THE ARMYDEPARTMENT 12 is MI5DEPARTMENT 19 IS THE REASON YOU'RE ALIVE When Jamie Carpenter's mother...

Justin Cartwright / Other People's Money

The Trevelyan family is in grave trouble. Their private bank of Tubal & Co. is on the verge of collapsing. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of important...

Sheila O'Flanagan / The Missing Wife

Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan's THE MISSING WIFE - the riveting story of a woman determined to escape, the man who wants to find her and the friends and family...

Jennifer Burke / Levi's Gift

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Claire Allan / Jumping in Puddles

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Americanah

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION`A delicious, important novel' The Times`Alert, alive and gripping' Independent`Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.'...

Nancy Carson / The Factory Girl

Henzey is no ordinary factory girlHenzey Kite can't believe it when Billy Watts walks into her life. A cut above the local boys - strong, charming and wildly ambitious - he won't settle for anything less than the wealth of high society.But with wealth...

Dave Eggers / What is the What

What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil warsValentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of...

Katherine Webb / The Unseen

From the author of the acclaimed debut THE LEGACY comes a compelling tale of love, deception and illusion.England, 1911. When a free-spirited young woman arrives in a sleepy Berkshire village to work as a maid in the household of The Reverend and Mrs...

Sarah Webb / Ask Amy Green: Bridesmaid Blitz

Everybody's fave agony queen is back - just ask Amy!Haute couture, gorgeous garcons, lush accents, the Eiffel Tower... Paris - c'est magnifique! With her mum's wedding fast approaching, Amy is on a mission to find the perfect bridesmaid dress. And what...