Fiction

Anna McPartlin / Apart from the Crowd

Mary was born to be unlucky but she s a fighter and despite a painful past, part of her is still hopeful for a happy ending. She just needs someone to remind her. Sam is a waster and a disappointment. He once had it all, but that didn t stop the thing...

Jason Pinter / The Darkness

A young man is found murdered, his bones crushed nearly to dust before his body was dumped into New York's East RiverIn New York there are hundreds of murders a year, but this one is different. Somebody is sending a message. And shockingly, the...

Erica Spindler / Bone Cold

Twenty-three years ago Anna North survived a living nightmare.A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, then vanished. Today Anna lives in New Orleans, writing dark thrillers under another name. She finally feels safe. Suddenly Anna's quiet life...

Stephen Hunter / Dirty White Boys

Lamar Pye breaks out of a top security prison in Oklahoma with two companions. With nothing to lose, he starts a violent trail of multiple murders. The partner of one of those killed, a Highway Patrol Officer, swears revenge on the murderers, and finally...

Gillian White / Unhallowed Ground

When Georgina saw Furze Pen - a picturesque thatched cottage in a peaceful valley on Dartmoor - it seemed just the place to recover from the recent nightmare of her job in London. True, it was cold and isolated, but it was as good a place as any to work...

Anna Kelly / Daniel's Daughter

City girl Angela Brennan is astounded when the father she has never known leaves her a house and land in the country. She is also a little fearful. But it does give her the chance to take her young son Thomas and start a new life, far from their violent...

Geraldine O'Neill / Leaving Clare

GROWING UP IN THE 1950S IN KILNAGREE, a small village in Co Clare, Rose Barry lives a quiet, predictable life. Working part-time in the local pub while helping her grandmother at home, Rose's only ambition is to marry a decent local lad and stay...

Susan Stairs / The Story of Before

I wonder today how no one else could see the bad thing coming. Not that I knew back then what the bad thing was; and if I had - if I'd known one of us was going to die - would there have been anything I could have done to prevent it? I play it all...

Vina Jackson / Eighty Days Yellow

Caught in a frustrating relationship with a man who can't accept her for who she is, passionate, flame-haired violinist Summer finds release in her music. She spends her afternoons busking on the underground, lost in the works of Vivaldi or...

Joyce Cary - Spring Song : Vintage Penguin Short Stories - Paperback 1963

A paperback first Penguin edition, of Donegal born author (Arthur ) Joyce Cary - Spring Song & Other Stories, 1963, originally published by Michael Joseph in 1960, and a collection of all his short fiction, some of which only appeared in this...

Jeffery Deaver / Death of a Blue Movie Star

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to be. So, armed with a borrowed Betacam, she embarks on a freelance...

Faye Kellerman / Serpent's Tooth

A busy night in a fashionable restaurant. Minutes later, carnage. 13 people dead and dozens wounded. As Lieutenant Decker, in charge of the police on the scene says, it's your worst nightmare. But at least the culprit seems clear - an embittered...

Bernice Morgan / Random Passage

Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate...

Tom Sharpe / Grantchester Grind: A Porterhouse Chronicle

It's crisis time again at Porterhouse. Skullion is showing signs of frailty and the tricky task of appointing a new Master has to begin once more. Meanwhile, the college's monstrous debts refuse to go away and a sinister American seems determined...

Dermot Bolger / The Valparaiso Voyage

A literary thriller with a heart. ‘The Valparaiso Voyage’ blows the lid off the Celtic Tiger and looks at the corruption that spawned today’s Ireland.Dermot Bolger is one of the leading figures on the Irish literary scene: very...

Luke McCallin / The Man from Berlin

Amidst the chaos of World War IIIn a land of brutality and bloodshedOne death can still change everything.In war-torn Yugoslavia, a beautiful young filmmaker and photographer a veritable hero to her people and a German officer have been brutally murdered...

Dean Koontz / The Eyes of Darkness

It's a year since Tina Evans lost her little boy Danny in a tragic accident, a year since she began the painful process of trying to rebuild her life. Then a shattering message appears on the blackboard in Danny's old room: NOT DEAD.Is it...

Len Deighton / Spy Sinker

The long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.Bernard Samson is surrounded by puzzles and none more complex than Fiona, his wife and the mother of...

John Case / The Genesis Code

Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge . His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an...

Linda Kavanagh / Love Child

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Terri Prone / Swinging on a Star

Being a child TV soap star taught Daisy some lessons at an early age - the power of jealousy, and the predictability of human behaviour. Its legacy is a numbing feeling of performing her life, rather than living it. Finally escaping her television role...

Nicholas Sparks / The Rescue

How do you learn to trust again?Denise Hilton, a young single mother, is driving through Edenton, North Carolina, when her car skids off the road during a storm.With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities for whom she...

Tina Carver / Cage Of Bones

Into the house. Down the stairs. Through the dripping dark of the cellar. Someone is there. Someone that shouldn't be there.As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones - with a...

Gerry Ryan / Would The Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up

Gerry Ryan on life, the world, the universe - and a few things besides. Here are his experiences, stories and opinions drawn from nearly thirty years of talking to the nation. It's a sharp, punchy read all told in his no-nonsense, irreverent, straight to...

Maureen Lipman / Thank You For Having Me

Maureen Lipman continues to examine the warp and weft of her own life's rich tapestry - including doing the weekly wash in a floor-length taffeta gown before going off to shake hands with HM The Queen. This is an humorous collection of reminiscence,...

Anne Baker / Love is Blind

A family struggles to survive bereavement, bombing and bitter rivalry...Patsy Rushton's brother Barney doesn't know the meaning of hard work, so when their father tragically dies, Patsy has no choice but to save the family's business...

Lisa Gardner / Live to Tell

Danielle often thinks about that night when her childhood her ended. The sound of her father shooting her mother and then hunting down her brother, as she cowered under her duvet, trying to drown it all out. She can remember the sound her brother made as...

Jeffrey Archer / Collected Short Stories

Collected together in one volume, the complete short stories of Britain’s bestselling author, ‘the greatest storyteller of our age’ – Mail on Sunday.Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer’s short...

Maureen Dowd / Bushworld

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Nora Ephron / Heartburn

  Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is...

Jon Osborne / Kill Me Once

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Dani Atkins / Our Song

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Pauline Lawless / Meet and Delete

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Russell Banks / The Darling

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Frank P. Ryan / The Snowmelt River

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Frances Brody / A Death in the Dales

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Catherine Dunne / The Things We Know Now

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Ellen McCarthy / Silent Crossing

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Siobhan McKenna / The Other Woman

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Muriel Bolger / The Pink Pepper Tree

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Rebecca Chance / Bad Angels

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Chris Jordan / Torn

A deranged young man holds over one hundred school children hostage…and he blames the school for what he’s about to doAfter a tense, thirty-six-hour stand-off, the gym suddenly explodes into flames. Fortunately, all the students have escaped...

Clive Cussler / Plague Ship ( Oregon Files - Book 5 )

Clive Cussler's fifth Oregon Files novel, Plague Ship, pits Juan Cabrillo against a deadly adversary. In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all time . . . Sixty years...

Bill Bryson / At Home: A short history of private life

What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable.And where did all these normal activities take place? At home.This was the thought that...

Jack Higgins / The Killing Ground

Jack Higgins, the undisputed master of action and suspense is back with a brand new adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon.For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody...

Maggie O'Farrell / My Lover's Lover

From the Costa Award winning Maggie O'Farrell comes the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller MY LOVER'S LOVER, an intense, unnerving and passionate story of betrayal, loss and love, with all the frisson and psychological intensity of Rebecca.When Lily...

Claire Allan / Feels Like Maybe

Aoife is 32 and in an on/off relationship with sexy singer Jake. When she finds out she is pregnant, he decides the relationship is most definitely off and leaves her before she has time to say 'Mothercare'. Desperate to get him back and...

Martina Reilly / Flipside

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James Patterson / The Angel Experiment ( Maximum Ride Series - Book 1 )

WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE Do not put this book down. I'm dead serious - your life could depend on it. I'm risking everything by telling you - but you need to know. STRAP YOURSELF IN for the thrill ride you'll want to take again and again! From Death...

Max Brooks / World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a...

Diane Chamberlain / Reflection

From Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Midwife's Confession, comes this story of overcoming the past and learning to live anew. Twenty years ago, a terrible tragedy shattered the tranquillity of the small Pennsylvania Dutch town of...

Kitty Neale / Abandoned Child

Kitty Neale is back! Curl up with this heartrending new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A BROKEN FAMILY and A FATHER’S REVENGEAll she wanted was a mother’s love …DESPISEDPenny’s childhood was spent in the...