General Fiction

Katherine Mansfield / Selected Stories

 'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early...

Jean Flitcroft / The Cryptid Files: Mexican Devil

 'Vanessa found herself looking straight into a large, salivating mouth with razor-sharp fangs. Above it, two glowing red eyes pulsed to the sound of her heart - ' Vanessa's summer holiday on a ranch in Mexico is turned upside down as she enters a...

Sulaiman Addonia / The Consequences of Love

 It is summer in Jeddah but Naser's life seems bleak. An immigrant in an unfriendly land, his friends have fled town for cooler climes and left him to his dead-end job and the scrutiny of the religious police, who keep watch through the shaded...

Tristan Hughes / Eye Lake

 Eli has lived in Crooked River his whole life. In fact, his family have lived there since Eli's grandfather, Clarence, built the town's first building and put the place on the map. It's a town full of secrets and mysteries: like the time when...

Carrie Hope Fletcher / On the Other Side

 THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Reminded me so much of Cecelia Ahern' Ali McNamara'Utterly enchanting' Jill Mansell'Our go-to for spellbinding stories with a magical edge' HeatCarrie's BRAND NEW novel - When the Curtain Falls - is coming...

Rebecca Gregson / Eggshell Days

 'There are two ways of looking at what we're doing,' Niall said, peering through the candlelight at the box loads of belongings all over the floor. "Essentials for simple living" was what they had all agreed to bring. It didn't look like it. 'One...

Rosie Archer / The Gunpowder And Glory Girls

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Fionnuala Batts / For Love of Claire

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Heather INgman / Survival

 A novel of survival which moves from a country estate in Ireland to a South London council flat in a panoramic sweep through the class system, provoking a number of questions about the way in which we live today. From the author of SARA and ANNA...

David Vann / Caribou Island

 On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following...

Kirsten Tranter / The Legacy

 What has happened to Ingrid? Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune. She leaves her friends Julia and Ralph, who loves her, to marry the cold and intellectual Gil Grey and start a life amid the New York art scene. At 9 a.m. on September 11, 2001, she...

David Gibbins / The Tiger Warrior

 India. 1879. Lieutenant John Howard witnesses something so unspeakable it changes him for ever. His subsequent disappearance is never solved. Egypt. Present day. Marine archaeologist Jack Howard makes an astonishing discovery on a deep-sea dive...

Herta Feely / Saving Phoebe Murrow

 HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO BE THE PERFECT MOTHER?A timeless story of mothers and daughters with a razor-sharp 21st century twist, this heart-wrenching debut for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jane Shemilt and The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas will make you question...

Nathan Filer / The Shock of the Fall

 WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2013 'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never...

Maureen Jennings / Season of Darkness

 In 1940, England is desperate and fearful. The threat of a German invasion is real, and many German Nationals are interned in camps across the country. When a young woman is found murdered on a desolate country road, Tom Tyler, a detective...

Anthony Quinn / Half of the Human Race

 Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests. Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of...

Deborah Moggach / Smile and Other Stories

 A collection of stories, involving ante-natal classes, Volvo cars, estate agents' placards and threadbare marriages. The author's other novels include "You Must Be Sisters", "A Quiet Drink" and "Stolen".      All of our books are...

Anna Perera / Guantanamo Boy

 Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An...

Susan Wilkins / The Mourner

 If she can't get justice, will she settle for vengeance?Kaz Phelps has escaped her brother and her criminal past to become an anonymous art student in Glasgow. But can life under the witness protection scheme ever give her the freedom she...

Paula Clamp / Standing in a Hammock

 Ashbury, middle class suburbia, where curtains and blinds thinly veil the passions and heartaches that lie within. Over the space of a single weekend, the lives of five of its residents are thrown off balance as they learn about each other and the...

P.A. Roberts / The Rasherhouse

 The Rasherhouse is the disturbing story of Mags, a healthy, naive 17 year-old incarcerated in Mountjoy Prison for a minor offence, but released only months later addicted to heroin. Her addiction leads her into a life of serious crime and eventual...

Polly Devlin / Dora, or the Shifts of the Heart

 Looking back over her Irish childhood, her wild days in London, her comfortable marriage, the apocalyptic meeting with her lover, Dora discovers a thing or two - about herself, about passion, about love and duty, about having her cake and eating...

Catherine Lim / The Teardrop Story Woman

 It is 1951, the height of communist activity in Malaya. Father Francois Martin is sent from his native Toulouse to the little town of Luping to save souls. There, he meets Mei Kwei, a beautiful Chinese woman whose admiration for the priest soon...

Salley Vickers / Dancing Backwards

 The brilliant new work from the bestselling author of `Miss Garnet's Angel' and `The Other Side of You'.Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the...

Jennifer Barrett / Look into the Eye

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Nicholas Hogg / Show Me The Sky

 missing adj. 1. not present; absent or lost. 2. not able to be traced and not known to be dead. 3. go missing. to become lost or disappearTime is running out for James Dent. On the trail of missing singer Billy K, his team has exhausted every lead...

Daniel Wallace / Big Fish

 ** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange **** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starring Kelsey Grammer **Do you ever really know your father? Like many sons, William Bloom never really knew his father. Edward told him...

Peter Ackroyd / Hawksmoor

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Sebastian Fitzek / The Nightwalker

 As a young man, Leon Nader suffered from insomnia. As a nightwalker, he even turned to violence during his nocturnal excursions and had psychiatric treatment for his condition. Eventually, he was convinced he had been cured - but one day, years...

Jackie Collins / The Santangelos

 A vicious hit, a vengeful enemy, a drug addled Colombian club owner and a sex crazed Italian family... the ever powerful Lucky Santangelo has to deal with them all. Meanwhile Max - her teenage daughter - is becoming the"It" girl in Europe's...

Nickolas Butler / Shotgun Lovesongs

 Henry, Lee, Kip and Ronny grew up together in rural Wisconsin. Friends since childhood, their lives all began the same way, but have since taken different paths. Henry stayed on the family farm and married his first love, whilst the others left in...

Sarah Pinborough / Behind Her Eyes

   Don't Trust This BookDon't Trust These PeopleDon't Trust YourselfAnd whatever you do, DON'T give away that ending...`Sarah Pinborough is about to become your new obsession' Harlan CobenLouiseSince her husband walked out, Louise has made her...

Jon McGregor / So Many Ways to Begin

 David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought...

John Grisham / The Whistler

 'The best thriller writer alive' Ken FollettThe most corrupt judge in US history. A young investigator with a secret informant.Lacy Stoltz never expected to be in the firing line. Investigating judicial misconduct by Florida's one thousand judges,...

Sarita Mandanna / Tiger Hills

 A sweeping saga of a forbidden love that lasts for generations'A MUST READ' INDEPENDENTDevi is a young girl living with on a coffee plantation in Coorg, India, at the end of the 19th century. Her best friend is Devanna, a boy whose mother has died...

Helena Firth Powel / Two Lipsticks and a Lover

 Why is it that French women look just as glamorous in a T-shirt and pair of jeans as in a sleek designer dress? How do they look sexy, chic and timelessly elegant from eighteen to eighty? Pencil-thin, stylishly dressed and, always, impeccably...

Larissa Ione / Sin Undone

 Her touch is deadly. His hunger can't be denied. As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved and now vows she'll die before she'll relinquish...

Theresa Breslin / The Medici Seal

 Romagna, Italy 1502.Fleeing from the murderous brigand Sandino, Matteo - a young boy - is saved from drowning by the companions of Leonardo da Vinci. From this moment on, Matteo is at the Maestro's side as he carries out his work, which ranges from...

Anne Cassidy / Looking for JJ

 A gripping and emotionally searing novel from a talented author, Looking for JJ explores the circumstances and motives behind the murder of a child - by her friend. Six years later, JJ has now been released, and has a new identity. But is there any...

Kate McCabe / Casa Clara

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Fran O' Brien / Fairfields

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Andrew Fukuda / The Hunt

  Don't Sweat. Don't Laugh. Don't draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them. Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can't run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn't hurt him and...

Zia Haider Rahman / In the Light of What We Know

 One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack, until...

David Levithan / Every Day

 From the genius of David Levithan, co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, comes a love story like no other you've read before.Each morning, A wakes up in a different body. There's never any warning about who...

Lucie Whitehouse / The House at Midnight

 When Lucas inherits Stoneborough Manor after his uncle's unexpected death, he imagines it as a place where he and his close circle of friends can spend time away from London. But from the beginning, the house changes everything. Lucas becomes...

Pam Jenoff / The Winter Guest

 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TITLE THE ORPHAN'S TALE OUT NOWLove will tear them apart...Helena and Ruth Nowak are like chalk and cheese: one staunchly outspoken and independent, the other gentle and caring. Caught up in the struggle of Nazi occupied...

Sarah Dessen / Along for the Ride

 Along for the Ride is a captivating young adult novel from New York Times Number One bestseller Sarah Dessen, about learning to let go and enjoy life. Auden has always felt like the odd one out.Since her parents' divorce she's shied away,...

Colum McCann / Thirteen Ways of Looking

 A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story awardAs it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent...

A.M. Homes / May We Be Forgiven

 Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then one day George loses control so extravagantly that he...

Andrea Camilleri / August Heat

 August Heat by Andrea Camilleri, is the tenth instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series, adapted as a major BBC4 television series.Montalbano quickly slammed the trunk shut and sat down on top of it. When the beam from Livia's torch shone on...

Helena Close / The Clever One

 I've always been 'the clever one'. So clever that I got 10 As in my Junior Cert. So clever that everyone knows I'm destined for great things. But my family chooses to ignore how clever I am when I tell them that all this is going to end badly...

Margaret Forster / Shadow Baby

 Evie and Shona, born almost 70 years apart, are women of very different personalities. But as their stories unfold, it becomes apparent that they share much more than their yearning to find the mothers they never knew.      All of...