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Pat Barker returns to the First World War and to the characters of Life Class with her new novel Toby's Room, a dark, compelling story of human desire, wartime horror...

Nan, in her early twenties, goes to work for the wealthy X family to help put herself through college, and is shocked by their antics. Between raising the X's son...

'Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed...

A holiday in the sun with your family - just what you want, or the last thing you need? For single parent Tessa, it's going to be a perfect time...

In Double Vision Pat Barker returns to the subject of war. Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares - Stephen Sharkey is suffering the aftereffects of his career as a war reporter, most...

Facing the Music explores the dark side of ambition and the ambiguous passions which surround creativity. Duncan Bayle is a successful composer whose genius has faltered. He blames his problems...

Conrad's first novel is also the first part of his Malayan trilogy. Set in Borneo against an exotic and ruinous background, the book enacts the final, tragi-comic anguish of paternity...

'Fima is surely his best book, a celebration of human complexity, and his testament to its achievement' - Scotland on Sunday Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a...

Rejacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, The Child in Time is the extraordinary novel behind the major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch Now a major BBC drama...

Among the most eagerly anticipated and addictive novels of recent years NOW AN APPLE TV SERIES 'Extraordinary...dazzling... a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York' Observer Midnight, New Year's...

From the extravagant escapades of London's high society to the opulent elegance of the rural upper crust, this is an epic tale of wealth, greed and passion that catapults you...

A characteristically compelling, clear-eyed, humane and heartbreaking novel about a taboo subject - and about what it feels like to be a survivor... What do Mrs H., Rachel, Edwina, Ida,...

Soon to be a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Kormakur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson. Only In Theaters July 12. A mesmerizing, panoramic story of one mans search to...

Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel SUNDAY TIMES A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...

Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel SUNDAY TIMES A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...

Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern. Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood...

'If you like Jodi Picoult try Melissa Hill' Woman & Home 'I was completely gripped' Sarah Morgan 'Brimming with powerful issues' Evening Post 'This emotive story will touch your heart'...

From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit. Reading other people's letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for...

This remarkable novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for...

From the bestselling author of The First Wives' Club and Young Wives, a sparkling New York comedy about making plans for other people - and then tripping yourself up in...

Powerful, erotic, disturbing suspenseful novel set in Provence during World War Two, by acclaimed American author. Day of the Bees is a darkly erotic story of obsessive love between a...

LONGLISTED for the 2020 Colin Roderick Award. Theywere two little girls on a very big boat. In the 1930s, Ada and Leyla meet aschildren on a boat bringing migrants from...

**Shortlisted, Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2025** After living in a Singapore dog shelter for five years, Gucci a vaguely Dalmatian-like crossbred is losing hope of ever being rescued. One...

'He took up the book and opened the battered cover. It had swollen with age, humidity and use, the pages rippled together like seaweed in a current, like billowing grasses,...

Fourteen years ago Michael dazzled the world with Ephesus, a brilliant debut novel that him the respect of his peers, plenty of easy sex and the coveted Booker Prize. Since...

Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her troubled family behind. But an unusual request from her mother just as her own life is spinning out of control has Cara heading back...

Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope...

Your ordinary, average, suburban, extended, post-war immigrant Chinese family - steeped in tradition and old-fashioned family values. This is Lillie's story - their second daughter. Feisty, independent and unlike her...

Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams - you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of...

Abigail, visiting her parents in a lost corner of Australia, discovers a mystery and a conspiracy spanning a century and more. But there is more in the balance than simply...

Continuously available in print since 1969, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook...

How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? When Chloe's husband leaves her and their children for...

Uproariously funny and achingly moving, this is a gripping debut novel about the Towards closing time in a London pub, Daniel Linnell has the idea of writing Who's Who In...

In her award-winning debut, Sally Finn is concerned with the big picture beyond the constructs of plot and character. She questions life, the nature and meaning of it, the undercurrents...

The long-awaited novel by the acclaimed author of "Fabulous Nobodies". Berenger, a nineteen-year-old supermodel nicknamed The Wraith, is found dead in her New York apartment, and it looks like murder....

What happens when the bond between mother and child is broken? When distance and circumstance make for an enforced separation? Carol Mara explores this theme as it occurred for many...

The past is never history. For fans of Liane Moriarty. The past is never history. For fans of Liane Moriarty. Eve Hardy is exactly where she wants to be in...

In 1839 John Harrington voyages 12,000 miles from Ireland into the unknown to take up a sheep-run in the southern regions of Australia. From a distinguished family of Anglo-Irish aristocrats...

Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996 Shortlisted, Fantasy Division and Horror Division, Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction 1995 a vivid and engrossing novel. Patricia Rolfe, Bulletin...