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The hilarious and poignant new novel from one of Britain's most entertaining and provocative writers. Sam and Lucy seem like the perfect couple. Successful, happy and in love. But life...

Written in 1997 when this remarkable author was nearing the end of her life. The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was,...

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his...

When young Jinnie Howlett's widowed father, a tinker man, died a pauper, she was indeed fortunate already to be an inmate of a northern workhouse, for with no other relatives,...

A woman coming of age during World War II becomes involved in anti-Nazi espionage--Provided by publisher.

The hugely-anticipated third novel - ambitious, ferocious and gripping - from the prize-winning author of The Panopticon. Featured in Damian Barr's picks for 2021 Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize...

Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn't concern them -...

'Niven Govinden's Diary of a Film , his sixth novel, is also his best yet. Smart, sexy and cinematic (in many senses), it is a love letter to Italy and...

In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma in the hopes of...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Named 'one of the greatest novels of all time' by the Observer With a new introduction by Amanda Craig Freda and Brenda are friends spending...

31st December 1942. In the middle of the North Atlantic, the deadly 'gap' where aircraft cannot protect them, a destroyer and 4 corvettes are shepherding a convoy of ships from...

'Owls Do Cry remains innovative and relevant' GUARDIAN 'Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious' HILARY MANTEL 'Her dark, eloquent song captured...

Eleven-year-old Isabelle hasn't spoken in nine months, and as December begins the situation is getting desperate. Her mother has stopped work to devote herself to her daughter's care. Four psychiatrists...

'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother . . .' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved...

Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when...

Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar...

When bestselling crime writer Mike Noonan's wife dies, he suffers from writer's block. Until he is drawn from Derry to his lakeside retreat, Sara Laughs - a house once inhabited...

On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours. The Empty Nest cliche is absolutely true, and she does...

A compelling look into damaged minds, The Chameleon's Shadow is a psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head...

David Wolfe is an ambitious former homicide prosecutor who is planning to run for Congress. A political dinner for the Israeli Prime Minister is hosted by his current girlfriend, Carole...

Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty - with quite unexpected results. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and a British diplomat...

We have all witnessed and/or experienced a little of Jay thompson's working life. The clash of personalities, the flirtations, the mundaneness. An office environment under the microscope and at its...

Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary stands for the new ideals, the leader for the old - or so...

'I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where...

Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is...

Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that...

GHOST MOTH will transport you to two hot summers, 20 years apart. Northern Ireland, 1949. Katherine must choose between George Bedford - solid, reliable, devoted George - and Tom McKinley,...

In these parts, he's the law The cowboy code is Matt Granger's trademark as a rancher and law enforcement officer. So when a serial killer targets students in his small...

Cold Case Scandal by Nicole Helm He'll risk everything to keep her safe When Mary Hudson meets Walker Daniels-under gunfire, no less-the cautious cold case investigator becomes entrenched in his...

Closing In On Clues By Julie Anne Lindsey He's the one man she never forgot When her newly sober sister goes missing, Nicole Homes turns to her former lover, PI...

Resolute Investigation By Leslie Marshman His childhood crush is in danger believes that she's innocent-and not just because he's had a crush on her since they were teenagers. As they...

Conard County: Code Adam By Rachel Lee Opposites attract... Newly promoted, Guy Redwing wants Valerie Brighton to stay away from his first case. But the missing child he's searching for...

You didn't mean to do it. It was only once. But someone has to pay . . . In Poppy Page's mind, there are two types of women in this...

Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway One of the most talked...

Third in the top-five bestselling, enthralling Belle series London, 1939 Eighteen-year-old Mari is defiant, strong-willed and selfish. She has craved independence her entire life and now, with the world on...

A writer's epic account of another life, of other choices - of turning fact into extraordinary fiction . . . The fictional narrator of these memoirs, a man of many...