Fiction

A house built on secrets An old woman haunted by her past A young woman fighting for her life For Sara Keane, it was supposed to be a second chance.A...

'Funny, twisty, bloodthirsty' JULIE MAE COHEN 'An absolute joy of a thriller' SARAH BONNER Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything : - Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just...

The sage Confucius visits a cultured duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by the desires of his dazzling, malicious consort. A naive servant elopes with his master's daughter, only...

'Superb. An incandescent, charged and propulsive work. I inhaled this collection. It's a testament to Sunny Singh's considerable talents as a writer' Irenosen Okojie Nur and Abid relearn to love...

Stunning historical immersion into the world of Rembrandt with a gripping plot of a promise turned sour. For fans of Stacey Halls, Maggie O'Farrell and Tracy Chevalier. 'With glorious language,...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR* A dark, captivating novel of family secrets, desperate ambition and the deepest betrayal. TO BECOME ONE...

Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts... At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons; a place where...

It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault. But it was just the beginning. As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is...

Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and...

Prague, 1995: Vera Foltynova, a widow in her late 50s, claims to receive visits from the ghost of great composer Frederic Chopin. What's more, she declares that Chopin has dictated...

The sensational new novel from the author of the bestselling thriller, The Creeper, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2025. Deep in the mountains, secrets grow...

Isak receives an unexpected inheritance from his father on one condition: that he meet and make peace with the man at his remote island retreat. Once there, Isak finds himself...

An epic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston, perfect for fans of Michael Crichton. Extinction explores the very real effort to resurrect the woolly mammoth and...

Included in The Times Best Historical Fiction Books of 2025: 'A lively new perspective on a grimly familiar tale' The world's most famous unsolved serial killer mystery, told from the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA road trip becomes a journey into the heart of fractured relationships in Eleanor Dark's Return to Coolami,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a storm-lashed night in the South China Sea, a young officer named Cyril Trewsbury finds himself adrift...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrank Moorhouse, one of Australia's most shrewdly observational writers, turns his satirical lens on the absurdity of institutional...

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Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and enduring works of modern Chinese literature, The True Story of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor half a century, Australian fiction navigated a turbulent literary landscape shaped by war, modernism, nationalism, and a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrank Norris's The Octopus is a thunderous indictment of corporate greed set against the vast wheat ranches of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the soot-blackened coalfields of northern France, a desperate and hungry young man named Étienne Lantier arrives seeking...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadowy, morally ambiguous underworld of nineteenth-century Paris, Honoré de Balzac's A Harlot High and Low chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark in bilingual publishing, German Short Stories 1: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten 1 is a carefully curated anthology that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn postwar Tokyo, a world of elegance, ambition, and barely concealed desire collides in Yukio Mishima's razor-sharp novel...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a seemingly chaotic collection of notes, letters, and fragments soon reveals itself to be one...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a society perfects the art of sorting its citizens by intelligence and ability alone? Michael...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the mind of one of science fiction's most visionary thinkers comes Star Maker, a breathtaking cosmic odyssey...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the teeming, raucous world of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, few figures burned as brightly — or as...