Fiction

'One of Britain's most visionary writers' DAVID PEACE 'An appalling, beautifully-lit abyss' ALAN MOORE A dark, chilling and mesmerising thriller set in wartime Berlin, for fans of Joseph Kanon and...

In this chilling holiday thriller from the world's most popular storyteller, Alex Cross must spend Christmas Eve risking everything to solve a mystery and stop a hostage situation from spiraling...

International bestseller Steve Berry returns with another brilliant Cotton Malone thriller involving a mystery about Abraham Lincoln and a political issue that's as explosive as it is timely - not...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Two young girls. Two unspeakable crimes. Fifty years separate them - their pain connects them. When the body of a 15-year-old is found in...

Antoinette Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from The Secret Place , is still on the Murder squad, but only just. She's partnered up with Stephen Moran now, and that's going...

' One Cornish Summer captured my heart and didn't let it go until long after I'd finished it. A heart rending story about secrets, lies and the power of love'...

The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 Book Club pick, The Silent Companions sees a teenage seamstress convinced she can control people's fates through the clothes she...

THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK 'Dark academia, secret societies, and murder - what's not to love?' Jessica Payne 'Takes you on a wild ride. It's a must-read!' Courteney Cox...

Kenya, 1952, a colony on the edge. Settlers drink sundowners on the veranda but the servants can't be trusted. Beyond manicured lawns, in the dark of the forest, freedom is...

Jonathan Marcus was a promising young archaeologist studying at the American Academy in Rome, when a terrible accident during an illegal excavation resulted in a friend's death and Jonathan's expulsion...

How can the words of the past help heal the horror of the present For as long as she can remember, Barbara Spiel has always found solace in books. Born...

The widely acclaimed author of Winter Work now recasts the spy novel for the post-9/11 world-anyone might be watching, everyone is suspect. "Exceptional.... Fesperman writes so well that it's easy...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME 'A furiously romantic, sun-drenched mystery . . . The...

'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole Lisa lives too close for comfort to Westy Lane. Too many women have been murdered on that road,...

A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in...

'Hilarious, heartwarming and delightfully refreshing' CAROL KIRKWOOD 'I loved this joyous romp about starting afresh late in life' DAILY MAIL 'Will put a twinkle in your eye and a spring...

A sweeping, powerful story about a mother's love for her child that will take you through a world war and across a continent... **** On the cusp of World War...

"I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." --Stephen King NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC FILMS STARRING ERIC BANA INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A breathless page-turner, driven by the...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return to the Girl in the Dragon Tattoo series in this ripped-from-the-headlines, high-octane follow-up to Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked...

A Different Earth

Catherine has been enjoying the single life for long enough to know a good catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic, spontaneous - Lee seems almost too perfect to be...

It is December 2001 and Argentina is in political and economic meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all as the 'National Shame',...

According to Jewish scripture, there are thirty-six righteous people on earth. Without them, humanity would perish. But the thirty-six do not know that they are the chosen ones. In Beijing,...

" Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel Prize material" Avraham Burg, Haaretz Who is Adam...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SLATE * Includes an exclusive conversation between Lev Grossman and Lauren Owen For fans of Anne Rice, The Historian, and...

It is 1861, and as the Civil war rages, one man is determined to prove himself on the front lines of battle. But destiny has far greater plans for him...On...

'Times change, and sometimes for the better...' As the twentieth century draws to a close, Esme Reddaway knows that she must uncover the truth. A truth that began during the...

When Kate Flanagan sits in the Old Bailey court room and hears the seven-year sentence for armed robbery being passed on her husband, she knows that now is the time...

In a departure from her bestselling sagas, Lynda Page brings us a heartrending novel of tragedy and hardship sure to appeal to fans of misery memoirs. Things have never been...

Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in East Hampton, summer home to billionaires and Hollywood celebrities. But his clients are the people he grew up with, the people who...

1587 and the Spanish are preparing to launch the Armada, their Holy Enterprise of England, to rescue the English from heresy and Elizabeth, their Witch-Queen. Ex-soldier David Becket, now responsible...

When a convicted murderer is dramatically gunned down with a single bullet to the head, journalist Nick Mullins is quickly dispatched by his newspaper to cover the story. A veteran...

In Washington, word is received that an elite member of the Nazi High Command is willing to defect and divulge information that will shorten the war. But his deflection entails...

'Nothing stays dead in New Orleans. Not for long, anyway.' And no one knows this better than ex-district attorney Danny Chaisson. For him, the dead just show up in his...

*Now with an exclusive extract of Elizabeth Chadwick's next novel, The Royal Rebel - only in the paperback!* Wales, 1093. The warm, comfortable family life of young Nesta, daughter of...

Michael Turner is about to make a big mistake. Having struggled for years to escape the demons of his childhood - an orphan lost in a maze of institutions and...

It takes a bad man to hunt evil If the assassin known only as Victor once had a moral compass, it is long since buried, along with his many victims....

Victor is the perfect killer. He has no past. He will stop at nothing. And he can find you anywhere. In sweltering Algiers, ultra-efficient hitman Victor executes a fellow assassin....

Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor. He's the world's deadliest assassin, locked in an uneasy alliance with the CIA. And he has a list: three...

Alexandria, Egypt, 1977. During a dive to an old shipwreck, archaeologist Isabella Warnock uncovers an artefact unlike anything she has ever seen: an astrarium, a mysterious ancient device rumoured to...

When Nell Channing arrives on Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband - and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight...

SEQUEL TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS SHOW OF EVIL AND PRIMAL FEAR, FEATURING MARTIN VAIL AND THE EVIL AARON. A top-secret military convoy, highjacked in the Rocky Mountains. Thousands of innocent lives...

On 21 April 1926, three baby girls are born. In North Wales, Hester Coburn, a farm labourer's wife, gives birth to Nell, while in Norwich, in an exclusive nursing home,...

With barbarians at the gate and enemies within, two men must fight for the soul of the Republic and the greatest empire in the world. A cave hacked out of...

It's Venice, 1604. When rumours of a spectacularly rare and priceless diamond begin to circulate amongst the gamblers and courtesans of the Venetian demi-monde, the Levant Company merchant, Paul Pindar,...