Fiction

Max Wolfe is back! This is the long-awaited seventh instalment in the popular crime series from the number-one bestselling author of Man and Boy. Max Wolfe is back! This is...

A compelling novel about the requirement to be perfect, without losing sight of yourself - by the greatest feminist of the twentieth-century, Simone de Beauvoir. Laurence is a woman who...

Volume 3 by the author of WE'LL PRESCRIBE YOU A CAT - where healing arrives on four paws. For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES. Cats prove to be the...

A new thriller from the bestselling Icelandic author of all time. Over 18 million copies sold worldwide. The bestselling Icelandic author of all time. 'One of the greats of modern...

By the author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror: first of a major multi-book launch into English for a huge Japanese fiction brand THE UNFORGETTABLE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER BY THE...

A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime series It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied,...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Often described as the father of...

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining...

Robert Harris returns to Ancient Rome in his latest thriller. Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar's...

From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government,...

When Elina makes her annual summer pilgrimage to her remote family farm in Lapland, she has three days to catch the pike in a local pond, or she and the...

Frontline is the first book in a series charting the rise of a prominent British medical family in the twentieth century. From wars to a pandemic, the discovery of penicillin...

Rising before dawn in a tiny village to a day of gruelling hard work, Marion and her husband face the daily struggle for survival. Starvation is never far away and...

A gloriously reimagined life of Oscar Wilde from the bestselling author of The Heart's Invisible Furies 'John Boyne is one of our best authors writing today. The Weight of Angels...

'I am waiting for someone to kill me. Tonight would be a good night for it.' Agent Seventeen, the most infamous hitman in the world, has quit. But whoever wants...

' A gripping tale of tropical corruption ' Spectator ' A genuine imaginative achievement ' Daily Telegraph ' As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I...

ONE SMALL SCRATCH AND THE SECRETS WILL COME POURING OUT . . . Jenna has spent the last twenty-five years trying to forget what happened to her as a teenager....

'I am left with only one regret. That I may have finished it too quickly' READER REVIEW 'As for Tony, well he's his usual maverick self . . . and...

'Gripping, electrifying, heartbreaking' - Erin Kelly, author of HE SAID / SHE SAID, on TATTLETALE. This was meant to be the perfect honeymoon. A five-star beach resort in Vietnam, with...

Opulence. Sex. Betrayal ... Sometimes friendship can be deadly. Meet the women of Buckhead--a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Shannon was once the queen bee of...

The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey The year is 1884. London is being terrorised by a series of bomb blasts - even within Great Scotland Yard! Reluctantly, Sergeant...

Lake Como, 1919. The garden of Villa Marchese was once a sight to behold. Now, overgrown and unloved, the flowers that once bloomed are nothing but a reminder of the...

The new bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and...

Veronika is young and pretty and has everything she could wish for - yet one morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up in the local...

The Dordogne town of St Denis may be picturesque and sleepy, but it has more than its fair share of mysteries, as Bruno knows all too well. But when Bruno...

Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken, but the pact...

At the country estate of Stepanchikovo, the household has fallen completely under the sway of the despotic charlatan and humbug Foma Fomich Opiskin, one of the most notorious creations in...

Father Sebastian Rodrigues sets sail for Japan in 1640. He is on a mission to find one of the Portuguese Jesuits that went before him, a spiritual example to the...

In an opulent villa near the English Channel lives a family. The father has a safe, a spanner, a candle and a maid called Rose. The son has a swing,...

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects...

'Moving, dramatic and darkly humorous' - DAILY MAIL 'Brings a whole new meaning to domestic noir' - THE TIMES 'Funny, grim and very touching' - HARRIET TYCE She will leave...

'Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin' Sunday Times Book of the Month SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS....

WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY. A bullet-ridden body is unearthed from a buried WW2 plane - but the body isn't from WW2. Dr Ruth Galloway must...

Nothing could please a chef more than a chance to learn the secrets of a Baron's castle kitchen. Having travelled the length and breadth of the country compiling his masterpiece,...

The eighteenth thrilling novel in the globally bestselling Michael Bennett series. From the world's greatest thriller writer comes a new novel in the globally bestselling Michael Bennett series... In New...

"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement" - Madeleine Schwartz, New York Review of Books "Rich, meandering ....

'Taut and spine-tingling, I Know I Saw Her journeys through the apparent normality of suburban lives to expose the hidden terrors behind closed doors - a riveting read.' LAURA ELLIOT,...

A gripping thriller inspired by the unsolved murder of Hitler's twenty-one-year-old niece. Perfect for fans of Frederick Forsyth and The Rise of Evil. Munich, 1931. A young woman is found...

'This book's power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to lead ordinary lives during the horror of war . . . It is shattering stuff, but Rothmann is tender...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ' Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A colossal, genre-crossing achievement' GUARDIAN As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the...

Loved Ruth Hogan's The Keeper of Lost Things ? Keep on reading... 'Warm and wise' Guardian 'A book to really love ... makes reading a joy' Stylist 'Will soften even...

A macabre ancient artefact. An innovative bio tech company connected to the highest levels of government. And the trail of bloodshed in its wake. 'Finally got my Tony McLean fix'...

The truth of what happened that night lies with a secret witness. Quarter to Midnight is the first thrilling novel in a brand new series by Sunday Times bestselling author...

'The stuff of legend' Mirror The heart-stopping new novel from queen of crime Martina Cole. It's time to confess their sins. Steph Barker can't forget her past. A single mother,...

'. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday Times Where do your loyalties lie? With the truth or...

As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45 degrees, forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Linkoping for the summer take shelter indoors, shocked and...

Iraq 2005 Seven mercenaries journey deep into the desert in search of Saddam's gold. They form an unlikely crew of battle-scarred privateers, killers and thieves, veterans of a dozen war...

'Palpable tension. Charming characters who self-reflect. Laugh out loud moments. A plot with so many emotional layers. The Next Best Fling has absolutely everything I want in a romance book....