Fiction

Beauty and the Bear. Can these opposites fake their way to something real? Sheldon Soleskin should be having a horrible day. Even though he's been unexpectedly transferred to a new...

Love: Not as easy as ABC. They were supposed to keep things casual. Who'd expect they'd be schooled in love? Those who can, teach. Marvin Block is one of the...

A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets from the past that may hold the key to his future in this "sensual, twisting gothic tale...in the tradition of A.S. Byatt's Possession ,...

When Meera Sen comes to the city of Melbourne to become a microbiologist, all she has with her are the traditional values of her culture and the idol of lord...

As a descendant of the first settlers in Hobart, Ruben's daughter is a guest at the bi-centennial event and reflects on her father's life and the historical journey of distant...

Melbourne , Australia, it is 1955. A four-year old child, Isla, is seated at a piano. She digs out her scrunched sheet music from her school bag, flattens it out...

JOHN HANNEBERY NEVER WANTED TO BE A HITMAN. He had no system for it. And, although a dark part of him took pleasure in hurting people, bad people, he had...

The lights are refusing to go out all over Stockholm. There's a mysterious problem in the power system. Every appliance in the city is going at full blast and the...

Miss Emily 'Fido' Faithfull is a woman ahead of her times, running her own printing press in Victorian London. She is distracted from her work by the sudden return of...

When I read back through my diaries or listen to Robin's stories, I come across completely unknown events, as if another person lived that time in my place. And still,...

Giuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must...

A man returns to his hometown to clear out the flat of his recently deceased mother. While there, he cannot resist visiting his former lover. As the storm rages in...

A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in...

Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They...

An unexpected and unusual inheritance sets a young woman on the road to discover her mother's deepest secret. A charming and heartfelt rural romance perfect for readers of Rachael Johns...

It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which...

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to investigate the suicide of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams - a member of the...

Following the bestselling success of Carlton's man-size Commando anthologies, here is a new pocket-format compilation of three classic comic-strip war stories printed the same size as the original Commando comics....

Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement. Ally (older sister...

'Nancy Bilyeau's passion for history infuses her books' - ALISON WEIR The year is 1911 when twenty-year-old heiress Peggy Batternberg is invited to spend the summer in America's Playground. The...

THE HUNT FOR A KILLER LEADS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP... 1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And journalist Gil...

Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the...

Welcome to The Empire Theatre. 'It's the jewel of the north, The Empire. Lord Lassiter bought it for his second wife, Lady Lillian and she supervised every detail of the...

London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities....

An exploration of domestic derangement, as sinister as Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca, that plumbs the depths of sibling rivalry with wit and menace. Oh, to be a Beloved-one of...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time On New Year's Eve, 1975, two hunted men leave Mexico...

The bestselling first novel in the Black Book series How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime? Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The...

Lucinda has lived her whole life in the shadow of her glamorous and outgoing high-end model sister Viviana. But when Viviana suddenly disappears on a trip to Sao Paulo, Lucinda...

A superb conspiracy thriller set in Venice, from a Sunday Times bestseller. ******** He died in the darkness, surrounded by friends. They found him at sunrise, on Venice's most popular...

Ferret Skerritt - ventriloquist by trade, conman by birth - isn't expecting to find love at the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, a colourful world of flimflam men, snake-oil salesmen, occultists,...

' The Fighting Season is military fiction of the first order: as tough as nails and packed with the insider knowledge of someone who has done it for real.' -...

The Marine Next Door by Julie Miller Maggie Wheeler never stopped looking over her shoulder. It was a habit she'd learnt from being a cop - and from a devastating...

When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia,...

In 1947, the spiritual integrity of America's most revered convent and orphanage is violated by the hate-fuelled, blasphemous behaviour of a celebrity guest during her prolonged labour. In 1985, the...

From the award-winning author of The Book of V. , an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from...

Targeting a man whose tough exterior had kept him alive, a young woman formulates a desperate plan to save nine children, teaming up with him despite his disreputable and dangerous...

Interstellar Vehicle Archimedes has been hurtling through space for more than five generations, an oasis of heat and light in the middle of absolutely nowhere. But now the ageing starship...

'A spellbinding read ... the glamour of early Sixties showbiz' LOUISE CANDLISH 'Mesmerising and powerful ... an extraordinary sense of time and place' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'A stylish and page-turning mystery'...

A high-powered attorney lands the case of her life - all while learning she has twelve months to live. James Patterson's favourite character since Alex Cross and a major new...

AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES , USA TODAY , AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * An NPR...

Before you discovered DCI Banks, Detective Arvo Hughes was on the case in this vintage standalone crime thriller from Peter Robinson. In 1990s Los Angeles, the beautiful star of a...

Pam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure to appeal to fans of Katie Flynn and Cathy Sharp. When...

Ever After concludes N ew York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux's breathtaking Nantucket Brides trilogy, introducing characters from a new generation of Montgomery-Taggerts, the beloved family from her classic novels....

Just as Alix Madsen is finishing up architectural school, Adelaide Kingsley dies and wills her, for one year, the use of a charming nineteenth-century Nantucket house. Alix accepts the quirky...

On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges...