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Cather's masterpiece of life, death and faith in New Mexico, new to Modern Classics Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico....

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Author: Robert Thorogood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Thoroughly enjoyable locked-room murder mystery. I highly recommend this book' Reader review, 'I was hooked from the first page, wonderful' Reader...

A new psychological thriller. Jack is ex-police force and still grieving the collapse of his marriage and the disappearance of his teenage daughter, Jacinta, four years earlier. He is dragged...

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Author: Stig Abell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A beautifully written new crime thriller you won't want to miss! In a quiet village, darkness is closing in... A rural...

A new look for the second Brunetti novel from award-winning crime writer Donna Leon 'Brunetti . . . long ago joined the ranks of the classic fictional detectives' Evening Standard...

1942. Hull, East Yorkshire - It is the most heavily-bombed city outside of London - but for the sake of national morale the Hull Blitz is kept top secret. Only...

In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when...

'. . . there is no doubt Phryne is back at her best.' The Book Muse When a mysterious invitation arrives for Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown Captain Herbert...

From one of our most provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense 'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral...

Author: P. D. James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglican coast, his wealthy father...

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Death in Holy Orders is set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate stretch of the East Anglian coast. When the body of one of the students is found...

Published to great acclaim, Death in Lacquer Red was the first novel in Jeanne M. Dams's historical mystery series featuring Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South...

Another book in the brilliant cosy crime meets culinary adventure series from Alex Coombs. 'An irresistibly delicious mix of cooking and murder' Trisha Ashley 'A fantastic read which I got...

A strange murder in an idyllic French seaside village, a major family tragedy, and a puzzling secret await Commissioner Dupin in this captivating whodunit thriller. At the Central Hotel in...

After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body...

Author: Fern Riddell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Fierce, fresh and feminist, Fern Riddell tells the story of Suffragette Kitty Marion in a way that fizzes and shocks. Exciting,...

Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. 'I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and...

Author: Anja de Jager Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 AMSTERDAM 1980 A city in turmoil: rife with drug abuse, riots and terror threats in the run-up to the coronation...

Author: Anja de Jager Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 AMSTERDAM 1980 A city in turmoil: rife with drug abuse, riots and terror threats in the run-up to the coronation...

AMSTERDAM 1980A city in turmoil: rife with drug abuse, riots and terror threats in the run-up to the coronation of Queen Beatrix. As Amsterdam's police force is overwhelmed by the...

AMSTERDAM 1980A city in turmoil: rife with drug abuse, riots and terror threats in the run-up to the coronation of Queen Beatrix. As Amsterdam's police force is overwhelmed by the...

Gustav von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying...

'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful. Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when...

Author: Louise Welsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his...

Author: Karen Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 -- A BRAND NEW KILLER THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - THREE MILLION BOOKS SOLD IN THE UK ALONE --...

-- A BRAND NEW KILLER THRILLER FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 3 MILLION BOOKS SOLD IN THE UK ALONE --A ruthless gang leader. A deadly vendetta. A dark...

A crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Morse, in which Morse and his assistant Sergeant Lewis are called upon to investigate the murder of a young woman who was shot from...

Book Three in the bestselling fantasy series The Foundling, perfect for fans of Shannon Mayer, Jenn Stark and the Sookie Stackhouse novels War burned her. Famine nearly killed her. Now...

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'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice . This extraordinary novel...

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to...

"A rich rewarding trip for everyone." - The New York Times " Alexander's eye for period detail is sharp and subtle; he brings his historic England back to life in...

From deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four spoiled children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of...

A tart with a heart of stone... Maggie Baird is neither kind or generous, but she is very, very rich. So when her car catches fire, with her inside it,...

*** SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS *** In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the...

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Who killed Princess Isis? When the Pharaoh's beautiful eleven-year-old daughter, Isis, dies under suspicious circumstances, rumours fly around the harem of Mer-Wer. Meryt, the harem's beautician, learns that the princess...

Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life. In the spring...

Author: Fay Weldon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In Fay Weldon's 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power and won. But...

Author: Tobias Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A crime thriller cutting to the heart of the political sleaze in Italy. A beautiful teenage girl, Simona Biondi, has gone...

A crime thriller cutting to the heart of the political sleaze in Italy. A beautiful teenage girl, Simona Biondi, has gone missing from her home in the Italian capital. Castagnetti,...

A missing person report is not usually something that Hamish Macbeth sees as cause for undue distress. Should a child or a vulnerable person vanish, it's an urgent matter that...

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But...

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