Adult Fiction

Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was five. Now, having left home and her father for dreams of art scho...

In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with...

September 1939. Overnight, Jewish nineteen-year-old Emma Bau's world is turned upside down when Germany invades Poland. And after only six weeks of...

Englishman and ex-teacher Harry Mitchell is recruited by the SOE for a dangerous mission in occupied Paris: locate and extract a compromised wirele...

Reconstruction of the lost memoirs of Emperor Augustus; an account from the killing of Caesar to his own death. After Caesar and Antony, the third...

Post Captain, the second in Patrick O'Brian's much loved Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, begins with Jack Aubrey returning to an England at peace ...

The heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of a world on the brink of war from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife. Berlin...

Suez, Egypt. It’s 1953 and the "Canal Zone," a strip of land vital to Britain's access to transport, fuel, and trade, is being put under pressure ...

Hung Together The updated inside story of the 2010 Election, its aftermath and the first two years of the unprecedented Conservative/ Lib Dem coali...

Special Agent Will Trent has something to hide. Something he doesn’t want Dr Sara Linton – the woman he loves – to find out. He’s gone undercover ...

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's am...

An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck—her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure.A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountai...

Angie and Ian were childhood sweethearts, Angie adored kids and, as one of eight children himself, Ian was only too happy to have as many as they c...

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an a...

Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Hutch escapes from a British maximum-security prison and starts a new life in Hong Kong. But a ghost from ...

Lambert Strether is sent by his wealthy fiancee, Mrs Newsome, to Paris to bring home her son Chad who is required to take charge of the family busi...

Harry's one ambition is to find the perfect girl for him. He doesn't ask for much; just a beautiful intellectual who doesn't mind his constant infi...

From the grime and crime of a Detroit assembly line, through top-secret design studios, executive boardrooms and bedrooms, Wheels is a fascinating ...

John Ross, the tortured, conflicted Knight of the Word from Terry Brooks's Running with the Demon, finally gets a good night's sleep in the sequel....

It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school. Dr. Temperance Brennan's students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees...

More than two decades after he completed the Second Chronicles, Stephen R. Donaldson has begun a third series about the leprous Thomas Covenant the...

Simon Mahler died at 17 from a fall from a mare that he and his mother loved dearly. Simon's father, unable to bear the sight of the horse, destroy...

A murder has been committed - but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, unti...

First published in serial form in Dickens's "Household Worlds", this novel centres around an early Victorian country town at a crucial moment of tr...