Adult Fiction

When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle's engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide ...

Rebecca Sheldon finds herself at war with her husband's grotesquely funny family as well as with the hypocrisy of the Edwardian society in which sh...

Sound the Cosmic Horn! Bestselling author Louise Rennison's seventh book of the confessions of crazy but loveable teenager Georgia Nicolson is out ...

Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable...

When Tony Thorne first turned up for his medical in 1956 he had little idea of the adventures he would face and the people he would encounter over ...

Join Gervase Phinn in the classroom where he faces his greatest challenge: keeping a straight face as teachers and children alike conspire to have ...

A hilarious, straight-talking read for anyone who's ever despaired at the politics of the school run. Maia Etxeleku is a cleaner for ladies who lun...

Bella Fisher is stuck in EXAM HELL - with only the promise of a weekend at the RebelRocks festival with her mates as a reward afterwards. OK, so sh...

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest...

Funny Girl - the latest novel from Nick Hornby, the million-copy bestselling author of About a Boy Make them laugh, and they're yours forever . . ....

Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show. Calvin always wins because Calv...

Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's obsessed with the End of the World. And now her elderly neighbour Mrs ...

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas...

Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson's smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as "The national anthem for...

The voice of modern women is back! Perfect for fans of Milly Johnson and Carole Matthews. ‘More than funny, it’s true!’ Elle After sixteen years o...

A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: mi...

Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dyi...

This book is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, in Minnesota - a heartland small town. Its early chapters are written in the fo...

Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Finally given the h...

See what WLT was really like before it became the radio station featured in the Robert Altman film. In 1926, brothers Ray and Roy Soderbjerrg plung...

Everyone knows the real Silvia, don't they? Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they ...

Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvelous and Oh Dear Silvia, returns with her joyously funny new novel, According To Yes....

Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely...

The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. Fro...