Adult Fiction

"Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans bo...

When her husband, Jack, unexpectedly leaves her, Judith suddenly realises she is all alone in the world: her two sons are in Australia, and both he...

The Harrison family gathers as usual for Christmas in their big Sussex house - a tight safe world of festivity and family ritual. This year, howeve...

This is the story of Gemma and me: how I lost her, I suppose. I don't usually tell it to anyone but myself; I save it for the darkest moments. Losi...

A little boy's journey and a desperate search for a place to call home. Eight year old Casey's mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness for ot...

Born into poverty, Katie Mulholland is forced to find work as a maid in the house of a wealthy family. But the beautiful young girl captures the ey...

Catherine Alliott, bestselling author of One Day in May and A Crowded Marriage, takes a heart-warming look at what happens when your whole world is...

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic...

A killer the police have dubbed Billy Dead Mates is killing pairs of best friends, one by one. Just before each murder, he sends his victim a small...

Shortlisted For The Edgar Allan Poe Award 1995 For Inspector Banks and Superintendent Gristhorpe the abduction of a young girl brings back dreadful...

Whatever made us think that a catering business had anything to do with producing food? asks the exasperated heroine of Maeve Binchys Scarlet Feath...

Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Investiga...

Sent to London to help catch a vicious serial killer, Inspector John Rebus teams up with a beautiful psychologist to piece together a portrait of a...

Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books have sold millions of copies, and her characters and their stories have ca...

Sent out of London to avoid a cholera epidemic, a clergyman's son and daughter become concerned about the children in nearby Drouets Academy, a not...

Raymond Kelvedon had been a dashing subaltern in 1944 when he had come across the glorious painting by Raphael depicting Pandora releasing the seve...

The final episode in the trilogy that began with the million-copy bestseller MAN AND BOY Ten years on from MAN AND BOY, it is crunch time for Harr...

The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountai...

Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman. Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation modelled on the repartee ...

The body of a young local student is found on a lonely country road. Initially the evidence points to suicide, yet she didn't own a car and she did...

Love can grow on you, or can it? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair an...

The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying wo...

Harriet Swift has her life organized just the way she wants it: a satisfying career, her own immaculate flat, and a new boyfriend. But her well-ord...

It is late at night on a notorious council estate in east London. A van – garishly painted with a grinning clown's face on the side – is being driv...