Fiction

The unmissably cosy and escapist festive story, set in the Christmas markets of Copenhagen. From the Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan.

The Stolen Hours is book two in the spellbinding historical Wild Isle series from The Sunday Times bestseller Karen Swan.

The first book in a hilarious series featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, is about to become an unwilling crime-solver.

Linus Baker is sent to assess a magical orphanage, filled with dangerous children. They could bring about the end of everything - or be the family he'd always wanted.

 

 

Witty, haunting and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office - and his afterlife building a home.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten's visionary thriller will put you on the edge of your seat. You have two hours to Go Zero. Erase Yourself. The hunt has begun.

Twenty years after a baby is stolen from her push-chair, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she's planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning up mess and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lyin

Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that leave little room for doubt: Adulteress. Whore. Murderess. Only a year before, Lady Christian was newly married, leading a life of privilege and respectability. So, what led her to risk

For readers of A Little Life, Room and Shuggie Bain as well as The Silence of the Girls and I, Claudius, the deeply moving story of a young Roman slave boy growing up in a brothel.

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia.Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist

Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction.Welcome to the Alexandrian Society.When the world's best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited - to fill f

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost.

Critically acclaimed international bestseller Jane Harper returns as Aaron Falk investigates what happened to a mother who disappeared at a festival and the devastation wrought on her family.

Jane Harper, the critically acclaimed international bestselling author of The Dry returns with a scorching, heart-pounding new novel... At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds. A year on, Kim Gillespie’s absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine cou

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland is a breathtaking fantasy romance set in an Ottoman-inspired world of courtly conspiracies and chivalric fealty, as Prince Kadou and his bodyguard Evemer investigate a counterfeiting operation that could topple their empire.

THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE. SUZUKI IS JUST AN ORDINARY MATHS TEACHER...UNTIL HIS WIFE IS MURDURED.

Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn't realise is that he's about to get drawn into a web of the most unusual professional assassins, each with their own agenda.

Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition - and a special friendship. Then, all too soon, that time is over and they must return to their normal lives. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station the spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - creating virtual worlds to delight, chall

THE FIRST NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY FILMMAKER WERNER HERZOG

'Affecting and engaging' COLM TOIBIN 'A wistful, witty meditation on a gay man's twilight years and the twilight of America' Guardian Out in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, The Kingdom of Sand's nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few. His world is ageing, and the memories of another time flash, t

A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White, perfect for fans of Stephen King and SQUID GAME.