Fiction

Ancient Rome, AD 50 The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has married her way to power, tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts. The emperor may have a son and heir of his own, but Agrippina sees no obstacles to her ambition. Rome is a path through a marsh, lit by torches. Those who walk it are always one step from disaster – and the road itself is treacherous, slippery with blood.

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and

From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWN

Jackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...

She's just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are pressuring her to turn informant - but Ordell Robbie, the highly dysfunc

A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard

Ordell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap...

They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a nice big ransom. What they didn't reckon on was the fact that her husband has a secret mistress and doesn't want his wife back at all. Or that th

A rollicking tale of the 1970s Detroit criminal underworld from legendary crime writer Elmore Leonard

To get ahead in armed robbery, you just need to find the perfect business partner...

When auto thief Stick steals a maroon '73 Camaro from Frank's used car lot, Frank spies an unexpected opportunity. He 'suggests' they combine forces, and soon they're embarking on a

A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time

Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime, using her connections to the local yakuza to get by. When she meets Shirakawa Fukutaro, a rich widower

A family torn apart by war, geography, politics, religion, over the course of three generations

From multi-million copy bestselling author Nora Roberts - a brand new thriller with tragedy and trauma, resilience and revenge...

Two workplace enemies find themselves in close proximity on a tropical work trip that challenges their
assumptions - and just might make them to fall for each other - in this romcom debut from TikTok favourite author Nisha J. Tuli.

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a Shanghai household backward in time - from 2040 back to 2014 - exploring their secrets, their losses and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.

A cosy fantasy romance featuring a brazen housekeeper and a warrior trapped inside a magical sword, perfect for fans of Legends and Lattes, Nettle and Bone and Naomi Novik.

Reverse is the second book in the Bittersweet Symphony Duet by Kate Stewart, the author of the TikTok sensation, The Ravenhood Trilogy.

For readers of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Exciting Times, an addictive, dark and sexy debut novel about falling in love as society falls apart.

A gorgeous modern love story about two young men who meet, almost fall in love, and find their lives caught up in three car crashes - for fans of Call Me by Your Name, A Little Life and One Day.

C. M. Ewan, author of The House Hunt, delivers a claustrophobic thriller in which a young couple invite a stranded family into their car - with deadly consequences. Perfect for fans of T. M. Logan and Harlan Coben.

Conrad the cat detective and retired police detective Lulu Lewis travel to Manchester on their canal boat. A cold case must be reopened - it seems the killer has returned . . .

A marriage of convenience threatens to go off track in this steamy Formula 1 romance. . .