Fiction

*The brand new thriller from Lucy Foley - THE MIDNIGHT FEAST - is available to pre-order now* *The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller* EVERYONE'S INVITED. ...

'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Toibin at his best' - The Times'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie BainOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKAS...

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic...

The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge from the author of Olive, Again and Oh William! Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate, and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as Olive grows older,...

Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent. Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and...

***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023. Pre-order now and be the first to read it***'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read' TIMES-----Now a major BBC drama: The Strike...

Does your child appear to worry a lot? Perhaps they have frequent tummy upsets, or are irritable, tearful, angry or withdrawn? Do they have problems concentrating or show a loss of enthusiasm for their usual interests? These could all be signs that your...

'The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund FreudThe murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for...

The top 10 Sunday Times bestseller NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES on Drama and UKTV Play 'I love the audacity of the Marlow gang, those ladies sure know how to live' Reader review ...

The summers spent at Roseland, the sprawling ancestral home of her best friend, Eloise, were among the happiest of Cathy's life. Tucked away on the Cornish coastline and brimming with history, Roseland seemed to belong to another century.Cathy has barely...

A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionA Sunday Times Novel of the YearShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in...

An epic first love. A second chance . . .'One of our most prolific and talented writers' - Santa MontefioreYoung Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she catches the eye of visiting...

One life changing decision: your husband or your one true love?----------------On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below 'The Paper Palace' - her family's holiday home in Cape Cod. As she dives beneath the water she...

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television,...

A Goodread's "Top Romance Novel of All Time"A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestsellerI wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a...

Learn the secret - or die trying Has ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope finally got out of his depth? That's the question Ben faces when the hunt for a missing girl takes him to China. He's a stranger in a strange land - but he's...

A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingenious ways in which our ancestors sought to extend the...

A #4 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.A TOMB OF ICEA young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in...

'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times'It was a puzzle with no solution...

'Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down.' Carys Jones, author of We Are All LiarsWhat would you hide to get everything you ever wanted?After years of infertility and heartbreak, Hannah and Charlie are finally going to...

A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face...

*The Sunday Times bestseller* *A CHILLING WINTER THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR* _______________________________________________________________ THE PERFECT DAY...

Lose yourself to the mystery and romance of Susan Stokes-Chapman's no.1 bestselling novel, which brings Greek myth to Georgian London. 'A gripping narrative in which secrets from the past are slowly and ingeniously revealed' Sunday Times'Romantic,...

A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'One...

Happiness is an uplifting novel about the choices we must make to find the life we want, from billion-copy bestselling author Danielle Steel.After a dark and unhappy childhood and two failed marriages where love was rarely felt, bestselling thriller...

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the...

The Murders at Fleat House is the suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the author of the multimillion-selling The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley.'A cleverly woven mystery to savour' - Sunday ExpressThe sudden death of a pupil in Fleat...

THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND TORONTO STA BESTSELLER *THE FIRST EVER STAND-ALONE FROM AUTHOR OF THE DI ADAM FAWLEY MILLION-COPIES-SOLD SERIES* **A Financial Times Best Book of...

EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY IS A KILLER. EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY IS A SUSPECT.BUT WHICH OF THEM IS A MURDERER?'The best thing I've read in ages' STUART MACBRIDE'Fun, witty and exciting. This is not one to miss!' 5***** READER REVIEW'A must-read for every fan of...

*A NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* *Jane Garvey and Fi Glover's book club pick* Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of...

'An ode to love, to the families we build when our own families fail us. It broke my heart' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie BainJuno loves Legs. She always has, ever since she fought the bullies for him in their first encounter at school. Growing up on...

The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy The fun-filled gift book that kids and the whole family will enjoy. Quiz your family and friends with this ultimate Big Quiz Book from National Geographic Kids,...

The gripping new thriller with a difference for 2024 from internationally bestselling author Lisa Stone What do you do when your home becomes a living nightmare? Your house should be the safest place in the world. But imagine you rent out a room, and...

'Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest' IndependentWritten in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, signalling...

An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer. THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN THIS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF A THRILLER... In London, the Metropolitan...

OVER 14M OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDE Nothing quite like this has ever been published before."-The Guardian "This is high stakes, subversive literature."-The Daily Telegraph "With the publication of her Neapolitan Novels, (Ferrante) has...

International bestseller Jeffrey Archer returns THE UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER 'Only someone like Jeffrey Archer . . . could have written a compelling story like this. Every page...

THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENONOVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEWho are you?What have we done to each other?These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES on Drama and UKTV Play 'I want to be Judith Potts when I grow up' Reader review 'Read the whole thing in one day . . . I was hooked. It had me laughing to myself all day. Would recommend'...

The first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is perfect for fans of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold...