Fiction

'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the...

A bumper collection of more than 200 cryptic puzzles.Flex your mental muscles with these cryptic crosswords!Put your lateral thinking skills to the test with this bumper edition of cryptic crosswords. Whether you're looking to sharpen your analytical...

A gripping Quick Read from the master of the race against time thriller.Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time?You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl.She is half-naked, has been badly...

'If the final pages of this story don't make your heart race, then you might want to make sure your heart is still working.' KARIN SLAUGHTERFor Jack Reacher, being invisible has become a habit.He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his...

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from...

'A delicious, important novel' The Times 'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent 'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the...

THE NO. 1 EBOOK BESTSELLERA witty, heartwarming story of love, life and second chances set in the idyllic Cotswolds, from the glorious Jill Mansell.'I completely adored it . . . Brimming with warmth, heart and jolly good fun' Cathy Bramley'An absolute...

THE TIKTOK SENSATION Meet BUNNY: the darkly funny, spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about 'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOOD We call them Bunnies...

Winner of the Polari Prize 2023'A gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness' - Florence WelchOur Wives Under The Sea is the haunting novel from Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It's a story of falling in love, loss, grief,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER . . . IN HARDBACK AND NOW IN PAPERBACK!The Secret History meets Ninth House . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York's famed...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, NEW YORKER AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEARWillie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest...

Welcome to the Morgan family home! Let me give you a tour. Each room in this Victorian household has a special purpose and is favored by a unique feline inhabitant. From the cuddly and adorable Nursery Kittens to Aunt Pru's Persian, there's a tale behind...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his...

'The best biography I've read recently' - Colin Bateman, Sunday Independent An excellent examination of Mayne... Ross corrects many of the myths about him that have flourished over the years - History of War magazine 'This welcome reassessment,...

'We have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebald's case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the real thing' John Banville, GuardianFrom acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of...

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us comes a passionate tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance. At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful...

Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK...

FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND AND IMPOSTOR THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY... When a cantankerous old woman dies at her home in the sleepy, picturesque village of Bamburgh, DCI Ryan doesn't think much of it-except, that is, for...

A 21ST CENTURY LOVE STORY AND TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utter BRILLIANCE . . . I absolutely LOVED it!' Marian Keyes, bestselling author of GROWN UPS'I loved it' Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE...

The second book in the gripping and heartwarming new Jubilee Lake series, from multi-million-copy bestselling author Anna JacobsLancashire, 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name, and a brave step towards a happier life. Suddenly widowed after an...

Pride and Prejudice: An Epistolary Edition Containing Nineteen Handwritten Letters is a collection of the letters exchanged between Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice. Glassine pockets placed throughout the book contain removable replicas of...

'An epic follow-up to the bestselling Shipyard Girls series' Peterborough Telegraph______________________1949, County Durham.From the Shipyards of Sunderland to Lady of the Manor . . .When Angie marries her sweetheart Quentin and moves into Cuthford...

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024Carl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowledge that's rooted in (always unstable) human memory. If the poet's...

Reacher never backs down from a problem.And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems.Minutes later Reacher is heading...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'One of this country's finest crime writers' Daily Mail'Concludes with a glorious twist' The Times'A high wire balancing act but MacBride never falters' Scotland on SundayTHE UNPUTDOWNABLE, UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again.Come Death and High Water is the second mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series...

Get closer to Budapest with DK EyewitnessA dip in the city's thermal baths. Architectural marvels on every street. Days spent in cool cafes and nights in raucous ruin pubs. There are so many reasons to visit Budapest. Whatever your dream trip involves,...

'The whole book is a delight... Perfect reading whilst sipping a g & t in a beautiful garden somewhere in the sun!' Rosanna LeyA buried secret... Present day: Anna is focused on growing her new gardening business and renovating her late grandmother's...

From the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once comes the #1 Sunday Times bestseller about the ties we have to our past-and the lies that bind us together...It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But...

One Last Secret ... would you kill to keep it? 'Absolutely gripping' Lisa Jewell 'I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks' Lucy Foley 'Whip-smart protagonist, immensely...

***Pre-order David Nicholls' new novel YOU ARE HERE now - Coming April 2024***A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT FIRST LOVE FROM BELOVED BESTSELLER DAVID NICHOLLSA tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and that one summer that changes your life forever'A...

'An absolute gem' Sunday Times 'A mouthwatering history' The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the...

From the bestselling author of It Ends With Us, a novella about the search for happily ever after. A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love has...

A visual pilgrimage through holy mountains, great pyramids, and golden shrines, Sacred Sites celebrates the ways we transform the world around us through ritual, creativity, and worship. Essays, interviews and more than 400 images explore spaces ranging...

Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian.'Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer...

EVERYONE IS HIDING A SECRET. ONE OF THEM IS MURDER.'I raced through it - edgy, tense' Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange'I for one am terrified of the woman next door!'Louise Candlish, author of The Other Passenger'Tightly plotted, edge-of-seat...

Now a major Disney+ original series'C. J. Sansom's books are arguably the best Tudor novels going' - The Sunday TimesDissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom's phenomenal bestselling Shardlake series, perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Phillipa...

'Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Mason has created crime fiction's most entertaining double act in decades' Mick HerronOxford, city of rich and poor, where the homeless camp out in the...

Adunni and Ms Tia are back, now forced to confront their pasts and find the courage to roar for themselves''Fresh, funny and fiercely feminist, Dare's empowering sequel to The Girl With The Louding Voice is a gut punch of a book'MAIL ON...