Urban & Street Lit

**Josie Lloyd's heart-warming and joyful new novel, Lifesaving for Beginners, is available for pre-order now!** *** 'Amazing, heartbreaking and inspiring' Jenny Colgan'A love letter to the power of...

All she wanted was a mother's love... Curl up with this heartrending new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Mother's Struggle and A Daughter's Ruin. ...

A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home... The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2020! 'You should read ELEVATOR PITCH by Linwood Barclay as soon as possible. It's one hell of a suspense novel' STEPHEN KING 'Moves...

'An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wide-boys and psychos who ride in the down...

**New York Times bestseller** 'One of the most vivid and convincing portraits of contemporary America I've read' Observer When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult...

A missing woman. A husband suspected.The truth will ... Take Your Breath Away Linwood Barclay is... 'A suspense master' Stephen King 'In a class of his own' T.M. Logan'One of the finest thriller writers in the world' Mark...

FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF NIGHTBLOOM A FEELGOOD DEBUT SET IN MODERN-DAY GHANA, ABOUT FASHION AND FINDING YOUR VOICE 'Vivid, witty and utterly absorbing.' Daily Mail In one of the most talked about and hilarious debuts of...

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies', this is an epic yet subtle family saga about broken trusts and buried secrets. Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their...

City of love. City of splendour. City of terror. City of dreams.Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERIt's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street.The boy's mother wonders how...

'Muse of Nightmares is a philosophical fantasy adventure, an epic love story, a daring quest that demands to be read and reread and deserves to be remembered forever.' Katherine WebberThe first hardback print run of Muse of Nightmares will have beautiful...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. In...

Edinburgh's toughest cop, Bob Skinner, looks into his past to assuage his demons in Quintin Jardine's thrilling new mystery.Skinner revisits his nightmares: old but not forgotten. Fifteen years in the past, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Bob...

'Engaging, gripping, addictive and completely unpredictable. An absolute must read. Ali Blood is an author to watch' NetGalley Reviewer, She's married to a monster. Till...

'An instant classic' - THE GUARDIAN'A bloody masterpiece.' - MELISSA BRODER, author of THE PISCES'Witty, emotional and gripping, Open Throat is a short but savage thrill ride' - THE INDEPENDENT'Open Throat is Bret Easton Ellis meets mountain lion in the...

'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judge From a critically acclaimed author comes a searing novel about maternal love pushed to the brink by environmental crisis 'Brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St...

'Brilliantly-written characters, original and engaging. It's so good!'BA Paris JOANNE HAYNES HAS A SECRET.THAT IS NOT HER REAL NAME. And there's more. Her flat isn't hers. Her cats aren't hers. Even her...

The unstoppable Ruby Darke returns as old enemies threaten her family in The Edge, a gripping gangland thriller from top ten bestselling author Jessie Keane.With a mind sharper than a razor blade it was only a matter of time before Ruby Darke fought her...

'So perceptive and wise about the media, privilege, the differing but equally troubling pressures that women of all ages face, while still being moving, laugh out loud funny, and inspiring. I loved it.' Louise O'Neill, author of Idol'As she did with sex...

The new love story of undeniable passion and desire from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the This Man seriesGiving into desire could destroy them, but denying their passion is impossible...Hannah Bright has finally found a place...

Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo's in this gritty drama that will appeal to fans of Nadine Dorries and Kitty Neale. When there is nowhere else to turn, St Saviour's will give them hope... It's 1947 and London's East End is still a...

An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers whose lives collide with far-reaching consequences. Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she...

Be bold. Be brave. Be Viking...Forget hygge, this autumn you need to go Viking. An uplifting, laugh out loud debut novel to curl up with from the bestselling author of THE YEAR OF LIVING DANISHLY.Frazzled mum Alice Ray likes to think she's on top...

Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. There are worse things than the death penalty... They call them...

Edinburgh's hardest cop faces private crisis and public disaster... Skinner faces both the biggest case of his career and crippling personal crisis in Skinner's Ordeal, the thrilling fifth novel in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Edinburgh crime series...

In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis delivers a shadowy, looking-glass world. It is a world where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet - and begin to resemble the familiar surface of our own lives . . .The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor...

'A gripping thriller' Sunday Times'Imaginative and unexpected' The Times'A cracking, uber-topical spy thriller' Financial Times'Enthralling and fast-moving... the stuff headlines are made of' Daily Mail_______________________________The world is on the...

'Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk 'A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel' Jenny Offill It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in...

The gripping and dark book club debut with a compelling voice at its centre.*THE GUARDIAN 2021 BEST CRIME AND THRILLER PICK*'Gorgeously written' PANDORA SYKES'I loved this book' CLARE MACKINTOSH'A darkly dazzling debut . . . gripping' LISA...

The world is at war. And time is running out... London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter - leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who...

The brand new gripping, gritty crime thriller from Kerry Barnes that will have you hooked. 'This gripping page-turner will leave you gasping in horror, yet entirely mesmerised' Woman's Weekly ...

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick'A love letter to Japan and its literature' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan'Ingenious... Touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking' Guardian'An ideal tonic for anyone craving far-flung adventure' Mail on Sunday'If you're itching...

'Gripping' Curtis Sittenfeld * 'Electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid * 'Remarkable' Kevin Kwan * 'Stunning' Sunday Times * 'Brilliant' Pandora Sykes In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every...

The brand new high-concept domestic suspense that asks the important question - are women ever truly safe? Perfect for fans of Vox, The End of Men and John Marrs. Curfew law keeps men at home after 7pm. It keeps women safe after dark. It changed...

A gritty drama that will appeal to fans of The Throwaway Children and authors Nadine Dorries and Kitty Neale. When little Terry and Nancy arrive at the door of St Saviour's Children's Home, they seem shellshocked after being orphaned in the...

To what lengths will the British go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? An unmissable Second World War thriller from bestseller Alex Gerlis.'Absorbing ... Gerlis directs his cast with verve' Financial Times Hiding in the horror of Warsaw's...

Following 'A Change in Climate', this brilliant novel from the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London. It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut...

A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Booker Gems THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE 'Astonishing' Zadie Smith 'Stunning' Spectator 'Extraordinary' TLS...

Murder, loyalty and vengeance collide in Jessie Keane's gritty fourth novel. Lily King has spent years behind bars Convicted of murdering her husband, London villain Leo King, she hasn't been missed. Everyone believes she got what...