Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Taking the all-too-real terror of your children being whisked away in a tube train before you can get on as a springboard, Mara's unputdownable thriller delivers a race against time to find a missing girl. No one saw it happen. Your two little girls...

The kind of spy novel that grips you from the first page, Terry Hayes delivers a propulsive plot that will have you churning through pages, eager to find the resolution. This race against time is a certified thrill ride.In this “absolutely...

The Darkness Within Us is a wickedly delightful companion novel to Tricia Levenseller's The Shadows Between Us.Chrysantha Stathos has won. By hiding her intelligence and ambition behind the mask of a beautiful air-headed girl, she has become a wealthy...

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time"  – New York Times. Paul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens...

Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive.An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies...

Special Collectors' Edition Hardcover. When signs appear that a comet is heading towards their beloved Moominvalley, Moomin and his friend Sniff set sail to consult with the professors in the distant Lonely Mountains. Their journey is full of adventures...

Michael Crichton + James Patterson = showstopping entertainment in a book you can't put down.The biggest thriller of the year: A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the US military is far...

There are many titles to choose from in Colleen Hoover’s work. But here is where her fans are indeed beginning. Don’t just believe the hype. Feel it in your heart. The hype your heart needs. It’s a journey for the ages. In this...

My whole life I've come out on top. One of the finest players ever to grace the NHL? Check. Most prolific playboy with an enviable reputation between the sheets? Check. Award for the cockiest athlete in America? Also check, and well deserved I'd say. So...

That gorgeous world and unique magic system you loved from book one follows through in a big way in the sequel. Tying together so many genres into one compulsive storyline, this is a series that continues to delight. These Violent...

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER.LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE."A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making." —Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning...

A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level, Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk.Lebanon, 2006.The Israel-Hezbollah...

New school. New Hell. New bully.Samuel has barely been at school a day when the resident bad boy makes it known how much he hates Samuel.He's determined to make Samuel's life hell.But what he doesn't know about Samuel is that he gives as good as he gets...

The international bestselling author of The Secret River and A Room Made of Leaves returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother’s life, commemorating a strong female character making the best out of the times and society she was born in...

Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror.A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once...

With a foreword by Talia Hibbert, author of Get a Life, Chloe Brown. ‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers’ Banished from her ambitious uncle’s court, the lovesick Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin, Celia...

Love story and un-love story intertwine in the brand-new thriller-romance from the globally bestseller author of The One Memory of Flora Banks, Emily Barr. Venice, 2024Hazel is on a spontaneous holiday with her stepbrother, Enzo, and best friend, Phoebe...

One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of New York magazine's "23 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024" • One of The Guardian's "Books to Look Out for in 2024" • One of The Globe & Mail's Most Anticipated Books...

The 11th installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if Meg had to become a Greek god? After Hercules proves he's a true hero and regains his godship, all seems right in the world. That is, until Zeus tells Meg that...

Pale Horse is a thinly disguised retelling of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich. Written in the form of a diary by the leader of a group of five revolutionaries, the novel provides a straightforward and clinical account of the...