Adult & Contemporary Fiction

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.'A touching celebration of the beauty and endurance of female friendship. There is nothing mightier. Fact.' -- DAWN FRENCHThe new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the smash-hit,...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE*It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble'A terrific novel' -- FINANCIAL TIMES'A radically beautiful new novel' -- SHEILA HETI, author of Pure ColourParis, 1775: Celine's husband is mostly absent. Her...

A TIME MAGAZINE BEST YA BOOK OF ALL TIME.Beloved by generations of readers, Elsewhere is an original, moving novel about love, loss, and the meaning of it all from the New York Times–bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and...

WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD.When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever...

When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult.The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect...

VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES: stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written. Emma Bovary is an avid...

The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Némirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. In 1941, Irène sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and...

Filled with striking, river-like sentences and plenty of humour, the opening volume of Proust’s modernist masterpiece covers the Narrator’s childhood in Combray – including perhaps the most famous cake-eating scene in the history of...

*A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life, Sheila Armstrong's debut novel is haunting, lyrical and darkly suspensefulOn an isolated...

From the Man Asian Literary Prize-longlisted author, the story of a middle-aged man in contemporary India discovering that neither his life nor his country are as stable as he thought.Alif is a middle-aged, mild-mannered history teacher, living in...

WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD "Deftly traversing time, culture and continent to weave a tale of both home and unbelonging, this is truly a novel not to be missed." - Maxine Beneba Clarke, author of Foreign Soil and The Hate Race "Chandran is an...

From a literary master comes a richly imagined and deftly executed retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. With short chapters and a feverish pace, this is easy to devour in one sitting. A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mia Sheridan comes her next novel in the Pelion Lake series. How is it possible that perfect Gage Buchanan is still single after all these years? He can't quite figure it out himself. Perhaps he hasn't...

From the NYT bestselling author of Archer's Voice, Mia Sheridan, comes a small town friends-to-lovers romance. Dirt poor. Hillbilly. Backwoods hick. Mountain folk. Tenleigh Falyn struggles each day to survive in the small, poverty-stricken mining town...

A spicy second-chance standalone romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Archer's Voice. Sometimes, you don't even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you, and makes you want more. Grace Hamilton is the girl with...

If you love Colleen Hoover, then you will love Mia Sheridan. Archer’s Voice is a romance that will without a doubt bring on the waterworks. Archer and Bree’s love story is one worth telling a thousand times over.Rediscover this BookTok...

Misadventures is a romantic series of spicy standalone novels, each written or co-written by some of the best names in romance. The stories are scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy. They’re the perfect bedside read, a...

This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.Banks created many original drawings detailing the universe of his bestselling Culture...

She was taken against her will.On her fifteenth birthday, trafficking victim Affi Smith goes for a run and never returns. With a new identity and secure home in the Scottish Highlands, she was supposed to be safe…She escaped once.With personal...

The astonishing new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of BURIED, JUDAS HORSE and VANISHED.It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault.But it was just the beginning.As Rodney Middleton...