Adult & Contemporary Fiction

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Recommended by the New York Times Book Review, Today show, People, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Harper's Bazaar, and more! "Fans of The Office will delight." — SHELBY VAN PELT • "Wickedly funny."...

From the author of Apples Never Fall and Nine Perfect Strangers comes a mesmerizing tale of life, love and our fragile mortality.#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s...

Other people's families are always more interesting that our own and we really didn't want to leave Lily and Nick (and the rest of the cast) behind… Grab a friend, this is a family you'll want to talk about.From the award-winning author of...

'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times.' -- Ian Rankin. In this first novel by Muriel Spark - author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - the only things that aren't ambiguous are Spark's matchless originality and glittering wit. With an...

'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' -- ALI SMITH. In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be...

A funny and clever novel about art and reality and the way they imitate each other, from the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. With an introduction by Mark Lawson. Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver...

Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age.   In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are...

With a cover design by Lucienne Day When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a 'pisseur de copie', that he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that 'no life can be carried on satisfactorily unless people are...

When Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls' school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative freedom, she misses the discipline the nuns imposed and worries about keeping her faith in a secular world...

'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, Observer.With a new...

This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available...

Fans of One of Us Is Lying won’t want to miss One of Us Is Back, the third installment in the epic thriller series so full of twists and turns you’ll be hard-pressed to put it down after picking it up.The global phenomenon returns with the...

Fans of Rachael Lippincott, Elise Bryant, and Dahlia Adler will love this joyful debut novel, a sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance between a hotheaded hockey player and the ice princess at the figure skating rink next door. Charlie Porter is a force to be...

The author of If You Still Recognise Me delivers another stunning study in love, relationships and the way we make memories, as grieving Valerie and food blogger Auden bond over a love of cooking. From the author of If You Still Recognise Me comes a...

Poignant and devastatingly beautiful, Hussey's moving YA love story finds two young men fighting for their country drawn together in the trenches of the First World War. At just nineteen, Stephen has already survived a year at the front. Now he is...

In this sapphic dual POV romance by Adiba Jaigirdar, Meghna and Rani (ex-best-friends-turned-rivals) realize they're dating the same guy, so they team up to beat and expose him at a big science competition! Meghna Rahman is tired of constantly being...

A steamy YA romance inspired by Gaston Leroux's classic The Phantom of the Opera.Seventeen-year-old Stephanie Armand doesn't believe in ghosts or spirits. Despite her six-year-old sister insisting a masked figure is hiding in her closet, and the rumors...

An epic new fantasy about a demon hunter and a foot soldier thrown together in a centuries-old war and the forbidden love that could change the course of history.A bloody war between demons and the Vatican has waged for more than a century, with two...

Death reveals all — even the unexplainable phenomena deep in the woods. This is no ordinary murder mystery...Nobel laureate and advisor to the White House Sal Giordano is found dead in the middle of an abandoned theme park. When Virginia’s...

A case gone cold, two detectives on the hunt, and everyone with their own personal agenda. Terrifying twists and addictive action makes this another hit from Michael Connelly.LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone...