Adult & Contemporary Fiction

A new selection of the much-loved Father Brown stories, now part of the Penguin English Library.'No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be'With his round, unassuming face, his pipe and umbrella, the bumbling priest Father Brown...

Set in the freezing wastelands of the northern wilds, Jack London’s majestic adventure tale is a moving story of cruelty and redemption The wolf-dog White Fang, born in the biting cold and aching silence of the Yukon, grows up to learn the harsh...

#1 New York Times Bestseller ● A Peacock Original TV Series–Now Streaming! ● "Gripping."―Oprah.com. ● From Liane Moriarty, the bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at...

A slick, smart, stylish - and shocking- thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction. On a remote farm, an elderly woman takes a fall outside and, unable to move, is consumed overnight by two of her pigs. The victim was the...

Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs. 2017. Phiney is shocked by...

They were told to leave. They should have listened. The perfect opportunity… A manor house available rent-free to house-sitters is an offer too good to miss for Cass and James, who have been saving for a deposit on their own home for so long...

A multifaceted read that succeeds across genres, The Soulmate is part psychological thriller, part suspense, part character study and much more. It’s a propulsive read with surprising depth that will satiate a wide array of reading appetites...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "A stunningly clever thriller made doubly suspenseful by not one, but two unreliable narrators."—People. Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind...

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew.   They left Earth to save humanity. They’ll...

Enter the world of Sinners and Saints where the romance will make you swoon and the tension will keep you sweating."He was toxic, poison, and he was going to kill everything beautiful in my life if I let him. He was the storm to my cherry blossoms...

What would you do if your darkest secret was about to be exposed? Quick, clever and dangerous, Disclaimer will leave you winded.Don't miss the Apple TV+ series starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, streaming now! “Disclaimer is something...

In Laura Childs’s New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni—co-owners of the Cackleberry Club café—are back to track down another bad egg. Maintaining good personal relationships with their...

"A heart-pounding roller coaster ride."—Tami Hoag, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boy.*Shortlisted for the 2022 Diverse Book Award**A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2021*A serial killer and his copycat are locked in a violent...

The sequel we've all been waiting for. From the bullet train to a hotel, nothing could go wrong for Ladybug this time around — right?Bullet Train’s hapless underworld operative and his handler are back in this thrilling new novel from...

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, this heart-wrenching installment of the beloved and brilliant Charlie Parker series “will leave readers breathless and shaken” (Booklist).In Maine, Colleen...

Perfect marriages. Perfect neighbours. Perfect lies. Everyone is guarding a secret in this picture-perfect town. When Karolina Hartwell is arrested driving her son home, the headlines don't tell the full story. It seems nothing will stand in the way of...

‘Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.’ The lives of Humphrey and James Boyce, a seasoned antique dealer and his good-looking nephew, are changed for ever when the elegant Leonora Eyre glides into their bustling Bond Street...

INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT. When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil to Strangers, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written...

INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES.Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political...

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS.Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good-looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her staid husband Rodney, a civil servant, is...