Adult & Contemporary Fiction

It’s a holiday romance you won’t soon forget. She’s fallen head-over-heels, but here’s the thing — he’s a ghost. Will this spirited love connection last past Christmas Eve, or is it simply too good to be...

Beast explores how dreams and desires can both liberate or confine the dreamer.Eve, a young self-taught musician sits on a bench overlooking the grassy crossroads of a model village.She is dreaming of the power of music. Her dreams reach into the cosmos,...

'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' -- Sunday Times.Those men who are history now; did they feel like this?A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can't tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the...

One man gambles on the dogs and his own life in this rediscovered Jewish post-war classic of London's seedy underbelly, introduced by Iain Sinclair.   "Never give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line."Harryboy Boas is a lowlife...

"Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." —Chris Power, The Guardian.Japan's master storyteller Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892 - 1927) wrote more than 150 short...

Outside Vallorgana, a tiny, isolated village high in the foothills of the Dolomites, the ‘Duke’ lives in the villa of his aristocratic ancestors. The last in the centuries’ old line of the Cimamontes, he spends his days on his land and...

Murder is the only paw-sible explanationDuring a routine welfare check, the police find local shop owner Mr Fitzgerald at the foot of his stairs, dead. There is broken glass over the floor of his shop, his dog has been locked in the kitchenette cupboard,...

Cloaked strangers and danger abound... Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are coming to the end of another busy half term as dinner ladies at Summerview Secondary school. The school is abuzz with chatter about the upcoming break, the local harvest...

This winter, fear comes gift-wrapped. *FROM THE KINDLE TOP 20 BESTSELLING AUTHOR* In the dead of winter, the Pennine Way is treacherous. As snowstorms hit, hikers have been told to stay away. But not everyone has heeded the warning: a lone walker finds a...

Amelia Winslow and Silas Finley are rival scholars who have spent years trying to outsmart one another, until a fateful discovery binds them together in a way neither is able to escape. When they are cut by a pair of ancient daggers, they become bonded...

Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories—tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome...

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debutNational Book Foundation 5 Under 35...

Two ballerinas. Two fates. One stage. It's the carefree '80s and Juliette Lucian-Sorel has it all. She’s the greatest dancer to ever grace the floorboards of Palais Garnier, she's royalty to her adoring fans, and Paris is at her feet. Or so it...

Experience a deeply passionate and intimate love story. Two strong women, each burdened by tragedy, confront their traumatic pasts and find solace in one another.   In The Depth of You, elite escort Jennifer Dupont and author and cult survivor...

A deliciously intense erotic romance. Two resilient women, both juggling the weight of heavy pasts, find healing and hope in one another.Jennifer Dupont lives a successful solitary life as crème de la crème of San Francisco's most elite...

A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü.   An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe,...

The pioneering debut novel by one of Turkey’s most radical authors, originally published in the 1970s, tells the story of an aspiring intellectual in a complex, modernizing country.   Erbil’s groundbreaking coming-of-age novel, nominated...

Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, “aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising...

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, sublime, life-affirming collage of stories.   Earth Angel is a book like no other, the paperback that swallowed the smartphone. An Isis recruit, an...

'It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . . 'Based...