Adult & Contemporary Fiction

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...

INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK. 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' -- Richard Osman. 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' -- Anne Tyler. Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads...

This classic novel holds the mirror up to human nature and the battle between the sexes as it explores the love lives of a group of anthropologists.Catherine Oliphant writes for women's magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New...

The funny, wise and brilliant new novel from the star of QI and the author of Between the Stops - an instant Sunday Times bestseller.'Warm, witty and wise... the perfect balm for these turbulent times' -- GRAHAM NORTON.After much searching, the happily...