Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Lose your heart with this gorgeous cosy read. Escape to beautiful bath, take a romantic journey across Europe, then return to the comfort of home once again. The best journey leads you home... Lexie is always on the move, but there is one constant in her...

An action-packed archaeological adventure from global bestseller Wilbur Smith.“You should know of the legend. At a time when the rocks were soft and the air was misty, there was an abomination and an evil in this place which was put down by our...

Multimillion copy bestselling author Wilbur Smith returns with a brand-new historical epic set in Africa.South Africa, 1820. When Ann Waite discovers a shipwreck in Algoa Bay she is stunned to find survivors: a scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man...

An elite team of MI6 agents must go undercover to unravel a smuggling network funding violent terror in the second thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood. James Bond is alive. Or at least, he was when he left a clue at the...

Murder in My Backyard is the second mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in her...

A bold and unpredictable debut thriller set in the biotech world (and deceptive beauty) of Switzerland, by acclaimed actor Richard Armitage.Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family...

From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends...

A football inspired YA rom-com, perfect for fans of Ted Lasso, The Cheat Sheet and Icebreaker.ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND FOOTBALL...Durham University have the best women’s football team in the League and their star strikerSadie McGrath hopes that...

In 1920s England, a working-class girl who can see spirits works with a lord’s son to solve mysterious deaths at the local manor home in this “intensely atmospheric and eerie...compelling, secret-filled gothic tale” (Kirkus Reviews,...

St. Bernadette’s is known for many things: turning girls into respectful young women — and their blood-curling screams. The school concludes that it’s just female hysteria, but something sinister is lurking deep within the...

A homecoming, old feelings and holiday spirit mash together to form a warm and cute YA rom-com with two distinct and authentic lead characters.‘Tis the season for holiday hijinks in the newest sapphic rom-com about a rising star and a small town...

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East...

The American Midwest turns sinister in this novel of ancient secrets, modern lies and messy family ties. Unnerving and disturbing, Sacrificial Animals will creep up your spine and have you looking over your shoulder.Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own...

An alien invasion hits the town of Muddy Gap, but a disgruntled pie aficionado is the only one who seems to remember it…Denver Bryant’s passion for pie has sent him across Wyoming in search of the best slices. Though he dutifully posts...

Roberto Calasso, “a literary institution of one” (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project. A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans,...

Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds in this Casablanca-infused heist novel.Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the...

The New York Times bestselling classic of a young woman’s journey in work, love, and life. “In this swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships, Bank refutes once and for all the popular notions of neurotic...

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy retreat center into the hot new self-care brand in this “wryly funny [and] fabulous debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review).“A...

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association award for best novel, and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to...

Teju Cole is back with his first major novel since Open City. Another brilliant work of autofiction, Tremorreckons with the passing of time, survival, and how stories make up the fabric of our lives.An “extraordinary, ambitious” (The Times)...