Adult & Contemporary Fiction

It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone — a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress — wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing...

Exiled to a one-cop station in South Australia's wheatbelt, Constable Paul 'Hirsch' Hirschhausen enters a world full of disappointed souls and rural isolation in Disher’s taut and sweltering Outback noir. One dead-end posting. One dead body. A...

IF YOU HAD NEVER OPENED THE DOOR, YOUR FAMILY WOULD BE SAFE.THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLING MASTER OF THE UP-ALL-NIGHT THRILLER Adam and Jess, along with their three children, move into a beautiful new home: a rambling...

Barrister Adam Green returns to defend a celebrity chef accused of killing the nation's favourite breakfast TV presenter in the twist-laden follow-up to Rinder's bestselling legal thriller The Trial. When the UK's favourite breakfast TV presenter dies...

With a deviously unreliable narrator providing a constant and consistent supply of twists, turns and surprises, this character-rich story is dripping in readability. Rounded out with a propulsive plot and saturated in suspense, The Fury is immensely...

From the author of Blackfishing the IUD, a darkly hilarious novel about familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor, and contemporary art. In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross—the tradition of biting satire that...

A Billionaire Veteran. A younger, curvy woman on the run. Together, in a protective, all the feels romance. I just got home from serving in the military and I'm learning how to live as a civilian when I meet her. Elle is my younger brother's assistant,...

A rich playboy who doesn't believe in love. A plus-size nurse who is a ray of sunshine. Together, in a marriage of convenience. I'm in love with Lucas Blaze, the player grandson of the woman I take care of. I'm nothing like the women he dates, so the...

From the author: While my first visit to New York was with my father in 1948, it wasn't until the summer of 1956 that I actually lived in the city. I'd completed my first year at Antioch College and was to spend August through October in the mailroom at...

Voted one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels. 'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene”' The Times. Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful — and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself...

“The finest crime-fiction writer in the Spanish language...”—The London Times. “Full of atmosphere and descriptions to savour, this is as much a life-affirming tribute to Havana as a fine novel of death and detection...

Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel García Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.' Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery...

Set on a South Pacific island under Japanese control, Mailer’s uncompromising study of a band of men in extremis pulsates with brutal energy and whip-smart prose. Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during...

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma...

Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were children. Now she revels in the anonymity of her suburban Iowa life, while her brother basks in the limelight as a New York jazz musician. But when Edison arrives in Iowa, suddenly in need...

A curse. An arranged marriage. A chance to live happily ever after. For as long as Astrid can remember she's been betrothed to a stranger. When tragedy strikes her husband-to-be emerges from the shadows ready to claim her hand in marriage. Unable to...

First published anonymously in 1929, Ursula Parrott's phenomenal bestseller of its day about a woman who has to forge a new path in life as an ex-wife combines dazzling jazz era ambience and the thrill of new found freedom with timeless themes of...

The newest installment in the Silver in the Bone series gives us a fresh, action-packed take on a classic legend and a rivals-to-lovers romance that can't be missed by fans of The Cruel Prince.#1 New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Bracken is...

The Princess Diaries meets reality television in a story about fame (the kind you definitely didn’t ask for), first love (the kind you didn’t even know you wanted), and most importantly, family (the kind you can’t live without).Ever...