Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Kay Scarpetta is back, and with her, the mauled remains of two campers that surely spells foul play. Woven with thrilling twists, compelling mystery and forensic investigation, this is a page-turner that'll be over far too soon. Two mauled bodies in...

Packed with classic crime fiction charm, the first instalment in a new string of mysteries from the bestselling creator of the Vera Stanhope and Shetland series finds Inspector Ramsay tasked with the case of a dead Headmaster, found hung after his...

The author of the megaselling Our House and The Only Suspect delivers another dark, scalpel-sharp thriller that peels away the veneer of middle-class propriety, when two privileged city couples enjoying their second homes in the countryside are...

David Baldacci and his protagonist Travis Devine have built an empire out of the 6:20 Man series. There’s so much thrilling action that it’s hard to read sitting down.The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in...

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies suddenly during a town council meeting. When traces of aconite—also known as the queen of poisons—are found in his coffee cup, the police realize...

From the bestselling author of The Woman Who Disappearedcomes another faultlessly plotted thriller revolving around festering resentments and crumbling façades, as two very different sisters decide to do a lifeswap for a week - with harrowing...

The much-loved rector of Champton returns in the third page-turning instalment in Coles' mega-selling series, as Canon Daniel Clement's well-planned recovery trip to a monastery turns into another knotty murder investigation. Daniel Clement has suffered...

The heart-pounding prequel to the acclaimed espionage thriller The Partisan finds the formidable Greta at the beginning of her journey into deadly danger and political intrigue, as the freedom fighter is tasked with finding a missing girl across the...

The brand new novella in the Sunday Times #1 bestselling Rivers of London series.****THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY ACROSS THE POND...When ex-FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an 'X-Ray Sierra India' incident, the operator doesn't understand. He tells...

“Behind You Is the Sea fearlessly confronts stereotypes about Palestinian culture, weaving a remarkable portrait of life's intricate moments, from joyous weddings to heart-wrenching funerals, from shattered hearts to hidden truths—I wept and...

Like a modern-day, British The Bonfire of the Vanities, Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road is a story of the haves vs have nots and the lengths we go to uphold — or subvert — societal standards.A Finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize...

We watched our young narrator muddle his way through an entirely new — and utterly unfamiliar — world of power and money in this clear-eyed, charming coming-of-age-story we didn't want to end. (Oh, and that title? We're still laughing along...

Pushed and pulled between her parents and her children, a woman faces her past and her future, in a story about the ins and outs and joy of life. Think Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois or anything by Laurie Colwin.INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...

“Glamorous, gripping, absolutely heaps of fun. I loved this.”—Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Paris Apartment. "Unexpected delights await on every page of Ram Murali’s impressive and...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the acclaimed author of Netherland (a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the year): the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change...

In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her crônicas—short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces—are the delicious canapés. The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They...

Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, with an introduction by Simon James. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair,...

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round...

Elevating a picaresque farce into a hilarious literary gem, Waugh’s anarchic debut novel is a biting satire on 1920s society that places a disgraced Oxford student in an ill-advised teaching position at an obscure Welsh school. Just work, good...

Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara:...