Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist...

Launching one of our favourite historical fiction series, the peerless Dissolution introduces Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake as he roots out murder in the marshes. Dissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom’s phenomenal bestselling Shardlake...

Twenty-four hours in the life of advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, James Joyce’s Dublin-set modernist masterclass is playful, sly, bawdy and humane and deserving of a much broader audience.   'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the...

An ever-topical meditation on non-conformity and the nature of guilt, Camus' existentialist masterpiece follows a man whose refusal to mourn his mother the way he is expected to sets off a tragic chain of events. 'My mother died today. Or maybe...

Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial...

A work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life.Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution,...

With a foreword by Kat Delacorte, author of With Fire in Their Blood. ‘It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood’On a bleak, stormy night in Scotland, three witches prophesy: Macbeth will be a lord twice-over and Macbeth will be...

With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, author of Ace of Spades. ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ The King of Denmark is dead. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, meets the...

With a foreword by Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Breathless. ‘For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo’ A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees...

With a foreword by Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet? ‘I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest’ Love, deception and discord are flourishing in the court of Messina. Sweet, innocent Hero and the famed soldier...

The Daughter of the Pirate Queen series rages on with more romance, swashbuckling and ferocity from fantastic female lead characters. And this time, the fate of the world is at stake!Pirates of the Caribbean meets The Mummy in Vengeance of the Pirate...

From USA Today bestselling author Leia Stone comes the next book in the addictive Gilded City series, about a girl who must battle curses, dark powers, and her own heart. This world of dazzling fae magic and romantic pining is perfect for fans of...

A delicious and dark gothic romance from bestselling author Romina Garber! THE HOUSE IS ALWAYS HUNGRY…After a mysterious attack claims the lives of her parents, all Estela has left is her determination to solve the case. Suffering from...

Magic reigns, plots abound, and a new love might not conquer all, in this must-read finale to the epic Gargoyle Queen trilogy by international bestselling author Jennifer Estep. Time is running out for crown princess Gemma Ripley. Despite being a cunning...

Now that Lyr has survived the Imperator's cruel punishment, she has only three months to prepare for the test that will decide her fate. Despite Rhyan's promise of additional training, her life has never been in more danger.Enemies known and unknown get...

Blindsided by their aunt's betrayal and stripped of the protections of their station, Lyr and her sisters' only hope of survival is to throw themselves into the dark intrigue of the Bamarian Court. As Meera and Morgana struggle to hide their illegal...

Blindsided by their aunt's betrayal and stripped of the protections of their station, Lyr and her sisters' only hope of survival is to throw themselves into the dark intrigue of the Bamarian Court. As Meera and Morgana struggle to hide their illegal...

An instant New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Indie bestseller.From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes Masters of Death, a story about vampires, ghosts, and death itself.*Now newly revised and edited with...

I’ve been rejected by my mate and banished from the fae realm. But nothing will keep me from my princes…. And nothing will keep them from me.I was living the most ordinary life… until I found myself in the fae realm, imprisoned in an...

"The light cannot always overcome the dark. But it can rise to meet it." Against all odds, Casia Greythorne has survived battles with gods and monsters alike, and the most powerful crown in the Kethran Empire is now securely in her grasp. Yet a seemingly...