Adult & Contemporary Fiction

In 1930s Glasgow, partners Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid face a danger that threatens to set their city aflame—the second novel in the acclaimed mystery series that began with Edge of the Grave.“This is Peaky Blinders territory. . . ...

Power. History. Love. Hate. Vengeance. She will be Queen. Whatever it takes... Daughter of an ousted king, descendant of ancient druids, as a child it is prophesied that one day Gruoch will be queen of Alba.When she is betrothed to Duncan, heir elect,...

Reimagining the life of groundbreaking seventeenth-century woman pirate Mary Read, de Tores' dynamic debut entwines themes of gender and survival into a rollicking period adventure story. In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born...

From the bestselling author of The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times best-seller and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, comes another gripping historical crime novel Times Historical Crime Novel of the year. ‘An absolute delight in a series...

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of gothic suspense about a powerful family, the magical and dangerous silk their fortune is built upon, and the exploitative history they are desperately...

How can a man who’s already dead be wanted for murder? Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal...

From “one of the genre’s most exciting voices” (E! News) comes one of the year’s most-anticipated thrillers.For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to...

Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension and ingenious thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them—from Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author...

A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this irresistible sapphic romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material.“Fresh and delightful . . . All the interpersonal drama of Jane Austen meets all the...

In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent.Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war...

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...