Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006. Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021. Light struck the double glass doors that led to the garden, filtering through the arch that split the kitchen. It rested...

Angrboda's story begins where most witch tales end: with being burnt. A punishment from Odin for sharing her visions of the future with the wrong people, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the furthest reaches of a remote...

Mary E. Pearson's Dance of Thieves is a new YA novel in the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles universe, in which a reformed thief and the young leader of an outlaw dynasty lock wits in a battle that may cost them their lives--and their hearts...

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different...

First in the bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. The sequels - The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing - are the winners of/won the Goodreads YA Best Fantasy in 2019 and 2020.Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. Winner of the silver INKY for...

It's a classic old-fashioned haunted house story - set in a big box Swedish furniture superstore. Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes,...

The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry!Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've...

'There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.'In this tale drawn from the note books of Dr Watson, the deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime...

'I love this book!' -- Rainbow Rowell'... a tender, funny, absolutely heart-holding novel about a boy who is forced to share his room with his lifelong crush for fifteen days. It's a gay romance that would have changed my world if I'd read it as a teen.'...

Vow of Thieves is the thrilling sequel to Dance of Thieves, set in the same world as Mary E. Pearson's New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles.Kazi and Jase have survived, stronger and more in love than ever. Their new life now lies before them-the...

Waters’s second novel takes the richly evoked Victoriana of her debut, Tipping the Velvet, and interlaces an ineffable layer of the supernatural and uncanny. Set in the imposing Millbank Prison, Affinity explores the burgeoning...

et in 1954 San Francisco, Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a must-read coming-of-age story about a Chinese American teenager learning to understand herself, her sexuality, and her culture during a time and place where she is seen as less than. This...

The boys of Kings Row bout with drama, rivalry, and romance in this original YA novel by The New York Times bestselling author Sarah Rees Brennan--inspired by the award-nominated comic series by C.S. Pacat and Johanna The Mad.Sixteen-year-old Nicholas...

The breakout stars from Oseman’s Solitaire and subsequent graphic novel icons return in a typically tender and absorbing novella which finds the couple questioning whether their seemingly-perfect relationship can survive Nick’s departure for university...

The dazzlingly prolific Alice Oseman gifts another pitch-perfect novella from her fictional Solitaire universe, as Charlie and his sister Tori try to rescue Christmas from disaster. A short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman's...

When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie... although ever since the B...

Love, Simon meets Friday Night Lights in this feelgood LGBTQ+ romance about a trans teen torn between standing up for his rights and staying stealth.'A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. I loved every minute I spent in this story' - Becky...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, Exit West is a daring, inventive love story. Travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond, Hamid imagines the potential for a world without borders. Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people,...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD.AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK.In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime...

'An absolute joy from the first page to the last' -- Jen DeLucaOne of Bustle's Best Books of 2020Marcus has a secret. While he may be the star of the biggest show on TV, he's also a prolific fan fiction writer. Through his stories, Marcus releases his...