Adult & Contemporary Fiction

In Laura Childs’s New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni—co-owners of the Cackleberry Club café—are back to track down another bad egg. Maintaining good personal relationships with their...

"A heart-pounding roller coaster ride."—Tami Hoag, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boy.*Shortlisted for the 2022 Diverse Book Award**A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2021*A serial killer and his copycat are locked in a violent...

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, this heart-wrenching installment of the beloved and brilliant Charlie Parker series “will leave readers breathless and shaken” (Booklist).In Maine, Colleen...

Perfect marriages. Perfect neighbours. Perfect lies. Everyone is guarding a secret in this picture-perfect town. When Karolina Hartwell is arrested driving her son home, the headlines don't tell the full story. It seems nothing will stand in the way of...

‘Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.’ The lives of Humphrey and James Boyce, a seasoned antique dealer and his good-looking nephew, are changed for ever when the elegant Leonora Eyre glides into their bustling Bond Street...

INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT. When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil to Strangers, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written...

INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK. 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' -- Richard Osman. 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' -- Anne Tyler. Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads...

This classic novel holds the mirror up to human nature and the battle between the sexes as it explores the love lives of a group of anthropologists.Catherine Oliphant writes for women's magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New...

The funny, wise and brilliant new novel from the star of QI and the author of Between the Stops - an instant Sunday Times bestseller.'Warm, witty and wise... the perfect balm for these turbulent times' -- GRAHAM NORTON.After much searching, the happily...

Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start...

Perfect reading for fans of The Road, Winton's blistering dystopian novel has profound things to say about humanity and survival and centres on a father-son duo who find refuge at an abandoned mine site.    An edge-of-your-seat...

Now a major motion picture, starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh. Breath, by renowned Australian author Tim Winton, is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death. On the wild, lonely coast of Western...

Soon to be a major film—starring Kelly Macdonald and Damien Lewis!From the bestselling author of The Midnight Library—an “irresistible...full of clever turns, darkly hilarious spins...Even if you're suffering from vampire fatigue...The...

A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown.Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish — to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last...

A spellbinding locked-room mystery about a glamping trip gone horribly wrong when a powerful storm leaves the participants stranded and forced to confront long-held secrets and a shocking disappearance.Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race...

Short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize. Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no...

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...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.'A joyously funny and absurd steampunk frolic that satirises both the era in which it is set and our own age' -- FINANCIAL TIMESFrom the creators of the acclaimed audio drama podcast Victoriocity comes a cozy scifi...

Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates.You've heard the legends, now hear their truth.Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates - three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, destined to weave the lives, and deaths, of humankind for eternity.But...