Adult & Contemporary Fiction

"A dark and riveting page-turner with an intelligent twist." —Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw ManSOMEONE HAD TO MAKE HIM PAY. SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE HER DOWN.Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon...

‘What can I say, I loved this book. It has all my favorite tropes. Fake dating – check! Grumpy/ sunshine (reversed) check! One bed – check!’ -- Reader review When you can’t find the perfect date for the holidays you hire him! Hotshot lawyer Rebecca...

1947. 1967. 1987.When Violet and Albert first meet, they are always twenty.Three decades.Over the years, Violet and Albert's lives collide again and again: beneath Oxford's spires, on the rolling hills around Abergavenny, in stately homes and in feminist...

‘Fresh, flirty and gloriously escapist.’ -- Alex Brown, #1 bestselling author of A Postcard from Paris   Will a tropical escape lead to a perfect romance? It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime for Samantha: the launch of her travel blog, her best...

A “boisterous and high-spirited debut” (Kirkus starred review)“that enthralls the reader through their every twist and turn” (Publishers Weekly starred review), named one of the Most Anticipated Books for Brittle Paper, The Millions, and The Rumpus,...

"I’ll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it ever time"—Lucy FoleyEveryone has secrets, don’t they?One last clientA week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France—it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. She’s a smart, stunning...

An extraordinary debut short fiction collection populated by unforgettable characters, Cat Brushing opens windows into older women's lives in a range of deliciously unexpected, fierce and vivid narratives. I was told of an older woman who was asked...

Noah spends his nights drifting between North London pubs and music venues, and his days sleeping off hangovers in the stock room of the floundering record shop where he works. He tries not to think about what will happen when his NHS-allocated therapy...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'If you only read one book this year, Guilty Women won't disappoint. It will leave you breathless'  -- The Express 'Guilty Women's stamped it's razor sharp, blood-stained stiletto heel firmly in the lead to be 2022's...

'Glorious, hilarious and life affirming . . . I absolutely loved it' - EMMA HUGHES, author of No Such Thing As PerfectWould you entrust your life choices to someone hell-bent on avoiding theirs?Natasha has everything under control, at least that's what...

If you could go back and follow the road not taken ... would you?For thirty-somethings Lindy, Ailbhe and Roe, the move to new, hyper-polished, luxury housing development Monteray Valley feels like slow death by Netflix, neighbourhood Whatsapp groups and...

A chance to reconnect.A chance to get revenge . . .Emily Toller has tried to forget her time at university and the events that led to her suddenly leaving under a cloud. She has done everything she can to forget the shame and the trauma - and the people...

A suspenseful, contemporary Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of the French Riviera.The most dazzling summer casts the darkest shadows.Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a...

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic, now with a note by author Thomas Harris revealing his inspiration for Hannibal Lecter.An ingenious, masterfully written novel, The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead...

A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense.Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half...

(Available after 3-20 days)Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home.The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.All the test...

(Available after 3-20 days)#1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past... What was the worst thing you’ve ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men...

The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad.In the 1800s...

(Available after January 31th, 2023) A powerful debut about a group of enslaved women rebelling against the plantation owners, Night Wherever We Go is a story of ultimate defiance. Presenting the stories of each individual woman while painting a...