Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - LonglistWynston Cleave, a black taxi driver on a small Caribbean island, spent years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the death of a wealthy white tourist. Finally released, he tries to piece his life...

Don’t miss the next emotionally gripping thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! THE STORY… The first chapter of a manuscript arrives on Publisher Marina’s desk. She assumes it’s just another novel by another aspiring...

Pine Hills, Ohio, bookstore-cafe owner Krissy Hancock has high hopes for this holiday season, but a Grinch with murder in mind is set to ruin the celebrations for everyone . . .Christmas has come to Pine Hills, and Krissy’s blooming relationship...

A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR.Sisters Bel and Marie are poles apart. Whilst Marie is a free spirit who spurns alcohol, casual sex and material possessions, Bel needs all of those things just to make it through to lunchtime.When their mother dies suddenly,...

Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear.And their ambition reaches further still.Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of four tonnes of cocaine, brought across the ocean in an almost...

A race car driver at the peak of his career, Kyle Baron is forced to put the brakes on his fast-paced life after a broken wrist sidelines him from the track. Meanwhile, Addison Raymond, an engineer who's always played it safe, finds herself in need of a...

Van Turner found fame as part of the Carolina Cold Fury, helping the team bring home a championship. He also found love and married his teammate's little sister, eventually retiring from the game to enjoy a quiet life in the verdant hills of Vermont...

Riches to rags. Some things stay buried. Some things don't, and it's chaos once again! Spending time with Mack is always fun, but, when Doreen overhears a conversation that sounds like a murder confession, he disagrees, ... until a body shows up. Then...

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls.   Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for...

The newest installment of the New York Times bestselling Peachtree Bluff series follows three generations of Murphy women as they come together to face a hurricane that threatens their hometown—and the holiday season—in this “book...

From Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit.When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely...

While You Were Sleeping meets The Wedding Date with a fun Puerto Rican holiday twist in NYTand USA Today bestselling author Ginny Baird's latest romance, in which a diner waitress agrees to be her patron's fake date...only for him to land in a coma and...

Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes...

From the author of modern classic The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good novel about hope, love and the powerful bond between sisters.  It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a 15-year-old called Kate...

The author of the hugely popular Red, White and Royal Blue delivers another big-hearted LGBTQ+ rom-com fizzing with great dialogue and relatable characters, as cynical August falls for 70s devotee Jane. Special Edition with sprayed edges, illustrated...

A rip-roaring thriller that mines macabre goings on in a genteel English village, Murder is Easy is one of the Queen of Crime's finest non-Poirot novels. Coming this Christmas on BBC, a new two part thriller: Agatha Christie’s ingenious murder...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Tough, explosive, badass, and brilliant, Fearless is everything you could want in a thriller...If you like Reacher, you’ll LOVE this.” —Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at...

Montefiore follows up Flappy Entertains with another gently hilarious period tale of snobbery and village life perfect for fans of Mapp and Lucia and Cold Comfort Farm. Flappy returns in the fabulously fun follow-up to Flappy Entertains...

The Pogues hit the beach in another action–packed original YA novel based on the hit Netflix show, Outer BanksThe waves are off the hook, and Pope and the other Pogues are betting big on Kiara blowing the Kook competition out of the water. What...

For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not...