Adult & Contemporary Fiction

BODY AND SOUL The song. That’s what London constable and sorcerer’s apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig...

The New York Times bestseller and “a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness” (The Washington Post) from the author of the Thursday Next series and Early RiserWelcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's...

(Available after 3-20 days)From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epicThe fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliad—a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between...

On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth...

The Whitbread Prize–winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit delivers a novel that “transports us to something like the future of our own planet” (Washington Post Book World).On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and...

A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette. What can you do when you’re reeling from trauma...

(Available after 3-20 days) In this first full-length novel from the acclaimed Birdverse, new love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save their island home. Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte finalist R. B...

Praise for Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible   "A blistering little classic."— Ron Charles, Washington Post "A dystopian novel of great power."— Adam Begley, Sunday Times "To call it a generational allegory seems like an understatement. Millet is one of...

Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionOne of Vulture's Best Books of the YearThis genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amidst decay.   In stories that beckon and...

(Available after 3-20 days)From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a brand new psychological thriller about the lengths one woman will go to in order to save a child.“Few crimes are reported as quickly as a snatched kid.”That’s what...

From acclaimed novelist and “master of psychological thrillers” (Library Journal) Paula Daly, Open Your Eyes follows a bestselling crime novelist’s tragic turn from fictional perpetrator into real-life victim.   Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at any...

*NOW A MAJOR THREE-PART ITV1 DRAMA, STARRING EMILY WATSON AND DENISE GOUGH*A haunting, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller about a woman who has been institutionalized for a heinous crime, and the psychiatrist assigned to her case who must uncover...

Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting, and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are turned upside down through deception and murder. In her unsettling new domestic thriller, The Trophy Child, Daly...

I peered over the ledge with my heart in my throat. A pop of color caught my eye - I would recognize that jacket anywhere. The body I knew so well lay still, torso twisted one way, head facing the other... I'd planned this trip to the gorgeous, remote...

The acclaimed author of Gone Without a Trace delivers another twisting novel of psychological suspense in which a woman is backed against a wall—with nothing left to lose...The morning after real estate agent Gemma Brogan has dinner with a prospective...

From debut author Elle Grawl comes a psychological thriller about an insomniac artist who discovers a shocking truth about a recent spate of murders in her city: the victims all look just like her.   Years after escaping her abusive childhood, Harper...

(Available after 3-20 days) A brutally murdered husband. An abused wife who wanted him gone for good… Did the wealthy widow arrange his death—and can a disgraced detective discover the truth? "Your husband is dead." Lorraine Rowe receives the news from...

(Available after 3-20 days)A frantic search begins when Claudia's friend Kelly learns that her three-year-old niece is missing. Kelly's estranged half-sister Erin and her husband live quiet lives as members of a fanatical religious cult in an isolated...

A widowed artist. An old crush. One summer to get her life back.Ivy Bay’s life implodes after discovering that her late husband had spent their life savings on a beach house. Strapped for cash as an art teacher and with nowhere to go, Ivy and her...

"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.""Okay.""Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?""Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in...