Adult & Contemporary Fiction

A fatal car crash with only one witness—but is she telling the truth?   On a winding cliff edge on the wild Irish coast, two cars collide. In one is Maura Claffey’s niece, Finn, and her baby daughter. In the other, Kathryn with her own...

From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a stand-alone fantasy set against a war-ravaged world where kindling warfare—the use of elite, magic-wielding teenage soldiers—has been outlawed. In this rich and evocative novel,...

Monsters hide. Love divides. The dead will rise. They say that when the world is out of balance, the Guardians of Dawn are reborn. Li Ami is an exile. Exiled from friendships, from ordinary magic, and from her own family, Ami is sent to the outermost...

The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. The...

Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, isn't it time they left home?Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn't work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher and doesn't earn enough for a place of her...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome...

Set in the freezing wastelands of the northern wilds, Jack London’s majestic adventure tale is a moving story of cruelty and redemption The wolf-dog White Fang, born in the biting cold and aching silence of the Yukon, grows up to learn the harsh...

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 pair of estranged identical twins secretly swap families in this charming tale of sisterhood, family and holiday cheer.Now a NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller!   When Aviva Davis and Holly Martin meet at the holiday pageant tryouts for their...

A woman’s life and love are compromised in this pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood.Dr. Ellie Sullivan has witnessed the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of a ruthless modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. The...

“Utterly thrilling, Gray paints a seedy and uncaring Hollywood that leaps off the page.”—The Sun. All she wanted was to see her name in lights. Now, her disappearance has made her front-page news. It’s been twenty years since...

Poignant and devastatingly beautiful, Hussey's moving YA love story finds two young men fighting for their country drawn together in the trenches of the First World War. At just nineteen, Stephen has already survived a year at the front. Now he is...

A big-hearted small-town romance from bestselling, award-winning author Elle McNicoll,Some Like it Cold is perfect for fans of Alice Oseman, Rainbow Rowell and Gilmore Girls. After a long absence, 18-year-old Jasper is finally heading home for the...

With echoes of Ted Hughes' classic fable The Iron Man, Brown's exciting and thought-provoking novel sees a robot stranded on an island befriend the creatures who also live there whilst trying to keep her mysterious past at bay. The heartwarming and...

The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION.LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021.AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION.AN AMAZON BEST BOOK...

The CFO of a secretive NYC hedge fund is found murdered—stabbed through the eye with an expensive fountain pen. Holmes and Watson discover a link between the victim and a charismatic touring management guru with a doubtful past. But is the solution...

A brand-new novel tie-in for the popular Elementary TV series. A summons to a body found riddled with bullets in a Hell's Kitchen apartment is the start of a new case for Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson. The victim is a subway train driver with a strange...

Duc Jean des Esseintes, the wealthy last survivor of a once-powerful family, has retreated from his bourgeois life in Paris. Overwhelmed by the absurdities and grotesqueries of human affairs, he dwells in an isolated villa, spending his days in...

A gut-punchingly powerful novel in verse, Crossing the Line finds teenager Erik's life derailed after his father's death, as he drifts into new world of drug dealing, trap houses and violence. Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for...