Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Pale Horse is a thinly disguised retelling of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich. Written in the form of a diary by the leader of a group of five revolutionaries, the novel provides a straightforward and clinical account of the...

Sunday Times No.1 BestsellerTimes best crime book of 2023. The new neighbours seem just right for Jellicoe Close, a pretty street filled with perfect houses and happy families. But one neat front door hides a ruthless criminal – and the new...

WHEN THE FAIR COMES TO TOWN, A KILLER'S GAME BEGINS.**LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024**Scott Jericho thought he'd worked his last case. Fresh out of jail, the disgraced former detective is forced to seek...

TWO DISAPPEARANCESAt the country's newest theme park, Tom Preacher and his son Leo are queuing for the ghost house. CCTV cameras record them entering - but they never exit. No one can find them inside - and no one can explain how they vanished.TWO...

It is 1984 and a small town somewhere in the east of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is in the firm grip of totalitarianism. Karolina, a teenage runaway who never knew her father and who grew up in an untraditional family full of strange women,...

From the globally bestselling author of The Witcher comes the final book in the rich historical epic, the Hussite trilogy. Join Reynevan—scoundrel, magician, possibly a fool—as he embarks on a last great adventure across the war-riddled...

From the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.A boy searches for his father, a prison guard...

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023. “Eliza Clark’s writing embraces the socially unacceptable and wryly explores themes of gender, power, and violence.”—Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023...

The much-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes and Intimacies.I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else,...

At times chaotic and brutal, at other times beautiful and poetic, and still at other times hilarious and unsettling. This is the story of young women fighting and above all else, it is entertaining.Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The Washington...

A second-chance romance with so much heart, this sweeping debut is a fresh take on love that will leave you feeling emotionally full.From the creator of viral TikTok account Betty's Book List, a debut romance about a supermodel and a photographer with a...

A laugh-out-loud romcom in 2024 perfect for fans of Catherine Walsh and Elena Armas.Committing to a fake romance is easy. It’s keeping it fake that’s the problem …Sophie Rogers finds it easy to focus on the important things in life...

He crossed an ocean, and it still wasn’t enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work with her. Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing for Neighbors, one of Hollywood’s highest-rated,...

Sometimes you’re so busy writing other people’s stories that you lose the plot of your own. This wasn’t how Kelsey Worthington’s day was supposed to go. She wasn’t supposed to be picking up Starbucks for her smarmy boss. She...

Is love on the small screen better than the real thing?A young divorcee finds herself in the ideal world of her favorite 2000s teen soap in this second-chance, whimsical romantic comedy from the author of This Spells Love.Newly divorced on the eve of her...

Secret romance and mistaken identity are some of our favorite romance tropes, and they come to life in this perfect addition to any beach bag. (This sits nicely next to books from Carley Fortune and Elin Hilderbrand.)“A BINGEABLE FIVE-STAR READ...

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett comes a heartwarming story of found family, love, and making connections through books set against the bombing of London during WWII. London, 1938: The...

The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening...

There were rules in the cash-for-beauty game. The money held the power. The beauty followed the rules and jumped through the hoops.THE BRIDEI knew what everyone would think if they knew the truth about my marriage. They'd be shocked and appalled. And...

Falconer is a prison and Farragut is the convicted man. This is the story of what happens to him. "FALCONER is John Cheever's most wonderful novel--an unforgettably moving book, both fantastic and real--about a substantial upper middle-class man and the...