Teen & Young Adult Fiction

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of...

Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers It was the height of summer, and there was anger in the rays of the sun A summer holiday that turns to tragedy; a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a couple’s unusual way of...

Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art.   Nine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were...

Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed...

“Glamorous, gripping, absolutely heaps of fun. I loved this.”—Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Paris Apartment. "Unexpected delights await on every page of Ram Murali’s impressive and...

After a relaxing sojourn in Paris Poirot’s little grey cells are ready for action, as a fellow passenger on the plane back to London is murdered with a poisoned dart in this devilishly plotted murder mystery from the Queen of Crime. A woman is...

Murder Most Unladylike’s exceptional detective duo face a devilish whodunit amidst the glamour of London’s West End. This pin-sharp and perfectly-pitched series goes from strength to strength. Someone will take their final bow... Fresh from their...

'Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature' - Independent Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at...

Graffiti is a dying art in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.   A routine missing person enquiry takes a grisly turn when a young couple drag a box containing human remains out of a Somerset river. The victim was a...

When Light Yagami finds a notebook giving him power over death, will he use it for good—or evil?Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a...

When Light Yagami finds a notebook giving him power over death, will he use it for good—or evil?Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a...

When Light Yagami finds a notebook giving him power over death, will he use it for good—or evil?Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a...

A Sunday Times bestseller. In this "utterly unforgettable" debut (Catherine Ryan Howard), a disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her...

(Available after April 30th, 2023)In this "utterly unforgettable" debut (Catherine Ryan Howard), a disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague.   Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her...

In 1943 on Bougainville Island, New Guinea, a Japanese officer beheads Hugh Rand, an Australian spy — a coast watcher. The spectators include villagers he terrorised as his mind frayed under the stress of pursuit by soldiers and their hounds. Rand’s...

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame.Can a white man...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth faces a string of mysterious robberies that are only the beginning of an international threat to his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh in the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton’s beloved, New York Times bestselling series...

In this addition to a New York Times bestselling mystery series, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth—Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman—investigates the disappearance of a local woman who is more than she seems.Kate Hibbert...

On the eve of Soviet purges, Detective Zaitsev returns to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman—the second installment in the ultimate noir detective seriesPerfect for fans of thrilling historical crime fiction, Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther...

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his...