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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Set in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and...

The Hanging ShedGlasgow, 1946. The war is over, and Douglas Brodie is back home. A young boy has been raped and murdered, and Brodie's childhood friend Hugh Donovan, a recluse mutilated by war, is the...

No one knows a city like the people who live there – so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians...

Charlatans is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.Noah Rothauser is the new super chief resident at the state-of-the-art Boston Memorial...

The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks,...

'A masterpiece' — Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2024Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut...

'A gut punch of a collection...it astonishes as it reveals how malignant political forces can both ravage and vitalize the human spirit.' New York Times Set in Soweto, the urban heartland of South...

From the voices of protesters to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is either...

'The oldest is 70. The youngest, 26. In between, the best list of this kind I have ever seen.' Marlon James In three issues, the literary anthology from leading editor and literary critic John Freeman...

Rome's Fallen Eagle Rome, AD 41: Caligula has been assassinated and the Praetorian Guard have proclaimed Claudius Emperor - but his position is precarious. His three freedmen, Narcissus, Pallas and...

Irish Independent's Books of the YearWhat happens when Cupid plays co-pilot? Still reeling from a break-up, Cora Hendricks has given up on ever finding love. For herself, that is. To pass the time...

Brand-new stories from world-class crime and thriller legends including Karin Slaughter, Jeffery Deaver and Stephen Coonts, handpicked by number one bestseller Lee Child. 12 LITERARY LEGENDS 13...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future The Antichrist Trilogy, now collected in one thrilling e-book... The Nostradamus Prophecies Adam Sabir...

Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible tragedy . . . Now employed by a private London intelligence...

Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, theMystery.doc follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write his second book, a national epic he hopes will last forever, and...

France and the United States have long shared a special relationship, defined both by occasional puzzlement and endless fascination. François Busnel, one of France's most prominent literary critics, seeks...

It is the early fifties in Badminton, Johannesburg, where all the street-names recall British kings and queens and where retired soldiers relive the desert war in their dusty gardens. This small-town...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD When is it wise to be a fool for something? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber's...

Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize (2010)Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009)Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009)Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010)Shortlisted...

A gorgeous, strange, dark-edged novel that has garlanded critical acclaim throughout Europe and won the prestigious Nordic Council's Literature Prize. Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly...

‘Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory’ Sunday Telegraph William Fiennes’ childhood was one of imagination and curiosity,...

Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, Poll. Poll is pushing seventy,...

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall.Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Written with...

Four gripping thrillers in one: discover Megan Miranda's first four thrillers in one fast-paced, dramatic collection, perfect if you love Shari Lapena, Lisa Jewell and Gillian McAllister. Includes Reese...

* AN INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER * 'Anne Holt is the Godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction' Jo Nesbo The complete five-book collection of The Modus Series, collected together for the first...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR- CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WRITING Across the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully...

* AN INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER * 'Anne Holt is the Godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction' Jo Nesbo Now collected together for the first time, the final five novels in Anne Holt's celebrated...

The fascinating Eden trilogy, now, for the first time, collated as one e-bookFirst novel in the Eden trilogy, won the extremely prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the...

In this haunting and controversial novel, Youssef Ziedan confronts issues as vital today as they were nearly two millennia ago. Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003 A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free...