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How could anyone refuse to help an eight-year-old boy running for his life?In the fourth Trish Maguire novel, her whole world is changed when the boy is knocked over by a skidding car outside her London...

An extract from the start of Tim Severin’s second thrilling historical adventure set in Saxon times.If you’re a fan of Ben Kane and Harry Sidebottom, you’ll love the beginning of The Emperor's Elephant,...

The Dance Begins is an enthralling short story introduction to Pretending to Dance, from the bestselling author of The Silent Sister and The Midwife's Confession, Diane Chamberlain.North Carolina: 1982...

The poignant sequel to A Song of Sixpence The clinic stood high on an Alpine slope. Lush meadows, studded with autumn crocus, sloped steeply down. Across the valley, above the pinewoods, the high peaks...

The eighth novel in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence sees a return to the Cambridge college of The Masters, where an apparent miscarriage of justice once again ranges the fellows against one...

To Stand or Fall is the final of four thrilling instalments of John Scalzi's The End of All Things. The full novel is also available to buy.Our fate is in their hands . . .The Colonial Union's Defence...

'A taut page-turner on multiple levels' BooklistAn effortlessly engrossing read filled with tension, excitement and heart, Stalking Ground, the second in Margaret Mizushima's lauded debut series, will...

A Christmas short story from bestselling author Lucy Diamond, revisiting her Beach Cafe characters. After a hectic summer running her beach cafe in Cornwall, Evie Flynn is looking forward to her first...

Taking its name from a Rudyard Kipling poem and littered with his verses throughout, A Trap for Fools is a novel about overcoming adversity, and one of Amanda Cross’s best mysteries.Campus security found...

Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.As the Second World War draws to a close, Lewis Eliot becomes entangled in the ethics and practicalities of nuclear warfare, in the sixth novel...

Offshore, by bestselling crime writer Ann Cleeves, is a striking collection of eight short stories, all set on islands off the coast of the UK, and features cases for both DI Jimmy Perez on Shetland,...

With her Cornish Beach Café closed for the winter, Evie Flynn should be looking forward to lazy days and a happy Christmas, with nothing more pressing to think about than when to have her next mince pie.But...

The world of Sir Lewis Eliot draws to a close in Last Things, the eleventh and final novel in C. P. Snow’s decade-spanning Strangers and Brothers sequence.After his heart stops briefly on the operating...

Has-jahn: a continent of exotic cultures, cities and long-forgotten technology. Two members of a race once thought extinct wash up on the shores near the city of Escha. In their possession is a call for...

Desmonde Fitzgerald is handsome, charming and blessed with a marvellous singing voice – he is the Minstrel Boy. He becomes a priest, winning the coveted Golden Chalice for his singing when in seminary...

A short story from Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Midwife's Confession and Necessary Lies. Some secrets need to be told . . . As a child, Riley always suspected there was a secret her...

When Janet Harrison asks her English Professor Kate Fansler to recommend a psychoanalyst, no one could have imagined that Janet’s body would be discovered on his couch two months later.Kate can’t believe...

Taken from Peter F. Hamilton's short story collection Manhattan in Reverse, Footvote is a thrilling short story featuring Paulo Myo of the Commonwealth Saga.It's our world, present day – the UK is going...

Kate has taken to life on the remote Scottish island of Auchenmor like a seal to water: she's given a new lease of life to the Laird's estate in her day job; she's befriended the once-nosy locals; and...

The stability and resilience of Lewis Eliot is sharply contrasted with the melancholia of his brilliant colleague, Roy Calvert, in the fourth novel of C. P. Snow’s masterful Strangers and Brothers sequence.Opening...

The Life of the Mind is the first of four thrilling instalments of John Scalzi's The End of All Things. The full novel is also available to buy.Our fate is in their hands . . .The Colonial Union's Defence...

Amanda Cross musters up an ingenious solution to an impossible scenario in this penetrating literary mystery, The James Joyce Murder.On the famous Joycean day of June 16th, Kate Fansler attends the annual...

Lady with Carnations is not only the traditional name of a famous Holbein miniature which unexpectedly comes into a London salesroom in the mid-thirties: it is also the soubriquet by which some of her...

Lewis Eliot, the diffident protagonist of the Strangers and Brothers sequence, retreats to the background in this absorbing study of his mentor, George Passant, a charismatic solicitor’s clerk. In the...

If you're a fan of Jodi Picoult, you'll love Diane Chamberlain's The First Lie, an original eBook short story companion to Necessary Lies. It's 1958 in rural North Carolina, where thirteen-year-old Ivy...

Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me . . .In the seventh Trish Maguire novel London is awash with secret information and vicious rumour. A politician fights for his reputation....

Why would anyone risk his life blowing up tanks of toxic chemicals?This is the question barrister Trish Maguire must answer in her ninth investigation. When the explosion rips through quiet fields in...

Amanda Cross probes into the shadowy past of Cecily Hutchings and her Bloomsbury-like literary circle in The Question of Max, a gripping whodunit from start to end.Once again, Kate Fansler tries to take...

The brilliant and idealistic Trish Maguire returns in a devastating case of corruption and conspiracy. In a particularly difficult case of alleged child abuse, Trish knows that the jury’s decision hinges...

In this, the quietly powerful third novel in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence, Lewis Eliot narrates the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking dynasties between the two World Wars.Drawn into...