Strangers by Anita BrooknerPaul Sturgis is retired and lives alone in South Kensington. He dines alone, taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. His only acquaintance is a widowed cousin Read more...
Gone Tomorrow by Lee ChildRiding the subway in New York at two o'clock in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers, he becomes Read more...
Stolen by Lesley PearseSussex, 2003. When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But an article about Read more...
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerThe fourth book in the New York Times bestselling vampire romance series that has developed a cult following among teens Read more...
A richly entertaining recreation of Regency London, as the next generation of Darcy girls have to make their way in a society that doesn't always appreciate their wit, Read more...
Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown in the Kingdom of the North, but his defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark's enemies the Read more...
Stunning new thriller from the award-winning Jefferson Parker, author of The Blue Hour, Red Light, Black Water and Cold Pursuit. Read more...
The River King by Alice HoffmanFor more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the centre of Main Street, separating those born and bred Read more...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen Read more...
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian KeyesWhat happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be married within the year? Her flatmates panic! Lucy reassures her friends that she's far too busy arguing with her Read more...
Lottie Lacey and her mother, Louella, share a house in Victoria Court with Mr Magic and his son Baz. Lottie is a child star, dancing and singing at the Gaiety Theatre to Read more...
Fiesta by Ernest HemingwayHemingway's first novel, set in 1920s Paris, a city of Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with the Read more...
Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book he discovers a mysterious world of Read more...
This is a revised edition of Bronte's classic tale. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire Moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Read more...
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when Read more...
Set in Washington DC, this thriller explores an abuse of power and criminal conspiracy: a vicious murder involving the US President and a cover-up orchestrared by his Read more...
Where Earth Meets Sky by Annie MurrayLily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum and she endures a childhood of loneliness and loss. At 18, she applies for a post as nanny with the family of a Captain Read more...
Watching from heaven, Susie Salmon sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible Read more...
The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldA novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting - but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places. Read more...
The Silent Lady by Catherine CooksonThe woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was frail, and her clothes hung off her body. She asked to see the firm's Read more...
Friday Nights by Joanna TrollopeFriday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. They Read more...
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah HallItaly in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his Read more...
The new Sookie Stackhouse adventure: a NEW YORK TIMES smash hit! Read more...
Come the Spring by Julie GarwoodAdam, Douglas, and Travis Clayborne are each happily married, much to the delight of their Mama Rose. But despite their happiness, all the Claybornes have begun to Read more...
The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare PaveseA Peter Owen Modern Classic. Read more...
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddSue Monk Kidd's exquisite first novel has received huge acclaim. 'Wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous... Do read it' Joanna Trollope Read more...
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini, now out in paperback in a stunning new package Read more...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love Read more...
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich BollGradually disclosing an entire panorama of human relationship and motive, this novel is a comment on the law and the press, the labyrinth of social truth and the Read more...
Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn KenyonIn FANTASY LOVER, the first novel in the Dark-Hunter world, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon has penned a highly original novel inspired by Greek Read more...
A turbo-charged thriller about a young man who discovers his whole life has been a lie. Read more...
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Read more...
Plum Spooky by Janet EvanovichStephanie Plum is back in town, along with her sidekick Lula, her Grandma Mazur, and an ever-widening cast of freaks, criminals, deranged felons, and just when Stephanie Read more...
The Summer Book by Tove JanssonAn elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter are away on a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's Read more...
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (Dodo Press) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nightingale by Stephen LeatherThe first in an exhilarating new series by Stephen Leather -- thrillers mixed with the occult ... Read more...
Detective Alex Cross is given the awful news that his niece, Caroline, has been found brutally murdered. Cross soon learns that Caroline was mixed up in one of Read more...