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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Possession by a.S. ByattWinner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes 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...
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...
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...
One of 24 titles in The Mills and Boon 100th Birthday Collection. Read more...
Vendetta by Susan NapierOne of 24 titles in The Mills and Boon 100th Birthday Collection. 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...
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...
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...
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...
Vision in White by Nora RobertsThe first book in a brand new Wedding Quartet from internationally bestselling romance author Nora Roberts 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...
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...
Nightingale by Stephen LeatherThe first in an exhilarating new series by Stephen Leather -- thrillers mixed with the occult ... Read more...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress by Ross O'Carroll-KellySo, there I was roysh, life focked, reputation focked, finances focked everything completely focked, and roysh. And it's all Fionn's fault, basically. He's the four-eyed 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...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. by Lawrence SterneWhat little was left of Holden Carver's life has been torn apart. On the run from his former colleagues in International Operations, he's a man with his back to the 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...
One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm and delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum Read more...
The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Read more...
Rachel's Holiday by Marian KeyesRachel Walsh is twenty-seven and is the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And Read more...
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerTells the story of a seventeen-year-old dropout who has been kicked out of his fourth school. This novel dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' 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...
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...
On the Black Hill by Bruce ChatwinA tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only Read more...
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce ChatwinFrancisco Manoel da Silva, a poor Brazilian sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey in the early 1800s, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with Read more...
Other People by Martin AmisWhen she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby Read more...
Panther in the Basement by Amos OzSet in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance he Read more...
The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the Read more...
The Children's Book by a.S. ByattIn their rambling house near Romney Marsh, the children play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and their friends, the son and Read more...
Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such Read more...
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its Read more...
Janice Miller knows this: she loves her husband, her two spirited daughters and the beautiful home in which she has raised her family. But what she doesn't know is how Read more...