This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry…
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson’s writing. Here…
The first book in a four part series from one of the greatest writers in the fantasy genre. DRAGON KEEPER returns fans to Hobb’s best-loved world, full of dragons, magical ships and unforgettable characters. Dragons…
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. ‘Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he…
On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure – but Grant is…
Something has happened in Europe. Fearing the approach of to Britain, Terry and Hugh retreat from their home to the remote highlands of Scotland, prepared to live a simple existence together whilst the fighting resolves…
Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work. And now he’s back, with his first…
BOOK 2 OF THE MALLOREON, the worldwide bestselling fantasy series by one of the godfathers of the tradition. Discover the epic stories that inspired generations of fantasy writers – from Raymond Feist’s The Riftwar Cycle…
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi…
‘FAST-PACED, TAUT AND PUNCHY’ Sunday Times After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination, the closest thing to…
A magical and captivating coming of age novel set in medieval Russia – perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. One girl can make a difference… Moscow…
Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls – things like murder… Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school…
Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. ‘Obsessed with sex!’ said Jassy, ‘there’s nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I…
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers…
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could…
______________________ NOW CELEBRATING ITS 75th ANNIVERSARY Betty Smith’s debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one…
A BODY IS FOUND ON THE BANKS OF THE THAMES. MAUREEN O’DONNELL HAS 12 HOURS TO CATCH A KILLER… From the two-time winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award The…
Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering…
The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Irish Times Book of the Year. ‘Something we’ve not seen before in contemporary crime fiction’ GUARDIAN ‘[An] uncomfortably close-to-home thriller’ SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB ‘As intellectually stimulating as it is…
Harriet Blue used to be a detective. Now she’s inmate 3329. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop – as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for…
