Fiction

Synopsis When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at ...

Synopsis First published in 1885, poet and storyteller Robert Louis Steven­son's classic tribute to the lives of children has delighted readers for...

Synopsis Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Sabo...

Synopsis Subtitled : An Entertainment. Designed to appeal to the booklover, The Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift...

Synopsis Number 98 in The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of All Time (2015). "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's ...

Synopsis Undue Influence is the nineteenth novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac. Enigmatic Claire is 30 and liv...

Synopsis Joanne Harris returns with her second homage to Norse mythology in this taut, epic and brilliantly told novel. The follow up to The Gospel...

Synopsis A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of...

Synopsis Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel. In the heat of Rome's long ...

Synopsis First edition / first printing from the author of Notes On A Scandal. A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's str...

Synopsis "In the chaos of our family's self-destruction he had quietly and unassumingly made himself present and though I could hardly recall a con...

Synopsis Your phone rings. You child has been kidnapped. And to free her, you must abduct someone else's child. Your child will be released when yo...

Synopsis Spider Shepherd Thriller #14. Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to ...

Synopsis Comic novel about old age and the trouble which such a state brings. Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis...

Synopsis Pål has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much bigger than he can ever hope to repay on his modest civil servant sala...

Synopsis Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. ...

Synopsis A Delicate Truth is a 2013 spy novel by John le Carré. Set in 2008 and 2011, the book features a British/American covert mission in Gibral...

Synopsis This is the second novel in the "Corduroy Mansions" series by Alexander McCall Smith. In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlic...

Synopsis Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city wa...

Synopsis When a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for ever. Joseph Brennan sees Michael Bugl...

Synopsis The McGregors : A Novel of an Ontario Pioneer Family. By Robert Laidlaw. Published posthumously in 1979. This novel tells of the three gen...

Synopsis Almost anything is possible if you are young and in love. When Tristão Raposo, a black nineteen-year-old from the Rio slums, and Isabel Le...

Synopsis A dramatic new departure for international bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, Fools & Mortals takes us into the heart of the Elizab...