Fiction

Synopsis Kingsbridge Novels #2 On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They a...

Synopsis Costa Book of the Year 2016. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army...

Synopsis No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. The great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman....

Synopsis Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. This is such a book - a magical fable about learning ...

Synopsis Joint Winner 2019 Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the icon...

Synopsis When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a co...

Synopsis Silence can be deafening. Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, an...

Synopsis A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're ou...

Synopsis "Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt down, exhausted, and stayed." Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abando...

Synopsis The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. The Guns of Navarone have been sil...

Synopsis Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tr...

Synopsis A Song of Ice & Fire (A Game of Thrones) - Book #3, Part 1. Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast. The Seven Kingdoms are div...

Synopsis "All I did is marry him. You are the ones who gave him power." Quiet, bookish Alice Blackwell never dreamed of being First Lady. Much less...

Synopsis The 2nd Book of the Dark Materials Trilogy. Lyra has escaped Mrs. Coultar, she has escaped with her daemon (we would call it our spirit) i...

Synopsis When her 18-year-old twins leave for university, single mum Nadia's life changes in ways she never expected: her Glasgow flat feels sudden...

Synopsis One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper and her tendency to blame herself for h...

Synopsis Think what is at stake. The right we have to speak and think freely . . . all that would be destroyed. That is worth fighting for, don’t y...

Synopsis A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smil...

Synopsis A scorching hot global thriller with more suspicion than Homeland and more twists and turns than Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . Red Sparro...

Synopsis In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Bei...

Synopsis Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social...

Synopsis A special edition of le Carré's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston...

Synopsis The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author Howard Jacobson. The novel won the Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a pro...

Synopsis Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi. In Lisbon in 19...