Fiction

Synopsis Tort, noun : a harmful act, or failure to act, which justifies legal action and the possibility of paying damages . . . The Office of the ...

Synopsis In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, o...

Synopsis Vespasian #1. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his bro...

Synopsis The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Bestseller. A richly moving novel - the first since the author’s Booker-Prize winning, internationally celebrated debut, Th...

Synopsis Longlisted for the Booker Prize. After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe -...

Synopsis An anthology of Scottish fiction, ranging from the traditional to the modern. James Kelman, Alasdair Gray and Candia McWilliam have been j...

Synopsis Humanity's Fire #3 The future hangs in the balance as conflict rages across the planet's surface and, in the skies above, interstellar pow...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. A Million Copy Best-Seller. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell an...

Synopsis Angelique De Xavier #3 If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a gr...

Synopsis In Naomi Alderman’s The Power, the balance of the world is irrevocably altered overnight - women now dominate. The novel weaves four centr...

Synopsis First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literat...

Synopsis Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door wit...

Synopsis Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of...

Synopsis Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a hi...

Synopsis On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950's underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his h...

Synopsis Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. ...

Synopsis Winner of The Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction. Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction. A Short History of Tractors in Uk...

Synopsis Tudor Saga #8. Jean Plaidy's Tudor series continues with the scandalous and heartbreaking story of Margaret Tudor, a princess who leaves E...

Synopsis Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks E...

Synopsis Sumptuous, oversized hardback edition of the classic adventure, fully illustrated with over 60 watercolour and pencil illustrations by awa...

Synopsis One long novel - Joan and Peter - and three short stories, The Country of the Blind, Jimmy Goggles the God and Mr Brisher's Treasure. Deta...

Synopsis Three California's Triptych #2. 2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and mall...

Synopsis The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke’s short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood’s End wer...