General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

HOPE CAN SET YOU FREE . . .'GORGEOUS' WASHINGTON POST'MOVING' USA TODAY'RIVETING' VALERIE MARTINThe Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search...

Ian has gotten away with it. His computer banking scam. It worked. All he has to do now is stay out of England, sit back and spend the impressive monthly...

The hero of this sensational first novel is an alto-sax virtuoso of John Coltrane/Sonny Rollins proportions. He also happens to be walking, talking, Shakespeare-quoting bear. The scion of a long...

Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex...

A dazzling, dizzying debut - a high-speed American tragicomedy and philosophical investigation into the nature of retail, sex and adulthood from an astonishing new talent. Bobby Clark is just sixteen...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores the seedy underbelly of a Depression-era town in the second novel in the Albany cycleBilly Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler,...

This intimate and compelling novel deftly interweaves three periods in the life of 17th-century painter Nathaniel Deller: in 1650, just after Charles I's execution, the young Deller joins a political...

The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form...

I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water.Meet Walt, the irrepressible hero of Paul Auster's astonishing novel, the orphan from the mid-West who is set on...

Kane is part of a group of young Irish republican activists, whose belief in their cause at times competes with an urge to inform the police. After he is let...

A devastating tragedy tears a family apart - a superb novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE SEPTEMBER GIRLS.Pretty Amy Curran was just eighteen years old when she...

Even as an eleven year old I had a strong sense that the universe was setting up nasty traps for me, all sorts of really horrible ways to die in...

Showcasing African Gothic at its finest, this hypnotic novel tangles together classic texts of madness and female rebellion alongside elements of the jingoistic novels of Victorian adventurer H. Rider Haggard....

Discover the Sunday Times bestselling supernatural historical fantasy from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale, a spellbinding, sweeping novel set in the trenches of WW1.WATERSTONES SCIENCE FICTION &...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025'An elegant, devastating book.' OBSERVER'Funny, wise and knowing.' CLARE CHAMBERS'Packs a serious emotional punch.' DAILY TELEGRAPHWhen Tom's wife had an affair, he resolved to leave...

A visit to America. An arrogant yet irresistible old acquaintance. A life adventure awaits. . . from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, One Enchanted...

Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie, well, Ellie thinks she is unattractive and boring and that no boy will ever be interested in her....

Melt My Heart is a hilarious and inspiring coming-of-age YA novel from Bethany Rutter: influencer, editor and a fierce UK voice in the debate around body positivity.Lily Rose is used...

The characters in this book are works of fiction. But, then, isn't everyone . . . ?1988, Pencalenick, Cornwall.At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working at his...