General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

A STYLIST BEST NEW RELEASE OF 2025'An exquisitely tender portrayal of enduring love' OBSERVER'A sweeping, decades-spanning tale of queer desire' MARIE CLAIRE'Profoundly moving' EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL, bestselling author of...

Wolf island lies in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean, where an old lighthouse-keeper at the end of his rope, challenges the universe and his place in it. The Lightning is a tale...

'Back in the flat, Sylvia is no use. She doesn't have any ideas, all she suggests is get a job, take your time, get some money together, then go somewhere....

Banned on its 1961 release and long overlooked, The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire, secrecy and small-town conformity. John Broderick's fearless debut follows Julia Glynn, a...

A STORY ABOUT FEMALE AMBITION, LEARNING WHERE TRUE POWER LIES, AND EXACTLY WHAT IT COSTS.'Compelling, relatable characters and a brilliant voice' CONN IGGULDEN'A tale of power-play, political hope and women's...

'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILDFrom the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of...

IT MAY BE QUIET IN THE SUBURBS, BUT IT'S FAR FROM PEACEFUL. . . 'A fantastic frothy read about suburbia with all Tom Allen's great style' JACQUELINE WILSON, international #1...

Is there a numerical solution to the quest for the meaning of life? A brilliant reworking of the classic Dr Faustus theme by Booker Prize-winning author John Banville, Mefisto focuses...

1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears...

A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal Once I'd been Daddy's favourite. Before something terrible happened. Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and...

In early 1749 a white woman and a black man are stranded in the wilderness of the South African interior. She is an educated woman, totally helpless in the wilds....

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict...

The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant....

Bold, professional, ruthless, hero and man of action 'Sharpe lost all sense of time. The fear was gone, as it always seemed to vanish once danger was present. Nairne's men,...

'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe? Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.' In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up...

Willy Chandra is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s, after a peripatetic life, he joins an underground...