General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas are the most famous married couple of Modernism, icons of literary queer history. But what if Alice had a secret? What if, underneath her...

When Jessica moves from the city she fears that she might find life in the suburbs rather dull. But the local shop is owned by the forbiddingly attractive Mrs Morgan,...

'This wildly imaginative book speaks to every reader who yearns for a more magical world' - THAO THAI, author of Banyan Moon 'If you'd like to dream instead of a...

FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA'S 2019 READING LIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 'SPECTACULAR' Guardian'A WONDER' Daily Mail'SPARKLING' The Times'EXQUISITE' Observer'MAGNIFICENT' TLS'EPIC' Entertainment Weekly'A TRIUMPH' LitHub'INFECTIOUS' Financial Times'A...

'The Journey Home' is the story of a young boy's struggle towards maturity, set against a shocking portrait of Ireland: a tough urban landscape, not a rural Eden. Francis Hanrahan,...

Lose yourself in the irresistible story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia.Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family...

The deal is simple: the grumpy guy will pay off my debt if I find him a wife.Holden Rhodes is grouchy, unfairly hot, and has hated me for years. He's...

True love? Dave Firestone has no intention of getting married, but he'll do anything to secure a business deal. Needing a fake fiancee, he turns to housekeeper Mia Hughes. With...

It is December 1815 and Adam Bolitho's orders are unequivocal. As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, he is required to 'repair in the first instance to...

O'Flaherty (1896-1984), a young founder of the Irish Communist Party, was a member of the later generation of Irish renaissance writers. By his own admission he set out for Moscow...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards'A profound meditation on forgiveness and forgetting . . . Dao's extraordinary debut novel combines fiction and history to chronicle his Vietnamese grandparents'...

How far would you go to be the perfect mother? The hilarious Wife in the North by Judith O'Reilly, based on her enormously popular blog, recounts one woman's attempt to...

From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, a powerful and controversial novel about every parent's worst nightmare.Daddy Love,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE'One of the most poetic novels of the year' NEW STATESMANHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in...

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It was an age of Empire, an age of contrast, and an age of dramatic change - and one which would determine the destinies of nations as well as of...

The highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power - and the (often misguided) lengths we'll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy,...

The Millar family live next door to the Riettis on Ginger Street, a row of Victorian tenements on Edinburgh's south side but their circumstances couldn't be more different. Ruth Millar...

The Sunday Times No. 1 paperback bestseller, warm and moving - another gem from the much-loved Cathy Kelly. Keep a secret too long and it will creep out when you...

THE UNMISSABLE SEVENTH NOVEL IN THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES - NOW ON AMAZON PRIME!'A series that will keep you turning the pages long into the night' Rebecca Yarros***** 'If...

Luca Vero and his friends are plunged into the heady whirlwind of Venice, the world's busiest marketplace, where everything - and everyone - is for sale. Their mission from the...

*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller* 'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly...

In early 2009, eight adults decided to go back to education. They took part in an intensive six weekend course run by the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA). This book...

'Vivid, poignant, hilarious and tragic: the most rewarding and beautiful novel I've read in ages' BARBARA TRAPIDO'A family saga like no other. Gloriously off-beat, darkly comedic and totally bewitching. A...

Some memories are best forgotten . . . Others won't ever go away. For Kit, the quiet Devon village she visits every year is the perfect retreat. But this summer,...