General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

Against the backdrop of monumental change taking place in 1956 throughout the world, the cantonment of the British High Commission in Peshawar, Pakistan, remains a corner of traditional England, with...

With Victoria Roubideaux now at college, the McPheron brothers are alone on their farm once again, yet struggling to settle back into old ways and routines; Tom Guthrie and Maggie...

Rachel Norris wants to forge a new life and career. And she wants to forget her past.When Rachel qualifies as nurse, she does so because she wants to help others...

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl brings the magic of Dahl's writing to an older generation - perfect for teens. Seven superb stories, full...

Three friends reunited. Three wishes made long ago. And one life-changing book.'Not something you'll ever want to put down' Sunday Independent'One of the smartest writers of popular fiction around' Irish...

'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she's diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what...

Peachment's imagined Caravaggio, while still a child, overhears his parents discussing one of his sketches, and realizes he has a talent which sets him apart from the world. He leaves...

Shocked beyond measure at her wrongful imprisonment, Phoebe Pardoe finds it hard to adjust to the harshness of life in the infamous Handsworth Prison. Abused and beaten, she struggles to...

This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging...

"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of BooksThe...

Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. Anna May Wong: the first...

During WWI, Greyladies - an ancient manor house in rural Wiltshire - is requisitioned for a hospital. Its mistress, Harriet, Joseph and their sons are allowed to stay in the...

'One of the best novels I have read this year. It's deft, funny, poignant, surprising and beautifully shaped.' Margaret Atwood Mary Swann, a latter-day Emily Dickinson, submitted a paper bag...

Annie Swinburn had killed a man -- the killing was timely and well-deserved, for Francis Morton had been evil in every possible way. But Annie knew that however justified her...

The second book in Philippa's stunning new series, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the...

Sixteen stories, sixteen intriguing situations, and a fascinating cast of characters populate The Far Side of Happiness, Boland's debut short fiction collection. An unemployed man, living alone, experiences a brief...

What invisible drama plays, what passes to and fro in the columns of air above them, none knows, but the disciples think: perhaps the time is arrived at last. Aged,...

A SPELLBINDING NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PHILIPPA GREGORY'There is only one bond that I trust: between a woman and her sisters. We never take our eyes off each...

On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max - an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned - and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's...

Siblings Ismael, Rosie and Cristina are deaf, and so are many in their Maya village. The deaf and hearing alike communicate in sign language, forming a tightly-knit community with an...

A novel of boys, guns and Albania. Robert Maidens needs space, needs time. So, obviously, he leaves England for Albania, where his paltry savings are transformed into riches and make...

Welcome to Chesapeake BayThe first book in a wonderfully warm and romantic series by Mariah Stewart. . . In the wake of his wife's murder, agent Grady Shields turned his...

'Written in a jocularly sinister tone reminiscent of Elizabeth Jolley's earlier fiction.' -Debra Adelaide, Sydney Morning Herald The deadly inertia of suburban Lemonhurst sets the scene for a mother-daughter relationship...

'So lucent, so resonant, so exquisitely written and above all, so engaging' Tim Lott After months away, Emily returns to London and to a family on the verge of disintegration....

These four novellas are narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice telling the stories of an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics undone by his own cleverness; an Irish woman who joins a...

"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old."...

Is the perfect man an impossible dream? Cara Thompson's marriage has never been perfect. When husband Andy loses his job, things quickly become a whole lot worse. In order to...