General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

Strangely horse-faced World War I flying ace Bart Bandy finds himself kicked upstairs - to everyone's appalled surprise - and made a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Flying Corps.But not for...

"I enjoyed every word . . . terrifically funny." P.G. WodehouseWith his disturbingly horse-like face and a pious distaste for strong drink and bad language, young Bartholomew Bandy doesn't seem...

** Selected by Sarah Moss as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Big Issue ** Ten years old and irrepressibly curious, Ellie lives with her fisherman father, Peter,...

Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. She and her sisters-in-law, married to three brothers in a single ceremony,...

"Some of the women walked so slow they were, like, floating. For real. Heads perfectly straight. Hips swaying, left, slow, right, slow, step, slow. If you didn't concentrate you would...

From one of Nigeria's finest contemporary literary talents comes Elnathan John's highly awaited debut novel. Told through the irresistible voice of a young boy, Dantala, Born on a Tuesday is...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEAll Calum wants is a quiet life, but the past is haunting him. He and his mother Mary still don't talk about the death...

The dead are never far away. Catherine knows that the face she glimpsed in a crowd can't be her dear friend Hugh because he's dead. Kenneth is more concerned about...

Freya and Frankie's longing for a baby has put their marriage under strain. IVF is their last hope - but how do you bring a child into the world if...

Set near San Francisco, this warm and funny novel follows the fortunes and failures of Jack and Milly for sixty years. They marry in 1952, and typical of post-war couples,...

"What you could change and alter could never be finished or complete or dead. This is what I had been told back then, and what I had tried very hard...

'As compelling as it is tough, sidestepping piety in favour of clear-eyed infectious anger.' - Rebecca Nicolson Sunday TimesIrene Dalila Mwathi comes from Kenya with a brutally violent personal history....

In a time of civil war and betrayal, one drunken fop could be the difference between victory and defeat. Sir Blandford Candy is an irascible old drunk with a love...

It is 1977. Manchester is on the verge of becoming the underground music capital of the world, and seven miles away in Stockport, eleven-year-old Ann is on the verge of...

In late seventeenth century London two women, one white, one black, stake everything to prevent a manipulative mogul destroying them. Zenobia, born in poverty, grasps that her only hope of...

ME 46 BCDreaming of service to the great Gaius Julius Caesar, the young Tuscan knight, Quintus Dellius, secures the patronage of the youngest of his generals, the dissolute Cornelius Dolabella....

The Dickinson household is saved from domestic chaos with the arrival of Ada Concannon, a "neat little Irish person, fresh off the boat". Amherst in the 1800's is a pastoral...

Fern's choices in life and in love are an echo of her mother's, as Iris' are an echo of her own mother's. Three women, three generations: one dark secret. Iris...

'The Drum brings out the savage in a man, Can you be that kind of drummer?' Enlisting as a drummer in the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot, James Burns discovers...

THE SURFACING is set largely on board a ship in the 1850s, searching for Franklin's lost expedition. It's a challenging and dangerous endeavour in a very male world - that...

The Cut is a commissioned novel responding to Brexit. Published on the first anniversary of the EU referendum on June 23rd 2017, it will be a fictional exploration of the...

"A bright book and a brilliant book." - Robert Macfarlane. Peter MacAulay sits down to write his will. The process sets in motion a compulsive series of reflections: a history...

Moving, poetic and quietly provocative' - The Independent. City life in the early nineteenth century was never short of drama: poverty and pollution preyed on all but the lucky few,...

CHRISTMAS 2013 - Herbert Place: A lovingly restored townhouse - on the street where Elizabeth Bowen lived - becomes a testing burden for a young family after the financial crash....

Martin John must put a stop to it. They have an agreement, he and Mam. Get out to Aunty Noanie on Wednesday. Stop talking rubbish. Don't go near the buses...

Unable to get neighbour Tessa's haunting neckline off his mind, George staggers through drinks, desire and despair as he tries to avoid a poltergeist and sinister boyhood memories. A chorus...

Spanning centuries and continents, the stories in this collection amount to a tour de force of literary worldbuilding. From deeply insecure time travellers to medieval mystics and futuristic body modification...