General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

'A Scarlet Letter for our times' MARGARET ATWOOD'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel I've read in recent memory' ROB DOYLEDuncan Peck has travelled...

'Every word makes me ache ... Written with exquisite empathy and grace' Roxane Gay'Singularly beautiful and psychologically harrowing ... One of the best American novels of this century' Boston Globe...

An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2020The start of a thrilling new legal series, perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith and The Secret Barrister, written by an acclaimed QC.Elliot...

'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga ... is a triumph' Allan Massie, ScotsmanDivided by loyalties, brought together by warSeptember, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of...

'A shattering study of disaffection and belonging ... This is a concise novel of staggering depth ...Disturbing, deep and utterly extraordinary' Bidisha, ObserverAn Irish Times Book of the Year 2019Escaping...

From legendary writer Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood...

Must a child's past define their future?'Stark and beautiful . . . I haven't read anything this good in a long time' - Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage...

A special edition of Savages by Shirley Conran reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. Five pampered wives accompany their high-powered husbands to an exotic island,...

Fast-paced and intriguing, Mightier than the Sword is the fifth novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's the Clifton Chronicles moves towards the end of the 1960s as the Cliftons and...

Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his...

From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Missing Sister is the seventh instalment in the multimillion selling epic series.They'll search the world to find her.The six...

'As unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting.' Daily MailSince his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson's work has been as melancholy, witty, strange, and...

'A cracker' Patrick McCabe'An irresistible comedy' Luke KennardLaura Cassidy is going all the way. Hollywood. Starry lights. The Walk of Fame. It's her destiny. At least, that's what her movie-obsessed...

It's the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and...

On the morning after he has celebrated his 60th birthday party at a celebrity-filled party, Ned Marriott is in bed with his partner, Emma, when there's a knock on the...

He walks into the living room and June is dead.He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter.He'll ask himself later, if he knew. It's easy to say...

Written with Gerald Durrell's usual sharp eye for observing humour in any situation, Rosy Is My Relative will delight fans both old and new.At the age of thirty, Adrian Rookwhistle's...

What if you had the chance to re-imagine your past?Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And every night, a woman he knows...

'Masterly . . . gloriously well-written and deeply imagined' Jim CraceJeannie is nineteen when the world changes, Kip only fourteen. The sudden accident that robs them of their mother leaves...

The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation...

In the exhilarating tradition of I Am Pilgrim comes a sprawling, international high-stakes thriller that pits the intelligence of one man against one of the most successful spies ever to...

"It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it's true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this...

"Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut." -The New York Times Book Review "A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book." -NPR "[A] descendent of the Dickensian 'social novel' by way...

"If McBride is trying to prove-that if you change one life, you change the world-she succeeds magnificently."-Booklist From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes...

"Bravely sheds light on sexual assault and consent. In alternating perspectives friends Tyler and Amber recount an alcohol-fueled night that changed the course of their lives." -Us Weekly From master...

The year is 1830 and Jamie Pyke, a celebrated silversmith and notorious ladies' man, is keeping a deadly secret. Passing as a wealthy white aristocrat in Philadelphian society, Jamie is...

Winner of the YA Book Prize.Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.The things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.Father John controls everything inside The Fence. And...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT'Just read it. It's unforgettable'India Knight, The Sunday Times'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved....

*** The new novel from the author of An Unremarkable Body, shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award 2018. ***'Elegant, subtle and tender, with a sharp sting in the tale'...

'Restless Souls turns genre inside out . . . it never stops being a page-turner' Colum McCann After three years embedded in the Siege in Sarajevo, war correspondent Tom returns...

'A haunting and thrilling read' Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat'Original and unsettling - and just a little bit heartbreaking' Rachel Rhys, author of Dangerous CrossingIn...

A Book of the Year - The TimesA Book of the Year - Observer A Book of the Year - Mail on SundayAvoiding the chaos of the First World War,...

Cape Town, 1914. Where aperson can be whoever they want to be . . .Former tutor Piet Barol and singer Stacey Meadows are making a splash in colonial Cape Town....

'Thought-provoking, absorbing, superbly written ... Deirdre Purcell at her best' Patricia ScanlanA winter cruise sounds like a dream come true. But this gift from Grace's ex-husband is less a selfless...

Erin wants a fresh start.With her thirtieth birthday coming up, she's taken a long hard look at her life (the job she hates, the wedding she just cancelled) and concluded...

The youngest daughter of Lord Kensley-Balfe, a wealthy landowner from the West of Ireland, Delia is privileged and beautiful. Cossetted by her parents, her older sister Mona and her brother...

WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018!*******'Scotland's Outer Hebrides provides the sensuous setting for this impressive debut...a beautifully crafted novel' - Publishers Weekly'Lovely atmospheric descriptions of Hebridean light and landscape'...

Clare's mind strayed back once again to that weekend in August at Henry's house. Perhaps nothing would have happened if they hadn't played croquet on the Saturday after noon. Fucking...

Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn.It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017'Elmet is a quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' - The Economist 'Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale,...

As another baking hot day dawns over Louisiana in 1943, a young black man wakes in a town jail to the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie...

* One of the Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2018 *'Achingly relevant' - Grazia'Gorgeous and devastating' New York Times'An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent'...

A present contains a monstrous secret.An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party.A shadow slips across the floor by firelight.A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams.Who knows what haunts the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE*'100 Best Reads for Summer', Sunday Times**'Best Summer Reads', Irish Times**'8th July Pick of the Week', Sunday Times*An expertly imagined novel about war's long...

'A story so muscular and breakneck we can barely catch our breath . . . lingers with us long after we reach the final page' Megan AbbottEx-mercenary Ray Devlin is...