General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks-She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True-Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a...

Now a major motion picture.Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952...

NOW A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING JOEL EDGERTON AND FELICITY JONES'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje An epic miniature of one man's life journey...

Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to...

The Translator is a story about love, both human and divine.Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Following the sudden death of...

Escapist and completely absorbing, The Villa in Italy is the perfect, mouth-watering summer read. Four very different people are named in a will. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her...

'Lyrical, twisty short stories' Evening StandardA collection of stunning short stories from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook...

High adventure and dark mystery combine in this sparkling historical romance from the internationally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's series. Elinor Bascombe, widowed and tied to an...

If you love Karen Swan and Elizabeth Edmondson, you will love this perfect holiday read. 'The story started at dawn on the fourteenth of September, 1943 . . .'All her...

The brand new thrilling Roman adventure from the bestselling author of THE LEGION and THE GLADIATOR. The city of Rome in AD 50 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on...

The bestselling author of the Emperor, Conqueror and The Wars of the Roses returns to the Ancient World with a gripping adventure based on an epic true story. 'HIS FINEST...

Jane Green, author the best-sellers The Beach House and Second Chance, follows happily married Alice who moves from London to the USA only to discover that her life is not...

The hilarious and razor-sharp new novel from the million-copy bestselling queen of revenge comedy, Jane Fallon'Gripping, sharp and brilliantly twisty. Deliciously readable. A rollercoaster of revenge' DAILY MAIL'Her best yet!...

Rebecca's parents were born to very different families. One wealthy, one all but destitute, they were united only by their striking mutual beauty. But the sole child to bless their...

A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive...

'No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming, 'let's always play cards.' And they did; for even with her memory gone, a little more of it...

'Suddenly alone, you see the river's horizon come to meet you. There's a certain glassiness to it and as the roar of the rapid swells the water grows more compact,...

FANS OF DIANA GABALDON AND KATE MOSSE WILL FIND MUCH TO LOVE IN THIS VIVID STORY OF LOST LOVE AND POWERFUL SECRETS.One hot day in Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby...

A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this searing portrait of a to-the-death struggle between a mother and a daughter. Clair Knightly and her daughter Helen are...

C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by...

Francesca Felizzi, former mistress of the Duke of Ferrara, is now an aspiring courtesan. Astonishingly beautiful and ambitious, she revels in the power she wields over men.But when she is...

From Sunday Times bestseller Anne O'Brien . . . To those around her she was a loyal subject. In her heart she was a traitor. 1399: England's crown is under...

Heart-warming, uplifting and heartbreakingly honest, One Good Thing is an alternative love story about finding happiness and showing that sometimes you only need one good thing to turn your life...

A surprise present, a mystery sender and a sprinkling of secrets. Escape with bestselling author Cressida McLaughlin! 'A warm and comforting read' Woman & Home 'Wonderful' Woman's Own ___________________________________ Can...