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A pulsatingly tense psychological thriller and a breathtakingly brutal, beautiful and deeply moving story of a good kid in the wrong family, from one of Scotland's finest crime writers.SHORTLISTED for...

The Cold War ended thirty years ago, the Communists have won in Europe and the world has settled into two blocks divided by a silicon curtain, The Partition. The tranquil...

For twenty-five years, the legendary Marthe has been Pierre Bonnard's companion and muse. His new model Renee, lovely and captivating, thinks it's time her rival stepped aside. But Marthe won't...

"I came to the Sahara to be buried."After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity fractured and...

When a wealthy client visits Mathilde's dressmaking shop, she finds herself drawn into the only surviving circle of luxury left in a barren London. Attending parties offers a welcome escape...

Paris: May, 1969. Scents of spring blossom, coffee and high-octane petrol. Irish diplomat Marty Ransom has been summoned to meet Charles J. Haughey, the Irish Minister for Finance - what's...

The Tyranny of Lost Things, a tale which will resonate with the millennial generation. Having dropped out of university, Harmony returns to the site of the urban commune where she...

Lead Fiction, Spring 2019: This thriller brilliantly evokes 1973 Moscow and a world of diplomacy and counter-espionage.Escaping failure as an undergraduate and a daughter, not to mention bleak 1970s England,...

She's remembering curtains closed against whatever might harm them and all the knick- knacks: the porcelain fairy, the chain of rubber dolphins, CDs piled a metre high. This was what...

One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2021One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 picks for Spring 2021Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father...

When 21-year-old Oli sets sail from Australia she embarks on a trip that will open her eyes to life's possibilities. Some years later, fluent in the language of the ocean,...

'Improvement is a major work of literature.' - Nick Hornby, The BelieverReyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison,...

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good.There...

She's one of the stars of the shore this summer; one of the girls who doesn't care what she's drinking or what pill she's taking; who ties perfectly knotted cherry...

'The skin was smooth and bright as porcelain, but looked as if it would give to the touch. What manner of wood had he used? What tools to exact such...

Born between the wars in a working-class South London street, Harry Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship and grows into a thoughtful young...

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...

An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in a local Chinese restaurant.The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been...

Ash collects words, climbs trees and swims in a deserted lake with her beloved seven-year-old, Charlie. Bemused by everyday life, she has a rich and singular interior world. Over the...

As usual the RAF top brass don't know what to do with maverick flying ace and well-known loose cannon Major Bartholomew Bandy.They pack him off to a squadron where everything's...

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...

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...