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Bruce Thomas was a member of "Elvis Costello and the Attractions" from 1978-1987, playing at a time when the group's reputation was very high. Throughout the excesses of money, drugs,...

The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the...

The spine-tingling ghost story everyone is raving about: 'If you like a good ghost story put this chilling thriller to the very top of your reading list' Sarah Pearse author...

After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee lands a traineeship at...

The small Tuscan town of Castelluccio is preparing for its annual festival, a spectacular pageant in which a leading role will be taken by the self-exiled English painter Gideon Westfall....

'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the...

New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the KingIn a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt...

In October 1993 our narrator, a novelist, is invited to go to Stockholm and then to Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as The Diderot Project....

Jane Cockram makes her thrilling debut with this page-turning tale of psychological suspense in which a young woman whose life is in tatters flees to the safety of a family...

The most astonishing American literary debut of the year. Judy Budnitz might just be the most exciting and unusual literary figure to emerge from the US literary thicket this year....

'Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style . . . in the prose you can feel the adrenaline of [the protagonist's] initial flight wearing off ,...

The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets,...

In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned...

**THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Weaves together Ancient Greek myth with suspenseful mystery and beguiling romance...utterly irresistible' Jennifer Saint, author of AriadneA pure pleasure of a novel set in Georgian London,...

Arresting and wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There, a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing...

From Montpelier, Vermont, across the country to Venice, California, Nina Lewis and her mother, Joyce, are always on the move. They own nothing that can't fit in the back of...

From the bestselling author of The Middlesteins comes comes this unique novel about a forgotten heroine of the 1930s.Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed...

Single life in modern-day Nigeria is far from simple, in this new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Deola Bello is tired of...

It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her window she sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling and plainly lonely, and decides to ask them in, and...

A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR.Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman...

The New York Times bestsellerAs a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned...

'Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is...

Pantos, puds and a Father Christmas who isn't quite what he seems to be...Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas - time has a horrible habit of hanging heavily on the...

The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerA picture hides a thousand words . . .On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery...

'Powerful' Harriet Tyce'Brave' Liz Nugent'Compulsive' John Marrs'Dazzling' Chris Whitaker'Fearless' Anna Mazzola'Masterful' Araminta Hall'Timely' TM LoganYou know what it's like. A comment here, a closed door there, turning a blind eye...

One car. Five people. A whole lot of history . . . 'Read this! Absolutely loved it!' Christina Lauren'This book is perfect' Rosie WalshAddie and her sister are on an...

Sailing across the Caribbean, Hector Lynch falls into the hands of the notorious buccaneer, Captain John Coxon. Hector's two friends, Dan and Jacques, are released when Coxon mistakes Hector as...

'Enchanting, beautiful and heart-breakingly relevant' Culturefly______________________________________A magical new novel from the critically acclaimed bestselling author of THE TOYMAKERS which will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern.______________________________________Every city...

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2014Shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2014Shortlisted for the National Book Awards New Writer of the Year...

The UNMISSABLE novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller 'A gorgeous and deeply absorbing story' Tracy Rees, author of The House at SilvermoorA young mother's sacrifice. A child's desperate search...