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Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent...

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned...

Having examined England's twin obsessions - violence and sex - in THE FOOTBALL FACTORY and HEADHUNTERS, John King completes his trilogy with ENGLAND AWAY: sex and violence abroad, under the...

Shortlisted for CrimeFest's Last Laugh AwardFour friends, one weekend, gallons of whisky. What could go wrong?Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, four late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay - the...

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the best-selling author of Golden Hill.'Utterly immersive.' Spectator'Thrilling.' Financial Times'Unlike anything...

An extraordinary collection of short stories from the Man Booker prize longlisted author of HYSTOPIA. In the tradition of Raymond Carver or Tobias Wolff, these are all-encompassing stories of the...

The hero of this sensational first novel is an alto-sax virtuoso of John Coltrane/Sonny Rollins proportions. He also happens to be walking, talking, Shakespeare-quoting bear. The scion of a long...

The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores the seedy underbelly of a Depression-era town in the second novel in the Albany cycleBilly Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler,...

Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex...

This intimate and compelling novel deftly interweaves three periods in the life of 17th-century painter Nathaniel Deller: in 1650, just after Charles I's execution, the young Deller joins a political...

Ian has gotten away with it. His computer banking scam. It worked. All he has to do now is stay out of England, sit back and spend the impressive monthly...

I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water.Meet Walt, the irrepressible hero of Paul Auster's astonishing novel, the orphan from the mid-West who is set on...

A dazzling, dizzying debut - a high-speed American tragicomedy and philosophical investigation into the nature of retail, sex and adulthood from an astonishing new talent. Bobby Clark is just sixteen...

'A phenomenal writer' Sunday TimesAn intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish...

Money was tight in the farming communities around Fellburn in the 1880s, so when Hector Stewart, only two years after the death of his long-suffering wife, announced to his children,...

Ismay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. But her father has other ideas and orders her to marry...

The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is twenty...

In 1964, a young Australian girl, Linda Carr, is trying to track down the wreckage of the Liberator bomber in which her father died when it crashed in northern Italy...

THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE OF HIS LIFE.ONLY THIS TIME THE DEFENDANT IS HIMSELF.'This is Connelly on top form . . . A terrific thriller' Mail on Sunday'Grabs you on the...

Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with...

Liane Moriarty, million copy selling author of The Husband's Secret brings us another addictive story of secrets and scandal.Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was...

A political strategist, tainted by a scandalous ex, finds an unexpected career detour when her teenage boy band crush offers a second chance at the spotlight...and maybe something more. The...

From 831 Stories, the highly anticipated next book in The Big Fan series by Alexandra Romanoff, an enemies-to-lovers romance in which tabloid fodder mixes with a long-brewing rivalry. "I finally...

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their...

'A book designed to be read in a dark January chill; it begs for a fireside and the sound of wind and rain howling outside' THE LADYThis winter, escape to...

1871. When Fergus Deagan's wife dies in childbirth, she makes him promise to take their family from Ireland to Western Australia to join his brother Bram, and also to marry...

Shivaun Reilly is still dealing with the loss of her family and her hospital's closure when Ivor leaves her to live in Spain. She decides to move to America but...