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It is the hottest August in living memory.

A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her...

'Isn't the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you...

'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral....

A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals...

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world?

It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a...

There's no such thing as a happy ending , is there …?

Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage...

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful...

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human...

All Marnie wants is somewhere to call home. Mourning lost years spent in a marriage that has finally come to an end, she needs a...

This novel from the Sunday Times bestselling Trisha Ashley will more than satisfy romantic comedy fans. And it also contains...

Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a baby. Adopted but then later rejected again by a...

The witty, weird and wonderful abound in this early romantic comedy by Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley.

Tina...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect . . .

Cassandra...

Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that...

Snap Decisions Can Be Dangerous...

On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their...

They wanted the same things. Death - and an audience.

Eve Singer makes her living from death. As a TV crime reporter, she'll...

Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people.

It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by...

Those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . .

After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have a...

Until her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. All Katie's hopes are...

From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie...

She knows all your secrets. But will she keep them?

Look around you. Who holds the most power in the room? Is it the one who...

Farouk's country has been torn apart by war.

Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe.

John's past torments him as he...

An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn...

At Christmas, Anything Can Happen...

Thea's parents decide to host a big family Christmas in a house by the sea... even...

Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city’s congested streets, he feels barely alive. His...

The season's just begun at Seacliff Caravan Park, but none of the residents are having a good time.

Frankie is haunted by his...

A young woman's body floats in the Dubai marina. Her death alters the fates of six people, each one striving for a better life in...

I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.

Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . .

Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm...

Find out what happened before Jamie met Claire in this brilliant new Outlander short story.

1740: Young Jamie Fraser has left...