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Mary has been nursing a secret.

Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path...

Complicity
n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act

A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the...

Nobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the snow. But...

Emily is sure she's getting this baby stuff all wrong. Why does everyone else look like they're smashing motherhood when she's...

Marion Deacon sits by the hospital bed of her dying husband, Michael. Outwardly she is, as she says, an unremarkable old woman....

Iain Banks at his very best - his funniest, grittiest and most exciting novel yet.

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth....

The Dog Islands are a small, isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean - so called because together, when viewed from...

Finn and Kaz are about to meet for the first time.

Ten-year-old Finn, a quirky, sensitive boy who talks a lot and only eats at...

'He won't tell Dan about the trees yet. In the spring maybe, when he knows if they're living or dead. Cahir is the right man for...

These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology,...

At the Travelodge bar near Waterloo bridge, the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls meets the disgraced poet Solomon Wiese, and hears...

Will Switching Lives Bring Two Sisters Together or Push Them Apart Forever?

Twins Katy and Rachel don't know much about each...

I have taken apart every panel of this, like an ornamental fan. But we stayed in the cottage for three weeks only, just three...

Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. Meanwhile the mother - a novelist -...

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside...

Set in a horrifying 'fifteen minutes in the future' United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment...

Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset...

What Shankly said isn't even half-true. In fact, it's bollocks. Football isn't the be-all and end-all of everything. If nothing...

Danny Malooley's life is falling apart.

He's a single parent with an eleven-year-old son, Will, who hasn't spoken since the...

- Employed (you have frequent nightmares about your job)
- Single and fabulous (swiping Tinder in your pyjamas while your best...

Catchlights sets the innocence of childhood against the violence of adulthood, the joys of a passion against the horrors of an...

From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of...

Emma Hunt has spent fifteen years raising her two sons Theo and Jacob on her own, and has created what she sees to be a happy and...

Set in the final days before a shocking tragedy forces an elite boarding school to shut its doors for good, Ellie Eaton's The...

Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all...

Change is afoot in the usually sleepy village of Risingdale. Gerald Gaunt, headmaster of the primary school for over thirty...

Living on the crest of a highly successful career, he was moving too fast to realise that he had everything – except what he...

A thrilling story of fame, fortune, and impossible choices.

Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about...

Beginnings, middles and ends; Peggy, Serena, Natasha and Bel. This is the room that binds them, this is how consequences work . ....

An extraordinary debut novel by Natasha Randall, exposing the seam of secrets within an American family, from beneath the plastic...