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6.45 am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people...

We all know politics is absurd. But could a Republican be brought down by a stuffed aardvark?
Republican congressman Alexander...

What happens when 'I do' turns into 'I don't know'?

Jeannie always wanted to fall in love, and now she's finally got the...

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

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

Jesika is four and a half. She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother and she knows a lot.

She knows their flat is...

The first memory I have of you is all knickers and legs. You had flipped yourself into a handstand and couldn't get back down. We...

In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human...

When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start. But when one of her...

Sometimes it takes a chance encounter to discover what happiness really is . . .

Meet Dan: Dan needs peace and order. He likes...

Meet Felix Pink. The most unlikely murderer you'll ever have the good fortune to spend time with.

When Felix lets himself in...

The new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the smash-hit, number one bestselling debut, Never...

'He said he didn't remember killing them…'

As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan...

Thea and Isaac have always been friends, despite his constant jokes, despite her stubborn belief in time travel . . . despite the...

'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...

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
Bewildered and distraught, Paddy...

Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently...

How Far Would You Go to Get the Life You Can't Have?

Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child...

It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to...

There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of sisters Grimm on Earth.
You may well be one of them, though you might never know...

What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing . . . It was life-making.

Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a...

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows,...

When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up?

Rachel loves being at the centre of her...

Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry...

The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian...

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The...

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see...

An early memoir from the world's most famous atheist, and scientist.

Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and...

Young Pak Jun Do is convinced he is special. He knows he must be the unique son of the master of the orphanage, and definitely...

1918. Boston. A city in turmoil as soldiers return home from World War One, bringing with them an epidemic of Spanish...

Winner of the 2015 Costa Novel Award

A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber...