Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea ......

If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more...

There is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliot Kane - mercurial, inquisitive, free floating. He's spent fifteen years...

The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino

On...

The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in...

A brilliant Cold War spy story from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Glass Room

Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck...

A highly original 'detective' novel with unique setting and characters, this is the first of four 'Botswana' titles are both...

In a smart Parisian suburb, in the wake of the Paris 2015 terrorist attacks, an au pair is arrested after the sudden and...

It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James,...

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a...

From the award-winning author of Curtain Call, Freya and Our Friends in Berlin comes a sweeping story of art and love through the...

Ascension: the most remote island in the world...

Elliot Kane, former spy, trying to leave the world of espionage...

Inspired by a real house, an amazing modernist symbol, Simon Mawer has written his best novel yet, a story guaranteed to dazzle...

In perfect Brookmyre tradition this new thriller featuring Jack Parlabane contains a lot of body fluids, the Establishment at its...

Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his colleagues at the University of Regensburg's Institute of Romance Philology...

The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the horrific...

Under the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous...

At eighteen, Emma Kenward runs away from her dull Sloane home to try her luck as a painter in Tuscany. Waspish, idealistic and...

Mma Ramotswe knows she is very lucky indeed. She has a loving family, good friends and a thriving business doing what she enjoys...

If you're fat and Indian, you're rich; if you're fat and poor, you're lying. It's only the West where the rich are thin and vegan...

Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself - and not for the first...

Ten days after the station closed, he was informed he'd been officially suspended pending a hearing over allegations of gross...

Monday 10 June, end of a hot day. The city had started drinking at lunchtime and by 3 or 4pm crime seemed the only appropriate...

Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that...

William Benson.
Criminal barrister.
Convicted murderer....

Convicted of murder sixteen years ago, William Benson is...

A terminally ill old man returns to his hometown, Cherry Village, to live out the remaining days of his life. Kang Dae-su...

The one with the election…

When Ramotswe enters politics to oppose the construction of the dubious-sounding 'Big Fun Hotel',...

A grandfather who learns to let go. A grandson who learns to love.

Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon...

From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But as she grows up and...

Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned from the middle-east, only to discover that her...