Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.

An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling...

Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women.

Nisha, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until...

A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble...

'I am myself my own fever and pain'
Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess just from their...

In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground...

'Who would name a child Sunshine, then give her away?'
Chrissie has always wanted to be a mother. After months of trying to...

In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society...

The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'.

For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to...

'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait for news of Amy that something is coming towards us....

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and...

Two strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late...

America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it...
Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer…'
Some moments...

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then...

A beautiful story of love and survival for fans of Ruth Hogan and Sally Page.
A lost child. A Long-kept secret. The house that...

Lindy Morris is stuck. She lives in rural Ireland, banished to a lonely bungalow by her Granda Morris, with only her Auntie Bell...

A car wreck on the slopes of Mount Morgan puts insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in the hospital. While Lyman recovers, two women meet...

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

Tabucchi... , Звево...

Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional...

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a...

Two spies who have lost everything. Or have they?
The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since Josie and Arlette were...

Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe...

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of...

Spring, 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street, the bunting is being brought out, and Britain is getting ready to crown...

Move fast. Stay dark.

These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace.

She's been assigned to track down a...

The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the...

War is building. Blood is spilling.
And the gods are not pleased.
Casia has survived her brother's attempts to crush her but...