Fiction

Shortlisted for the Nota Bene Prize

‘Absolutely stunning . . . thrilling and unique’ – Gillian Flynn
‘Creepy, provocative and wildly entertaining’ – Emma Stonex
‘A thrillingly ambitious literary chiller’ – The Guardian

In the third instalment in the life of Detective William Warwick, following on from Hidden in Plain Sight, international bestseller Jeffrey Archer once again displays his mastery in the art of storytelling.

An obsessive psychopath must be stopped whilst Detective Superintendent Roy Grace also deals with a very personal mystery in Want You Dead, by award winning crime writer Peter James.

*Now with a brand new introduction from the multimillion-copy bestselling author Peter James*

Perfect People is a compelling and thought-provoking thriller from bestselling author Peter James.

It’s three days before Christmas, and the Malworth Amateur Dramatic Society’s rehearsal of Cinderella, scripted by GP Carl Bignall, is struggling thanks to a flu epidemic that has hit the production.

Sally Hepworth, internationally bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law and The Soulmate, returns with a story of sisterhood, secrets, love and murder, which will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty, Bella Mackie and Laura Dave.

‘I was absolutely consumed by these characters’ – Elsie Silver

‘The characters, the twists, the cons . . . I couldn’t get enough!’ – Elle Kennedy

‘Sizzling with slow-burn tension’ – Samantha Young

From Sandie Jones, author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Other Woman. The Trade Off an addictive, page-turning work of psychological suspense about how far a journalist will go to get the story. Everyone has a price.

The Midnight Rose is a spellbinding tale of family secrets and everlasting love, from international bestselling author Lucinda Riley.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Telephone is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure (now an Oscar-nominated film).

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in an incredibly niche field, he spends his days playing chess with his daughter, trading puns with his wife as she does yoga, and dodging committee work at the college where he teaches.

A piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness. Kincaid inhabits each of her characters – a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England – as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future. Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, non-linear. See Now Then is Kincaid’s attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end.

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write?

Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everett’s recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical enquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book.

A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.

‘Beautifully captured moments of longing and loss’ The Guardian

‘Truly remarkable’ Richard Ford

Longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger Award

‘This is escapist fiction at its best. Grisly, addictive fun . . . I devoured it in 24 hours’ – Emilia Hart, author of Weyward