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To Hell in a Handcart
Richard Littlejohn
Richard Littlejohn exposes the madness of modern Britain in this thrill-packed rollercoaster ride of a novel, bursting with all the humour and irreverence that have made him Britain’s No 1 newspaper columnist.What right do you have to protect...
Those Whom the Gods Love
Clare Layton
The second novel by the author of Clutch of Phantoms, this is another highly intelligent, powerfully paced psychological suspense novel.Twenty years before the novel starts, a group of male students were appalled to discover that one of them had...
There’s Always Tomorrow
Pam Weaver
When Dottie’s husband Reg receives a mysterious letter through the post, Dottie has no idea that this letter will change her life forever.Traumatised by his experiences fighting in World War II, Reg isn’t the same man that Dottie remembers when...
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
Пауло Коэльо
‘The Zahir’, Paulo Coelho's novel, now available in ebook , incorporates exclusive new content including an extra section containing interviews with Paulo and plenty of information for those for whom the book just wasn't enough.It begins with a...
The Yermakov Transfer
Derek Lambert
A classic Cold War spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.The Trans-Siberian Express has left Moscow carrying the most powerful, closely guarded man in the Soviet Union – and also the man who plans to kidnap him.Tension...
The Years of Loving You
Ella Harper
From the award-winning author of PIECES OF YOU comes this enthralling love story, guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and dream upon a star…What if your first love was your only love?When Molly is diagnosed with a life changing illness, it feels...
The Wronged: No parent should ever have to bury their child...
Kimberley Chambers
With family like this, who needs enemies…There are some families that welcome newcomers with open arms, then there are the Butlers. An East End family no good girl wants to marry into…Jo fell for Vinny Butler’s good looks, but she’s stood at one...
The Witch of Portobello
Пауло Коэльо
From one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho, comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed ‘the Witch of Portobello’.This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was...
The Winner Stands Alone
Пауло Коэльо
The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho.The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman. His wife...
The Windmill Girls
Kay Brellend
A compelling wartime drama from the author of The Street, perfect for fans of Pam Weaver and Kitty Neale.The Windmill Theatre was one of the most famous clubs of the 20th century. Its heyday was during WWII when it famously ‘never closed’ and it...
The Wind Comes Sweeping
Marcia Preston
Marik Youngblood left her Oklahoma hometown–and the child she gave up for adoption–intent on becoming an artist instead of a rancher. Her father's death brings her back to a failing cattle operation, a pile of debt and a haunting need to find...
The Widow’s Children
Paula Fox
A classic American novel from the author of ‘Borrowed Finery’.On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and awaiting the arrival of three...
The Wicked City
Beatriz Williams
The Jazz Age comes alive with a love story for the ages: a rugged Prohibition agent and a saucy flapper from one of Appalachia’s most notorious bootlegging families…Manhattan, present dayElla Hawthorne thinks she’s going crazy when she hears...
The Whitest Flower
Brendan Graham
Rich and epic Historical Fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Famine. Perfect for fans of Winston Graham and Ken Follett.It is August 1845. In Dublin’s Botanic Gardens, Phytophora infestans is discovered for the first time. The bacteria...
The Whispering Gallery
Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson does for the 30s what Jake Arnott did for 60s London – vividly revealing its hidden underworld in this follow up to Snow HillOn a sweltering day in July 1937, reporter John Steadman is in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral waiting for...
The Whaleboat House
Mark Mills
From the No. 1 bestseller and author of Richard & Judy pick The Savage Garden: an award-winning crime novel set in post-war New York for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed RubenfeldIn the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's...
The Wedding Diaries
Sam Binnie
The first novel in an entertaining and hilarious new series introduces Kiki Carlow, a woman on a mission to create her perfect wedding.Kiki Carlow is shocked but delighted when boyfriend Thom proposes. Planning a wedding is easy, right? That’s...
The Way to Dusty Death
Алистер Маклин
The classic tale of high-octane adventure set in the world of 1970s Formula One, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Johnny Harlow seems to have it all: he's good looking, desired by women, and envied by men; he's also the reigning...
The Way the Family Got Away
Michael Kimball
A remarkable first novel about a journey across America and the effects of grief and loss on a family that is trying to stay together when everything is falling apart.This is the way the family got away. They pack all the things they can fit...
The Way Inn
Will Wiles
THE WAY INN is played out in the anonymous and bizarre lobbies, corridors and concourses in which modern business life takes place. The ‘Way Inn’ of the title is a global chain of identikit mid-budget hotels, and Neil Double, the novel’s...
The Way Back Home
Freya North
The unforgettable, poignant new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Freya North.Born and brought up in an artists’ commune in Derbyshire, Oriana Taylor had freedom at her fingertips in a home full of extraordinary people. The Bedwell brothers,...
The Water-Breather
Ben Faccini
A child’s summer song of heat and grief: one loveable, sensitive young boy’s obsession with undoing the damage done.‘I’m coming up to my ninth birthday. It’s the spring of 1978. Our kilometre dial has clocked into thousands and started its cycle...
The Warrior’s Princess
Barbara Erskine
The powerful new timeslip novel from the worldwide bestselling author of Lady in Hay, in which the fate of a young woman becomes entwined with the extraordinary history of a Celtic princess.When Jess is attacked by someone she once trusted, she...
The WAG’s Diary
Alison Kervin
32-year-old Tracie Martin is Luton Town FC's longest-serving WAG – for 12 years her husband Dean has kept her in raccoon hair extensions and quilted Chanel bags.But looking around at the new breed of WAGS, Tracie is disgusted to see that...
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters – beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys – commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year.As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they...
The Virgin Diet: The US Bestseller
JJ Virgin
Most people believe the secret to being skinny is eating everything in moderation. We’ve heard it a million times. But this is not true. All foods are not created equal. The secret to losing weight is finding the foods that make you...
The Vagrant and the City
Peter Newman
The second short story set in Peter Newman’s incredible world of THE VAGRANT.'It's a story that grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and refused to let go…' Fantasy Faction
The Unquiet Dead
Gay Longworth
Jessie Driver returns in the second of this fresh, streetwise London-based series from ‘the new Mistress of Thrillers’ Sunday ExpressThe decaying Marshall Street Baths in the heart of Soho are a den for drug-users and the homeless – the perfect...
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
Balli Kaur Jaswal
Full of warmth and laugh-out-loud funny, the new novel from the author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi WidowsBritish-born Punjabi sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina have never been close – so when their dying mother instructs them to go on a...
The Unfinished Garden
Barbara White Claypole
James Nealy needs to create a garden James Nealy is haunted by irrational fears, and inescapable compulsions.A successful software developer, he’s thrown himself into a new goal—to finally conquer the noise in his mind. And he has a plan. He’ll...
The Twelve-Mile Straight
Eleanor Henderson
‘Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent’ Ann Patchett‘A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers‘ Oprah MagazineGenus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930,...
The Tulip Eaters
Antoinette Heugten van
In a riveting exploration of the power the past wields over the present, critically acclaimed author Antoinette van Heugten writes the story of a woman whose child’s life hangs in the balance, forcing her to confront the roots of her family’s...
The Trophy Taker
Lee Weeks
A serial killer is on the loose. His target? Lone Western women lured to Hong Kong by the promise of easy money. As The Butcher's killing spree escalates, bags of mutilated body parts are found all over the island – and more girls are...
The Titian Committee
Iain Pears
Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.Membership of the prestigious Titian Committee is normally considered a...
The Tiny Wife
Andrew Kaufman
A remarkable short novella, a modern fable that is weird, uplifting and romantic all at the same time.A robber charges into a bank with a loaded gun, but instead of taking any money he steals an item of sentimental value from each person. Once...
The Thunderbolt Pony
Stacy Gregg
A dramatic and emotional story about one girl’s determination to stand by her beloved animals – and her refusal to give up, even in the face of impossible odds.When a devastating earthquake hits Evie’s hometown of Parnassus on New Zealand’s...
The Three Button Trick: Selected stories
Nicola Barker
The best short stories from perhaps England’s finest young female comic writer.This selection of Nicola Barker’s finest short stories contains work first published in ‘Heading Inland’ and ‘Love Your Enemies’.A sixteen-year-old girl, in ‘Layla’s...
The Tenth Case
Joseph Teller
Criminal defence lawyer Harrison J. Walker, better known as Jaywalker, has been suspended for his unorthodox and highly creative tactics in the courtroom.Convincing the judge that his clients are counting on him, Jaywalker is allowed to complete...
The Swallow's Nest
Emilie Richards
Three women fight for the chance to raise the child they've all come to loveWhen Lilia Swallow's husband, Graham, goes into remission after a challenging year of treatment for lymphoma, the home and lifestyle blogger throws a party. Their best...
The Sunflower Forest
Torey Hayden
Bestselling author Torey Hayden’s novel poignantly tells of a daughter’s attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mother’s haunted past. Warm, melancholy and evocatively rendered this book captures the essence of a family touched by sadness.A...
The Summer Season
Julia Williams
Passions flare, secrets unravel and love blossoms in the heart of the summer season.As summertime flourishes, it’s time for new beginnings…Heartsease House is in desperate need of renovation. Its owner, widower Joel, is struggling to come to...
The Stranger Game
Peter Gadol
Are you ready to play?‘An enigmatic novel . . . a metaphysical thriller’ Edmund White‘Like the best of Highsmith and Hitchcock rolled into one’ Marisa SilverRebecca’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies...
The Stonehenge Letters
Harry Karlinsky
A remarkable new novel from the Wellcome Trust longlisted author.While digging through the Nobel Archives in Stockholm, trying to figure out why his hero, Sigmund Freud, never received a Nobel Prize, a psychiatrist makes an unusual...
The Stone Book Quartet
Alan Garner
A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists.Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on...
The State of Me
Nasim Jafry Marie
A beautifully written debut novel by an exciting author.Curriculum VitaeName: Helen FleetWork Experience: Waitress; Serial volunteerEducation: Four Highers: French (A), English (A), Maths (A), Chemistry (A), 1981; Ordinary Arts degree, MA, 1990;...
The Standing Chandelier: A Novella
Lionel Shriver
‘This early stocking filler of a novel … is a brutal treat’ Daily MailFrom the award-winning novelist and short story writer, Lionel Shriver, comes a literary gem, a story about love and the power of a gift.When Weston Babansky receives an...
The Sixth Wife
Suzannah Dunn
A gripping novel of love, passion, betrayal and heartbreak. Katherine Parr survived Henry VIII to find true love with Thomas Seymour – only to realise that her love was based on a lie.Clever, sensible and well-liked, Katherine Parr trod a knife...
The Sisters: A gripping psychological suspense
Claire Douglas
‘Perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN’ Marie ClaireFrom the author of Sunday Times bestseller, LOCAL GIRL MISSING.One lied. One died.When one sister dies, the other must go to desperate lengths to surviveAfter a tragic accident, still...
The Sister’s Secrets: Rose
Katlyn Duncan
Life is not always as it seems on the surface…Like everyone raised in the idyllic seaside town of The Burrow, the ocean played a large role in Rose Barros’ life. She lived her life to the rhythm of the tides until a near-death experience changed...
