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The Belfast Girl at O’Dara Cottage
Anne Doughty
Readers LOVE Anne Doughty:‘I love all the books from this author’‘beautifully written’‘would recommend to everyone’‘Fabulous story, couldn't put it down!’‘Looking forward to the next one.’Prepare to be spirited away to rural Ireland in this...
The Beauty of the Wolf
Wray Delaney
'What some might call beauty, I find monstrous'In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste to a forest.Furious, the sorceress who dwells there scrawls a curse into the bark of the first oak he fells:A...
The Bay at Midnight
Diane Chamberlain
Her family’s cottage was a place of innocence for Julie Bauer – until her sister was murdered.It’s been many years since that August night, but Julie’s memories of Izzy’s death still haunt her. Now someone from her past is asking questions about...
The Bathing Women
Tie Ning
Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and a modern Chinese classic with over one million copies sold.Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They also...
The Atlas of Us
Tracy Buchanan
A DARK SECRET SHE’LL GO TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH TO UNCOVER …Louise’s mother is missing in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand.The only trace Louise can find is her mother’s distinctive bag. Inside it is a beautiful atlas...
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Hilary Mantel
Nothing is as it seems. Childhood cruelty is played out behind bushes. Both the living and the dead commute to Waterloo station. Staying in for the plumber turns into a potentially fatal waiting game. And in ‘The School of English’, panic grips...
The Ashes of London
Andrew Taylor
From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels.A CITY IN FLAMESLondon, 1666. As the...
The Ashes of London
Andrew Taylor
From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels.A CITY IN FLAMESLondon, 1666. As the...
The Ashes According to Bumble
David Lloyd
Bumble is back! The funny, forthright and not infrequently filthy author of best-seller ‘Start the Car’ and star of Sky Sports returns with a new collection of yarns from his years at the crease and at the microphone. It’s the book that Bumble’s...
The Ancient Ship
Zhang Wei
The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, The...
The Age of Misadventure
Judy Leigh
The gloriously funny new novel from the author of A Grand Old Time.Authors love Judy Leigh’s books: ‘Brilliantly funny, emotional and uplifting’ – Miranda Dickinson'Lovely . . . a book that assures that life is far from over at seventy' – Cathy...
The Accident: The bestselling psychological thriller
C.L. Taylor
‘A rollercoaster of a suspense novel with multiple twists’ Daily MailKEEPING THIS SECRET WAS KILLING HER…A gripping psychological thriller about the deadly secrets your children can keep …Sue Jackson has the perfect family but when her teenage...
That Gallagher Girl
Kate Thompson
Times are hard in the village of Lissamore on Ireland's West Coast. So it's lucky that free-spirited Cat Gallagher knows a thing or two about breaking and entering.Times are hard in the village of Lissamore on Ireland's West Coast. So it's lucky...
Terror Firma
Matthew Thomas
‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall be stamped upon.’ From the massively successful author that brought you exploding sheep (Before & After) comes the conspiracy theory to end them all.If you’re a cynic, you’re a sucker. ‘They’ want you to...
Tenterhooks
Suzannah Dunn
The best book yet from this witty writerIn these ten stories, Suzannah Dunn shows her considerable talent for writing short fictionWonderfully funny, clever observations of womens’ lives: Auntie Fay comes to Spain for the summer, survives on...
Taurus 2020: Your Personal Horoscope
Joseph Polansky
Your guide to the year 2020. This fantastic book includes month-by-month forecasts and all you need to know to find out what is in store for you in the year ahead.The only horoscope you’ll ever need.Your essential guide to love, life and career...
Tales of Persuasion
Philip Hensher
Ten daring stories from ‘a writer who seems capable of anything’ (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip HensherBackdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency – from turmoil in Sudan following the...
Summer at the Lakeside Cabin
Catherine Ferguson
Country girl Sadie has been swept off her feet by city trader Toby. They might only have known each other for a fortnight, but what a whirlwind it’s been! With Toby’s birthday on the horizon, Sadie decides it’s her turn for romantic gestures and...
Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful
Arwen Dayton Elys
‘Will send shivers down your spine’Teen Vogue‘A work of unforgettable vision and imagination. This book is everything I love about science fiction’Jay KristoffBlack Mirror with a touch Westworld re-wiring, STRONGER, FASTER, AND MORE BEAUTIFUL is...
Stretch, 29
Damian Lanigan
An outstanding d?but novel – an original and engaging black comedy about an angst-ridden twenty-something Londoner whose main achievement in life seems to be that he can prove that he’s a loser.‘If I had a business card there’s only one thing it...
Strawberry Crush
Jean Ure
A brand new story of crushes, first love and friendship from the original Queen of Tween – Jean Ure!When Maya falls off her bike and into the arms of Jake Harper, her cousin Mattie thinks the crush that follows will be as short-lived as the rest...
Stories We Could Tell
Tony Parsons
A book about growing up and being young, about sex and love and rock and roll, about the dreams of youth colliding head-on with the grown-up world.Sometimes you can grow up in just one night…It is 16th August 1977 – the day that Elvis dies – and...
Stick Dog Dreams of Ice Cream
Tom Watson
Everyone’s favourite furry friends are BACK in this fourth hilarious adventure!The temperature is rising – and Stick Dog and his pals are feeling the heat! The dogs need cold, cold ice cream on this hot, hot day – but their quest to find a sweet...
Spares
Michael Marshall Smith
Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls – we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own…Spares – human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye – but some people are doing all...
Sowing Secrets
Trisha Ashley
Fran March's life in the idyllic village of St Ceridwen's Well is coming up roses. Almost.If only daughter Rosie – the result of an uncharacteristic one-night stand years ago – wasn't so curious about her real father, and if only husband Mal...
Something Barely Remembered
Susan Visvanathan
Exquisite Indian short storiesLukose is ready to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and enter the priesthood; Anna’s parents are drowned as they make their way to a wedding by boat and she must now go and live with her uncle and his Italian...
Someone Else’s Garden
Dipika Rai
A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, with its story of a woman’s fight for her place in the world, reminiscent of Khaled Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’.The dew hasn't formally evaporated off the mustard leaves outside....
Solomon’s Tale
Sheila Jeffries
The story of a little cat who saved a family in crisis.Solomon’s story began one stormy night…Found on the doorstep in the middle of a thunderstorm, Solomon enters the King family as a tiny, wet ball of fur. But as his new owner Ellen coaxes him...
Solace in Scandal
Kimberly Dean
Greed and lies bound them together, but will the truth tear their love apart?From Kimberly Dean, ‘Solace in Scandal’ is a passionate erotic romance perfect for fans of Sylvia Day’s Crossfire Trilogy.When Elena Bardot suffers the backlash of a...
So He Takes the Dog
Jonathan Buckley
A stunning novel which examines our fears, prejudices and desires, from the author of ‘Ghost MacIndoe’ and ‘Invisible’.On a beach in southern England, a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to a homeless...
Snow Hill
Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson does for the 30s what Jake Arnott did for 60s London – vividly revealing its hidden underworld in an unforgettably gripping crime novel."Friday, 18 December, 1936. I went to my funeral this morning…"So begins the diary of John...
Sleeping With Ghosts
Lynne Pemberton
A blockbuster novel of suspense, intrigue and revenge, from the celebrated author of Platinum Coast and EclipseKathryn de Moubray comes from a respectable English family. So when she discovers that her grandfather was a high-ranking Nazi and...
Sky Trillium
Julian May
The supreme fantasy epic of magic, love & treachery – Book 3The three sisters thought they had rid the world of evil, that dark sorcerer Orogastus was banished to the Chasm and set to perish.But after many long years Orogastus is stirring and...
Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 10 - 12
Derek Landy
Together for the first time, books 10, 11 & 12 in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe: Skulduggery Pleasant! From number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy.ContainsRESURRECTIONMIDNIGHTand the to...
Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 1 - 12
Derek Landy
Together for the first time, all 12 book in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe: Skulduggery Pleasant! From number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy.Contains all twelve individual...
Sisters in Sin
Primula Bond
Discover a multitude of sins. ‘Sisters in Sin’ is an intensely kinky erotica novella perfect for anyone lusting after much more than ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’.Jennifer Coombes is lost in Venice. She befriends a young nun, Natalia and soon discovers...
Single, Carefree, Mellow
Katherine Heiny
The wonderful story collection from the author of Standard Deviation‘Heiny's work does something magical: gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve and makes you laugh along the way’ Lena Dunham‘Like Cheever mixed with...
Shining Hero
Sara Banerji
A rich and dramatic story of a poor young Indian boy who fights like a tiger to achieve fame and fortune.In a village just outside present-day Calcutta, Koonty, a young girl, is squatting in pain beside the river, convinced that her agony is the...
Sherry Cracker Gets Normal
D. Connell J.
Is the meaning of life to find the meaning of life?Meet Sherry Cracker: loner, obsessive note-taker and lover of tartan trousers. She works for thrifty, straight-talking Mr. Chin who runs a business buying used gold from dentists. One Friday...
She’s Not There
Tamsin Grey
'A wonderful, artfully addictive novel' IAN MCEWANWhen Jonah and Raff wake up on Monday, their mother Lucy isn’t there.Although he’s only nine, Jonah knows enough about the world to keep her absence a secret. If anyone found out she’d left them...
She Was the Quiet One
Michele Campbell
The gripping new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Michele CampbellBecause murderers are never who you expect…She was the quiet one… but is she guilty?For twin sisters Rose and Bel, enrolling at the prestigious new boarding school...
She May Not Leave
Fay Weldon
Be careful who you invite into the bosom of your home – she may never leave…A novel from Fay Weldon, the writer who knows women better than they know themselves.Hattie has a difficult if loving partner, Martyn, an absentee mother, Lallie, and a...
See How Small
Scott Blackwood
A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose ‘that's as fine as any being written by an American author today’ (Ben Fountain)One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers...
Secrets of the Fire Sea
Stephen Hunt
A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Rise of the Iron Moon.The isolated island of Jago is the only place Hannah Conquest has ever known as home. Encircled by...
Secrets of Our Hearts
Sheelagh Kelly
A tale of sorrow, joy and passion against insurmountable odds. Perfect for fans of Anne Bennett.Niall may be poor but he is a good man. He does his best for his wife and their five children, in difficult circumstances in their small, cramped...
Secret Things and Highland Flings
Tracy Corbett
Lexi Ryan’s ex-husband has squandered their money and run away to Spain with his PA, leaving Lexi to deal with the fallout. Determined to keep her beloved art gallery afloat, Lexi doesn’t tell anyone about the bag of cash she found in their...
Seating Arrangements
Мэгги Шипстед
A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize, this ebook special edition contains exclusive bonus content.The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the...
