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Box Socials
W. Kinsella P.
From the author of Shoeless Joe, the book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams.Here's the story of how Truckbox Al McClintock, a small-town greaser whose claim to fame was hitting a baseball clean across the Pembina River, almost got a tryout...
Born Weird
Andrew Kaufman
A family drama unlike any other from the internationally acclaimed author of All My Friends are Superheroes.The Weirds have always been a little peculiar, but not one of them suspected that they’d been cursed by their grandmother.At the moment...
Born Evil
Kimberley Chambers
Not all sons make their mother proud…June Dawson has come a long way from her rough East End background.She now lives in a nice little cul-de-sac in Rainham with her ultra-respectable husband and a lovely social life. But her world collapses...
Bordeaux Housewives
Daisy Waugh
Introducing the perfect Summer read for 2006. Bordeaux Housewives is a romantic comedy combining a heady mix of sunshine, sex, Sancerre and secrets.When an ordinary English family swap dreary suburbia and the rat race for the glorious...
Boneland
Alan Garner
A major novel from one of the country’s greatest writers, and the crowning achievement of an astonishing career, ‘Boneland’ is also the long-awaited conclusion to the story of Colin and Susan – a story that began over fifty years ago in ‘The...
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Vincent Lam
An astonishing literary debut, this collection of mature and intricate stories introduces a powerful new voice in fiction.‘A STUNNING DEBUT’ Margaret Atwood‘IRRESISTIBLE’ Alice MunroIn this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves...
Bleak Water
Danuta Reah
Disturbing, atmospheric suspense novel from the author of Only Darkness, Silent Playgrounds and Night Angels:‘Dark, edgy and compelling’ The TimesBeyond the new city centre developments, the old Sheffield canal is overgrown, run-down and...
Black Mad Wheel
Josh Malerman
Black Mad Wheel plunges us into the depths of psychological horror, where you can’t always believe everything you hear.THE DANES, the band once known as the ‘Darlings of Detroit’, are washed up and desperate to have another number one hit.When...
Black Boxes
Caroline Smailes
Julie Myerson meets Ian McEwan in this gripping novel of family breakdown.Ana Lewis is trapped by her own expectations. Her intense relationship with fellow student Alex begins to crack beyond repair when she falls pregnant, and his subsequent...
Billie Jo
Kimberley Chambers
For Terry, family is everything. But it’s far from perfect…Billie Jo is the adored only child of wealthy villain, Terry, and Michelle, the drunken wife he hates. Knowing how much Billie Jo dreads her parents’ fights, Terry imagines that she’ll...
Big City Eyes
Delia Ephron
Second novel by the author of HANGING UP about a woman’s attempt to deal with passion, guilt, murder and motherhood when she moves herself and her teenage son out of Manhattan to what she assumes will be a safer life on Long Island.In a state of...
Better Days will Come
Pam Weaver
When Bonnie runs away from home she leaves her mother Grace and sister Rita heartbroken. Each of their lives are in turmoil but their love for each other will see them through the most troubled of times.Worthing, 1947Widowed Grace Roberts comes...
Ben Sees It Through
J. Farjeon Jefferson
With his usual knack of getting into trouble, Ben the tramp finds himself hunted by the law and the lawless.in this breathless adventure.Returning home to his Cockney roots after a trip to Spain, Ben meets a mysterious stranger on a...
Ben on the Job
J. Farjeon Jefferson
Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out.Ben knew that whenever his thumbs were itching, something ‘orrible’ was about to happen. Sure enough, on one foggy afternoon of...
Before She Was Found
Heather Gudenkauf
‘Eerily page-turning and wonderfully twisty.’ Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling authorOne of them knows what happened that night…For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary...
Barra’s Angel
Eileen Campbell
Reminiscent of Frank Capra’s ‘Its a Wonderful Life’, Eileen Campbell’s second novel is set once again in a small highland community, this time in the mid-Sixties, and exposing the complex relationships and love affairs of its inhabitants.As...
Balling the Jack
Frank Baldwin
Sharp, funny, romantic tale of love and gambling in slacker-generation New York.Tom Reasons is a young man who takes his pay cheque every week and bets it all on a Friday night ball game. Then it’s either champagne or pot-noodles for a week....
August and then some
David Prete
A novel from the author of Say That to My FaceNew York City. By day, JT Savage is a labourer on the Upper East Side; by night an insomniac in an East Village tenement. His had been a superficially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; a time of...
Aphrodite’s Smile
Stuart Harrison
A novel of romantic suspense, set on the beautiful Greek island of Ithaca, from the author of STILL WATER and THE SNOW FALCON.When Robert French travels to the Greek island of Ithaca after his archaeologist father goes missing, he meets Alex, a...
Aphrodite’s Hat
Salley Vickers
A wonderful collection of stories from the much-loved Salley Vickers.The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and...
Anita and Me
Meera Syal
Nine-year-old Meena can’t wait to grow up and break free from her parents. But, as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her struggle for independence is different from most.Meena wants fishfingers and...
Angels of Mourning
John Pritchard
Something appalling lurks under the streets of London. Something that has survived for centuries, thriving on pain and hatred and grief.And with another terrorist bombing campaign in the City, there's plenty to fuel such an appetite for...
Angel Rock
Darren Williams
A beautiful, haunting, engrossing, terrifying, enchanting novel destined to win prizes and storm the bestseller lists. To read this book is a total immersion experience.Since it was first acquired in a hot auction, Darren Williams’ novel has...
An Irresponsible Age
Lavinia Greenlaw
A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author’s much-praised debut novel ‘Mary George of Allnorthover’.‘An Irresponsible Age’, Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but...
An Experiment in Love
Hilary Mantel
Following ‘A Change in Climate’, this brilliant novel from the double Man Booker prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London.It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free...
An Expensive Place to Die
Len Deighton
An unnamed spy – perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File – is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where...
American Innovations
Ривка Голчен
A short-story collection from one of America’s brightest young talents.In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman’s furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to deliver a takeout order that has...
Alligator Playground
Alan Sillitoe
From one of England’s greatest living writers comes a collection of exquisitely formed stories set in life’s great playground.Relationships – clandestine and legitimate – are the theme: boorish chaps and their stalwart women ululate and hum;...
Absent in the Spring
Агата Кристи
A striking novel of truth and soul-searching.Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks.Looking back over the years,...
A Year of Second Chances
Buffy Andrews
One wish list, a whole new future!When Scarlett comes across a box containing her most precious items from her teenage years, she’s forced to confront the adult she has become. As a divorced mother of two twentysomethings, Scarlett has to admit...
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A Wanted Man [A PC Heckenburg Short Story]
Paul Finch
Get back to where it all started in this race-against-the-clock short story, as a young PC Mark Heckenburg tackles the first in a long line of very bad criminals…Including an extract of the new Heck novel, HUNTED. Publishing May 2015.It’s 1997...
A WAG Abroad
Alison Kervin
Luton Town’s greatest WAG has left Bedfordshire for the bright lights of L.A. A world of shopping awaits her…but will she finally get to meet her idol – Victoria Beckham?
A Spear of Summer Grass
Deanna Raybourn
Don’t believe the stories you have heard about me. I have never killed anyone, and I have never stolen another woman’s husband.Oh, if I find one lying around unattended, I might climb on, but I never took one that didn’t want taking. And I never...
A Small Personal Voice
Дорис Лессинг
An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.‘The novelist talks as an individual to individuals, in a small personal...
A Sheltered Woman
Yiyun Li
Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story PrizeAuntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily...
A Scandalous Man
Gavin Esler
An absorbing new political thriller from the co-host of NewsnightRobin Burnett has spent years at the heart of power, pulling the strings. With friends in Downing Street, the White House and the CIA he is known as the brightest politician of his...
A Perfectly Good Family
Lionel Shriver
Following the success of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ and ‘The Post-Birthday World’, ‘A Perfectly Good Family’ is coming back into print after being unavailable for years.After having escaped for years to London, Corlis McCrea returns to the...
A Hope Christmas Love Story
Julia Williams
**A 69 page short story**A sparkling Christmassy tale that will make your heart melt.Mel Tinsall knows that if she’s going to get through this manic first year at college, and be a good mum to her baby daughter Lou Lou, she can have no...
A Homemade Christmas
Tina Barseghian
Making something with your own hands—whether it's a plate of just-baked cookies, a handcrafted stocking, a homemade wreath, or a hand-folded origami ornament—is a great way to connect with the true meaning of Christmas.From holiday decorating to...
A Greek Affair
Linn Halton B.
More than just a holiday romance?Her daughter, her job and divorcing her untrustworthy ex are Leah’s main priorities. She isn’t really bothered that her life might be missing a few things. But after winning a prestigious travel blogger award,...
A Graveyard for Lunatics
Рэй Брэдбери
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic novels, available in ebook for the first time.Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films...
A Grave Coffin
Gwendoline Butler
The Second City is gripped by the tragic murder of four boys, each connected to the police force in some way. Commander John Coffin investigates, simultaneously dealing with a different horror closer to home. From one of the most highly...
Faith
Jennifer Haigh
One woman's search for the truth after scandal rocks her family, and the explosive family secrets she uncovers, in this complex, moving fourth novel from bestselling and award-winning author Jennifer Haigh.In THE LOST GOSPEL, Jennifer Haigh...
Envy
Amanda Robson
‘Compulsive reading’ JANE CORRY‘Full of tension’ KAREN HAMILTONShe wants your life – and she’ll do anything to get it…Erica has always wanted to be exactly like her neighbour, Faye: beautiful, thin, and a mother. But Faye’s life isn’t as perfect...
Encounters
Barbara Erskine
A captivating volume of over forty short stories full of love, hope, and fear, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay.Barbara Erskine is a born storyteller. The tales in 'Encounters' illustrate her extraordinary talent for...
Echoes
Laura Dockrill
‘The characters are funny, endearing and completely original. Laura has a wonderfully wild and exciting imagination…she defies boundaries.’ Kate NashLaura retells popular fairytales in her unique voice. The perfect gift for Christmas.
Dracula
Брэм Стокер
A companion edition of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel, to be published alongside the official sequel by his great grand nephew, Dacre Stoker."I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave…"This dark, brooding and powerfully...
Dermaphoria
Craig Clevenger
Clandestine chemistry and the LA underworld provide the atmosphere for this kaleidoscopic tale of lost memories and the heartbreak of finding them, from the author of ‘The Contortionist’s Handbook’.When Eric Ashworth wakes in jail, he has no...
Departure
А. Дж. Риддл
From the author of THE ORIGIN MYSTERY – the trilogy with ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD. En route from London to New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious...
