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Terminus: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff
Louise Doughty
A short from Louise Doughty to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.A young woman turns off her phone and books herself into a deserted seaside hotel. In a state of shock, she starts small conversations with the staff and...
There’s A Hippo In My Cistern: One Man’s Misadventures on the Eco-Frontline
Pete May
The hilarious true-life tale of one man's journey from self-confessed planet-killing lad to eco-friendly, green-crusader Dad set against the backdrop of Cool Britannia, Blair's Britain and the rise of the green movement.Back in the nineties,...
Thicker Than Blood: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff
Erin Kelly
A story from Erin Kelly to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.A man sits in a hot tub stalking his newly-married love on social media in what has become a daily ritual. And then he takes his chance…
Those Who Lie: the gripping new thriller you won’t be able to stop talking about
Diane Jeffrey
‘[A] scorchingly good thriller’ – Lisa Hall, bestselling author of mega-hit Between You and Me ‘A tantalising and taut thriller with more twists and turns than a corkscrew. Red herrings swim all the way through it. An excellent page turner’ –...
Time to Say Goodbye: a heart-rending novel about a father’s love for his daughter
S.D. Robertson
**A heart-rending story about the unique bond between a father and his daughter, for fans of Jojo Moyes, the bestselling author of Me Before You.**HOW DO YOU LEAVE THE PERSON YOU LOVE THE MOST?Will Curtis's six-year-old daughter, Ella, knows her...
To Hold: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Joanna Briscoe
A short story by Joanna Briscoe from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘To Hold’, a woman looks back on her life, which has been defined by three marriages.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection,...
Toxic: The addictive new crime thriller from the best selling author that will have you gripped in 2018
Jacqui Rose
Sometimes love is toxic…Bree Dwyer is desperate to escape her husband, take the children and run. But he’s always watching. And she always gets caught. Until her first love, Alfie Jennings, returns to Essex…Gangsters Alfie and Vaughn have been...
Transference: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Esther Freud
A short story by Esther Freud from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Transference’, a woman in a troubled relationship is drawn to her enigmatic therapist.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection,...
Triangle at Rhodes: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
Агата Кристи
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.This electric short story begins in October on the island of Rhodes, a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty and calm, or so Hercule Poirot has...
Twelve Days of Christmas: A bestselling Christmas read to devour in one sitting!
Trisha Ashley
“One of the best writers around!” Katie Fforde“Full of down-to-earth humour.” Sophie KinsellaTrisha’s bestselling Christmas book will have you hooked from start to finish – the perfect read as those cold winter nights draw in.Christmas has...
Two Bottles of Relish: The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of...
Val McDermid 3-Book Crime Collection: A Place of Execution, The Distant Echo, The Grave Tattoo
Val McDermid
Read the award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid at the top of her game in these three nail-biting crime thrillers.A PLACE OF EXECUTION: In 1963, Alison Carter vanished in the Peak District. Journalist Catherine Heathcote remembers...
Wasps’ Nest: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
Агата Кристи
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.In one of the few Poirot short stories without Captain Hastings, the Belgian detective must face up to solving a mystery without his trusty companion.
Watching Edie: The most unsettling psychological thriller you’ll read this year
Camilla Way
A chilling psychological thriller about friendship, deception, betrayal and violence. Perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON A TRAIN and GONE GIRL.BEFOREEdie is the friend that Heather has always craved. But one night, it goes terrifyingly wrong. And...
While the Lights Last: An Agatha Christie Short Story
Агата Кристи
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Written during Agatha Christie’s own tour to Africa, a Rhodesian tobacco plantation is the setting for a war widow’s unexpected visitor from beyond the grave…
While You Sleep: A chilling, unputdownable psychological thriller that will send shivers up your spine!
Stephanie Merritt
A PACY, CHILLING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO STOP READING!‘Intensely atmospheric’ Mail on SundayA house full of secrets…The McBride house lies on a remote Scottish island, isolated and abandoned. A century ago, a young widow and...
White Bodies: A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Lisa Jewell
Jane Robins
‘The perfect thriller’ Elle‘Immensely gripping’ Sophie Hannah‘Gripping, creepy and very addictive!’ BA Paris‘He’s so handsome and clever and romantic. I just wished he hadn’t forced Tilda under the water and held her there so long.’Callie loves...
Wildflowers: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff
Dorothy Koomson
A story from Dorothy Koomson to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.Zillah’s door bell rings. It is the mother of her lost love. She will not leave until she’s had her say.
Winter at West Sands Guest House: A debut feel-good heart-warming romance perfect for 2018
Maggie Conway
Can Eva find love this Christmas?Eva Harris has her hands full juggling a young son, a disobedient dog and running her thriving seaside guesthouse, so really the last thing she needs is to be distracted by her new neighbour, ridiculously...
Wireless: An Agatha Christie Short Story
Агата Кристи
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A loving nephew installs a radio in his elderly aunt’s house to distract her from her deteriorating health. Through the wireless she hears a voice...
Within a Wall: An Agatha Christie Short Story
Агата Кристи
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Alan Everard is a struggling young portrait painter caught in a love triangle between his wife and his daughter’s godmother. But which of them does he...
Yellow Iris: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
Агата Кристи
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When Hercule Poirot receives an alarming and strained telephone call, several words are whispered desperately, it’s life or death and table with the...
You Let Me In: The most chilling, unputdownable page-turner of 2018
Lucy Clarke
‘The very definition of a page-turner’ Clare MackintoshNothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . .I’M IN YOUR HOUSEThere’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move...
11 Missed Calls: A gripping psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat
Elisabeth Carpenter
Anna has always believed that her mother, Debbie, died 30 years ago on the night she disappeared.But when her father gets a strange note, she realises that she’s never been told the full story of what happened that night on the cliff.Confused...
A bird, half-eaten: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff
Nikesh Shukla
A story from Nikesh Shukla to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.An amateur boxer trains in the contained space of a gym. Readying themselves for a match.
A Book of Common Prayer
Joan Didion
An engrossing novel about political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking.Set in the ruined Central American nation of Boca Grande, A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two...
A Christmas Tragedy: A Miss Marple Short Story
Агата Кристи
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Whilst dining at the Bantrys Miss Marple is asked to tell a murder mystery. She recounts the time she could tell from a man’s behaviour, that he was...
After Moonrise: Possessed / Haunted
Gena Showalter
After Moonrise, the elite detective agency, crosses into the dark side, but it can be dangerous when the living communicate with the dead…HAUNTED by P.C. CAST Curtis Raef can channel the most violent of emotions. His power has solved hundreds of...
One Man’s Bible
Mabel Lee
A novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of international bestseller ‘Soul Mountain’. ‘Unforgettable. “One Man’s Bible” burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling.’ New York TimesMoving between the...
Veronika Decides to Die
Пауло Коэльо
A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying.Veronika has everything she could wish...
Clear: A Transparent Novel
Nicola Barker
On 5th September 2003, New York Illusionist David Blaine entered a small perspex box adjacent to the River Thames and commenced starving himself. Forty-four days later – on 19th October – he left the box, four stone lighter. That much, at least,...
Ask a Policeman
Агата Кристи
This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in...
Spider’s Web
Агата Кристи
A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie’s stage play, in which a diplomat’s wife finds a body that mustn’t be discovered…Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play...
The Unexpected Guest
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A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal… A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie’s acclaimed play.When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes...
Girls’ Night In
Jessica Adams
An unparalleled collection of stories by some of the best female writers commissioned specially for this collection, with royalties supporting War Child, the charity dedicated to alleviating the suffering of children affected by war.A collection...
All Fall Down
Mark Edwards
The explosive new thriller featuring Kate Maddox, from the bestselling authors, Mark Edwards and Louise Voss.Time to Die…Two years on from uncovering a terrifying conspiracy of rogue scientists, all Kate Maddox wants is to lead a normal life...
The 13th Apostle
Richard Heller
THREE SOULS. TWO THOUSAND YEARS. ONE TRUTH.A worldwide conspiracy thriller for the millions of fans of The Da Vinci Code who’ve been left thirsting for more…Just one man can crack the code to the greatest mystery the world has ever known – if he...
16 Lighthouse Road
Debbie Macomber
Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' – CandisWelcome to Cedar Cove – a small town with a big heart! Judge Olivia Lockheart has caused a scandal. Hearing Cecilia and Ian Randal’s petition for a divorce, she came to the conclusion that the young...
Running Wild
Adam Phillips
A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley sees a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling novella, newly reissued with an introduction from Adam Phillips.Pangbourne Village is exclusive, expensive and protected from...
The Valkyries
Пауло Коэльо
This is a modern-day adventure story featuring Paulo’s supernatural encounter with angels – who appear as warrior women and travel through the Mojave desert on their motorbikes.Haunted by a devastating curse, Paulo is instructed by his...
Super-Cannes
Али Смит
A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this bestseller from the master of dystopia, J.G. Ballard.A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a...
Kingdom Come
Дебора Леви
A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism?A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free...
Dangerous Women
Джордж Р. Р. Мартин
George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois have put together a towering anthology of specially-commissioned stories from the most stellar names in the genre, set in a number of readers' favourite fantasy worlds.George R.R. Martin is the bestselling...
Millennium People
Iain Sinclair
As he searches for the truth behind the Heathrow bomb that killed his ex-wife, psychologist David Markham infiltrates a shadowy protest group based in the comfortable Chelsea Marina.Led by a charismatic doctor, it aims to rouse the docile middle...
Cocaine Nights
J. G. Ballard
‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will SelfFive people die in an unexplained house fire in the Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, an exclusive enclave...
Book Lover
Karen Mack
One woman’s passion for books and search for romance lie at the heart of this touching and funny novel about literature and longing in Los Angeles.‘Women do different things when they’re depressed. Some smoke, others drink, some call their...
Eleven Minutes
Пауло Коэльо
The bestselling novel, now in ebook, from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a...
Chicago
Farouk Abdel Wahab
Sex, money, and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa Al Aswany.A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11...
