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Ashley Bell
Dean Koontz
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes the must-read thriller of the year, perfect for readers of dark psychological suspense and modern classics of mystery and adventure.Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman...
Astonish Me
Мэгги Шипстед
From the prize-winning author of Seating Arrangements comes an exquisitely written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations.Astonish Me is the irresistible story of...
At the Edge of the Orchard
Tracy Chevalier
The sweeping and compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.‘Dark, brutal, moving, powerful’ Jane Harris‘A wonderful book; rich, evocative, original. I loved it’ Joanne HarrisWhat happens when you can’t run any...
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....
Barbara Taylor Bradford’s 4-Book Collection
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Four novels from the master storyteller, Barbara Taylor Bradford, bestselling author of A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCEVOICE OF THE HEART tells the story of two brilliant women and the men to whom they ransomed their hearts. With her stunning beauty,...
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...
Before Your Very Eyes
Alex George
New Man: Remember him? Didn’t think so.Simon Teller is the last of a dying breed. He’s such a New Man he’s sparkling. Struggling magician, gourmet cook, and jazz freak, he’s been doing Conversation and Quiche for as long as he can remember, but...
Beg To Die
BEVERLY BARTON
Pray for mercy with this spine-tingling thriller, for fans of Karin Slaughter and Tess Gerritsen.With friends like these, who needs enemies…Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee has seen some murder before, but nothing like that which has claimed the life...
Belt Three
John Ayliff
Worldbreakers do not think, do not feel and cannot be stopped.Captain Gabriel Reinhardt’s latest mining mission has been brought to a halt by the arrival of a Worldbreaker, one of the vast alien machines that destroyed Earth and its solar system...
Betrayal in the Tudor Court
Darcey Bonnette
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your family closest of all…Orphaned at the age of eight, Lady Cecily Burkhart becomes the ward of a rich and prestigious family. Welcomed as one of their own, Cecily is nurtured and loved by Lord...
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...
Beverly Barton 3 Book Bundle
BEVERLY BARTON
Three chilling page-turners from best-selling author Beverly Barton.In Close Enough to Kill a psychopath is on the loose. Dubbed “ The Secret Admirer” he woos his victims with love letters and gifts before murdering them. Can Sheriff Bernie...
Beyond the Bounty
Tony Parsons
From the number one bestselling author comes a swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder in paradise . . .Even Paradise can turn into a nightmare . . .The Mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous uprising in naval history. Led by Fletcher...
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...
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...
Bitter Sun
Beth Lewis
It all started when we found the body.Then nothing was ever the same.The Dry meets Stand by Me and True Detective in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it.In the...
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...
Black Bread White Beer
Niven Govinden
OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATUREAmal is driving his wife Claud from London to her parents’ country house. In the wake of Claud’s miscarriage, it is a journey that will push their relationship...
Black Fly Season
Giles Blunt
The third atmospheric psychological thriller featuring detectives Cardinal and Delorme, from the award-winning author of FORTY WORDS FOR SORROW.Sacrifice for the spirits or brutal murder?Someone in Algonquin Bay is out for blood. A young woman...
Blackwater Sound
James Hall
Compelling action and suspense in the Florida Keys and Bahamas – in the atmospheric new thriller from a writer acclaimed by Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and Robert Crais.The Braswells had everything: money, looks and power. But when their...
Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night
Jennifer Armintrout
Love Sookie Stackhouse and Bella Swan? It's time to meet newly turned-vampire Carrie Ames.I have reached my breaking point. And now I will not, cannot be stopped. With the Soul Eater on the verge of god status, it's time for me to take a final...
Blood Ties Book One: The Turning
Jennifer Armintrout
I am no coward. I want to make that perfectly clear. But after my life turned into a horror movie, I take fear a lot more seriously now. I finally became Dr Carrie Ames just eight months ago. Then I was attacked in the hospital morgue by a...
Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes To Ashes
Jennifer Armintrout
Love Sookie Stackhouse and Bella Swan? It's time to meet newly turned-vampire Carrie Ames. Being a vampire is a life-or-death situation. When I was first turned, I had only my survival to worry about. Now I'm locked in a battle for the existence...
Blood Ties Book Two: Possession
Jennifer Armintrout
My father always said fear was a weakness. Well, that’s easy to say when you don’t have to worry about vampire slayers. In the two months since I was turned into a vampire, I’ve killed my evil sire, Cyrus, fallen in love with my new sire,...
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...
Bone China
Roma Tearne
An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London.Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius, has five children and a crumbling marriage. Her eldest...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Boy Swallows Universe
Trent Dalton
‘The most extraordinary writer –a rare talent' Nikki GemmellAn utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age from one of Australia's most exciting new writers.Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail,...
Bread and Chocolate
Philippa Gregory
A collection of short stories from one of our most popular novelists – the perfect gift.A rich and wonderful selection of short stories. A TV chef who specialises in outrageous cakes tempts a monk who bakes bread for his brothers; a surprise...
Bride without a Groom
Amy Lynch
Rebecca has chosen the most luscious, five tiered, wedding cake. The engagement ring that she has selected is celebrity inspired. The wedding singer is on speed dial. He doesn’t usually do Michael Bolton, but as it’s for a first dance he’ll make...
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
Дорис Лессинг
A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London’s...
Brixton Bwoy
Rocky Carr
An autobiographical novel about a young Jamaican boy who comes to live in England and is sucked into a life of crime he can’t escape.Brixton Bwoy is the story of Pupatee, one of many brothers and sisters, growing up in Jamaica. Aged nine, he is...
Broken Voices (A Novella)
Andrew Taylor
From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella – perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.It’s Christmas before the Great War and two lonely schoolboys have been forced into...
Brothers of the Head
Brian Aldiss
Sci-fi legend Brian Aldiss’ dark and compelling story of Siamese twin boys with a third dormant head.Tom and Barry are Siamese twins with a third head growing out of Barry’s shoulder. They are plucked from their deprived home by showbiz...
Bury My Heart At W. H. Smith’s
Brian Aldiss
A most entertaining volume of memoir from a legend of science fiction.A writer’s life can be exciting, unexpected, routine, lonely – and sometimes all on the same day! Brian Aldiss recounts the highs and lows of his professional career in this...
Butterfly Winter
W. Kinsella P.
The final novel from legendary Canadian author WP Kinsella.Butterfly Winter, W.P. Kinsella's first novel in 15 years, is the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins born in the Caribbean country of Courteguay, an enchanted but impoverished...
Candy Everybody Wants
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Armistead Maupin meets Beautiful People in Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s hilarious and yet poignant coming-of-age taleJayson Blocher is fifteen years old with a wayward mother, a disabled brother and a neighbour who thinks he’s the spawn of the...
Cat Carlisle Book 2
Terry Thomas Lynn
Readers LOVE Terry Lynn Thomas:‘Intriguing and page-turning.’‘I really enjoyed this fascinating historical thriller.’‘an absorbing novel’‘a marvellous historical suspense that had me engrossed from the start.’‘I read it in just one sitting.’Get...
Charlotte Roche Two-Book Collection: Wetlands and Wrecked
Charlotte Roche
A collection of Charlotte Roche’s two sensational, defiantly honest and startlingly unique novels‘We should celebrate a writer like Roche, whose voice is defiantly, shamelessly her own’ GuardianRoche’s first novel, ‘Wetlands’, is a headlong dash...
Checker and the Derailleurs
Lionel Shriver
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician’s heart.He...
Child of the Phoenix
Barbara Erskine
Beautiful repackage of this Barbara Erskine classic, the story of a remarkable mediaeval noblewoman whose life shaped the history of three crownsThe child whose hands would hold three crowns is born in fire.In 1218 an extraordinary princess is...
Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues
Trisha Ashley
Stocking everything a bride would want to walk down the aisle in, Tansy’s shop soon expands to carry shoe-themed wedding favours, bridesmaid gifts and even delicious chocolate shoes. It’s the dream destination for any shoe-lover!If only...
Christmas at Rosewood
Sophie Pembroke
Looking for the perfect Christmas? Then take a trip to Rosewood this winter and watch the snow fall – the perfect festive getaway!All Freya Hollis wants to do is hide from the world, instead she’s spending Christmas Eve driving her son and...
Christmas at Thornton Hall
Lynn Hulsman Marie
Don’t miss this terrific debut from a witty new voice in romantic comedy!When Juliet Hill unwittingly discovers a most-definitely-not-hers-rhinestone-studded lace thong in her high-flying lawyer boyfriend’s apartment, this usually feisty chef is...
Christmas in Seattle: Christmas Letters / The Perfect Christmas
Debbie Macomber
Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' – CandisCelebrate Christmas with Debbie Macomber!Christmas LettersKatherine O’Connor often spends her days at a cosy caf? on Blossom Street, writing Christmas letters for other people. She’s good at making...
Christmas on the Little Cornish Isles: The Driftwood Inn
Phillipa Ashley
For Maisie Samson, this Christmas is going to be different. After years working in a busy Cornish pub, she’s moved back to quiet Gull Island where she grew up, to help her parents run the family inn.But even though she can’t wait for the festive...
Christmas Wishes: Christmas Letters / Rainy Day Kisses
Debbie Macomber
Christmas Letters is “a fine companion to a glass of eggnog.” —Publishers WeeklyKatherine O’Connor (known as K.O.) adores her five-year-old twin nieces—and objects to her sister’s plans to dispense with Christmas. Zelda is following the theories...
