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Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered No. 1 bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King's seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are...
The eleventh volume in the New York Times best-selling Cradle series!The battle in the heavens has left a target on Lindon's back.His most reliable ally is gone the Monarchs see him as a threat and he has inherited one of the most valuable facilities in the...
A local woman is found in a children's playground, tied up and burned to death. Her clothes are neatly folded and laid at the base of a nearby tree. Her body, charred and still smoking, is on display for all to see. One town over, another victim is discovered...
In Suva, the bustling capital of Fiji, a tropical cyclone is looming. In this city of dazzling contradictions, three strangers are living worlds apart.Hannah is a young Australian expat who volunteers at a local health organisation while leading a heady life...
More than a decade ago, the body of eighteen-year-old Sarah Grove was found floating among the water lilies in the pond at Castle Vyne. The case was never solved. Now her sister Natalie is determined to finally uncover the truth.But when Natalie appears...
After retreating to the familiar comfort of Strathkin following a series of heavy losses, Marcie Mosse is staying at her uncle Callum's cottage while trying to rebuild her life. The picturesque Highland village, with its mist-shrouded mountains and tranquil...
The most famous necklace in the world has finally been found... Bryher Finch's life isn't just a disaster, it's a catastrophe, until a chance invitation to chart her family tree changes everything. As Bryher uncovers the ancestry she never knew about, she...
Without any warning, Justin Kowalski drives his vehicle across a line of traffic and through the front wall of Cafe 64, killing himself and three other people - and taking the reasons for this shocking act to the grave. Unable to locate any evidence of...
In this fresh, propulsive take on fame in the tabloid era of the '00s, a former child star struggles to figure out who she is beyond the characters she's played-on television and in relationships. Former child star Michaela Turner is ready for her next big...
Notting Hill meets Bridget Jones Baby in this whip-smart, funny, emotionally-charged contemporary fiction about messy pasts, second chances and future families from a sparkling new voice. Melbourne teacher Netta Phillips is staring down the barrel of her...
When journalist Meg Adamson is sent to interview bestselling author Cullen Walsh in the seaside town of Old Port, she's forced to confront the painful memories she left behind there-and finds herself swept into the kind of love story she's only ever written...
A moving story of love, second chances and family from the Amazon bestselling author of The Forgotten Farmhouse by the Sea.When single mother Seren Evans returns to the Welsh island of Anglesey with her five-year-old daughter Enya, she hopes to finally escape...
Preorder the BRAND NEW enchanting historical novel from Alexandra Walsh, perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine, Rachel Burton and Irina Shapiro.When Caitlin King's father collapses on the eve of the summer solstice, she's drawn back into the tangled web of her...
From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the demons passed down through five generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past. Single mother Alice Chow is drowning....
When Marcie Mosse was last in the beautiful village of Strathkin in the Scottish Highlands, she made a tough decision about the future of her family's grand ancestral home, Swanfield House. Back for the first time since then, staying at her uncle's cottage,...
Pre-order the funny, insightful love-letter to female friendship now, perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton and The Bold Type! Thirteen years, three women, one sleepover. 13th February 2013. Alicia, Marnie and Hannah have a sleepover on Galentine's Day, the day...
ALL SHE WANTED WAS A HOME London, 1936 Ill and stuck in hospital at Christmas, seven year old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings her the gift of a gingerbread man. But little does Cora know that this will be the last time she...
" I may have ended up more notorious than famous, but make no mistake: long before Aura Lockhart began commodifying her feminist rage ballads, I was the best-known person to come out of Keyhole, New Jersey." In 1977, twenty-six-year-old Lynda Boyle is...
The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 260,000 copies sold*Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award'O'Farrell writes with lyrical precision about sex, fear and sibling rivalry... graceful and hypnotic'...
Clare Palmer is stuck in a rut-her career's stalled, home life's a mess, and she's lost her spark. But everything changes when she discovers an unexpected talent: looking exactly like reality TV darling Jenna Cox. Be yourself, people say. But the last person...
The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 400,000 copies sold*Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award'Exquisitely sensual' Emma Donoghue, author of Room-----Fresh out of university and in disgrace, Lexie...
'Gloriously inventive, wonderfully entertaining, wickedly knowing . . . Read it and revel' JOHN BANVILLE 'The unsung hero of his generation of novelists . . . Astute, funny and heartbreaking' TANYA GOLD Corruption, destruction, danger and murder: Welcome to...
The Sunday Times no. 3 bestselling novel from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 330,000 copies sold*Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times_____A reclusive former...
Nina's one task is to keep her family together while a world war threatens to rip them apart.Warned they "mustn't cry," British teenager Nina Gabriel and her two young siblings board a ship bound for Canada as part of the WWII child evacuee program in 1940....
A darkly comic and compelling satire of the art world from the author of The Disaster Tourist. An Yiji's career had been stalling for some time when a representative of the illustrious Robert Foundation offers her a spot on their all-expenses-paid artist...
A long-buried secret. A life-changing quest.JULY 1209. In Carcassonne, seventeen-year-old Alais Pelletier is given a mysterious book by her father, which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and...
Dressed only in an oversized t-shirt, with a burlap sack covering her head, the body of a girl swings gently from the branches in the breeze. A newly-lit candle burns on the ground below. The killer was here just moments ago...Taking a much-needed break in a...
I've been waiting years for this moment. When Vivienne Campbell needs a housesitter, I make sure I'm the perfect candidate. Warm, friendly, highly recommended. Everything she's looking for.She has no idea who I really am. While she's away for the weekend, I...
I have always been drawn to tiny, wild things... Journalist Fran Hendrix thinks she's about to get the scoop of her career. A reclusive artist has chosen her to take his first interview since the tragic death of his wife years before. Not long after arriving...
Irresistible small-town coastal charm where the clam chowder is as heavenly as the secrets are deadly...Writer Saffi Graywood is looking for a quiet place to finish her latest book when she sets her sights on Last Chance Cove. After a winding drive along the...
A summer camp in rural Pennsylvania harbors decades of deadly secrets...When criminology student Zoey Montgomery takes a summer job as a camp counselor at Camp Medley, she has one goal: to discover what happened to her aunt Heather, who vanished from the camp...
Stunning views.Solitude.Murder.It's every writer's dream. The chance to get away for a while, to carve out time and space to focus on your craft in a small group of like-minded creatives. And where better to do it than in a sprawling luxury estate in the...
A secret society. A suspicious death. A trail of deadly clues.London, 1889. When Emma Langley discovers a mysterious symbol in her late husband's diary, she uncovers a connection to a secretive treasure-hunting group with powerful members. Her investigation...
Murder is an art - and someone at the National Gallery is a master.When a curator is found dead at his desk in London's National Gallery, Augusta Peel is called in to investigate. The art world is ablaze with the rediscovery of a forgotten Renaissance master,...
In an elegant house in Little Venice, London, a young mother is quietly going out of her mind. When a charming nanny arrives to help care for her little girl Evie, she seems like salvation - beautiful, capable, devoted to the child.But the nanny wants more...
What if the person you trust the most did something you can't forgive?Dana Blair has spent her life letting others take the wheel, from her relationship with her husband to her business. Now, with her marriage unraveling, her son in crisis and her career on...
Rose is back and this time she's flying solo as she investigates criminal paranormal activity in Gilded Age New York City. Murder in Manhattan Fully fledged Pinkerton agent Rose Gallagher has just caught her first solo case. Stolen jewels and suspicious deaths...
In the gripping conclusion to The Secret Bookcase series, Annie Murray races to untangle the ultimate plot twist...Life is good for Annie: she's found healing at the Secret Bookcase, her beloved Agatha Christie-themed mystery bookstore in the cozy town of...
A mother's murder. A daughter's quest for truth. A killer ready to strike again.When Daryl Brackstone approaches private investigators Sebastian Clifford and Lucinda 'Birdie' Bird about her mother's decades-old murder, she's hoping to finally uncover the...
As far as New Yorker Carol Spencer is concerned, the war has spoiled everything. She and Don had been engaged for years and were on the verge of marriage when he was shot down in the South Pacific, leaving Carol on the verge of spinsterhood at twenty-four....
The next gripping domestic suspense novel from Jessie Garcia. It's always sunny in Detroit for Faith Richards. The popular TV meteorologist, endearingly referred to as "The Fair Weather Friend" by her viewers, has the world by the tail. But one night, Faith...
The summit was just a few more minutes' climb as the bottle slipped from his weakening grip. He was aware that he was dying. Not here. Not now. Not alone. Through the pain, his mind screamed a silent final eulogy. When a distillery owner's body is discovered...
The young oak tree with freshly budding leaves seemed unremarkable until his eyes travelled down to the wooden plaque set into the ground. The words sent an icy chill through his heart: They shall remember you.In the Scottish Highlands where secrets settle...
PRE-ORDER NOW 'Pacy, twisty and layered revenge tale' Joanna Barnard Tess enters the prestigious and exclusive Ravensthorpe Writing College with dreams of literary greatness, but soon discovers that ambition comes at a cost. Drawn into a tight-knit group with...
"Shannon has mastered the most essential element of the genre, giving us a guy we want to stand shoulder to shoulder with while we try to make sense out of a senseless universe." -Booklist [Starred]In the third installment of John Shannon's celebrated Jack...
"Shannon delivers a tour-de-force climax..." -Publishers WeeklyWhen a bookstore owner's brilliant daughter Phuong Minh vanishes from Little Saigon, Jack Liffey once again finds himself in familiar territory-being in unfamiliar territory. Leaving LA, Jack...
When San Francisco gallery owner Freddie Dorn gets rid of the city's most ruthless drug dealer in the summer of '69, he becomes an unlikely player in a deadly game-hunted by the mafia, courted by the cops, and risking everything if his hippie friends learn the...
London hunts the Ripper. A widow hunts her husband's killer.London, 1888. While Jack the Ripper's reign of terror grips the city, Emma Langley's world shatters when her husband is found murdered in Whitechapel. But grief is quickly overshadowed by a startling...
Ellroy's deep dive into the psyche of a serial killer and "the scariest book I've ever read." (Jonathan Kellerman) Killer on the Road is an exploration into the mind of a perfectly crafted psychopath: a mix of clinical vision, genius intellect, and an empty...
The darkly funny gripping new thriller introducing your new favourite murderous heroine: Lalla Rook. Lalla Rook is happily in possession of an adoring husband, two beautiful children, and a beautiful house. (Tick, tick, tick). She's even stopped killing people...
Golden sunlight bathes the rugged cliffs casting long shadows across Porthcurno's sandy beach. Within a cove, lying on a blanket, are two bodies. Their limbs are twisted at unnatural angles, vacant eyes staring blankly at the sky. Beside them is an empty...
A young woman is assaulted and left for dead while walking the Yorkshire moors. A local man is found murdered on the edge of a landfill site. But what do these seemingly unconnected crimes have something in common? Forensic profiler Jo McCready is brought in...
It's open season at Penford Manor! But someone has murder in their sights... At Penford Manor, the guests are arriving to celebrate the start of the grouse-hunting season: lords and ladies, barons and baronesses, a Member of Parliament - and chemistry graduate...
Murder and mystery lurk in the hills and on the shores of Devon and Cornwall in this new Special Edition Hardback of Agatha Christie's finest countryside stories. Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie's love of the West Country never left her and many of her...
In the Everglades, a senseless murder unearths long-buried secrets.When artist Hezekiah Freeman is found drowned in the shallow waters of Everglades National Park, Special Agent Alison Nance and Clarence Johnson are tasked with uncovering the truth behind his...
In A Season for Spies, the page-turning prequel to the mystery series Publishers Weekly calls "highly entertaining," Lane Winslow embarks on her first spy mission in wartime England, while her grandparents' quiet Christmas in Scotland is interrupted by a...
Introduction by David Corbett, Award-Winning Author of The Devil's Redhead Jack Liffey's reputation for finding missing kids has led to an offer from a lawyer to solve another disappearance, that of Hollywood icon Lori Bright's rebellious teenage daughter....
Introduction by David Corbett, Author of New York Times Notable Book, Done for a Dime After losing his aerospace job-a casualty of the "peace dividend" brought by the end of the Cold War-52-year-old Jack Liffey still fights his personal wars: with the bottle,...
Things are getting spooky in Catch Me If You Candy, the next delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series from author Ellie Alexander, set in Ashland, Oregon! Halloween has arrived in picturesque Ashland, Oregon, and all of the ghouls and goblins have...
In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love . . . In Before I Knew I Loved You, Toshikazu Kawaguchi takes us back to the...
For fans of Elyssa Friedland comes a rollicking fall novel from beloved author Shauna Robinson, where the friend who left and the friend who stayed must reunite to save their hometown through the fall festival that once brought them together. Lauryn Harper had...
Yasmine enters Lebanon escaping a messy divorce and seeking the family, culture, and connection that her Palestinian mother hid during their life in Toronto. It's 2006, and she's meeting her cousin Reem for the first time after connecting over social media....
Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. Born into poverty in a rural Egyptian village, her childhood...
A clever, hopeful, young graduate, Tito Lopez, is poised at the entry to adulthood as well as a whole new millennium. Living in a provincial Mexican city at the turn of the 21st century he wants what most of us want ... a career, love, happiness. But will he...
A sinister hidden room. A dead space between two walls. A sealed cellar. A child's face glimpsed at a window. Every house hides secrets. But some secrets are far darker than others. More than a million readers have discovered the terrible truth behind these...
No.1 international bestselling author Tara Moss returns with an immersive post-war mystery as glamorous investigator Billie Walker follows a trail of secrets to Italy's sun-drenched Neapolitan coast. Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground...
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Without the wealth, without the cave, he's still the Absolute Dark Knight! Meet Batman as you've never seen him before, reimagined with a modern origin story at the hands of superstar creative team Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta! Without the wealth, without...
A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years-an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss When Sonia and Sunny...
'Fresh, fearless, faithful and original. One of the great crime series of our time could not be in safer, more capable hands' Chris WhitakerDiscover Lisbeth Salander - one of the most memorable female characters in all crime fiction.Spring returns to Sweden's...
Jack Ryan returns in a blockbuster new novel of action, thrills and intrigue in the world created by master storytelling Tom Clancy.__________PRAISE FOR TOM CLANCY'Constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an...
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black is back with the second of her stunning adult duology Thief of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies. The highly-anticipated sequel to Holly Black's stunning adult debut, the...
The international bestseller that has captivated Europe __________________________________ In an Italian monastery, an infamous sculptor lays on his death bed. During Mimo's final hours, he reveals his life story: his impoverished childhood, his unlikely...
THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY MURDER. WHICH ONE WILL MAKE THE CUT? You saw her die Thirty years ago, one of Ben Knott's schoolfriends was murdered. Another went to prison. The story ended. The village of Barton Mallett tried to move on. Now her killer is...
The heartwarming new rural romance from the bestselling author of Back to Birdsville. Still heartbroken after the death of her twin brother, Dr Bella Grey moves to Lightning Ridge for a fresh start managing the outback town's general practice. It's a far...
Lake Herrod, a once-thriving community, now lies in the shadow of a nearly dry lake. The town, like the water, is evaporating and its residents are left clinging to what little remains. When Aaron Love discovers a fresh corpse near the cracked lakebed - along...
A Rags to Riches novel. The first book in a brand-new historical trilogy from Britain's best-loved saga author. Coventry, 1904 When little orphan Annie finds herself liberated from the workhouse and taken to a smart home on Swan Lane, she thinks her...
No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, long handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts. And now it's Eniiyi's turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance...
#1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, to deliver a dishy, page-turning novel following an intertwined cast of characters over the course of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. It's move-in...
For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Donal Ryan and Anne Tyler comes this beautiful novel following two troubled men, separated by nearly a century, bound by the ghosts that haunt a beautiful Irish manor George Allenby is still wrestling with his experiences as an...
Number One bestseller Adele Parks returns with an explosive and deeply emotional family drama which explores the lengths a parent will go to protect a child; for there's nothing stronger than a woman whose family is under threat. Connie...
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