General Fiction

'The task of the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task becomes the more urgent when the past cannot be corrected.'Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration – always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful empathy, she guided her students to develop me...

When Empress starts at Aniya's school, they're not exactly best friends. But, when the two teenage girls accidentally cast a spell on their 16th birthday and end up switching bodies, they quickly learn that friendship is the most important magic of all. South London's answer to Freaky Friday, Emp...

Acclaimed author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss is back with a sharply observed and darkly funny novel for our times.'A tense page turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting' - Emma Donoghue'This slim, intense masterpiece is one of my best books of the year' - Rachel JoyceAt du...

Forty years ago, Herschel Ruggles, a legend on the Mighty Johns football team at Draven University, disappeared after scoring a record-breaking touchdown in front of 25,000 spectators. Ruggles, instead of celebrating, continued running, ball in hand, into a passageway that led under the field. He...

Everything she touches breaks . . .Nell Ballard is a runaway. A former foster child with a dark secret she is desperate to keep, all Nell wants is to find a place she can belong.So when a job comes up at Starling Villas, home to the enigmatic Robin Wilder, she seizes the opportunity with both han...

Pre-order today. The brand new novel from million-copy bestselling author Cecelia Ahern.Five people.Five chances.One woman's search for happiness.Allegra Bird's arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the...

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and...

In outer space you can never feel sure that your adversary is altogether human.The runcible buffers on Samarkand have been mysteriously sabotaged, killing many thousands and destroying a terraforming project. Agent Cormac must reach it by ship to begin an investigation. But Cormac has incurred th...

Harbour Street is the sixth book in the Vera Stanhope series, from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland, and the Two Rivers series.

When retired actor Buffy decides to up sticks from London and move to rural Wales, he has no idea what he is letting himself in for.In possession of a run-down B&B that leans more towards the shabby than the chic and is miles from nowhere, he realises he needs to fill the beds – and fast.Enter a ...