Collection: Adult Fiction Paperback

Jade Shaw has lost control of her life. Pushed around by her family, and taken for granted by her boyfriend, she knows that somewhere along the path to being an adult she's lost her way. The last place she expects to find answers is on the floor outside her flat. But there it is: a script. Contai...

Five years after witnessing murder on the Aegean island of Paros, Alistair Haston receives a call from a man claiming to be his son's grandfather, but Alistair has no knowledge of a son - until now.

Richard Wellington is one of the country's most recognised doctors. A morning TV regular, surgeon to the elite, and scandal-proof despite a malpractice case that should have ruined him. But when his body is found sprawled in a harbourside park on a sweltering Sydney morning, the facade shatters. ...

Pearl O'Reilly is twenty-seven (nearly twenty-eight). She likes salmon pink, the number three and going to the pub with her best friend Una the same night each week. Thanks to her OCD, her other routines - from counting her way downstairs to obsessively washing her hands - pose more of a problem....

Ellen Russell embarks on the ultimate summer - two whole months without the stifling confines of work drudgery, school runs, or juggling the household's never-ending demands. This year promises the idyllic, laughter-filled summer of her dreams with her best friend, Hannah, and their Precious Mopp...

Hermann Steputat, born in 1934, grows up in the sleepy, faraway village of Jokehnen in East Prussia – the vast, fruitful farming lands of the Third Reich. Everything comes late to Jokehnen: the wireless, electric light, cars, even the war, which only arrives in 1945, when the region is invaded ...

The year is 680AD and areas of dry land are rising from the marsh. No man would consider settling permanently in such an unforgiving place. But for a few days a year, the Sandtun comes alive with traders who await boats from Francia. Old friends meet at the tented camp and join with others coming...

Peer through the keyhole and you'll see a mysterious dinner party with a sickening twist; a woman's intense new relationship with a single father and his strangely shy daughter; the rediscovered journals of a famous artist with a singular obsession who disappeared in suspicious circumstances; a f...

'Crooked Cross' is at its heart a love story, but it is also an extraordinarily prescient account of the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany seen through the eyes of the fictional Kluger family. The only daughter, Lexa Kluger, is engaged to be married to Moritz Weissmann, a young doctor with a bri...

'Rabbits' is the much-anticipated, long awaited novel from columnist Hugo Rifkind. It is a story of drugs, aristocracy, death and disputed inheritance, set in the 1990s - it's Iain Banks meets 'The Secret History', a journey into a different class and a coming-of-age story in a changing Scotland.