General Fiction

Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn't met Death in person - a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts...

From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls's most compelling and ambitious novel to date.'Something's not right here.'I was aware of Mr Booth's eyes on me, and he seemed to hold his breath. 'What do you mean?''In the house. With the family.'West Yorkshire, 1...

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’.Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quanda...

New beginnings. Old secrets.Theo and Pilar. The perfect couple.Successful, beautiful and very much in love.Until a year ago, when tragedy nearly tore them apart.When their baby died, a part of them died with him.Now they’re trying to rebuild themselves, moving to a stunning house in rural Cornwal...

Expertly researched and set against a global stage, Never will take you on a high-stakes journey from the heat of the Sahara Desert to the political arenas of North America, East Asia and beyond, and sees a world edging closer to an unprecedented global crisis.More than a thriller, this immersive...

In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness.His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwa...

Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas. They are also best friends. It doesn’t matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal – their family connections tie them together for life. The girls are inseparable until Nona moves away at the age of nine. By the time she returns, they’re in Year 10 and th...

Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband – and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante.Recounting their ...

An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer.THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN THIS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF A THRILLER…In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit—a cold case squad—to catch the criminals nobody else c...

The Talbots are having one last party at their family home. But Effie hasn't been invited … Effie's still not over her parents splitting up a year ago. Her dad and his new girlfriend are posting their PDAs all over Instagram – and no one should have to deal with photos of their dad with the hasht...