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Josie Moore has given the opposite sex - and love - plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magaz...

Ros is too busy for a boyfriend; between work and looking after her poorly father, there's no time left for a relationship. But when she overhears her dad's dying wish is for her to find love, Ros is determined to make it happen - or at least, make it look like it has. Enter Cameron, a struggling...

Sophie King is missing. Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last 17 years, they've done everything for their only daughter. The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are growing increasingly frantic - and increasingly obsessed with their highly suspicious neighbour. He won't o...

Emma is a CEO, wealthy, independent, sensible - and has long put behind her a chaotic childhood at the hands of alcoholic parents. She meets Matthew, a photographer at a conference. He is a widower, gentle, interested, full of admiration for her success and they quickly fall into a serious relati...

Just because the most dangerous criminals in society are caught and locked up, doesn't mean they stop committing crime. That's where Kennedy Allardyce comes in - monitoring not just the prisoners, but also the staff. And she's just stumbled across her most dangerous foe yet - rumours of a corrupt...

Set in a New York apartment building, 'Fourteen Days' is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Emma Donoghue and...

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring writers a...

One spring morning, reclusive ex-movie star Lana Farrar invites a small group of her closest friends for a weekend away, on her small private island, just off the coast of Mykonos. Beneath the surface, old friendships conceal violent passions and resentments. And in forty-eight hours, one of them...

One spring morning, reclusive ex-movie star Lana Farrar invites a small group of her closest friends for a weekend away, on her small private island, just off the coast of Mykonos. Beneath the surface, old friendships conceal violent passions and resentments. And in forty-eight hours, one of them...

The future is where the money is. The future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction. The future is a handful of friends hatching a daring plan. The future is the greatest heist ever? Or the cataclysmic end of civilisation. The future is here.