General Fiction

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 ...

Will Robie is a master of killing.A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the US government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst – enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims. No one else can match Robie’s talents as a hitman ... no one, exce...

The intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent begin in the first volume of the 'trilogy of five', Douglas Adams' comedy sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry. On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa...

The residents of Atwood Farm – Caroline Atwood, her daughter, Maggie, and granddaughter Becky McCabe – proudly uphold the tradition of Olympic equestrian competition, which pits all competitors against each other regardless of gender or age.Their barn in Wellington, Florida, has trained champion ...

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. OR IS THERE? After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to h...