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LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her cherished pet bunny. But after seven years of silence, Regina's broth...

Brought to you by Penguin. DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FEELGOOD JAPANESE NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES Over 1.5 million copies sold in Japan Famously scenic, the Hankyu commuter train trundles daily through changing landscape unaware of the heartaches of the passengers it carrie...

Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma investigates complex case of a man murdered in a holiday cottage, while Sævar discovers something in a discarded box that could help crack the case. The multi-award-winning, NUMBER ONE bestselling Forbidden Iceland series continues… `She uses complex plo...

Was Maddy Benson asking for trouble? Everyone knows everyone in a small town like Jarrett Creek. So Chief of Police Samuel Craddock is perplexed when he receives a call from a woman asking the police to rescue her sister. Who is Maddy Benson? Maddy said she had to get away, but she didn't get f...

Henry Johnstone has retired from his role as detective chief inspector, but is drawn back to an old case in Lincolnshire by an astonishing development in this page-turning mystery. 1931, Lincolnshire. Everyone thought that the young man who attacked Robert Hanson in a field three years ago befor...

A young woman is murdered at the height of summer in this gritty, page-turning mystery set in London and featuring DCI Bill Slider – “one of Britain’s most engaging coppers” (Booklist) Most homicides are young male on young male, and that’s bad enough. But as a father of two daughters, DCI Bill ...

Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner has to face his greatest challenge yet - a serious danger from the East threatens not just his life, but everyone he loves! All aboard this adventurous historical mystery set in the early seventeenth century. March, 1605. Country doctor and former ship surgeo...

Fans of Steven F. Havill's Posadas County and Lisa Regan's Josie Quinn series will enjoy this fascinating and complex story set in small-town Missouri. "An outstanding police procedural that plunges readers into a community’s nightmare. Readers of Steven F. Havill and Bill Crider will appreciate...

Dare you enter the stone circle . . .? The world’s most unlikely ghost-busting duo – actress Diana and handsome young bishop Alistair – are back in this spine-tingling paranormal mystery from New York Times bestselling British fantasy author There are stories about the dilapidated stone circle at...

The future of Thorncroft House and its occupants is in the balance while a mysterious murder brings up a past best forgotten! An authentic Victorian murder mystery depicting upstairs-downstairs life in nineteenth century England. October 1861, England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeepe...

Another day, another grand scheme! The thieving Fitzglen family are back in this second instalment of the spellbinding Theatre of Thieves gothic mystery series set in Victorian England. London, 1908. The Fitzglens, one of London's leading theatre families and part-time thieves, are plotting thei...

"The quirky village residents make this an appealing series debut" Library Journal on Murder Visits a French Village Ariel Shepard has spent the last year renovating her beautiful French ch�teau, while also ingratiating herself into the lives and hearts of the quirky locals of Noyers-sur-Serein....

Never underestimate a librarian. Fifty-something librarian Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls with a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. After a visit from Miss Blaine herself, involving a ...

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and th...

Summer ends, the season changes, and Coro, an artist frightened off by what her own paintings may represent, gets in her car and drives for hours in the middle of the night until she chances upon Betania, an isolated house existing in a world of its own. It’s an unfamiliar place inhabited exclusi...

When he fails his exams, 16-year-old Frieder is forced to stay with his grandparents for the summer, leading to an unforgettable and profound series of experiences that will change him forever. `Ewald Arenz writes with gentle joy´ Iona Gray `A tender and profound coming-of-age story that's also a...

A stressed, middle-aged man picks up a teenage escort and commits an unspeakable crime, unaware that a homeless man – her only real friend – will do anything to find her. A shocking, race-against-the-clock, standalone thriller from the Queen of New Zealand Crime. 'Astonishingly good … compelling,...

Franck and Lise, a Parisian couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot, with no phone signal, to get away from the stresses of modern life. A mysterious dog emerges, looking for a new master. Ghosts of a dark past run wild. They meet a German lion tamer, who ...

The discovery of a body in a creek not far from Sydney and a royal necklace stolen from the collection of the King of Tonga eventually leads Ben Hood into an assignment where he encounters dangerous people, beautiful women and an exotic coral island in the Kingdom of Tonga. Ben faces the challeng...