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As they do every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote, castle-like Water Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived his life behind a rubber mask ever since a disfiguring car accident. This year, however, the visit is disrupt...

An enthralling, dishy novel about ambition, sexuality, and the rise of a capitalist empire in post-Gilded Age New York. “Hernan Diaz's Trust but make it gay? Narrated in the sly-eyed style of Plain Bad Heroines ? I am absolutely buying what this book is selling, an epic and intimate tale of thre...

Graham Greene meets David Lean in Murder in Constantinople - a historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London's East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean WarLondon, 1854. Twenty-one-year-old Ben Canaan attracts trouble wherever he goes. His fathe...

What would you do if you found out you'd been raising another couple's child - and they've been raising yours? Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni left hospital with their newborn daughter, Ammy. Days later, Shona and Nathan James welcomed the birth of their son, Zac. The only thing the...

A hugely enjoyable classic Japanese mystery with an ingenious conclusion from the author of The Decagon House Murders, translated into English for the first time Don't miss this beautifully constructed, highly entertaining and atmospheric murder mystery—its propulsive plot makes for a compelli...

In 1889 at the brand new Eiffel Tower, a woman collapses and dies on this great Paris landmark. Can a bee-sting really be the cause? Or is there a more sinister explanation? Enter young bookseller Victor Legris, present on the Tower at the time, he is determined to find out what actually happened...

A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseille to Paris. She is not in the embrace of sleep, or even in the arms of one of her many lovers. She is dead. The unpleasant task of finding her killer is handed to overworked, crime-weary police ...

A BRAND NEW romantic comedy from TOP TEN BESTSELLER Phoebe MacLeod Ruby may be young, free and single… but she’s absolutely not ready to mingle. Ruby is happily sworn off men. There’s nothing she needs that can’t get from her friends, cat or, frankly, the wonders of modern technology. So when h...

The sweeping love story of the year that everyone is talking about! Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Paige Toon and Jojo Moyes. Liv is given the chance to live one life-changing week over, but can she change her future...? And does she want to? When Liv’s boyfriend Kit disappeared on a ...

From the acclaimed author of The Foundling Boy comes this new classic set in 1950s America Arthur Morgan is aboard the Queen Mary bound for the United States, where a scholarship at an Ivy League university awaits him, along with the promise of a glittering future. But the few days spent on the s...