Collection: Fiction

The saga of Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Starting with his shipwreck, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from reviled foreigner up to trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai...

When a gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. But when two hopelessly mismatched people share a love of art, a passion for each other, and a city like Paris, nothing is truly impossible...or is it?...

Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. A charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin...

Chief Bromden, whom the authorities believe is deaf and dumb, tells the inside story of a mental institution ruled by the formidable 'Big Nurse'. Into this terrifying muted world comes anarchic McMurphy, who wages total war on behalf of his fellow-inmates

One day Ruth wakes thinking a tiger has been in her seaside house. Later, a formidable woman called Frida arrives, looking as if she's blown in from the sea, but in fact she's come to care for Ruth. Frida and the tiger: which of them can Ruth trust?

Jed Walker, ex-CIA, has been chasing down a sinister group code-named Zodiac that the big guns have failed to eradicate. But as Walker follows the trail of bodies, he finds the answers are closer to home than he ever imagined...

Justine Brent, a trained nurse is asked to attend her childhood friend Bessy Westmore, a rich textile mill owner left paralyzed by a riding accident. Bessy begs to be released from a life of pain, and Justine administers a lethal dose of morphine....

At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple...

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love.

Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork - Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job.