Literary Fiction

It’s 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it.1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for ...

He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks . . . John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.John owns a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland. Maybe it is there that he can at last outrun the shadows of his past.The tale o...

'You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...'The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes ...

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by Jean Webster. The story tells about Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen. The mysterious man believes in the girl's talent and hopes she can be a real writer and requires her ...

A shocking, intensely emotive and wildly original new thriller from Will Carver…A disillusioned nurse suddenly learns how to care.An injured young sportsman wakes up find that he can see only in black and white.A desperate old widower takes too many pills and believes that two angels have arrived...

It's 2025. Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop-star's private menagerie, holding some of the last surviving animals in the world. Global warming is a reality. In his youth, Ty had been so serious about environmental issues that as an e...

This is not a gospel. This is a story.In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told.Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus w...

"'Give me Harry Potter,' said Voldemort's voice, 'and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded.'"As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last ...

"'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'"When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far fro...

A dark and glittering thriller for fans of Will Dean and Lucy Atkins from the author of The Cliff House…It was meant to be paradise…Winterfall Farm, spectacular and remote, stands over Bodmin Moor. Wanting an escape from the constraints of conventional life, Kit and Tara move to the isolated smal...