The gripping third instalment of Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: the manager of a children's home is dead and a twelve-year-old tearaway is on the run.
Imagine The Secret Scripture crossed with The Reader: in this shattering novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Jacqueline Yallop has spun a story of collaboration, betrayal, illicit love, faith and aching desire.
A fugitive framed for murder gets a new face and a new life from a mysterious foreigner. So why are the cops still after him?'The most original American novelist of crime and suspense' STEPHEN KING
Sneak behind the skirting board with Furball the trusting hamster, and run riot with the Mokes - a gang of cockney mice...
The return of Sandro Cellini: ex-cop and private detective, Florence's answer to Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, Snowdrops is the debut of 2011: A stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption in Moscow. 'Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted' Independent
Now in paperback: the perfect quirky Christmas present for readers of New Scientist and anyone who enjoys QI. The Things that Nobody Knows is a fascinating and unputdownable exploration of the limits of human knowledge of our planet, its history and culture, and the universe beyond.
The No. 1 e-book hit: a fast-paced, gritty and atmospheric crime novel set on the tough streets of Glasgow, 1946. 'The new Ian Rankin.' - Daily Mail
From the bestselling author of The Slap comes a novel of shimmering intensity - a young man's journey in the land of his ancestors becomes a wild and page-turning flight from a crime that he did not commit, but is doomed to repeat.
The fourth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: A school girl possessed by evil spirits and a savage murder; Merrily is once again drawn into the deadly tangle of deceit and mystery in rural Herefordshire...
A secret city and a one-hundred-year-old murder reveal a deadly conspiracy of fantastic proportions: Strindberg's Star will chill your bones in the summer's heat...
From Jonathan Glancey, the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Spitfire: The Biography, comes his new bestseller telling the incredible story of the last days of the great steam locomotives.
The dazzling second book from Man Booker Prize-winning Aravind Adiga.
An authoritative and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word.
A stunning coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, as one extraordinarily loyal and headstrong girl battles to save the people she loves.
"Michael Ridpath is on the war path, trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location." PETER JAMES
How far would you go to protect your child? When her daughter is bullied, Laura makes a terrible mistake...
The next sensational instalment in the Stevens and Windermere series from the author of The Professionals: 'A breathtakingly fast-paced tale that seldom pauses for breath' Daily Mail
In this controversial new book, Andrew Keen argues that the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives - and outlines what we must do to change it, before it's too late.
The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation.
'Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens's London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if you've read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here.' Sebastian Faulks, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year
Three girls chase their dreams through the glittering playgrounds of the super-rich: imagine the characters of Louise Bagshawe in the world of Jackie Collins
A gritty, realistic police procedural debut. Does for Brooklyn's 'Little Italy' what The Wire did for Baltimore
The first and only global social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous and politically influential art-form: opera. 'A mighty achievement, by far and away the best history of opera available.' Tim Blanning, Literary Review
THOSE WHO DENY HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT Purge has become an international publishing sensation and is among the most hard-hitting thrillers of recent years.
Craig Raine's dazzlingly original second novel, The Divine Comedy is a gripping meditation on sex and death and God and the myriad ways in which the human body plays dirty tricks on us.
Moving from the gas-flares of Teesside, to marine adventures in the South Atlantic, Hemispheres is a salutary and searing debut novel for anyone who enjoyed Kes and The Northern Clemency.
A Brilliant novel... The Messiah of Stockholm is a worthy companion to Philip Roth's superb Prague Orgy... A complex and fascinating meditation on the nature of writing and the responsibilities of those who choose to create - or judge - tales. - Harold Bloom, New York Times
From the author of The Hanging Shed, a bestseller totalling 200,000 copies, comes the third instalment in the Douglas Brodie series. As Glasgow is buried under snow, a killer is on the loose and a deadly secret threatens to take Brodie to the edge of sanity. 'The new Ian Rankin' - Daily Mail
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