Fiction

  • Rosarita

    £9.99

    From three times Booker-shortlisted writer Anita Desai, Rosarita is an exquisite story of art, memory and what happens when the past threatens to re-write the present.

  • Tigers in Red Weather

    £10.99

    The Sunday Times top ten bestseller with the simmering tension of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.

  • Summer at Mount Asama

    £12.99

    Toru Sakanishi is a recent university graduate who joins a small, prestigious architecture firm founded by Shunsuke Murai, a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. A sensitive and observant narrator, Sakanishi is captivated by the artistic quality and careful consideration the Murai Office shows to each of its designs. As the sweltering summer months approach, the team migrates from Tokyo to Kita-Asama, a mountain village and artists’ colony whose heyday has passed. There, they set out to design the National Library of Modern Literature, competing against a rival firm that snaps up one government project after the next. Over the course of this summer, Sakanishi encounters four remarkable women who change the course of his life.

  • Until August

    £9.99

    Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire, and the fear that sits quietly at her heart.

  • The Homecoming

    £10.99

    Quietly disturbing and blending the uncanny with societal conversation-starters, it tells the story of Ellen, a young ghost-writer sent to record the memoirs of an elderly woman living in a remote Northumberland manor. Elver House is dilapidated, its faded beauty falling to ruin.

  • Don’t Let Him In

    £20.00

    He’s the perfect man. He says he loves you. You think he might even be made for you. Before long he’s moved into your house – and into your heart. And then he leaves for days at a time. You don’t know where he’s gone or who he’s with. And you realise – if you looked back – you’d say to yourself: Don’t let him in.

  • The Year of the Ox

    £6.99

    It’s almost time for the Year of the Ox! Ming and Miaow are busy helping their ox friend Xiao Nioh get ready to kick off the festivities with a dance performance to wow the crowds. But when Xiao Nioh’s father Lord Chiyou makes clear his disapproval, the trio find themselves sent on a quest to save a village from a fearsome beast. Xiao Nioh is worried. He can’t fight a monster – he’s a dancer, not a warrior like his dad! Can the Guardians help their friend prove himself to his father without giving up his passion, or is the Year of the Ox ruined before it’s even had a chance to start?

  • A Fine Night for Dying

    £8.99

    In Jack Higgins’ final spy thriller featuring the top-secret Bureau, their premier agent Paul Chavasse is sent on an undercover mission to smash a gang of cross-Channel people smugglers. Will he get out alive?

  • The Wedding People

    £9.99
  • The Seventh Floor

    £9.99

    A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat and run out of the service. Traded back in a spy swap, Sam appears at Procter’s central Florida doorstep months later with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole hidden deep within the upper reaches of CIA. As Procter and Sam investigate, they arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procter’s closest friends and fiercest enemies. The hunt soon requires Procter to dredge up her own checkered past in service of CIA, placing her and Sam into the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow’s mole in Langley at all costs, even if it means wreaking bloody havoc across the United States.

  • The Bormann Testament

    £8.99

    Somewhere in Germany was hidden a manuscript that would rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Martin Bormann.

  • Year of the Tiger

    £8.99

    The Bureau’s most deadly enforcer Paul Chavasse is back in a revised and expanded edition of Jack Higgins’ classic spy thriller.

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