Fiction & related items

  • The winners

    £10.99

    The breath-taking new novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author of A Man Called Ove beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, loyalty, loss, and identity, and asks us to reconsider what it means to win, what it means to lose, and what it means to forgive.

  • The rabbit hutch

    £9.99

    * The literary debut that everyone is talking about *

  • The cherry robbers

    £9.99

    The reclusive Sylvia Wren, one of the most important American artists of the past century, has been running from her past for 60 years. Born Iris Chapel, of the Chapel munitions dynasty, second youngest of six sisters, she grew up in a palatial Victorian ‘Wedding Cake House’ in New England, neglected by her distant father and troubled, haunted mother. The sisters longed to escape, but the only way out was marriage. Not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second sister, leaving the rest to navigate the wreckage, with heart-wrenching consequences. ‘The Cherry Robbers’ is a wonderfully atmospheric, propulsive novel about sisterhood, mortality and forging one’s own path.

  • The incredible events in women’s cell number 3

    £16.99

    When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretences, she is given a 10-day sentence at a detention centre. Her cellmates are five other ordinary women arrested on petty charges. Ten listless days stretch before Anya and, as she appeals her sentence and recalls her progress from apolitical youth to informed citizen, she is troubled by strange, dreamlike visions, and wonders if her cellmates might somehow not be as ordinary as they seem.

  • The last gift of the master artists

    £9.99

    By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, but only one of them shows up. This sounds like the beginning of a love story, but it’s more than that, for this breath-taking tale takes the reader into the heart of a vibrant world, a complex and intriguing civilisation of warriors and kings, philosophers and artists, parents and lovers. A world and culture which is about to end, for glimpsed on the horizon, seen but unsuspected, beautiful ships with white sails are waiting.

  • Thirst for salt

    £9.99

    A gorgeously written novel set over the course of one life-changing summer in an isolated Australian coastal town

  • Found in a bookshop

    £9.99

    Loveday Cardew’s beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes. Rosemary and George have been married for fifty years. Now their time is running out. They have decided to set out on their last journey together, without ever leaving the bench at the bottom of their garden in Whitby. All they need is someone who shares their love of books. Suddenly it’s clear to Loveday that she and her team can do something useful in a crisis. They can recommend books to help with the situations their customers find themselves in: fear, boredom, loneliness, the desire for laughter and escape. And so it begins.

  • Two nights in Lisbon

    £9.99

    Ariel Price wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone – no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can’t fully answer: What exactly is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he drag her along on his business trip? Who would want to harm him? And why does Ariel know so little about her new, much younger, husband? The clock is ticking. Ariel is increasingly frustrated and desperate, running out of time, and the one person in the world who can help is the one person she least wants to ask.

  • Blackstone Fell

    £9.99

    Yorkshire, 1606. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again. Rachel Savernake investigates a locked-room puzzle in this Gothic mystery.

  • An island promise

    £8.99

    Patricia Wilson’s sweeping historical romantic novel follows a Daphne, a young, Jewish Greek artist as she hides during the Nazi occupation of Athens. In 2023, Daphne’s granddaughter, Flora, an art restorer, is planning her 100th birthday, when Daphne tells Flora of a valuable piece of art which bought her freedom during the war. Realising she knows so little about her family history, Flora heads to Corfu to uncover the secrets of their past.

  • The furies

    £8.99

    The furies – mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator Charlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies.

  • I’m sorry you feel that way

    £10.99

    For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they’d intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down.