Fiction

The king's new bride, Scheherazade, is to be put to death. Using a clever strategy, she delays her imminent execution by recounting a series of interlinked stories, each leading into the next, which collectively form The Arabian Nights.

I am the wish child, the future cast in water. Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in middle-class Berlin, where her father censors books, cutting out...

Shortlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s...

A young woman inherits a Tokyo pawn shop where you can sell your deepest regrets, sparking a dream-like and magical adventure: Before the Coffee Gets Cold meets Studio Ghibli. On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone...

2025’s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel by R.F. Kuang. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only...

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name,...

From New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a taut psychological thriller about a woman trying to make it through the night shift... From Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden! All she has do is make it...

From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine.Meddy has spent her whole life as a...

he gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now!24 hours to stop the crime of the centuryThe race against time is about to begin... THE TOWER OF LONDON......

Introducing Inspector Jimmy Perez, Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall. A remote community with a killer in their midst . . . On...

Sarajevo: a city under siege. As the mortars fall and the snipers conduct their deadly business, a cellist sits at his window, playing Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. Then a bomb kills twenty-two people waiting in line to...

From the killing fields of Ypres to the sun-kissed vineyards of rural France, The Champagne War is a heart-stopping adventure about the true power of love and hope to light the way during war.  In the summer of...

From the Booker Prize-winning Julian Barnes, about looking back, facing the future, and coming to the end of life  Departure(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when...

 It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school:...

EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . . The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard...

One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from... His name is Theo and he's arrived there by chance - or has he? He visits the...

The hauntingly atmospheric and gripping new novel from the author of The Wolf Tree In a mountainous region of the Scottish Highlands, a young woman's body has been found on a remote stretch of road. Though the manner of...

Sometimes death is just the beginning ... Late 1872. When twenty-five-year-old Sydney undertaker Tatiana Crowe travels to Auckland to embalm the body of Evan Hunter's father events go horribly wrong, leaving Tatty stricken. Back at home, Tatty has...

An intoxicating woman appears to her lover only once every six years. A British diplomat employs his rather creative - if not entirely ethical - financial talents for a greater good. And a millionaire declares himself bankrupt to...

Published as a standalone novel for the first time, A Long Winter is a psychologically intricate and emotionally devastating story from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island. One snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel's...

Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems...

Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to...

When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded in hospital and carefully removes his bandages, he realises he is one of the few who can see; almost everyone else has been blinded by a meteor shower. When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded...

When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man, to all appearances no younger than seventy years old. As time goes by, young Benjamin...