Category: Fiction
The seat of the Trelawney family for over 800 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. Each successive Earl spent with abandon, turning the house and grounds into a sprawling, extravagant palimpsest of wings, turrets and follies. But recent generations have been better at spendin ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
1964. Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hard-working mother blows off steam at her cha-cha-cha classes; his Trotskyite father grumbles over t ...Show more
Category: Thriller
Twelve years ago, Simon Davey prevented a tragedy, and ruined his own life. Once a senior British diplomat in Kiev, he lost everything after a lurid scandal. Back in London, still struggling with the aftermath of his disgrace, he is travelling on the Tube when he sees her ... Olesya is the woman Simon h ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
Based on a true story, three children in the slums of a sprawling Indian city set out to solve the case of a missing classmate in this harrowing debut about comradery, adventure, and the slow unravelling of a communal tragedy. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs an ...Show more
Category: Thriller
If you loved The Chalk Man and The Taking of Annie Thorne then grab C. J. Tudor's chilling new novel now . . . 'CJ Tudor has done it again. A mesmerizingly chilling and atmospheric page-turner' J.P. Delaney, bestselling author of The Girl Before She sleeps, a pale girl in a white room . . . Driving ho ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
A feminist superhero epic, Shakti is a story packed with magic, darkness, pain, dreams, superpowers, laughter and light. Your Power. Our Rules. Amid a political climate of right-wing, nationalist leadership, three very different women in the city of Calcutta find themselves gifted with magical powers ...Show more
Category: Fiction
Characterised by its own brand of pleasingly unsettling magic, Naomi Ishiguro's ESCAPE ROUTES matches the inventiveness of David Mitchell with the fairy-tale allure of Angela Carter. A space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother's airing cupboard. A musician finds her friendship with a floc ...Show more
Category: Fiction
In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
'Improvement is a major work of literature.' - Nick Hornby, The Believer Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the ...Show more
Category: Thriller
"Listeners looking for creepy will find it in full force in Alex North's dark thriller, narrated by British actor Christopher Eccleston." -- AudioFile Magazine This program is read by acclaimed British actor Christopher Eccleston.In this psychological thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational ta ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Shortlisted for the MAN BOOKER PRIZEWinner of the MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWinner of the WALTER SCOTT PRIZEShortlisted for the INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDIn the highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, ...Show more
