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The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo, read by Scottish actor Lorne MacFadyen. An Oprah's Book Club pick "This beautiful, slowburn story of simmering tensions, thwarted affections and all that is left unsaid is...

Sin dinero y con una formación artística que de poco le ha servido, John-Calum Macleod toma el ferry de vuelta a Harris, la isla donde nació, para descubrir que nada ha cambiado. Salvo él. En la desolada granja familiar donde creció, Cal retoma su antigua vida entre los dos polos que marcaron su infancia: su padre, John, pastor de ovejas, tejedor y puntal de la iglesia presbiteriana local, y su abuela materna, Ella, que durante décadas ha mantenido con su yerno una paz precaria.

The start of a dark, gripping crime thriller series from UK Top 20 bestselling author John Nicholl Be careful who you trust. The Mailer family are oblivious to the terrible danger that enters their lives when seven-year-old Anthony is referred to the child guidance service by the family GP...

A completely addictive psychological thriller from the UK Top 20 bestselling author of The Bride It was meant to be the perfect getaway… As I board the plane, all I can feel is hope and excitement. One whole week away. Just me and the man I have promised to be with forever. Time to repair what...

An absolutely gripping crime thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from UK Top 20 bestseller John Nicholl. What drives a woman to murder? Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith is serving a life sentence for murder, and struggling with the traumatic past that put her behind bars...

An unforgettable love story set in Siberia during the Second World War and of living with impossible choices. Lena knows she hasn't got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain, she relives her life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, she was an earnest young girl...

From Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a stunning new novel, John of John. Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that little has changed except for...

'A stylish and engaging tragi-comedy of manners . . . Keshava Guha is an astute and insightful observer of contemporary India' Amitav Ghosh, author of THE IBIS TRILOGY 'A waspishly witty eye cast on the war between sisters and brothers in polluted, high-achieving Delhi' Francis Spufford The...

A completely gripping crime thriller that will have you hooked, from UK Top 20 bestselling author John Nicholl! 'A dark and devastating story that grips you from the very first page' T. J. Emerson, author of The Perfect Holiday. What you don’t know can hurt you. Thirty years ago Anthony Mailer...

The completely addictive and gripping UK Top 20 bestseller by John Nicholl She’s on trial for murder… Now it’s her turn to tell her story… The truth is that I loved James with my whole heart. We were soulmates: meant to be together forever. I had just found out I was carrying his child...

An utterly gripping psychological thriller from the Top 20 bestselling author of The Bride. Must-read for fans of Freida McFadden ⚠️💍Not every love story is a fairytale romance… When Anna first meets Mark, she thinks he’s the perfect boyfriend. Wealthy and charming, he showers her...

'Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come . . . A stellar debut' Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the Bone A spellbinding ode to Memphis, as well as a celebration of the strength and defiance of three generations of a Southern black family who live there...

In 1997 Anne's eighteen-year-old son Torran walked out of his hotel in the notorious Himalayan town of Manali - and disappeared. Seven years later Anne is still searching, haunted by the idea that someone must know something, following every tenuous lead, obsessed with potential sightings. She's ridden with guilt at the way she failed Torran as a mother. Though, unlike her husband, she's never stopped believing her son is alive. When her estranged niece Esther arrives with new information, Anne is convinced that her tenacity will finally be rewarded.

Eva looked out of the window of the charmingly crumbling guest house and thought she might be sick. She could see Frank lying on the grass in last night's clothes - it wasn't clear whether he was conscious or not. Her husband, Shay, was in bed. She loved him, of course she did, just right now the person she most wanted to see was Connor. She didn't want to think about what had happened to Bea or how Lizzie was feeling.

'A work of comic genius' Naomi Booth, author of raw content 'Rahim writes with wit, erudition and a delicious sense of mischief . . . a pleasure to read' Nikita Lalwani, author of You People Adam Din hasn't spoken to Suleyman Karim since they were at school together in Harrow twenty years...

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives. Is there any difference between memory and...

John Lescroart’s latest spectacular New York Times bestseller explores the unexpected and shattering consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple—a “dark, disturbing, satisfying read” (San Francisco Chronicle) that asks us to consider how much we really know...

It was strange because it wasn't so long ago that he was convinced the only way out of the depression that had crippled him since he was a child was death. But now, he is on a high-speed train, travelling from Rome to Modena, a failed novelist on the tail of a famous physicist whose memoir he is ghostwriting. The more of another man's life he writes, the more his debt to his publisher is paid off. But nothing would be possible had he not experienced the life-altering, life-saving treatment for the darkness which had been hovering since the chemical spill in West Virginia.

Cursed by tenderhearted witches, saved by Nazarene healers, and haunted by brazen lunatics, the characters in FIELD NOTES FOR THE EARTHBOUND yearn to escape the relentless horizon of Northwestern Ohio. These connected stories chronicle an area dying to itself: shedding its history and awakening to modernity—to highways, speed, bottled beer, and rock-n-roll.

Wie wichtig ist unsere Vergangenheit? Die Senioren-WG bekommt Zuwachs. Johann, Landpfarrer in Pension, bringt seine WG-Genossinnen Gisela und Karin ganz schön durcheinander. Nicht nur, weil er immer noch ein attraktiver Mann ist, auch seine Familienverhältnisse geben den Damen Rätsel auf, denn Johann hat keinen Kontakt zu seiner Familie. Wie kann das sein? Das muss geändert werden, finden die beiden und machen sich ans Werk. Dabei setzen sie Ereignisse in Gang, die sie nicht einmal zu träumen gewagt hätten.