Once considered the 'dark continent' in the imagination of the West, Africa is now recognized as the cradle of mankind. It is a land of overwhelming complexity and wealth, both culturally and geograph
HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering new NUMBER ONE bestseller! THERE'S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS... A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that t
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, full of trial and sacrifice, The Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity. From
How far would you go to protect your family? Sophie Brinkmann was once an ordinary woman. A dedicated nurse, a grieving widow, a single mother to a beloved teenage son. And then she fell in love with
Told in stark, unsparing detail, this book delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next,
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one sid
Someone's getting married. Someone's getting murdered. The next big thing in crime fiction - we've had toxic marriages, this is about toxic friendships Nora hasn't seen her former best friend, Clare,
Detective Erlendur is back.In Oblivion Erlendur is a recently promoted detective. His world is dominated by drug-dealers, a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl, a CIA operative and the murky hist
"Writer’s luck” is a phrase usually applied to good fortune, and I certainly consider myself lucky to have published my most popular novels in a period when the going was good for literary
HOW DO YOU SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER? Everyone believes Alex is in a coma, unlikely to ever wake up. As his family debate withdrawing life support, and his friends talk about how his girlfriend Bea needs
Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for. It is a day filled with the small joys of family life, but also its deep struggles. With this striking novel in the Seasons quart
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What matters most in life? How do you build a happy life when terrible things happen? What is left behind when you lose the person you love the most? One night last winte
We are excited to be publishing the exceptional new standalone thriller from international bestseller Jo Nesbo in September 2020.In the mountains of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. One d
In the lawless killing fields of the Eastern Front, SS Oberleutnant Hoffmann is on a mission to find a murderer. Belorussia, July 1943. As the Battle of Kursk rages to the east and the tide turns agai
A brutal tennis match in Rome. Two formidable opponents: the wild Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo. Galileo, Saint Matthew and Mary M
Alan Garner is an exceptional lecturer and essayist. This collection, taken form the work of more that twenty years, explores an enviable range of scholarly interests: archaeology, myth, language, edu
Her house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working there on the garden one Saturday with his father, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door
"Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me." (Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaway
