Collection: Adult Fiction

Mayfair, 1910. At the age of ninety, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a celebrated career as a nurse, writer and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening she is astonished to receive a visitor: a young man named Silas Bradley, who claim...

Yeva is a maverick scientist who scours the country's forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge her to settle down and start a family of her own. What they don't know: Yeva already dates plenty of men - not for love, but to fund her work - entertaining ...

The Chibineko Kitchen is no ordinary restaurant: the food can bring someone you've lost back to you, for one last time. It's been months since Kotoko first visited the tiny restaurant by the sea. Now she works there, alongside the chef Kai and his mischievous kitten Chibi. One sunny morning, the ...

Jasper Fforde invites you to imagine a world where your position in society depends on what bit of the colour spectrum you can see... It's the UK, but not as we know it: civilisation has rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years before. Society is now colour-based, th...

Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted, hard-working, and determined man. When the former owners of the corner café in the Carmelite market square shutter the business, Robert sees that...

When it comes to dating, Adam Lockwood wouldn’t know luck if it hit him in the face. After an epic failure of a relationship and a string of dates gone wrong, the thought of being vulnerable with someone is terrifying – most people only see him as a professional athlete. But when his dog runs dow...

The story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser continues. Claire must choose her destiny and as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face what awaits her...

Set on a family estate on the Cornish coast, the comfort and welcoming atmosphere is extinguished by the on-set of the war._.

Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, "The Paris Express" is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany and as far as Russia, Ireland, Alger...

Evelyn Sinclair, the cherished morning television host, is being quietly pushed out by her network. Seeking solace at her retreat in the Southern Highlands, she plans a romantic weekend - only to be discovered dead under mysterious circumstances. Her death is so significant that even the Prime Mi...