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Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers. Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian. Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru. These three strangers have nothing in common, except for the man who's been lying to all of them. And who they are now holding hostage in a basement. Eat, Slay, Lo...

Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers at the Bethesda Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatene...

You know Miss Havisham. The world's most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter's story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to hate men and to keep her heart cold as the grave. She knows she doesn't feel things quite like other peop...

Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hai...

Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi lives with her family in an upscale apartment complex in Taiwan, a tight-knit community of strict yet doting parents and privileged children raised to be ambitious, dutiful, and virtuous. She and her neighbor Liu Yi-Ting bond over their love of learning and books, de...

Sometimes finding your place in the world is the greatest puzzle of all… Clayton Stumper is an enigma. He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the shar...

When former journalist turned café owner Kate Jackson abandons her six-month-old baby and disappears without a word, the quirky offshore community of Cook's Basin quickly steps in to salvage a delicate and difficult situation. But even the best intentions can go horribly awry. Relationships are t...

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn't always like this. Hers i...

A woman reborn as fae. A new mate bond. A curse to break. A coming war. Since journeying to the fae realm, Rosalina O’Connell has discovered that she is the fated mate of both Prince Keldarion and Prince Farron. Rosie has also learned that she is half fae. When goblins attack Castletree, using st...

Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage - after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then Damian, a young Irish carer, arrives at her London flat,...

"The Full Moon Coffee Shop" is the name of a peculiar cafe run by talking cats, which has no fixed location and instead materialises unpredictably on the night of a full moon. The protagonists of this story -- a successful female scriptwriter in crisis, a heartbroken TV director, and two male ent...

We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, t...

Everyone has heard of Girls. But what happened to the women they became? At the time of her death, the press wrote many things about Ingrid Olssen: She was a brilliant artist. She was a terrible mother to her girls, Mattie and Nora. And that her legacy would live on forever. Even so, it's unlikel...

It's 412 BC and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse. Lampo and Gelon are local potters, young men with no work and barely two obols to rub together. With not much to fill their time, they take to visit...

We give celebrities a power they don't deserve. Power they haven't earned. What happens when they exploit it? Imagine you've just spent the night with the most famous man on the planet. Except you don't quite remember it. That is what happens to Rose, a twenty-something woman who seemingly has ev...

Two sisters, Emma and Agathe, reminisce about their lives together, analyze their fraught relationship and consider reconciling when they must return together to Basque Country to empty out the home of their beloved grandmother.

Helia has served as the Sage of Hope for the Great Library of Tomorrow for centuries. She is one of the chosen few who embody and protect the values of humanity across the numerous realms of Paperworld, which are connected within the Library itself via magical Portals controlled by the Book of Wi...

Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. The two are on different courses, Austin is British, temporarily in New York. Dara's from North Carolina, set on law school. They fall in love at first sight, and are determined to make their lives together. Days afte...

We didn't call the police right away. Later, I would blame myself, wonder if things might have turned out differently if I hadn't shrugged it off, insisting Dad wasn't missing missing but just delayed, probably still in the woods looking for Eugene. Mia Parkson's life is turned upside down when h...

Heather is happy... ish. She has a successful business, a cute but contemptuous cat, and best friends Daphne and Tori who know where she's broken and love her anyway. So why does she feel crushed when her ex gets serious about someone new? No problem -- she has a plan. More connections will hold ...

Margot and her sister Roslyn have lived side by side in a little town in the Adelaide Hills most of their lives, supporting each other through thick and thin. Then their neighbour Gunter dies. Surprisingly, his will asks that his house and vineyard be sold and that Roslyn donate the money to a ch...

'I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise...' Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two. In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the fut...

Butte, Montana, October 1891, and a hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad maker of the town, but also a doper, ...

Summer, 1914. At a private meeting on Woodrow Wilson's presidential yacht, the President addresses the newly launched regional Federal Reserve banks, when the yacht comes under attack from a bi-wing airplane. It's up to Isaac Bell to shoot down the plane with a machine gun, saving everyone aboard...

Olivia Hodges used to do horrible things -- back when she worked for a Spanish crime syndicate -- but she fled that life and moved home to Australia, building a family in the hippie, hipster community of the Dandenong Ranges. When a small-time criminal gang brings tragedy to her family, superstit...

Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr John Watson, have been hired by actor George Reynolds. George wants them to find out why the audience who comes to see him perform every night are the same people, only wearing disguises. Is something sinister going on and, if so, what? Meanwhile, Holme...

Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury has reached a verdict. Two years earlier, Livia was a probation officer in Yorkshire, her husband Scott a teacher. Their children, Heidi and Noah, rounded out a happy family, until the day Scott's brother died. Grief and guilt leave Scott sea...

Old friends Renee and Flo couldn't be more different. Flo wants to be invisible, Renee wants to be a somebody. But old friendships are magnetic. In their early twenties, and on the cusp of the rest of their lives, Renee and Flo both fly home to Guernsey: to the island where it all began. Back in ...

Nanao 'the unluckiest assassin in the world' has been hired to deliver a birthday present to a guest at a luxury Tokyo hotel. It seems like a simple assignment but by the time he leaves the guest's room one man is dead and more will soon follow. As events spiral out of control as it becomes clear...

Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files -- and her job as a result. Her marbles? 'Mild cognitive impairment', according to the doctor. Time for a nursing home, according to her daughter, Rose. Rose has her own troubles with memory, a recu...