Fiction

In 1942, against the backdrop of a world at war, a volatile but determined young woman leaves Edinburgh for London. Caught in a dangerous passion for an English airman, Charlotte Gray finds her life irrevocably altered when he disappears. With the shadow of war looming, she travels to occupied France—not just on an errand for a British organisation, but for her own private purposes.

Author: Sebastian Faulks

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Molly Howe flees a small-town scandal for Berkeley, where she enters into a passionate affair with art student John Wheelwright before vanishing without a trace. A decade later, John is recruited by Mal Osbourne, an eccentric advertising guru determined to radically dismantle traditional Madison Avenue concepts. Swept into this creative storm, John is stunned to discover that the elusive woman who broke his heart years prior has also been drawn into Osbourne's wild corporate orbit. Moving far beyond traditional drama, this text masterfully explores themes of cultural manipulation, the corruption of creative talent, and the hollow nature of consumerism.

Author: Jonathan Dee

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The last thing on Ray's troubled mind is a band reunion. For one thing, theirs wasn't exactly an amicable split; but a slightly larger obstacle is that Simon has been dead for three years. So when Ray glimpses him walking through Glasgow Airport, he assumes he's seeing things, until Real Life starts getting weirder and more violent than any computer game...

Author: Christopher Brookmyre

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A masterfully tense espionage thriller from the grandmaster of spy fiction. Our Kind of Traitor follows an ordinary British couple, Perry and Gail, who are thrust into a deadly game of international intrigue after befriending a Russian millionaire money-launderer on holiday. Propelled on a terrifying journey from London to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, they quickly discover how far British intelligence and global criminals will go when millions of dollars are on the line.

Author: John Le Carré

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A highly acclaimed historical novel by the Irish author Sebastian Barry. It is widely regarded as one of the most poignant and powerful depictions of the Irish experience during the First World War.

Author: Sebastian Barry

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Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy THE FAMOUS FIVE

When the Famous Five discover a valuable gold coin in the caves around Demon's Rocks, they start to believe the old stories about treasure hidden there. But after word gets out, the Five are not the only ones hunting for gold in the caves' secret tunnels - and some will stop at nothing to find it first...

Author: Enid Blyton

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In Woman, Trashed, Joanne Brodie delivers a blistering, no-holds-barred account of her descent into the darkest corners of addiction. More than just a memoir of substance abuse, this is a profound look at the "ripple effect" of dependency on a life once considered stable. Brutally honest, darkly humorous, and ultimately a story of hard-won redemption, Brodie’s journey serves as a gripping testament to the resilience of the human spirit. 

Author: Joanne Brodie

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A Booker Prize-winning literary masterpiece from Pat Barker, exploring the dirty, glorious, and horrifying reality of the First World War. This heart-rending omnibus brings together Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road. Seen through the eyes of army psychologist William Rivers and damaged soldier Billy Prior, it chronicles the final two years of the war. As Rivers struggles to heal traumatized men—including the poet Siegfried Sassoon—only to see them sent straight back to the front, Barker crafts a devastating vision of an entire generation brutalized by the horrors of the trenches.

Author: Pat Barker

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Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future and more particularly for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement.

Author: John Banville

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The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.

Author: Jonathan Franzen

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Like most people, Vic Mullan can remember exactly where he was and what he was doing on the day of Princess Diana's death: he was at home, beginning an intense affair with Emma, his friend Joe's wife. The opening sections of David Baddiel's brilliant second novel chart the history of an intense and passionately sexual liaison set against the background of a highly hysterical time. But as the months wear on and life returns to normal, things grow increasingly complex between the two lovers—until a sudden, small-scale local tragedy intervenes.

Author: David Baddiel

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Sent on a mission deep into the forests of pagan Anglo-Saxon England, Wat Brand, a Christian scribe, suddenly finds his vision of the world turned upside down. The familiar English countryside is not what it seems; threatening spirits, birds of omen and plants of power lurk in this landscape of unseen terrors and mysterious forces. With Wulf, a sorcerer and mystic, as his guide, Wat is instructed in the magical lore of plants, runes, fate and life force until finally he journeys to the spirit world on a quest to encounter the true nature of his own soul.

Author: Brian Bates

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