BOOKS

The kingdom of Patan is under attack from the army of Avanti. People have fled their villages to seek refuge in the city. Amidst the mounting panic...

Whip-smart and uncompromising' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Quietly riveting' IRISH TIMES'It's the perfect crime' NEW YORKER'Impressive and complex' ...

They are renaissance men. They are boulevardiers. They are three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn-of-the-millennium: AC, a gangsta ...

The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Always ridiculous, often hil...

Before the Saint, or James Bond… there was Bulldog Drummond. The original daredevil adventurer.Bulldog Drummond"Demobilized officer, finding peace ...

Before Raffles and Lupin there was Simon CarneAfter the success of Dr Nikola, Guy Boothby created yet another bestselling series with Simon Carne, ...

World war I spy classicsThe Man with the Clubfoot sees British master spy Desmond Okewood, take on his formidable counterpart German master spy Dr ...

The master criminal who can't be caughtThe Infallible Godahl is a self-proclaimed master criminal – with the most perfect criminal mind ever devise...

Classic Victorian paranormal novel!Lizzie Melladew is murdered and her twin sister disappears, they are led to Fanny Lemon whose husband is ailing ...

The Golden Triangle (also known as The Return of Arsène Lupin) is set a couple of years after the events of 813.Captain Patrice Belval, learning of...

The masterpiece that started the Gothic craze.The Castle of Otranto by Walpole is believed to have begun the Gothic genre. Dark foreboding castles,...

Who do you believe…?Robert Blair, a local solicitor, is called on to defend two women, Marion Sharpe and her mother, who are accused of kidnapping ...

Some doors are locked for a reason...While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing ...

In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home and Annika grows up in the ...

Ahmed Kathrada was an ordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. His memories traced the remarkable journey of a man who not only observed, but ...

If this whole series existed right now, I'd tear through it to the exclusion of everything else in my life." -Teen Librarian ToolboxThe Davenports ...

An exhilarating, virtuosic story collection about women navigating the wilds of male-dominated Alaskan society

How to clone a sheep. How to build a brain. How to boil a planet. How to save the world. From the microscopic to the cosmic, this book takes you on...

Italy's Maigret returns in another smouldering noir from a master of the police procedural "A master storyteller" Barry Forshaw, IndependentA few d...

LINGERS LIKE A FEVER DREAM' V.E. SCHWAB'INTOXICATING' EMILY HENRY Every fairy tale must come to an end. In the tradition of sumptuous gothic novels...

10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION - FEATURES READING GROUP QUESTIONS AND NEW MATERIAL FROM STEF'S UPCOMING EPIC NOVEL, UNDER A POLE STARCOSTA AWARD WINNE...

The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the aut...

The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been app...