‘The undisputed champion of South African crime’ – Wilbur Smith One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of...

Like many eighteen-year-old boys, Saga’s prime concerns are: listening to music his mum calls “hop-hip”, learning about girls from his suave best mate Ibrahim, and making sure his considerable tummy is well-fed. In his affluent, liberal and relatively protected...

The hilarious, fictional adventures of young, Dennis Bisskit. Growing up in Dudley in the 1950s and 60s. Schooldays , his first jobs at a department story and hotel, and finally as a young adult in the army. Fun of...

A DEADLY PROSECUTOR They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States. A TWISTED RITUALISTIC KILLING When a young woman,...

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown – Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of...

Dedicated to the women of Tajikistan, The Disobedient Wife intertwines the narratives of a British expatriate, Harriet, whose journal portrays a darker interior world than that of the rich wife of the powerful Henri Simenon, and Nargis, her local...

Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. London, 1940 A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she’s another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist...

There are two sides to every story. Which one will you believe? Together for more than thirty years, Bea and Niklas live a comfortable life in Stockholm. But one evening, following a trivial argument, Niklas disappears. Weeks pass before...

When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 Darby McLaughlin is everything her hall mates aren’t: plain, self-conscious, homesick and convinced she doesn’t belong. Yet when she befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she’s introduced to an entirely...

‘Sensationally good, wise, wry and perceptive – this era’s great state-of-the-city novel, up there with the very best of Tom Wolfe and Jay McInerney.’ LEE CHILD The new electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestseller and master of...