When a light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. While the mayor postures, people begin to die, especially on the city’s grim west side. Hospitals become morgues. L trains are converted...

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father’s house in the south of France. The boys don’t really know him, and they don’t really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going...

‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq,...

What it is to be a boy! Adventures each and every day, with endless rough and tumble in the cause of rebellion. Our mixed-race narrator is growing up in New York state with an abusive father, unpredictable mother and...

Family man Colin Martin runs into trouble and the upshot is – jail in Bangkok, where he has to face a corrupt legal system and mistreatment of inmates. A truly scary and rivetting read.

Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for ‘a year-long sabbatical’. It’s a break from married...

Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of...

Amine Wefali had four beautiful children and houses in Westchester, Nantucket, and Florida–but her marriage had become acrimonious. She had moved into the attic of her exclusive home in Westchester, a suburb of New York, while Phillip, her prosperous...

‘What happens in Nashville, stays in Nashville!’ Claire Buchan is hardly over the moon about the prospect of her sister’s hen party; travelling from the UK to Nashville, Tennessee, for a week of honky-tonks, karaoke and cowboys. Certainly not...

At TripFiction we debated long and hard whether to include this novel. It is “set in” Mallorca but the main character never actually goes there! See what you think! Sophie Sturgeon can’t wait for her annual summer holiday. Not...