No. 2 in the Phipps series. One callous criminal. One chance to bring him down. Mr Phipps’s days of freelance assassinations may be behind him, along with the big pay outs, but after the debacle of one particular London...

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted...

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She’s lost her job, her car is about to be reposessed and she has sold much of her furniture…. Her cousin Vinnie is offering her a job to bring in vice cop,...

This is the same book as “Total Chaos”. Inspector Montale is forced to revisit his childhood in order to solve a crime

Originally published as “Summer School” Patricia Wilson’s carefully composed ads for the writers’ retreat she runs at her thirteenth-century Italian castle promise so much. But while the splendour of their surroundings and chef Aldo’s melanzane never fail to wow...

Evie isa receptionist in a high profile cosmetic surgery. She has never had a good holiday, really, so perks up when she is invited by her employers to attend a conference in the South of France. Things do not...

In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted – until she was born with a fatal illness. No one knows how the infection could have been transferred...

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn’t know why or how… The 1850s is a time of discovery and London is ablaze with the...

BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 LONGLIST A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as...

Muslim bad girl Zainab Mir has just landed a job working for a post-feminist, Republican Senate candidate. Her best friend Amra Abbas is about to make partner at a top Boston law firm. Together they’ve thwarted proposal-slinging aunties, cultural...