Fiction

Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri's carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island.

As the days pass, this shocking event draws together four women. There's Sharleen, a journalist with an eye for the real story. Her childhood friend Tara, a pink-haired, str

Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died.

'Like all the best ghost stories, The Echoes is also a love story'
PAULA HAWKINS

'Captivating, funny, clever'
SAMANTHA HARVEY

'A book that will stay with you forever'
OBSERVER

As a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max wa

The bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time weaves ancient fables into fresh, unexpected forms and forges new unforgettable legends.

'A marvel of a collection' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time
'A consummate storyteller' New York Times

The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a w

In one night, Nayan lost everything. Years later, his world is at risk again.

Nayan has fought hard to move on, losing himself in his political work, trying to make a better world. A fresh challenge arrives with newcomer Megha, who threatens not just his career ambitions, but his ideals.

Meanwhile the enigmatic Helen Fletcher returns to Chesterfield and Nayan finds

'Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel...elegant, original and often very funny' Kevin Barry, New Statesman Books of the Year

Two couples inhabit the same apartment in Paris, almost fifty years apart...

2019. When David takes a job in London, Anna is left alone in their Paris apartment. It's August and the city is deserted

An Austrian housewife sits in her loft intent on her drawings of birds and insects. Then one day a disturbing package arrives in the post...

The narrator of this story spends her free time in her loft. It is a retreat where she can draw undisturbed. It is also a retreat from her dull and dissatisfied husband, a man who sighs unhappily even when she sneezes. Their grown-up chil

'One of the most exciting new novels' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Very funny... Its deeply felt pages flew by' GUARDIAN

'Sexy, compassionate, uncommonly imaginative: I've never read anything quite like it' Oisin McKenna, author of Evenings and Weekends

London, 2014. Hal Lancaster - twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWai

Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left; his body is failing him and his quiet existence is only broken up by the daily visits from his home care team. His hands soon too weak to open the precious jar housing the scarf of his Alzheimer-stricken wife Frederika, which still bears her scent. Fortunately he still has his beloved dog Sixten for company, only

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, she runs into her old friend Mr Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams. Now, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a ser

A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.

A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplica

Tragically orphaned at just five, Maddy Hebditch is sent to live with her strict grandmother at Larkspur Farm in Yorkshire. Despite the back-breaking farm work, Maddy's friends Alice, Marigold and Tom bring sunshine to her hard life.

But when war is declared, their idyllic summers together are over. Determined to do their bit, Maddy and her friends volunteer for the forces. Separated