Collection: Adult fiction

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. Riding the subway in New York at two o'clock in the morning, Reacher knows the 12 giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of the passengers, he becomes sharply aware: one by one, she...

Philip Quinn has done everything to make his life perfect. With his career on the fast track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbour, his life on the streets is firmly in the past. But one look at his adopted brother Seth and the memories come flooding back. In Seth he sees the boy he once was.

In 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple's brother-in-law asks her to investigate the poison-pen letters that some residents have been receiving. Daisy discovers that the village is a hotbed of resentment and intrigue that escalates to murder.

A warm, tender and utterly hilarious story about love and betrayal from the author of the hugely successful 'The Yorkshire Pudding Club'.

The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on a beach near Glasgow. It is Glasgow in the 1990s and the victim is just another dead heroin addict. But Tracy Eadie was only 14-years-old and came from a children's home in Glasgow. How did she get from there to where she is now?

Liz and Jonathan were in trouble with their mortgage. Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives. He knew of the perfect tenants who'd rent their old house. Soon, everyone seemed to be entangled with everyone else, in the most awkward possible way.

12-year-old Lyra, whose daemon Pantalaimon is part of her very self, is growing up in an ancient, ritual-haunted Oxford. She must rescue her friend Roger from evil kidnappers. In our world, Will has his own dangerous task to fulfil.

Kim's life takes a curious twist when he meets a holy man, a lama, who is about to embark on a very mysterious quest: a pilgrimage that will take him across the vast continent, across rivers and up the Himalayas. He wants Kim to accompany him.

Chesterton's masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel which centres on seven anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week. G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing an...