Collection: Adult fiction

Recently widowed, Mrs Lirriper devotes her energies to attending to the needs of her lodgers. But when a newborn child is abandoned to her care, her responsibilities extend to new levels. Enlisting long-time lodger, the Major, into the role of guardian, the two develop an increasing affection for...

It is 1948, and the village of Hennaford is struggling to recover from the war. Johnny Harvey is disillusioned and restless. Injured in the war, older than the pilots he trained and disturbed at the changing society, he watches his friends marry as life seems to pass him by.

New Year is looming and Liza, Dulcie and Pru - the best of friends, and all, to their dismay, into their 30s - are ready with their resolutions. They have no idea what the New Year has in store - but Fate has some sneaky plans up her sleeve.

At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She is not the first to die - nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the healthcare industry.

A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, a new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got only a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it.

Comprising Baltic Mission, In Distant Water and A Private Revenge, this Nathaniel Drinkwater omnibus edition captures the excitement and danger of being an officer in the Royal Navy during Nelson's time.

For the body snatchers, death is a lucrative business. But it's the corpse they leave behind, horribly mutilated and nailed to a tree, which sets Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood on their trail.