Collection: Adult fiction

Dick Francis has written thirty-six bestselling novels, one autobiography and one biography. With Field of 13, he turns his hand to the short story.

In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity. All is not well with the house either.

Jim Rook can see into the spirit world and when a young Navajo girl comes to his college he realises she has some connection to an evil force. A young man who has a crush on her is killed in his car and Jim Rook has to confront and beat the evil power.

Located in the area around Regent's Park, Ruth Rendell creates an atmospherically charged universe, where a young woman's life is in danger from the middle class world she knows and another world of the dispossessed and deranged.

From the author of Sabbathman and Rules of Engagement, this is a story about anti-personnel mines, Africa and the journey one woman makes to find the person responsible for the death of her son - a young aid worker killed by a mine.

After the birth of David's daughter his sleepless nights are tortured by the memory of an employee he treated badly. He is haunted and obsessed that someone is watching him. In a search for the truth he will pay a price in terms of his relationships.

In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms. The urbane and worldly Dean wants nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it means sacrificing the choir school to pay for it.

Helen Dunmore takes us into the harsh, sensuous world of endless winters and midnight sun. Sex keeps the dark away, but love is stretched to breaking point. The worlds in these tales come alive to the touch in moving fiction of sexuality and loss.

For 20 years Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife had served God and the parish in a diversity of ways. When her husband failed to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreated into isolated bitterness, Anna suddenly rebelled and took a job at the local supermarket.

This is the brand new Cockney saga from Harry Bowling. The spirit of his novels comes from the author himself and his abiding memories of family life as it was once lived in the slums of southeast London.