Collection: Adult fiction

Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genius, 'This Year It Will Be Different' powerfully evokes the lives of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers, all set during the one holiday when feelings cannot easily be hidden.

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their 20s, Adi is always fighting for or against something; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next.

Tense and heartbreaking to its last page, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' shows how life under seige creates impossible moral choices. When the everyday act of crossing the street can risk lives, the human spirit is revealed in all its fortitude - and frailty.

A 17-year-old girl is found murdered in her home by her mother. At first the Atlanta police believe it is a simple case of one victim, one killer. But when another girl is brutally killed, and a third goes missing soon afterwards, they realise they are dealing with something far more sinister.

When teenagers Beth and Sam Bolton are orphaned, their baby sister is taken to a new home and they decide to set sail for a new life in America. Their adventures take them to the Klondike, but Beth yearns to return to England and her long-lost sister. Lesley Pearse's other novels include 'Never L...

Edited by prize-winning writer and broadcaster A.S. Byatt, this collection of English short stories contains 37 stories selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter.

Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s.

It's 1970 and there's a killer on the loose in London. When gang boss Annie Carter gets a call, suddenly it's personal. A close friend of hers is the latest victim, and another is in the frame for the murder.

Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn't know why they've been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI - she's certainly tough enough. But at their remote destination, will raw courage be enough to overcome the hopeless odds?

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...