Item category 1: FICTION

Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realised that she was married to a murderer. With these opening words, Before the Fact ushers the reader into the dark and experimental wor...

Ali Dawson is a police detective who leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel to the distant past to solve them. But Ali and the team haven't been allowed to time-travel ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in Victorian London, never to be seen again. To di...

For sale: Greek cottage. Price: One Euro. Skye doesn't make impulsive decisions. But when she sees a derelict Greek cottage for sale by lottery, she enters with dreams of a fresh start. However, her heart sinks as she pushes open the tattered blue door weeks later. Can this wreck ever be her home...

Local schoolteacher Dev Hooper arrives home from work to find his girlfriend, Nellie Thorne, has vanished. But she's not the first Nellie Thorne to disappear. In fact, she's the fifth in 50 years. Enter Jane Pye and Simon Mash: a millennial couple who signed up for a private detective night class...

Met detective Eden Driscoll never wanted a child, but when his estranged sister Apple vanishes from her sailboat, he is asked to look after her son Finn - the nephew he hadn't even known existed. Resettled in the seaside town of Teignmouth, Eden adjusts to his newfound parenthood. Then Finn disap...

Detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson must divide and conquer when they're sent to investigate two serious crimes. In Washington DC, John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a street and calls in the bomb squad for a suspected terrorist attack. In North Carolina, Alex Cross searches the...

Was he about to recruit her into the secret service? She held her breath. Frogwoman, codebreaker, assassin, saboteur - whatever it was, she'd do it! Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers at the heart of a group who gather in storied rooms to dance, drink and debate the...

Rose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start. Five years after her career as a therapist ended in one catastrophic instant, she is opening a retreat in Corfu. The understated, luxurious Villa Artemis is surrounded by wild pines and sea views. Just six guests. One week. Time for Rose to help t...

Once a grand country house, Hope Hall is now beautiful luxury apartments, and when Cassie and Nina become new neighbours, they soon become firm friends. But as perfect as life in the Cambridgeshire countryside seems, both have heartaches of their own. Cassie is blissfully in love with Ben, but sh...

With a nature as wild as the moors she loves to roam, Catherine Earnshaw grows up alongside Heathcliff, a foundling her father rescued from the streets of Liverpool. Their fierce, untamed bond deepens as they grow - until Mr Earnshaw's death leaves Hindley, Catherine's brutal brother, in control ...