Collection: Adult Fiction

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's 'The Empress of Salt and Fortune' is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women. A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in a...

Hettie, Tilly, Bruiser and the Butter sisters set out across the snowy fens to spend Christmas at The Fishgutter's Arms. Snowed in with no hope of rescue, they find themselves sharing Christmas with some unwanted guests. Will the ghosts of Christmas Past wreak vengeance on the present? Can our fe...

When career-focused Chloe Bellamy is sent to Iceland on a last-minute work trip, it's her big chance to prove she deserves a seat at the top. But there's one problem, she may have embellished her CV a little - saying she speaks Icelandic when she doesn't! And now, to add to her woes, she's landed...

As the Nazi invaders race across Europe, the women of the Great Western Railway works pull together like never before. Catherine wrestles with self-pity after a machine-shop accident. With her fiance and brothers on the front lines in France, she must find a new way to fight on the home front. At...

Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? Eric and Carl live in Dorset in a small white cottage under the shadow of a big cliff. Eric sells old records and antiques. Carl cooks, cleans and crochets...

When Clio - a former actress and current struggling private detective - manages to score a key role in the town's Christmas pantomime, she's secretly delighted. At last, perhaps, her talents will be recognized? It's all going dramatically well, until their esteemed director is found murdered on t...

Trainee relationship counsellor Delilah Braithwaite is better at breaking couples up than bringing them together. But after one break-up too many, she's suspended and ordered to get to grips with her own baggage if she hopes to get her job back. Desperate to prove she's not the problem, Delilah a...

1358, Northern France. In a land ravaged by war, King John II is the prisoner of the King of England. His son, the teenaged Dauphin, must battle to impose control over the fractured kingdom. But King Charles of Navarre wants to wrestle power for himself. He leads Parisians and the Jacquerie to op...