Collection: Adult Fiction

The first in a new series set in the quintessentially English countryside of the Cotswolds. Housesitter Thea Osbourne is expecting a quiet time until a body turns up in the neighbouring field.

Christine Winters & Sienna Sheik were best friends at school but with their different backgrounds the two friends soon grew apart. It seemed that their paths were never to cross again. Little did Chris know that Sienna's wedding day would turn her life upside down.

Once again displaying Peter Carey's flair for language, 'Theft' is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it explores themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.

The Rebel Alliance has struck a vital blow against the Galactic Empire by destroying the Death Star. As Rebel groups and civil war erupts across Empire star systems, who will be left standing in the wake of the rebellion?

Dealing with themes such as belonging, pride, prejudice and love, this is the story of two extended families who are brought together thanks to the arrival of two tiny adopted Korean babies on the same night.

Lady Jane Gray was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour.

This is a special adaptation of the big-screen retelling of the ancient myth from filmmakers Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary and Robert Zemeckis. In the sixth century, the warrior Beowulf must do battle with the monster Grendel as well as Grendel's mother and a dragon who has a personal connection to th...

This sequel concerns Bridget Jones, a single, girl-about-town on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement. If she could just get down to 8st 7lb, stop smoking and develop inner poise, all would be resolved.

John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in 'A Darker Shade of Blue' he has collected together some of his very best writing.

Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in 17th century Holland, obtains her first job as a servant in Vermeer's household. She loves being drawn into his artistic life, but the cost to her own survival may be high.