Item category 1: Adult Paperback

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...

A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered - in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death? The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen - top salesperson and the victim's potential successor at Steam D...

Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles' envy and violence. As ...

Ruslan Akulov, the legendary Ukrainian assassin known as Wolf Six, wakes to find the plane he's on plummeting, and with no real memory of how he got there. Surviving the crash, only to be detained by a small-town sheriff and accused of two murders, that for once he didn't commit, Akulov must piec...