Collection: Adult Fiction

The plot of Foucault's Pendulum ranges back and forth through the centuries, full of arcane knowledge, secret societies, love, death, passion and perversion. What starts as a fun way to play with the occult turns into a frantic search for the truth.

Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education.

On board a warship bound for Australia, Edmund Talbot writes a journal to entertain his godfather back in England, recording the mounting tensions with wit and disdain. Then one passenger, an obsequious clergyman, attracts the animosity of the crew.

Living at the heart of sophisticated Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionate poems. He is jealous of her husband, of her maid, even of her pet sparrow. And Clodia? Catullus is 'her dear poet', but possibly...

Corey Grace, a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio, is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favourite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. Now, his integrity is put to the test in this most brutal o...

What really goes on in a school full of unruly children? Could you travel all over the world for work? Whether we love it or hate it, work has a huge impact on our lives and in recent times working life has totally changed. From builder to baker to social care worker, these writers let us know.

Afghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. 16 men from their Battalion have already been killed. 47 others have been wounded and flown back home. This is the story of four of the young men in this Rifle section.

Outside a chip shop, around the corner from his school, a teenage boy is stabbed to death. What led up to this terrible event? And what did the witnesses see?

For Anthony & Carole, a week in a lovely Greek hotel has helped them mend the cracks in their marriage. For widowed Jessica, it's the longest she's ever gone without visiting her husband's grave. However when the flight doesn't go according to plan, they are each forced to face up to the very thi...

In 1976, Madeleine is a young and vibrant girl, singing in a club and in love. But murder lies ahead - murder that will force her to vanish and live looking over her shoulder. 20 years later, just when she thinks her life is truly over, the kindness of one young girl brings her back from the brin...