Item category 1: Adult Paperback

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman's struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshm...

Sunny Cho aspires to be the dullest, least interesting person in any given room, which can be challenging for a nine-tailed fox spirit. So she drifts from city to city - staying clear of any and all attachment - and keeps her fox buried deep inside her. It is better this way. She would rather liv...

Meet Zoe Finch, West Midlands Police's newest Detective Inspector. She's outspoken, ambitious, and damaged. And she's working a case that could make her career, or cost her everything. Fresh from the success of the Canary investigation into depravity and corruption at the highest levels, she's at...

Britain, AD540. In the western hinterland of Roman Britannia, Meddi, the seeress of the Eorlingas tribe, can only obtain vengeance when her husband's dead and her ancestral villa returned to her. With her brother, Madog, as leader, they unite and stand strong against those who seek the riches of ...

Britain, AD540. In the western hinterland of Roman Britannia, Meddi, the seeress of the Eorlingas tribe, can only obtain vengeance when her husband's dead and her ancestral villa returned to her. With her brother, Madog, as leader, they unite and stand strong against those who seek the riches of ...

The most dangerous people are those with nothing to lose. Who don't care if they live or die. Simon Peake does care - he just isn't sure about what right now. The ex-soldier's life is as close to rock bottom as it gets. He needs a job and he needs a quiet life. What he gets is a whole load of mes...

Thomas Caine has finally tracked down the corrupt CIA director who framed him and had his partner killed. But the cost of revenge may prove too high. His target reveals that Caine's partner had a son, now a young man named Sean. And Sean is in terrible danger. To save him, Caine must travel to th...

The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentlessful, designed to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself looking down the barrel of a thirty-year-old mystery, which, if he's not c...

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the Vallée de Follet. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it. Until scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver when its famous restaurant is downgraded from three 'Michelin' stars to two. The restaurant ...

Deedee Merriman loves her job running a travel agency but with turnover down and a big birthday fast approaching she's thinking about the next chapter of her life and the changes she wants to make. Determined to stay vibrant and keep a youthful outlook on life she invites her friends, Gina and Ro...