Form/Genre: Literary fiction

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...'For Leila, each minute af...

Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simo...

Brought to you by Penguin. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is ...

Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet ...

A Best Book of the Year: The Guardian, The Observer, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post.2074. America's future is Civil War. Sarat's reality is survival. They took her father, they took her home, they told her lies . . . She didn't start this war, but she'll end it.Om...

Unbeknownst to anyone, somewhat-unhappy and never-quite-fitting in 10-year-old Eddie Albert can speak to animals, including his pet dog Butch, his hamster and his two goldfish (who claim they were once pirates). But when Eddie is sent to stay with his eccentric aunt in Amsterdam, he discovers tha...

Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure and complexity, Anything is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash...

Three ancient gods are freed from their prison with only one desire: to destroy the planet and everyone on it.To save us all, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain must go undercover in a Dublin school. Skulduggery has to blend in with the teaching staff, while Valkyrie has to pass for an ordina...

Koniec lat 80. Frencz, absolwent studiów ekonomicznych, wraca do rodzinnego miasteczka. Tam zatrudnia się w archiwum zakładów chemicznych. Nie ma wielkich ambicji na życie. Zamierza spokojnie dożyć do emerytury bez zmian zawodowych. Tymczasem rzeczywistość całkowicie niszczy jego plany. Na skutek...

The Delaney family love one another dearly – it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other ...Joy Delaney and husband Stan have done well. Four wonderful grown-up children. A family business to envy. The golden years of retirement ahead of them.So when Joy Delaney vanishes – no note, no...

The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include "Apocalypse Kings" AND six new stories for this edition.We all know that doors are for people with no imagination, so smash the glass, climb through the window and enter the awesome world of Skulduggery Pleasant w...

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edtion of Eoin Colfer's ARTEMIS FOWL - Die Hard... with fairies. Read by the actor Adrian Dunbar.Twelve-year-old villain Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's tak...

Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie.But she can’t go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip he...

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. ...

This is the feel-good story, full of hope, that we all need to read right now.' Woman & Home, Book of the Month‘A joyous, funny read that leaves you all warm inside’ Beth Morrey, author of Saving MissySix strangers with one universal thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them ...

Join brave boy Will, his chatty bear Randolph, and their trusty upside-down bird and get ready to leap into a world of magic and mystery!When a simple board game turns into a real-life adventure, the trio find themselves whisked away to Gravelburg town. Beware - there's more than meets the eye in...

From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the liv...

The third book in this magical series from best-selling author and illustrator, Laura Ellen Anderson!Rainbow Grey may be only ten years old but the future of the whole world depends on her! It’s up to Ray to defeat Tornadia Twist – the greatest villain that ever lived . . .Ray has to figure out w...

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest.For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart.Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The powerful and magical sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller BEASTS OF PREY, perfect for fans of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, SHADOW AND BONE and THE GILDED ONES.Koffi, gifted with powerful magic, has saved the boy she loves - at a terrible price. Now Koffi is a se...