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On était des loups

Sandrine Collette
Ce soir-là, quand Liam rentre des forêts montagneuses où il est parti chasser, il devine aussitôt qu’il s’est passé quelque chose. Son petit garçon de cinq ans, Aru, ne l’attend pas devant la maison. Dans la cour, il découvre les empreintes d’un ours. À côté, sous le corps inerte read more >

Les sentiers obscurs de Karachi

Olivier Truc
En 2002, à la sortie d’un hôtel à Karachi, un attentat à la bombe a coûté la vie à 14 personnes, dont 11 ingénieurs français travaillant à la mise au point d’un sous-marin acheté par le gouvernement pakistanais. Toutes les victimes venaient de la base nautique de read more >

Les abeilles grises

Andreï Kourkov
Dans un petit village abandonné de la « zone grise », coincé entre armée ukrainienne et séparatistes prorusses, vivent deux laissés-pour-compte : Sergueïtch et Pachka. Ennemis d'enfance, désormais seuls habitants de ce no man's land, ils sont obligés de coopérer pour ne pas sombrer. Et read more >

Sa préférée

Sarah Jollien-Fardel
Dans ce village haut perché des montagnes valaisannes, tout se sait, et personne ne dit rien. Jeanne, la narratrice, apprend tôt à esquiver la brutalité perverse de son père. Si sa mère et sa sœur se résignent aux coups et à la déferlante des mots orduriers, elle lui tient tête. Un jour, read more >

Quand tu écouteras cette chanson

Lola Lafon
Le 18 août 2021, j'ai passé la nuit au Musée Anne Frank, dans l'Annexe. Anne Frank, que tout le monde connaît tellement qu'il n'en sait pas grand-chose. Comment l'appeler, son célèbre journal, que tous les écoliers ont lu et dont aucun adulte ne se souvient vraiment? Est-ce un témoignage, un read more >

Au vent mauvais

Kaouther Adimi
Leïla, Tarek et Saïd grandissent dans un village de l’est de l’Algérie, au début des années 1920. La première, mariée très jeune contre son gré, décide de se séparer et retourne chez ses parents, avec son fils, dans la réprobation générale. Tarek est un berger timide et discret. read more >

Tsunami

Marc Dugain
On est dans la tête d'un président qui gouverne une France de plus en plus agitée. Sollicité à chaque seconde, menacé par des affaires compromettantes dont lui seul a la clé, on découvre, dans ce roman vrai, au-delà des apparences, sa vie quotidienne chaotique, et c'est fascinant. Il veut read more >

Oiseaux de passage

Fernando Aramburu
Dotant un professeur de philo d’un stoïcisme féroce et joyeux, Fernando Aramburu donne à voir les vicissitudes d’un homme, apparemment sans qualités, qui entend mettre un terme à cette comédie tragique qu’est la vie. Pendant 365 jours, il consigne invariablement et sans filtre aucun les read more >

Un simple enquêteur

Dror Mishani
Le commissaire Avril Avraham est lassé d'enquêter sur des crimes domestiques et voudrait traiter des dossiers plus importants pour son pays. Lorsque deux affaires se présentent simultanément, il choisit la plus prometteuse à propos de la disparition d'un touriste ayant un passeport suisse dont read more >

Un oeil dans la nuit

Bernard Minier
Dans ce onzième roman de Bernard Minier, Martin Servaz s'aventure dans les arrières salles très obscures d'une fabrique de films d'horreur. Terrifiant ! Un réalisateur culte de films d'horreur, retiré du monde au fond de ses montagnes. Misanthrope, arrogant, fou. Un nom qui fait read more >

Crépuscule

Philippe Claudel
Aux marches de l’Empire « à cent têtes et cent corps », sommeille une province minérale et nue où le froid, le givre, les bourrasques semblent ankyloser les habitants d’une bourgade qui ne signalait jusque-là ni notoriété historique, ni intérêt géographique, si ce n’est d’être read more >

Les sept divinités du bonheur

Keigo Higashino
Aoyagi Takeaki, un homme d’une cinquantaine d’années, est assassiné au pied de la statue du dragon ailé qui orne le pont de Nihonbashi, à Tokyo. Une enquête apparemment simple pour l’enquêteur Kaga, fraîchement arrivé au commissariat d’un quartier d’affaires prospère de la read more >

Lucia

Bernard Minier
À l'université de Salamanque, un groupe d'étudiants en criminologie découvre l'existence d'un tueur passé sous les radars depuis plusieurs décennies et qui met en scène ses victimes en s'inspirant de tableaux de la Renaissance. À Madrid, l'enquêtrice Lucia Guerrero trouve son équipier read more >

Vers la violence

Blandine Rinkel
« Il ne m’avait pas légué la douceur, la confiance ni la foi. Cependant, j’héritais de lui les trois choses auxquelles je tenais le plus au monde. J’héritais de lui l’absence, la joie et la violence. » Plus grand que la vie, Gérard illumine les jours de sa fille, Lou. Fort et read more >

Sur le méridien de Greenwich

Shady Lewis
Le narrateur, un Égyptien installé à Londres, se trouve brusquement sollicité pour se charger des obsèques d'un jeune réfugié syrien parfaitement inconnu, dont la famille réside au Caire. Dans les trois jours qui séparent le moment où il accepte cette responsabilité de la date de read more >

La petite fille

Bernhard Schlink
À la mort de son épouse Birgit, Kaspar découvre un pan de sa vie qu’il avait toujours ignoré : avant de quitter la RDA pour passer à l’Ouest en 1965, Birgit avait abandonné un bébé à la naissance. Intrigué, Kaspar ferme sa librairie à Berlin et part à la recherche de cette read more >

Le naufrage de Venise

Isabelle Autissier
Venise la belle, Venise la superlative, ses accumulations de palais, de places, de canaux, d’églises et de raffinements divers, n’a pas résisté. Une vague, une seule, gigantesque et mortifère, a suffi à l’engloutir tout entière et à réduire sa magnificence à néant. Le système MOSE read more >

Le bureau d'éclaircissement des destins

Gaëlle Nohant
Au cœur de l’Allemagne, l’International Tracing Service est le plus grand centre de documentation sur les persécutions nazies. La jeune Irène y trouve un emploi en 1990 et se découvre une vocation pour le travail d’investigation. Méticuleuse, obsessionnelle, elle se laisse happer par ses read more >

La vie clandestine

Monica Sabolo
« Je tenais mon sujet. Un groupe de jeunes gens assassinent un père de famille pour des raisons idéologiques. J’allais écrire un truc facile et spectaculaire, rien n’était plus éloigné de moi que cette histoire-là. Je le croyais vraiment. Je ne savais pas encore que les années Action read more >

Old Babes in the Wood

Margaret Atwood
Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love -- and what comes after The stories explore the read more >

Chien 51

Laurent Gaudé
Autrefois, Zem Sparak fut, dans sa Grèce natale, un étudiant engagé, un militant de la liberté. Mais le pays, en faillite, a fini par être vendu au plus offrant, malgré l’insurrection. Et dans le sang de la répression massive qui s’est abattue sur le peuple révolté, Zem Sparak, fidèle read more >

Les exportés

Sonia Devillers
Ma famille maternelle a quitté la Roumanie communiste en 1961. On pourrait la dire "immigrée" ou "réfugiée" . Mais ce serait ignorer la vérité sur son départ d'un pays dont nul n'était censé pouvoir s'échapper. Ma mère, ma tante, mes grands-parents et mon arrière-grand-mère ont été read more >

L'illusion du mal

Piergiorgio Pulixi
À travers toute l’Italie, les téléphones portables vibrent à l’unisson. En l’espace de quelques minutes, des milliers de personnes reçoivent une vidéo intitulée "La loi, c’est toi". À l’écran, un criminel ligoté et un homme masqué qui prend la parole. Son objectif : faire voter read more >

Cher connard

Virginie Despentes
C'est une suite de lettres entre amis qui se sauvent la vie. Dans ce roman épistolaire, Virginie Despentes revient sur le thème qui unit tous ses livres - comment l'amitié peut naître entre personnes qui n'ont à priori rien à faire ensemble. Rebecca a dépassé la cinquantaine, elle est read more >

Connemara

Nicolas Mathieu
Hélène a bientôt 40 ans. Elle a fait de belles études, une carrière. Elle a réalisé le programme des magazines et le rêve de son adolescence : se tirer, changer de milieu, réussir. Et pourtant, le sentiment de gâchis est là, les années ont passé, tout a déçu. Christophe, lui, n’a read more >

L'automne est la dernière saison

Nasim Marashi
Dans le brouhaha des rues agitées de Téhéran, Leyla, Shabaneh et Roja sont à l'heure des choix. Trois jeunes femmes diplômées, tiraillées entre les traditions, leur modernité et leurs désirs. Leyla rêve de journalisme ou de devenir libraire. Son mari, pourtant aimant et attentionné, a read more >

La dépendance

Rachel Cusk
M, romancière entre deux âges, s'est isolée du monde en s'installant avec son second mari au bord d'une côte océanique spectaculaire. Sur sa propriété baignée d'une lumière splendide et entourée de marais, le couple possède une dépendance soigneusement reconvertie en résidence read more >

GPS

Lucie RICO
Ariane est une jeune femme en difficulté sociale et personnelle. Elle préfère rester cloîtrée chez elle, jusqu'au jour où Sandrine, sa meilleure amie d'enfance, l'invite à ses fiançailles. Pour l'aider à se repérer et lui permettre d'arriver à bon port, Sandrine partage sa localisation read more >

Dans les brumes de Capelans

Olivier Norek
Le grand retour du capitaine Coste, tant attendu par les lecteurs d'Olivier Norek. Une île de l'Atlantique, battue par les vents, le brouillard et la neige... Un flic qui a disparu depuis six ans et dont les nouvelles missions sont classées secret défense... Sa résidence surveillée, read more >

Un oeil dans la nuit

Bernard Minier
Dans ce onzième roman de Bernard Minier, Martin Servaz s'aventure dans les arrières salles très obscures d'une fabrique de films d'horreur. Terrifiant ! Un réalisateur culte de films d'horreur, retiré du monde au fond de ses montagnes. Misanthrope, arrogant, fou. Un nom qui fait read more >

La faute

Alessandro Piperno
Un imposteur. Voilà ce qu’est devenu, à son corps défendant, le narrateur de ce roman. Oubliés le père fantasque, tendre et dépensier, la mère austère et impénétrable. Fini le couple parental dysfonctionnel, les disputes, les fins de mois difficiles, les vacances annulées. À read more >

Beyrouth-sur-Seine

Sabyl Ghoussoub

Indépendance

Javier Cercas
Melchor quitte provisoirement sa Terra Alta d’adoption pour venir prêter main-forte aux services de police de Barcelone dans une affaire de tentative d’extorsion de fonds basée sur l’existence présumée d’une sextape. L’enquête doit être menée avec célérité et discrétion car la read more >

Le silence et la colère

Pierre Lemaitre
Après l'immense succès du Grand Monde Un ogre de béton, une vilaine chute dans l’escalier, le Salon des arts ménagers, une grossesse problématique, la miraculée du Charleville-Paris, la propreté des Françaises, « Savons du Levant, Savons des Gagnants », les lapins du laboratoire read more >

Les gens de Bilbao naissent où ils veulent

Maria LARREA
L'histoire commence en Espagne, par deux naissances et deux abandons. En juin 1943, une prostituée obèse de Bilbao donne vie à un garçon qu'elle confie aux jésuites. Un peu plus tard, en Galice, une femme accouche d'une fille et la laisse aux sœurs d'un couvent. Elle revient la chercher dix read more >

Ecoute la pluie tomber

Olivia Ruiz
Marseillette, 1977. Dans le café qui l’a accueillie, étouffée, puis révélée, Carmen pleure sa nièce chérie.  À plus de quarante ans, elle se rappelle les personnages qui ont changé sa vie. Ceux qui l’ont fait plonger, l’ont remise dans le droit chemin. Ceux qui ont su percer ses read more >

Le mage du Kremlin

Giuliano Da Empoli
On l’appelait le « mage du Kremlin ». L’énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis producteur d’émissions de télé-réalité avant de devenir l’éminence grise de Poutine, dit le Tsar. Après sa démission du poste de conseiller politique, les légendes sur son compte se read more >

Un simple enquêteur

Dror Mishani

Un oeil dans la nuit

Bernard Minier

GPS

Lucie RICO

L'automne est la dernière saison

Nasim Marashi

Quand tu écouteras cette chanson

Lola Lafon

La dépendance

Rachel Cusk

L'illusion du mal

Piergiorgio Pulixi

Tsunami

Marc Dugain

La vie clandestine

Monica Sabolo

Ecoute la pluie tomber

Olivia Ruiz

La petite fille

Bernhard Schlink

La faute

Alessandro Piperno

Les sept divinités du bonheur

Keigo Higashino

Connemara

Nicolas Mathieu

Au vent mauvais

Kaouther Adimi

Les sentiers obscurs de Karachi

Olivier Truc

Vers la violence

Blandine Rinkel

Indépendance

Javier Cercas

Beyrouth-sur-Seine

Sabyl Ghoussoub

Sur le méridien de Greenwich

Shady Lewis

Old Babes in the Wood

Margaret Atwood

Le bureau d'éclaircissement des destins

Gaëlle Nohant

Un oeil dans la nuit

Bernard Minier

Crépuscule

Philippe Claudel

Cher connard

Virginie Despentes

On était des loups

Sandrine Collette

Dans les brumes de Capelans

Olivier Norek

Lucia

Bernard Minier

Les gens de Bilbao naissent où ils veulent

Maria LARREA

Chien 51

Laurent Gaudé

Les abeilles grises

Andreï Kourkov

Oiseaux de passage

Fernando Aramburu

Les exportés

Sonia Devillers

Le mage du Kremlin

Giuliano Da Empoli

Sa préférée

Sarah Jollien-Fardel

Le silence et la colère

Pierre Lemaitre

Le naufrage de Venise

Isabelle Autissier

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Silverview

John Le Carré
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish émigré, shows up at his door with a very keen interest in Julian's new enterprise and a lot read more >

The Candy House

Jennifer Egan
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own--featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad. It's 2010. Staggeringly read more >

The White Rock

Anna Hope
The White Rock stands, ancient and sacred, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Four people, across four centuries, each navigating ruptures to the world they know, are irresistibly drawn to it. A British writer travels in 2020 with her husband and young daughter to give thanks for the birth of their read more >

H.P. Lovecraft Against the World, Against Life

Michel Houellebecq
H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life Michel Houellebecq From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft 'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. read more >

The Last Remains

Elly Griffiths
When builders renovating a café in King's Lynn unearth a human skeleton, they call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the University of North Norfolk. Ruth is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with read more >

The Flames

Sophie HAYDOCK
Vienna at the dawn of the 20th century. An opulent, extravagant city teeming with art, music and radical ideas. A place where the social elite attend glamorous balls in the city's palaces whilst young intellectuals decry the empire across the tables of crowded cafes. It is a city where anything read more >

A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom

John Boyne
For now this is a family story and this family is is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One who lives his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will change their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will read more >

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy
A SUNKEN JET. NINE PASSENGERS. A MISSING BODY. The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

Young Mungo

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be read more >

This is the Night They Come for You

Robert Goddard
On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught read more >

Godmersham Park

Gill Hornby
January 1804: Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous experience of either teaching or fine country houses. But her mother has died and she desperately needs an independent income if she is to read more >

Storm

Stephanie Merritt
A beautiful French chateau Jo Lawless is still grieving her husband when his oldest friends invite her to a weekend houseparty in France. She’s always felt like an outsider in the group but she decides to go, hoping their shared loss will bring them closer together. An unexpected guest But read more >

Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. At the heart of this read more >

Christmas is Murder

Val McDermid
The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are demonstrated in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of chilling tales. From an irresponsible baron whose body is discovered beneath a silver birch tree, to an author who is read more >

The Romantic

William Boyd
Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and in peace. He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri read more >

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents - neighbours, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre of Vacca Vale, read more >

Marple

Agatha Christie
This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery. · Naomi read more >

Babysitter

Joyce Carol Oates
In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn together, with tragic consequences. There is Hannah, wife of a prominent local businessman, who has begun an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger whose read more >

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve read more >

Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris
'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. read more >

The Fallout

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead, everyone's worst fears seem to have been realised. Eleven years later, and detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are now working in the same read more >

The Ink Black Heart

Robert Galbraith
When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the read more >

The Sanatorium

Sarah Pearse
An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement, she has no choice but to read more >

The Whalebone Theatre

Joanna QUINN
Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place at all for her in a traditional English manor. But from the day that a whale washes read more >

I, Mona Lisa

Natasha Solomons
In Leonardo da Vinci's studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power, money, intrigue, the portrait of Lisa del read more >

Next of Kin

John Boyne
1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic descendent of a wealthy land-owning family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of read more >

The Last White Man

Mohsin Hamid
One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an read more >

Furies

Margaret Atwood
A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers: Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O'Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeymi, Rachel read more >

This House is Haunted

John Boyne
1867. On a dark and chilling night Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a read more >

A Sliver of Darkness

C.J. Tudor
Join a group of survivors who wash up on a deserted island only to make a horrifying discovery. Meet a cold-hearted killer who befriends a strange young girl at a motorway service station. Travel along eerie country lanes in a world gone dark, enter a block of flats with the most monstrous of read more >

The Shape of Darkness

Laura Purcell
A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from read more >

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

Rachel Joyce
Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn't end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make. Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband Harold after his iconic walk across England. Now, read more >

Alternate Side

Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen follows her highly-praised novel Miller’s Valley – ‘reads like a companion to Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge’, Elisabeth Egan – with a captivating novel about money, class and self-discovery set in the heart of New York where the tensions in a tight-knit read more >

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise. In read more >

The Mermaid of Black Conch

Monique Roffey
Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts a sea-dweller that he never expected - Aycayia, an innocent young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid. When American tourists capture Aycayia, David rescues her and vows to read more >

The Dance Tree

Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and as she is joined by hundreds of others, the authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in to play the Devil out of these read more >

A Winter Grave

Peter May
A TOMB OF ICE A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. A DYING DETECTIVE Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated and ice-bound village. He has his own read more >

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and read more >

The Retreat

Sarah Pearse
They couldn't wait to stay here. An idyllic wellness retreat has opened on an island off the coast of Devon, promising rest and relaxation - but the island itself, known locally as Reaper's Rock, has a dark past. Once the playground of a serial killer, it's rumored to be cursed. But now they read more >

Cold People

Tom Rob Smith
From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has read more >

To Battersea Park

Philip Hensher
The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes read more >

Bourneville

Jonathan Coe
In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will read more >

The Twist of a Knife

Anthony Horowitz
"Our deal is over." That's what reluctant author Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne in an awkward meeting. The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind. His new play, Mindgame, is about to open in London's Vaudeville theatre. Not surprisingly Hawthorne declines a read more >

Lucy by the Sea

Elizabeth Strout
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex read more >

Lessons

Ian McEwan
While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will read more >

All the Broken Places

John Boyne
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in read more >

The Marriage Portrait

Maggie O'Farrell
Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the read more >

Birnham Wood

Eleanor Catton
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected read more >

A Ladder to the Sky

John Boyne
A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice your soul. If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift read more >

Love marriage

Monica Ali
Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the read more >

Silverview

John Le Carré

The Candy House

Jennifer Egan

The White Rock

Anna Hope

H.P. Lovecraft Against the World, Against Life

Michel Houellebecq

The Last Remains

Elly Griffiths

The Flames

Sophie HAYDOCK

A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom

John Boyne

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy

Young Mungo

This is the Night They Come for You

Robert Goddard

Godmersham Park

Gill Hornby

Storm

Stephanie Merritt

Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson

Christmas is Murder

Val McDermid

The Romantic

William Boyd

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty

Marple

Agatha Christie

Babysitter

Joyce Carol Oates

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris

The Fallout

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

The Ink Black Heart

Robert Galbraith

The Sanatorium

Sarah Pearse

The Whalebone Theatre

Joanna QUINN

I, Mona Lisa

Natasha Solomons

Next of Kin

John Boyne

The Last White Man

Mohsin Hamid

Furies

Margaret Atwood

This House is Haunted

John Boyne

A Sliver of Darkness

C.J. Tudor

The Shape of Darkness

Laura Purcell

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

Rachel Joyce

Alternate Side

Anna Quindlen

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

The Mermaid of Black Conch

Monique Roffey

The Dance Tree

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

A Winter Grave

Peter May

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

The Retreat

Sarah Pearse

Cold People

Tom Rob Smith

To Battersea Park

Philip Hensher

Bourneville

Jonathan Coe

The Twist of a Knife

Anthony Horowitz

Lucy by the Sea

Elizabeth Strout

Lessons

Ian McEwan

All the Broken Places

John Boyne

The Marriage Portrait

Maggie O'Farrell

Birnham Wood

Eleanor Catton

A Ladder to the Sky

John Boyne

Love marriage

Monica Ali