Andrew Gross 1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men’s camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His...

Jojo Moyes One single mumWith two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best day after day. But it's hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you...

Paul PilkingtonEmma Holden's nightmare has just begun. Her fiancé vanishes, leaving the battered and bloodied body of his brother in their London apartment. Someone is stalking her, watching her every...

RL StineAl's stink bomb doesn't explode... And it doesn't smell. It just sits there.Some chemistry set, Al thinks. Big deal.And then it starts to ooze. It oozes all over the...

Eoin ColferAfter his last run-in with the faeries, Artemis Fowl had his mind wiped of his memories of the world belowground. Any goodness he had grudgingly learned is now gone,...

Hard-boiled mystery.

Peter Taylor "Taylor is a master of the short story form....[His] is an extraordinary gift, too often absent in contemporary fiction."THE BOSTON GLOBEIn eleven lyrical, moving, and eerie tales, and...

Elizabeth RosePerseus, the demi-god son of Zeus, races against time to capture the dangerous prize that will save his mother's life. But when the feisty Princess Andromeda uses her wits...

Yochi BrandesThis spellbinding historical novel by celebrated Israeli author Yochi Brandes tells the story of the venerated yet enigmatic Rabbi Akiva, placing him in the context of his contemporaries, the...

Drusilla Modjeska How does a woman find the shape of her own life? How does she come into a maturity that is truly her own?Taking the essay as 'a porous,...

Faith Jaques This bestselling collection of classic nursery rhymes includes favourites such as 'Pat-a-Cake', 'Rock-a-Bye Baby', 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' and 'Humpty Dumpty', as well as ABCs, lullabies, finger games,...

Shena Mackay When Percy and Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub, for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent, life for their daughter April changes dramatically. She is befriended by...