General & Literary Fiction Books

Fear is just the beginning...

On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever.

Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inaccessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons.

When Alex Cross is called to investigate a murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old friend. Cross begins the hunt for the perpetrators of this cruel crime. He is drawn into a dangerous underworld of Washington DC that leads him on a journey to the Niger Delta where heroin dealing, slave trade and oil and gas theft are rife.

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Marianne is married to a naval officer, Neil Sheridan. They have a daughter, Libby, and a home in Liverpool. When war comes, Marianne takes war work and moves into Crocus Street with her mother, Mrs Wainwright, and sister. Neil disapproves because the Wainwrights live so near the docks, which are bound to be a bombing target, but Marianne is firm.

Tells the story of a seventeen-year-old dropout who has been kicked out of his fourth school. This novel dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear.

An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelist

Alex Cross faces his most diabolical villain -- a serial killer with a hunger for celebrity

Under a Blood Red Sky is a breathtaking epic novel - a tale of love, escape, revenge and redemption.

This debut novel is based on the author's dramatic and extraordinary true story of life on the run in the Bombay underworld.

When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Henry's love of rural life is not shared by Laura, who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law.

'Eunoia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them, but never at the same time. It includes five chapters that use only one vowel.

Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. She steps over a boundary she never dreamt she would even approach. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a lifetime's buried desire.

Where tragedy confronts eternity.

In the 4th century BC, in Syria, a woman, dressed in rags and covered in blisters and sores, is seen approaching on the road coming from the north. Suspicious of her, the villagers shout and throw rocks at her. She is struck and falls. She seems dead. She was the mistress of Xenophon, a general in the army employed by Cyrus the Younger.

When Todd, a developmentally challenged young man, hears that a local animal shelter is seeking temporary homes for its dogs during the holiday week, he knows what he wants for Christmas. Animals are Todd's first love, and his persistence overwhelms his father's objections to befriending a canine, a reluctance that proves to have a painful origin.