-69%Bestseller · Thriller & Mystery · Action & Adventure
Close Your Eyes
Finding missing children is Matthew’s job—but this time it’s his own daughter who’s disappeared. When private investigator Matthew Hill picks up the call from his wife, Sally, his world comes crashing down. Their eight-year-old daughter, Amelie, is missing. One second, she was there, the next, she was gone. It’s the very nightmare they’ve been dreading. Long ago, Matthew left the force after a woman blamed him for her son’s death, promising that he too would one day feel her pain …
General Fiction · Nonfiction
Just A Nobody
Before social media told people who to be, kids had to figure it out the hard way. Through fights, first love, heartbreak, humiliation, loyalty, and moments that changed everything, one quiet boy struggles to find where he belongs in a world that barely notices him. Set from the late 1980s into the early 2000s, Just a Nobody is a raw, funny, and deeply personal coming-of-age story about the moments that shape us long before we understand their meaning. The scraped-knee truth of childhood …
Romance · Humour
Autumn in Sycamore Park
Having fled a relationship and a previous life she would rather forget, young teacher Jennifer Stevens throws herself into a demanding new job at Brentwell Primary. Charged with marshalling a group of unruly eight-year-olds to the autumn harvest festival, her only solace is the peace of nearby Sycamore Park. As the evenings draw in and the leaves begin to fall, will new friends, delicious autumn treats …
Thriller & Mystery
The Night of the Burning Car
Driving late at night on a rural road in North Carolina in 1948, Billy Dalton sees a fiery car in the distance. He brakes, sprints to the burning vehicle, and rescues a beaten woman and a rope-bound child just before the gas tank explodes. Later, awakening in a hospital and covered with burns, the sheriff tells Billy there was no woman, no child and no other vehicle found at the scene—only the scorched wreckage of Billy’s own car …
General Fiction · Nonfiction
The Showing
‘His visit to the house has awoken that which was sleeping: how many must be taken before IT can be laid to rest?’ For Sale again is Mister Jones’ family home: a house he had known and feared since his childhood. On a nostalgic whim he decides to visit the house, with disasterous results. The house reacts to his appearance and the estate agent who is showing him around vanishes. Shortly afterwards the next agent appointed to handle the sale of the property also disappears …
Thriller & Mystery
Keeper of Pleas
December 1880, Whitechapel. Nine dead infants in flowerpots. A vanished mortician. And one lead: the prostitute who saw him last. Coroner Sévère reads people's lies as easily as case notes. It's made him an effective investigator. And cynical. But when he questions Miss Mary, he encounters something unexpected: a woman whose lies he can't read and who might as well be the mortician's killer …
Romance
The Violet Raven
1823 Triona Sinclair was never meant for an ordinary life. A spark of something powerful has always lived within her—silent and still, until the moment it finally woke. A moment of fire and ruin. With her world shattered, Triona escapes into the wilds of Scotland—flanked by four allies, each loyal in their own way. But none of them challenge her quite like Finn MacGregor. Her fiercest defender …
Thriller & Mystery
Murder is a Family Business
It’s a dismal day for the PI firm to the stars of Silicon Valley when their own star is huddled in a phone booth instead of tracking down stolen software. Sadly, ace detective Lee Alvarez is currently taking shelter from a deluge while surveilling some rat of a husband. This is way beneath her dignity! Worse, she may be trapped with another rat. Something in there just moved. But Lee’s luck just changed—that’s no drowned rat …
General Fiction · Nonfiction
Love Never Dies
Seth was brilliant, caring, sexy and dead. Now, a month after his death in a fiery car crash it seems his ghost has returned to haunt Julia Morris. The anguished Julia suspects that the tormented Seth patiently waits in some kind of a deathless limbo for her to join him. When Seth’s twin Simon shows up, he relays a horrifying truth; his dead brother was not only murdered by the mob, but Julia is their next intended victim …
Thriller & Mystery
Dynamite Fishermen
Beirut, 1982. Conrad Prosser is a skilled Arabist, expert agent handler, prolific intelligence reporter, and a connoisseur of Beirut's underground nightlife. But, as his two-year tour at the U.S. Embassy nears its end, Prosser's intelligence career is in jeopardy because he has not recruited an agent while in Lebanon, a sine qua non requirement for promotion …
-67%Bestseller · Science Fiction
Not Alone
Aliens exist, the government knows, and Dan McCarthy just found the proof. When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies -- a top-level alien cover-up -- he leaks the files without a second thought. The incredible truth revealed by Dan’s leak immediately captures the public’s imagination, but Dan’s relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places …
-83%Bestseller · Thriller & Mystery
The 14th Colony
People say the Cold War is coming back. For some, it never went away. Shot down over Siberia in what was to be a simple meet-and-greet mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin is headed for North America to join another long-term sleeper embedded in the West …
-86%Science Fiction
Hammerfall
The fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet. Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world …
-86%Biographies & True Accounts
Between Breaths
Former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas share the truth about her alcohol addiction and anxiety disorder in this honest and emotional memoir. From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in Between Breaths …
-89%Thriller & Mystery · Teen & Young Adult
Anchoress of Shere
Set in two different centuries, Anchoress of Shere depicts the story of a beautiful young woman, Christine Carpenter, who chooses to be walled up alive in a church in the English town of Shere. The historical records, which still exist, put the date at 1329. The 20th century chronicler of her story is Father Michael Duval, a deranged Catholic priest …
-86%Biographies & True Accounts
Life Itself
A singular, warm-hearted, and inspiring look at life from writer, critic and pundit Roger Ebert.
-88%Biographies & True Accounts
Battle for the Big Top
Millions have sat under the “big top,” watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created one of our country’s most beloved pastimes. In Battle for the Big Top, Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when three circus kings—James Bailey, P. T. Barnum, and John Ringling—all vied for control of the vastly profitable and influential American Circus …
-67%Thriller & Mystery
My Darling
A new couple moves in next door. And nothing will ever be the same again… I watched you move in and thought we might be friends. I saw you watching from the window – and knew I’d have to keep you away from my husband. I started to trust you. Confide in you. I started to mistrust you. Suspect you. I was confused when I blacked out after an evening at your place. Was I really that drunk? I came up with a plan. A plan to make you both pay . . .
-89%Humour
The Flowering Thorn
A Jazz Age socialite impulsively adopts an orphaned boy in this humorous, heartwarming tale In 1929 London, twenty-eight-year-old Lesley Frewen lives a privileged, cultured life. But one thing is missing: love. When her aunt's female companion suddenly dies, leaving behind a young son, Lesley decides on a whim to adopt four-year-old Patrick—though she doesn't have any particular affection for children …
-50%Humour
The Cotswolds Cookery Club
The Cotswolds Cookery Club is opening its doors! Connie has had enough. Enough of the city, enough of her job – and most importantly, enough of her cheating boyfriend! Finally free to chase her dreams, Connie sets up her very own Cotswolds Cookery Club – a place to share scrumptious recipes and, more importantly, a lot of wine… Trish always dreamed of living in a little chocolate box village – but she never expected to be starting over at forty …
-54%Bestseller · Literary Fiction
Impossible To Forget
An extraordinary final wish brings five lives together forever. Just turned eighteen, Romany is on the cusp of taking her first steps into adulthood when tragedy strikes, and she finds herself suddenly alone without her mother, Angie, the only parent she has ever known. In her final letter, Angie has charged her four closest friends with guiding Romany through her last year of school—but is there an ulterior motive to her unusual dying wish …
-54%Bestseller · Literary Fiction
To Love and Be Loved
One woman built a new life to escape her humiliation. Now, can she put the shame behind her and finally find happiness? Young and desperately in love, Merrin had the whole world ahead of her. But just as her new life was about to start, the ground beneath her feet was cruelly swept away. Devastated by the humiliation, she ran far away from the beloved fishing village she had always called home to lick her wounds and escape her gossiping friends and neighbours …
-87%Thriller & Mystery · Historical Fiction
Murder at the Breakers
As the nineteenth century comes to a close, the illustrious Vanderbilt family dominates Newport, Rhode Island, high society. But when murder darkens a glittering affair at their summer home, reporter Emma Cross learns that sometimes the cream of the crop can curdle one’s blood . . . Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895: She may be a less well-heeled relation, but as second cousin to millionaire patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt …
-63%Thriller & Mystery · Literary Fiction
Please Pass The Guilt
A brilliant Rex Stout murder mystery featuring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. Was it intended for him or the man who opened the drawer? They each had enemies enough to die a dozen times over. Was it the jealous wife or the ambitious partner? The secretary who got passed around like an inter-office memo? Or the man who couldn’t wash the blood off his hands …
-87%Literary Fiction
USA Noir
Features Dennis Lehane's story "Animal Rescue," the inspiration for the movie The Drop starring Tom Hardy. Featuring stories by: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, Jerome Charyn, Jeffery Deaver, Maggie Estep, Bayo Ojikutu, Tim McLoughlin, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Reed Farrel Coleman, Megan Abbott, Elyssa East, James W …
-87%Romance
Where Roses Grow Wild
A feisty spinster fights to resist a scheming English lord in this Victorian romance. She was ruled by her head . . . Only one thing stood between Edward, Lord Rawlings, and a life of rakish debauchery: a spinster. Even worse, a liberal, educated vicar's daughter, guardian to ten-year-old Jeremy, the true heir to the title Edward did not want. If Jeremy would not assume dukedom, Edward must, a fate of dire responsibility and utter boredom. But this time, her heart was taking the reins …
-85%Thriller & Mystery
Death of a Tin God
In this British mystery, a Scotland Yard detective follows a deadly trail from the Isle of Man to the South of France to solve a movie star's murder. The glamour of Hollywood has descended upon the Isle of Man. But behind this glossy façade, something sinister stirs. Superintendent Littlejohn thought he was in for a few days' holiday, but when the depraved movie star Hal Vale is found dead in his hotel room, Littlejohn is called to investigate …
-56%Thriller & Mystery · Science Fiction
Version Zero
‘This propulsive, visceral, tech-rich tale is both all head and all heart’ Caroline Kepnes, author Netflix smash hit You Sometimes you have to break the world in order to fix it… Max is fortunate enough to be employed by Wren, the world’s most powerful social media company. He works in a sprawling campus made of glass on a project so secret he can tell no one about it. But one day he discovers something sinister going on beneath the surface of the company …
-80%General Fiction
Guinea Pig Club
The history of the Guinea Pig Club, the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires, is a truly inspiring, spine-tingling tale.Plastic surgery was in its infancy before the Second World War. The most rudimentary techniques were only known to a few surgeons worldwide. The Allies were tremendously fortunate in having the maverick surgeon Archibald McIndoe nicknamed the Boss or the Maestro operating at a small hospital in East Grinstead in the south of England …
-87%Biographies & True Accounts
Means of Escape
As a journalist, Philip Caputo has covered many of the world's troubles, and in Means of Escape, he reveals in moving and clear-eyed prose how he made himself into a writer, traveler, and observer with the nerve to put himself at the center of conflict. As a young reporter he investigated the Mafia in Chicago, earning acclaim as well as threats against his safety …
-83%Science Fiction
Stealing Worlds
Sura Neelin is on the run from her creditors, from her past, and her father's murderers. She can't get a job, she can't get a place to live, she can't even walk down the street: the total surveillance society that is mid-21st century America means that every camera and every pair of smart glasses is her enemy. But Sura might have a chance in the alternate reality of the games. People can disappear in the LARP game worlds, into the alternate economy of Notchcoin and blockchains …
-50%Fantasy · Historical Fiction
Aphrodite’s Smile
A novel of romantic suspense, set on the beautiful Greek island of Ithaca. When Robert French travels to the Greek island of Ithaca after his archaeologist father goes missing, he meets Alex, a young woman in search of her roots and the truth about her grandmother's exile from the island sixty years earlier. Gradually it seems possible that there is a link between an ancient treasure that Robert's father spent many years searching for and the tragic events surrounding Alex's grandmother during …
-57%General Fiction
Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
An astonishing, deeply moving novel about finding beauty in the brevity of life, as narrated by the one who knows it best: Death. Travis lives an unassuming life with his cat in a small English town. Travis also happens to be the cosmic force of Death, visiting people in their final days and hours of life, before shepherding them into whatever happens next. He listens to their stories, doesn't judge, and never tries to change anyone's fate.. …
-67%General Fiction · Nonfiction
The Billionaire's Vinegar
The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. Tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist …
-50%Humour · Classic
From Notting Hill With Love . . . Actually
She was just a girl, standing in front of a boy . . . wishing he looked more like Hugh Grant. Scarlett loves the movies. But does she love sensible fiancé David just as much? With a big white wedding on the horizon, Scarlett really should have decided by now . . . When she has the chance to house-sit in Notting Hill - the setting of one of her favourite movies - Scarlett jumps at the chance …
-73%Biographies & True Accounts
The Gathering Storm
This book is the first in Winston Churchill's monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II. Told from the unique viewpoint of a British prime minister, it is also the story of one nation's heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Having learned a lesson at Munich they would never forget, the British refused to make peace with Hitler …
-50%Thriller & Mystery
The Hades Factor
An unknown doomsday virus has claimed the lives of four people - including the fiancée of Covert-One's Lt Col. Jon Smith. Devastated and enraged, Smith uncovers evidence that this was no accident; someone out there has the virus, and the pandemic that threatens millions of lives was planned... Not knowing who to trust or where to turn, Smith assembles a private team to fight the deadly virus …
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