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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Tyler comes a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family’s foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, ev...

An eccentric widow is found brutally murdered in her home. When the investigation uncovers an international drugs operation on the widow’s property, the case grows even more complex. And as the hunt for the widow’s lodger hits dead end after dead end, it seems that the prime suspect has vanished ...

Three women – and a betrayal that changes everything. With a coveted promotion dangling within reach, the last thing Addy Topic needs to do is waste precious time singing in Rookery Cove’s choir. But when she’s reminded how much music meant to her late mother, she can’t say no. For Stephanie Gall...

A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his w...

The end is here. An impossible maze. A cataclysmic conclusion. Jack West Jr has made it to the Supreme Labyrinth. Now he faces one last race against multiple rivals, against time, against the collapse of the universe itself ? a headlong race that will end at a throne inside the fabled labyrinth. ...

Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he?s about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems. Minutes later Reacher is heading into the nearby border town, a backwater th...

Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries ? her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency and she has a teenage half-sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to...

The moment she laid eyes on Heather Wisher, Tully knew this woman was going to destroy their lives. Tully and Rachel are murderous when they discover their father has a new girlfriend. The fact that Heather is half his age isn't even the most shocking part. Stephen is still married to their mothe...

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder ? Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassb...

In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful façades a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui's stepmother, the great sorceress Isetnofret...

From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. Even after all these years, former tennis coaches Joy and Stan are still winning tournaments, and now they've sold the family business they have all the time in the world to learn how to 'relax'. Their four adult children a...

The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism...

The second instalment in the number one Sunday Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series featuring the old (but far from past-it) team as they pursue a brand new mystery. It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history...

Pru's husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She's missing not so much him, but the life they once had, picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in the cutlery drawer as they sleep. Now there's just a dip on one side of ...

On the streets of England, a hunter is on the loose. 'There is a connection, Jack. Find it, or you'll never find him.' Police are baffled by several deaths, each unique and bizarre in their own way, and shockingly brutal. Scotland Yard sends in its crack DCI, the enigmatic Jack Hawksworth, who wa...

The darkest secrets are buried the deepest. Meg Morrissey has just lost her job and her partner to an overseas assignment, when she is called back to the family home of Hunters Reach in the picturesque Adelaide Hills. Her ailing grandmother, who raised her when she was orphaned as a child, has al...

'What is wrong with you?' Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes, that doesn't mean she's a kille...

Viewed through the lens of a relationship breakdown after one partner discloses to the other that they are transgender, this autofiction spans eighteen months: from the moments of first discovery, through the eventual disintegration of their partnership, to the new beginnings of independence. In ...

Rae is ten years old, and she's tough. She's had to be: life with her mother has taught her the world is not her friend. Now suddenly her mum is gone and Rae is alone, except for her dog Splinter. Rae can do a lot of things pretty well for a kid. She can take care of herself and Splints, stay und...

When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subsequent Commonwealth inquiry - stood out as a mirror of racial politics in...