The second Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

The fourth novel in the Pearl Nolan series

The thirteenth book in the Libby Sarjeant series of British murder mysteries which features a retired actress as the female sleuth and are based in the picturesque village of Steeple Martin.

The fourth Chief Inspector Gamache title, reissued by Sphere

When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its most famous resident, murder mystery writer Agnes Crabbe, events take a dark turn as the festival opens with a shocking death.

Murder most festive: a selection of puzzling Christmas mysteries from the creme de la creme of crime writers.

The summer holidays can be murder ...

The second novel in the Pearl Nolan trilogy, with a Christmas twist.

Includes stories of a young eccentric named C Auguste Dupin: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter'.

Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the creeping insanity of "The Tell-Tale Heart", and the Gothic nightmare of "The Masque of the Red Death".

The Murdstone Trilogy is fantasy - and it's anti-fantasy! It's a trilogy - it's not a trilogy. It's like nothing else. It's a nobble. One of the funniest, cleverest, most entertaining stories you'll ever read.

Murphy's friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete. The combination of particularity and absurdity gives Murphy's world its painful definition, but the sheer comic energy of Beckett's prose releases characters and readers alike into exuberance.

They seldom think twice, and ask very few questions. Until one night over the poker table, they encounter a pulp writer with wild ideas and an unscrupulous private detective, leading them into what is either a classic mystery, a senseless maze of corpses, or an inextricable fever dream .

Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York. Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins. When Paul finally meets Ida, at her secluded Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret - one that will change all of their lives forever.

A novel about two museum guards, one an eccentric uncle, the other his orphaned nephew, DeFoe. This book is an examination of the desire to step out of the everyday and into action. With echoes of the holocaust and of a world lost but not forgotten, this is a poignant novel.

In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. Designated the King's 'Angel' because of his good looks, he finds himself falling in love with the young woman who is the companion of the King's adulterous and estranged wife, Kirsten.

A modern day Revolutionary Road; a suburban New York couple tear apart the life they've built together

By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end. Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road in pursuit of a 'life of freedom'. But as the money runs out he finds that his sense of disillusionment has only been compounded by his year on the road.

The bestselling author of The Snow Geese returns with a mesmerizing, heartstopping tribute to his older brother and the house in which they grew up

In the last hundred years - between the invention of the microphone and the computer - music has undergone a profound revolution.The Music evokes a shifting sonic landscape in precise detail - Chinese concrete slowly hardening, overlaid by a splintering cassette tape in the stereo of a car mid-crash.