"You're always good on ideas, Tom..." An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits. Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut.

Someone else should do the dirty work for them - yes, someone with no criminal record could earn a very generous fee for doing a couple of simple murders. Ripley's Game is the third book in Highsmith's Ripley series, and was made into a film starring John Malkovich.

A compelling coming-of-age tale, in which Benson employs surfing as a metaphor, adding graceful comic details and a series of charming secondary characters, Riptide is an intense, even transcendent examination of a young man's struggle to establish his identity while facing the loss of both parents.

Sequel to the critically acclaimed The Last Days of Disco, a hilarious new novel about a young Ayrshire band seeking pop immortality ...

Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland and Two Rivers series, Ann Cleeves, returns with the tenth in the acclaimed Northumbrian set Vera Stanhope series, following on from The Darkest Evening, in which a school reunion turns deadly as the tide rises on Holy Island.

In Bangkok, everything is for sale - even life itself... Vincent Calvino, disbarred lawyer turned Bangkok PI, is finally available in A format paperback.

In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to entertain his godfather back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions on board, as an obsequious clergyman attracts the animosity of the tyrannical captain and surly crew.

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.

A novel for those who seek to unravel our mysterious, apparently directionless lives... A wry, witty and insightful classic.

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 - a dark and glittering literary debut that traces a mixed family's troubled trajectory through developing China.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

The eleventh novel in Anthony Riches' bestselling Empire series takes Marcus Aquila and his most trusted allies to Egypt.

This spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author Leila Aboulela tells the unforgettable story of an embattled young woman's coming of age during the revolutionary war in nineteenth-century Sudan.

This spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author Leila Aboulela tells the unforgettable story of an embattled young woman's coming of age during the revolutionary war in nineteenth-century Sudan.

The first of the Sunday Times Bestselling Peter Grant series

From the multi-award-winning master of crime Denise Mina comes a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history - the bloody assassination of David Rizzio in Mary, Queen of Scots' chambers in Holyrood Palace.

The collected shorter works by the author of Life and Fate and Everything Flows, published in English for the first time.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

A novel about the choices we make and the costs we bear, from one of Australia's best loved and most successful authors.

When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson. The Murder Investigation Team are called in to investigate. Then a local villain is viciously attacked, and, as the police enquiries lead from the expensive Harchester Hill estate to the local brothel, a witness dies in a hit-and-run. Coincidence - or cold-blooded murder?

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging...

Confronting and solving problems is a painful process, which most of us attempt to avoid. Drawing on his own professional experience, the author, a psychiatrist, suggests ways in which facing our difficulties can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding. He discusses the nature of loving relationships.