Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him.

Jack McNulty, a former UN observer, has worked around the world and seen extraordinary things but, as he contemplates his return to Ireland after many years, his memories are dominated by his tumultuous marriage to Mai Kirwan. A great beauty with a vivid mind, Mai was also an elusive and troubled soul, stuck in a marriage that couldn't last.

A marriage and a family reach breaking point on an annual holiday in the loveliest hotel in Ireland.

Important information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, and Commissario Guido Brunetti is tasked with uncovering the culprit. But as he gets closer to discovering what happened, Brunetti is faced with a difficult truth: sometimes, it's the best intentions that lead to the darkest of consequences .

Stephanie Plum is racing against the clock in Ten Big Ones, the tenth hilarious mystery n the Stephanie Plum series by No. 1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich

A tender, nuanced and beautifully crafted story of a father's reckoning with his daughter, in the wake of his wife's death.

House of Cards meets Homeland in this powerful and unputdownable thriller tracing a riot from its inception through to its fallout. Now available in paperback.

It is the morning after the Academy Awards. Max, an award-winning writer and his lover, Elena, are hosts to a house full of guests including their daughter, a movie star, a healer and an agent. This tale of love, war, sex, politics, friendship and betrayal moves towards its redemptive end.

Fanciful, philosophical science fictions by the writer of Signs Preceding the End of the World, one of The Guardian's '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'.

A love song to a loveless Teesside, this satirical novel about the art world as seen from the perspective of the working class northeast is available for the first time in this magnificently elegant White Rabbit author/series look.

Bobby, holed up in a Middlesbrough tower block, works on his paintings under the influence of pills-on-toast, acid-on-crackers and Francis Bacon. When Bent Lewis, a famous art dealer and mover-shaker from that London appears, Bobby and friends are sent on a sweaty adventure of hedonism and violence involving a 2.5cm-head curved claw hammer.

This breathtakingly beautiful debut is a love letter to the written word and the power of stories to open doors to other worlds

The New York scene of the late 1980s comes vividly to life in this powerful rollercoaster of a novel about three teenagers coming to terms with the death of a friend.

The New York scene of the late 1980s comes to life in this powerful novel about three teenagers coming to terms with the death of a friend.

On the cusp of the Ming Dynasty, the sweeping historical novel set in China in the final days of the Mongol Conquerors

A passionate tale of betrayal, this story of a man's alcoholic decline, marital breakdown and its effect on children, and the position of women in Victorian society is told with shocking vividness and power. This new edition combines an authoritative text with wide-ranging critical discussion.

A sometimes violent and brutal tale of love and betrayal, separation and reconciliation, set in the familiar Bronte landscape of bleak houses in moorland settings.

A mother and son inhabit an isolated and increasingly dangerous private world.

Everyone's eating human meat. Would you? The shocking, darkly gripping dystopian novel in which cannibalism is legal.

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa.

1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders - but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?

A panoramic epic, a magnificent piece of storytelling, an unforgettable debut novel

Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Haunted by the ghost of her father, and racked with jealousy, Eva soon finds herself playing a desperate psychological game.