She left her home for the stars, but found more adventure than she bargained for. A tense and intimate coming-of-age story in space.

Is medical research always fully aware of its consequences? Does science need to grow a conscience? Or are we in danger of being too distrustful of science? Of demolishing it, even? These, and other questions, are explored in this anthology, featuring specially commissioned short stories by acclaimed British authors.

"First published in French as Le Monte-Charge in 1961"--Title page verso.

'Much of The Bird Room's appeal is down to Killen's taut, sharp prose style - not flashy but alternately laconic, melancholy and dryly witty - that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and the banal.' Metro

A stunning psychological thriller from one of Norway's most celebrated young novelists. Two people in exile on an isolated fjord. Two secrets. As the past tightens its grip, there may be no escape...

It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to loose...

Birding takes the temperature of the female nation. A powerful story about duty, consent, contrition and complicity; about the difference between love and obligation, and the boundary between unhealthy relationships and abusive ones.

This collection of short stories enabled du Maurier's devoted readership to see her, for the first time, in a very different guise -- as an exponent of the sinister and macabre.

A collection of stories containing a range of emotional force and dark humour. It unfolds a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of America.

When James proposes, it seems like an opportunity for Jane to leave her lonely past behind and become part of a family. But the presence of a woman in the cottage near their remote farmhouse threatens Jane's new-found happiness.

When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peaceful fabric of life is destroyed. Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the Goatherd who has courted her since infancy are but two of the many casualties.

Dark, intelligent crime novel about a policeman with a secret past, and an emotive exploration of violence within the family

A MAJOR PUBLISHING EVENT: A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Luminaries.

The thrilling new novel from the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Luminaries, now in paperback.

`Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s.

Vienna 1865: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed fever. London in 2009: Michael Stone's novel about Semmelweis has been published, after years of rejection. While Michael absorbs his success, his mother is dying and asks to see him again.

* A Bainbridge classic comes into Abacus paperback for the first time

In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. As Coupland writes, `bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones'.

Tatamkhulu Afrika revisits his experiences as an allied prisoner of war in World War II. He lays bare the terrible cruelties, but also the strange loyalties and deep bonds the men know will never be replicated after the war. BITTER EDEN is a tender, bitter, powerful novel, of lives inexorably changed, of a war whose ending does not bring peace.