"In the tradition of Anita Brookner and Barbara Pym, Anne Bartlett has written a sly, stirring look at women's lives" (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion).Sandra, a rigid academic, is struggling to navigate the world after losing her husband to cancer. Martha, a self-taught textile artist with her own secret store of grief, spends her days knitting elaborate projects charged with personal meaning. After a chance meeting sparks a friendship betwe...

It's been ten months since Jack died, and Sandra, a tightly wound academic, copes with her grief by immersing herself in the history of textiles. When she and Martha, a gifted knitter, meet over an unconscious body on the footpath, the unlikely threads of their lives tangle into each other. Sandra invites Martha to join her in a professional collaboration, but what begins as a working relationship becomes something deeply personal. Martha seems at ease with herself, in spite of her own exp...

'It's just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind?'As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, he is called by his son's school: his wife, Lauren, hasn't turned up to collect their son. Calm at first, Mark collects Nathan and takes him home but as the hours slowly crawl by he increasingly starts to worry.With brilliantly controlled ...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult...

**FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIESAn electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules! With an introduction by Stephen King.**Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a mu...

The Perfect Murder is a suspenseful and gripping novella from Peter James, the bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Roy Grace series.How do you commit the perfect murder?Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years. Victor secretly loathes Joan more and more each day. Joan is bored by Victor, and his snoring drives her mad. Their marriage has reached a crisis point.Victor decides there is only one w...

Pre-order your copy of Faith Hogan's new novel The Women At Ocean's End now – coming June 2025!A bittersweet story of love, loss and life, from the number one bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies and The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club.Some people are good at keeping secrets but some secrets are never meant to be kept...The beautiful old Bath House in Ballytokeep has lain empty and aba...

A young woman once implicated in a robbery gone wrong finds herself at risk years later when the real culprit is up for parole. The loot taken that night has never been found and he believes she knows where it's hidden--only her memory of that night has always been unreliable. Can she remember enough to find her way to safety?

The ninth in the series of stories covering the activities of DCI Victor Moyes and DS Victoria Morgan sees them heavily involved with the Jenkins family, Abberford’s equivalent to the Mafia. The Jenkins had always been prolific in producing children over the years and the family stretched across Abberford like a spider’s web and was involved in every aspect of criminal activity ruthlessly ruled over by Johnny Jenkins.

This is the seventh in the series of stories covering the activities of DCI Victor Moyes and his second in command DS Victoria Morgan, set sometime during the nineteen sixties as they try to contain the criminal element in the fictional town of Abberford.In this particular case they are thwarted in their attempts to discover their murderer because he or she doesn’t appear to originate from the criminal fraternity, meaning they have to look at things from a different perspective whi...

The tenth in this series sees DCI Victor Moyes and his second in command DS Victoria Morgan take on the case of trying to solve the mystery surrounding a body retrieved from the River Ford, the river that runs through the fictional town of Abberford.These stories are set in the sixties before DNA and computers and means that there is a lot of paperwork and legwork that needs to be covered in order to complete their investigations.Little did they know at the start of their i...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016Four-thirty on a May morning: the black fading to blue, dawn gathering somewhere below the treeline in the east. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the little village of Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished, violence gathered about them in the silent air. One wheel, upturned, still spins.How...