Fiction

Teddy Crutcher has just won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home exclusively to the brightest and the best. He says his wife couldn't be more proud - though no-one has seen her in a while.He's deeply committed to improving his...

A strange accident at an offshore platform in the Caribbean draws Yoko, Vic and Pol into a new encounter with the Vineans - aliens who have lived underground for thousands of years without the world's knowledge. But Vinean politics are changing; some...

A spellbinding novel of war and family betrayal set in Malaysia - The God of Small Things for our centuryOn a visit to her childhood home in rural Malaysia, Durga faces a reckoning. Stuck with her sharp-tongued grandmother in the rising heat, both women...

Vernon Alverstoke sees no reason to put himself out for anyone.But when a distant connection asks for help, he is quickly plunged into one drama after another by the disorderly Merriville family.Surprisingly, he finds himself far from bored - especially...

The Carnival is all she's ever known - but an old terror could tear it down.In the spring of 1982, the carnival comes to small-town Cauldry, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Besnick, the carnival is home. It's also a place of...

When the incomparable Miss Milbourne spurns the impetuous Lord Sherington's marriage proposal (she laughs at him - laughs!) he vows to marry the next female he encounters, who happens to be the young, penniless Miss Hero Wantage, who has adored him all...

After working closely with the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in shaping and writing his memoir, author Hassen Ebrahim and Jacana Media are proud to publish this important record of a life that was spent in service to South Africa.   Writes Mac Maharaj in...

Love is more than a game. Love and Death choose their players in an eternal game. Death has never lost and Love will do anything to win. Henry and Flora find each other, not knowing they are the players. Can their love be enough to keep them both...

Nuwe plek, nuwe skool, nuwe mense. Ek het my eenkant gehou, net in die middae pinball gespeel by die Griek se kafee op die hoek. Pinball was my ding. My nuwe klasmaats het gesien hoe ek speel. "Kyk hoe jive die cat daar agter die pinball," lag die een...

Book 2 in the Galloway Girls series - endorsed by Estelle Maskame, YA author of the DIMILY series!Gemma's not sure if she's brave enough to go to her music audition, or if she even wants to study music at all. She's definitely not sure forming a band...

They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s_ Patrick, the sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled establishment, and Sara, who abandoned her two children to fulfil her destiny as Patrick's beautiful, devoted wife and muse...

In this brand new Courtney Series novel by bestselling author, Wilbur Smith, comes an epic story of tragedy, loss, betrayal and courage that brings the reader deep into the seething heart of the French and Indian War. 1754. Inseparable since birth and...

When Kurt Austin is injured rescuing souls from a sinking yacht, he wakes with conflicting memories. Did he witness an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? Kurt doesnt trust either version of his recollection...

Elise knows every inch of the house. She knows which boards will creak. She knows where the gaps are in the walls. She knows which parts can take her in, hide her away. It’s home, after all. The home her parents made for her. And home is where you stay,...

More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times_ the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of...

Lila Black, half robot and all attitude, is back from Hell. Book three of the Quantum Gravity Series sees Lila Black back from her adventures in Demonia and struggling to cope with the even stranger world of Faerie.And these Faeries couldn't be less like...

Among all the things that make Gomer such a lovable rascal, there are two that are instantly recognisable_ his car, and his goofophone. His old lemon, favourite target of the constabulary and every pedestrian's nightmare, is responsible for half the...

Gomer is absolutely peerless when it comes to disrupting life at Spirou Magazine, much to his boss Prunelle's and long-suffering Mr De Mesmaeker's chagrin. But don't you go underestimating him! The truth is that his laziness, his talent for invention and...

'We've got at least seven hours to get what we want before the sun comes up.'School is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight she's going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. Somewhere in...

AD1200: Robin Hood seeks a relic with power over life and death. Dimensions : 35 X 133 X 198 mm Format : Paperback Age Group : ADULT Page Numbers : 544

The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian, available for pre-order now Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation_ fiercely independent Nan, who...

Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson's brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail from a mysterious guidebook, whose anonymous authors...

New York, 1980s Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within resonate, perhaps, because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders_ When did the...

A letter among her deceased ex-husband’s belongings rips open Theresa’s world. For years she has turned her back on Theo, a man who spent the last two decades of his life institutionalised, and on their shared past in a country where teenage boys were...

The President is usually able to brush off a death threat. But today is different. He has dreamt of this, the dream so real it feels like someone is inside his head. A thrilling mix of Homeland and Inception, Time's Assassin takes us to the edge of a...

The Wall Street Journal Top Ten BestsellerGrowth IQ shows you the 10 strategies to sustainable growth, based on a purpose-led culture for all businesses.'A worthy successor to Michael Porter, Bova's book is that rare gift_ it opens doors for new ideas...

DI Kate Burrows could never keep away for long... HARD GIRLS is the third book in the DI Kate Burrows series_ the only time the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times bestseller Martina Cole has written from the perspective of...

WELCOME TO PRIVATE PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS A handpicked team trained to solve crimes the regular police can't touch - crimes of magic My name's Bonnie Torres. Recent college graduate, magic user and severely unemployed. Until I got a call out of...

While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba.Pitts children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing...

Accused of murder, Weather Warden Joanne Bladwin was chased across the country - and killed - by a team charged with hunting down rogue Wardens. Five days later, Joanne had a lovely funeral and was posthumously cleared of all charges. Her human life was...

The body count is rising…and the clock is ticking.When a young woman is attacked and left fighting to survive in hospital, the police are pulled into a race against time to save her life. But just 24 hours later, she dies and a deadly tattoo is...

Reliving the memories of his ancestor who fought beside Joan of Arc, high-ranking Templar Simon Hathaway slowly uncovers secrets of the past that could dangerously impact his present and that of the entire Templar order.  Simon Hathaway, member of the...

Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.In this companion to his bestselling Mythos,...

What do you do when the man in your life lets you down? Show him the door? Chuck his clothes out of the window? Cut the crotch from his trousers? If only it was that easy - especially when you've got an eight-year-old daughter to think about and a...

Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been reassigned to the drugs squad. His first case: to investigate a notorious south London drug lord known as the Viper.But as William and his team close the net around a criminal network unlike any...

A powerful collection from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Annie Freud.Hiddensee represents Annie Freud's most ambitious work to date, not least because it is a book about ambition and its necessity, the need to go beyond oneself, and to do what one...