Fiction

Freya and her Aunt Carole - the Lockwood Antique Hunter’s Agency - are called to investigate a deadly crime on a ship full of antiques enthusiasts.

The best thriller I've read in a long time - original, timely, thought-provoking, moving. Couldn't do anything else until I'd finished it.

A historical thriller based on real life events, set on a train...!

Based on a true story, this is the life of Fredy Hirsch and how he cared for the children imprisoned in Auschwitz.

A gripping thriller highlighting a fractured society.

Fremlin is called 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith' and the novelist Clare Chambers describes this 1950s mystery as a 'dark delight. Witty, unsettling domestic noir. Imagine Barbara Pym with arsenic'.  What will we make of it?

A fictionalised life of the iconic art collector Peggy Guggenheim.

A British translator is summoned to an assignment in Russia where he meets a former lover, and uncovers a plot with terrifying consequences.

A brilliantly funny and poignant account of a woman coping with approaching middle age.

A wonderfully atmospheric, nostalgic read immersing the reader in the lives of two young women in the 1950s.

The assignment for Frankie Kellin is to find the sister of a serial killer, and it means going undercover on an isolated island near Hawaii...

A gourmet cook has been convicted of killing businessmen. A journalist wants the exclusive interview, but learns to cook in the process. Weird and brilliant!

A wry mystery based around the conversation between a therapist and his client.

The winner of this year's Booker Prize follows six astronauts on the international space station as they complete the daily sixteen (90 minute) orbits of the planet. The book has been described as 'beautiful and ambitious'. What will we think?