Fiction

Three friends, working in medicine, vowed always to be there for each other, but 25 years on, their bond and their consciences are tested to the limit.

Spending time with six astronauts orbiting the earth.

Winner of this year's Women's Prize and set in the Sri Lankan civil war, it has been described as 'a masterpiece of historical fiction', 'stunningly great' and 'an achingly moving portrait of individual and societal grief'. What will we think?

A charming, tender, amusing, moving story about a woman and a mouse, and about friendship and reawakening. Wonderful!

This is a book that everyone has been talking about this year. Described as 'breathtakingly clever on jealousy, talent, success, and who gets to tell which story'. What will we think of it?

Set in the treacherous political world of the Italian Renaissance, this is 'a reimagining of the life of a young woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger'. We all have high expectations of this author, will this deliver?

The gripping tale of Huckleberry Finn's adventures from the perspective of the enslaved Jim.

A story of love and astronomy told through two unlikely best friends over twenty years. Wonderfully atmospheric and mystical.

Visiting Venice with Commissario Guido Brunetti when two teenage gangs clash and the community's hero isn't who he seems.

A fabulous collections of short stories featuring all our favourite Elly Griffiths' characters - Ruth Galloway, Max Mephisto, Justice Jones, Harbinder Kaur, and more!

A book of two halves - in 1990 a woman, a mother and wife, disappears, but now, 30 years later, the mystery might be solved.

Daphne used to love listening to Peter, her fiancé, tell the story of how they met. Until one day it wasn't about them any more.

Another breathtakingly clever and gripping murder mystery, starring Horowitz and Hawthorne.

Brilliantly clever and funny murder mystery with a difference.