Fiction

The story follows Jack Reacher, a giant, wandering ex-military cop who travels with no bags and no destination. He walks a 12-mile stretch of empty road between two small towns in Colorado named Hope and Despair. Reacher only wants a simple cup of coffee, but local deputies in Despair try to force him out of town. Driven by pure curiosity, Reacher teams up with a female police officer from Hope to break open the town's dark secrets. They soon expose a terrifying, hidden connection to a distant war.

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks into the small town of Margrave, Georgia. Within less than an hour of his arrival, he is arrested in a local diner for a murder he did not commit. He must use his elite military skills to clear his name and hunt down a dangerous conspiracy.

A lone gunman opens fire on a public plaza in a small Indiana city, killing five random people in a seemingly watertight case. When arrested, the prime suspect James Barr refuses to talk, except to demand: "Get Jack Reacher for me." Reacher sees the news and heads to the city, but instead of defending Barr, he arrives ready to confirm the sniper's guilt—only to uncover a massive, deeply layered conspiracy.

When MI5 agent-runner Liz Carlyle is moved from Counter-Terrorism to the Industrial Espionage Section, it looks very much as if she has been sidelined. While vetting the director of a top-secret research establishment in the Peak District, however, Liz realises that her subject is lying to her and is a potential blackmail risk. Other more malign forces have arrived at the same conclusion, and soon a lethal Intelligence game is in play. With Martine Charrat, her opposite number in the French secret service, Liz is drawn into a desperate race. But as Liz soon discovers, their unknown enemies hold all the cards.

The novel takes place in a New York City condominium called Echo Terrace. The story is told through the eyes of the building's concierge, Farro Fescu, who acts as the general factotum and a quiet observer of the multi-ethnic, eccentric residents living inside.Through his daily interactions and mailbox collections, Farro uncovers the deeply intertwined lives, secrets, and vulnerabilities of an exotic cross-section of the world, including:

• An Egyptian-born plastic surgeon
• A retired German Luftwaffe pilot
• A grieving widow

Byron Winterleaf, a 23-year old white guy, is on the verge of losing his job as a translator at a Xhosa-themed restaurant. And during heavy rains his back garden in Observatory, Cape Town, is flooded, killing the marijuana plants that he'd been hoping to harvest for profit. But the flood also brings something else to the surface it's a bone, that much is clear, but whose? Susan Ridge, head of Restoring Dignity to Forgotten Minorities (RDFM) is adamant that it is the bone of a Khoi victim of the 1713 smallpox epidemic. She convinces Byron that his house should be converted into a museum, to honour these forgotten people. But it soon becomes apparent that Ridge's intentions are anything but honourable she is simply playing on a collective sense of guilt, in order to make a personal profit. Byron finds himself caught up in the middle of a cultural scam. However, this time it's not only his job at a restaurant that he stands to lose his house, the only sure thing in his life, becomes a battleground, and if he's unable to take control of the situation he stands to lose everything ...

A deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson and namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his father's old friend John Ames.

It could be difficult being a liberal Afrikaner in South Africa in the dying days of apartheid, especially if you were a powerful newspaper owner. When an old college friend pays Alex Calder an unexpected visit he is drawn once more into the shady dealings of the City – and in particular back to Bloomfield Weiss, the investment bank he’d hoped he'd left well behind. For Kim is married to Todd van Zyl, son of South African newspaper tycoon Cornelius van Zyl. Todd wants Alex’s help to investigate the murder of his mother, shot at a game reserve eighteen years ago. Todd has always believed his mother was killed by guerrillas – but the recent discovery of a letter written by her shortly before her death now suggests a crime far closer to home. And it seems Alex’s old enemy at Bloomfield Weiss holds the key to the mystery. Unfortunately Todd’s suspicions have stirred up a nest of vipers – with deadly repercussions… See No Evil is the sequel to On The Edge, featuring Alex Calder.

Kay, at 44, has known marriage, motherhood, monogamy and, latterly, monotony. She's lived for 20 years and three months with a man who, at first, she thought magnificent. When she finds out about Brenda, her husband's lover, Kay decides to change her life.

A psychological suspense novel set in 1920s New York City during Prohibition, following a police precinct typist named Rose who becomes entranced by a glamorous and mysterious new colleague named Odalie.

Along the shores of the Eastern Cape, a disturbing story builds, which will have ravaging effects on a settled life in Johannesburg ...

Set in Kent during 1940, the story takes place in the idyllic English village of Chilbury during the early days of World War II. As the local men leave for the front lines, the village vicar decides to close down the choir. In defiance, a group of resilient women come together to form an all-female choir, forging deep bonds and finding the strength to withstand the hardships and heartbreaks of the war.

The Church Split has not extinguished their love, but the demands of one man still stand in their way.

Capucine: Home to my heart - Janet Spaeth; Joie de Vivre - Lynette Sowell; Language of Love - Janet Lee Barton; Dreams of Home - Kathleen Miller

It's a small story, about: a girl - an accordionist - some fanatical Germans - a Jewish first fighter - and quite a lot of thievery

In the dark days of the Blitz, crime goes undercover...It is October 1940 and undertaker Francis Hancock is called out to Epping Forest to attend to the corpse of a young gypsy girl who has died suddenly. At the wake, a gypsy named Lily claims to see a vision of the 'Blessed Virgin'. Meanwhile the Military Police are looking for a German spy - Martin Stojka - who they believe is a Nazi spy. Then Lily is found stabbed through the chest. Could it be a crime of passion or cold-blooded murder? Is Martin Stojka who he says he is? There is someone lurking in the shadows who will stop at nothing to find what Martin has in his possession...

A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet?Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?

Freya North reunites her popular McCabe girls – sisters Cat, Fen and Pip – in her warm and sexy new novel.Despite their mother having run off with a cowboy from Denver when they were small, and having been brought up in a draughty house in Derbyshire by their eccentric uncle Django, the McCabe girls actually consider themselves very normal and well-adjusted.Pip is stepmother to 10-year-old Tom, Fen has a young baby and Cat has returned to England to start a family. Their mid 30s are promising to be a time of comfort and contentment. However, at their uncle’s 70th birthday party, an unexpected guest arrives. Old family secrets are unearthed.

The Narrative: The book is a deeply moving family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer growing up in war-torn Jerusalem during the 1940s and 1950s.The Core Conflict: It chronicles a young boy caught between a fussy, logical father and a romantic, dreamy mother, building up to the tragic pivotal moment of his mother's suicide when he was just twelve and a half years old.Historical Scope: Beyond a personal autobiography, it acts as a biography of Israel itself before and during its creation, sweeping through 120 years of family history across Vilna, Odessa, Poland, and Prague.