Narrative theme: Social issues

Behind closed doors, the real games begin.

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - CandisNO.

In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old-playing make-believe, dreading school, dreaming of faraway places.

What if your child was accused of mass murder?

Harrison J.

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - CandisI have something to confide in you.

A movie starA deadly cocktailA murderWhen glamorous Marina Gregg came to live in St Mary Mead, tongues were sure to wag.

A quiet English villageA shocking murderAn unlikely detectiveNobody liked Colonel Protheroe.

A typist uncovers a man's body from behind the sofa.

An ordinary villageA shocking announcementOne morning the villagers of Chipping Cleghorn wake to find a strange notice in their papers:'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players.

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict.

The 'bonkers' book that 'it is impossible not to be moved by' DAILY MAILA joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator in a land where bureaucracy reigns above all else.

A merry-go-round horse and an armed guard in his front yard-along with half the town-is not what Bobby Spencer expects to wake up to.

On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back.

A grand old London hotelA series of alarming coincidencesDanger lurking down every corridorImpeccable service.

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice.

'Heady and rambunctious .

Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life.

The heart-stopping new thriller in the Ren Bryce series by Alex Barclay, bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and KILLING WAYS.

Now published for the first time in the UK, the second visionary novel from the acclaimed author of LITTLE BROTHER.

A malicious letterA tragic deathA village filled with suspectsNothing ever happens in the sleepy village of Lymstock.

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage.

Frente al desconcierto y el miedo por la irrupción de la pandemia, frente a la, casi inmediata, cuarentena impuesta por el gobierno, las tres editoras de este libro convocaron a escritoras peruanas para que expresaran sus emociones a través de las palabras.

En esta obra, eminentemente práctica, Ramiro Calle incluye nociones sobre los tres estados aflictivos principales —la angustia, el miedo y la depresión—, aportando conocimientos y métodos eficaces para superarlos; entre ellos, el yoga físico, la meditación y la relajación.

»Laubsturm« – Gabriel García Márquez' einzigartiges Debüt über das verlorene Dorf MacondoIn seinem frühen Meisterwerk »Laubsturm« entwirft Gabriel García Márquez bereits die unverwechselbare Welt des karibischen Dorfes Macondo, das später in seinem weltberühmten Roman »Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit« Kultstatus erlangen sollte.

Töten, ohne Hand anzulegen: Nach Motiven eines authentischen Falles erzählt Michael Kumpfmüller von einer ungeheuerlichen Tat.

Witty, thought-provoking and distinctive, cuts to the heart of life choices, mental health and motherhoodFor fans of Emma Gannon, Dolly Alderton and Emma Jane UnsworthKate is not in a meaningful relationship, but dreams of being a parent, and pouring all her love into the tiny bundle of happiness that will her love unconditionally in return.

Der neue Roman des Buchautors Guido Sawatzki spielt am Puls der Zeit.

A story charting the events of the twentieth century through the eyes of the Fielding family, whose fortunes are altered irrevocably.

All is not well at Holm Coultram College.

Reginald Hill's best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: 'Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world' - IndependentEx-convict and aspiring academic, Franny Roote, has started writing enigmatic letters to DCI Peter Pascoe who immediately smells a rat.

'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayFifteen years ago they moved everyone out of Dendale.

Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel investigates a murder close to home in this first crime novel featuring the much-loved detective team of Dalziel and Pascoe.

'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday TimesHurrying out of St Monkey's church one day, Joe Sixsmith stumbles across a boy's corpse in a cardboard box and into more trouble than he's ever known.

'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of crime fiction' ObserverWhen Geraldine Lomas dies, her huge fortune is left to an animal rights organization, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund.

'One of the modern masters of the police procedural' Sunday TelegraphPeter Pascoe is in shock.

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the second instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

Sharp, gripping, and disturbing, THE EDGE the third book in The Anomaly Quartet.

'Eerily page-turning and wonderfully twisty.

Everybody thinks Ashley Jacobs is #slaying lifeWith her hot job on a style magazine, cool wardrobe, attitude to match and a cat called Kat Moss - Ashley is fashion.

In the Republic of the True America, it's always hunting season.

How far would you go to save your family from an invisible threat?

A detective with a unique gift, a tragic suicide and big city corruption - 'The Fallen' is the stunning new thriller from the author of 'The Blue Hour': 'a great writer.

The twentieth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanWhen fifteen-year-old Gregory Hesse is found dead, a single gunshot to his head, it appears to be a tragic suicide.

Is the meaning of life to find the meaning of life?

There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel.

New York Times bestselling author Linda Goodnight welcomes you back home to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, with another beautiful story full of hope, haunting mystery, and the power to win your heartRenowned yet private, thriller writer Hayden Winters lives a life colored by lies.

The gripping, heartbreaking novel loved and rated 5 stars by real readers'SUCH a wonderful, captivating read!

The debut novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is a gutsy, funny, tragic and completely original work for fans of William Faulkner and Alice Walker.