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White Crocodile is just that. When emotionally damaged mine-clearer Tess Hardy travels to Cambodia to find out the truth behind her ex-husband's death, she doesn't know much about the country or its beliefs.

It is the 1970s and henpecked family man Tom Ripple is happy to wryly watch the world from his perfectly ordinary life in a perfectly ordinary suburb.

When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother Maureen told him he was adopted. It was only later, as Harding set out to look for traces of his birth mother, that he began to understand who his adoptive mother really was - and the benign make-believe world she'd built for herself and her little boy.

They could be forgiven for thinking they are living in paradise - until they find themselves embroiled in a desperate terrorist conspiracy.

Giles Foden's gripping third novel draws on recent history to create a contemporary thriller of dazzling virtuosity.

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Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits' Playing Days finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father - professional basketball. It's an odd, isolated existence, punctuated by the intense excitement - and often intense disappointment - of the game.

Packed with action, love and betrayal, Tom Grass's electrifying heist thriller is a gripping reinvention of the Dickens classic, OLIVER TWIST.

Ayesha is back in the thrilling sequel to She, bursting with adventure, desire, and disaster Witnessing Ayesha’s dramatic demise, Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have not given up their hope of seeing her again after she promised in her last moments of life she would return. Still haunted by her presence ...

Within three years, Curran will be a judge, his nineteen year old daughter dead, at the hands of a still unknown murderer, and his wife Doris condemned to an asylum for the rest of her days.

An after-dinner walk in the moonlight leads to a series of confessions of first loves. That is until Jessop takes his turn and decries the notion of love itself. He speaks of a tragic affair between an old schoolfriend of his and an innocent Sinhalese girl, and so introduces the motif of these three ...

1923. The young Rikkat is being brought up in the belief that her entire life will be devoted to the art of calligraphy. That same year, Atatürk’s republic breaks away from the Islamic tradition, progressively abolishing the Arabic language and scripts in favor of a modified version of the Latin alphabet. ...

A breath-taking family story that will change the way you think of India

The powerful, moving story of Carla, a 12-year-old Honduran girl struggling to get to the US with her little brother, and Alice, who lives in Texas and is desperate to become a mother.

In this debut novel, a ghostwriter of the memoirs of a reclusive folk music icon--part Woody Guthrie, part Bob Dylan--attempts to glean fact from fiction, only to discover the deeper he digs into the musician's past, the more his own past rises to the surface Despite his fame, Eli Page is a riddle wrapped ...

Set on a remote Scottish island, this is the compelling story of one family's struggle to cope with a vanishing way of life

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Provocative, Beckettian tour-de-force by award-winning author Schofield takes readers into the head of a pervert haunting the London underground

"Gentle but highly strung, Janet must support her Afrikaner husband in his new job as a plain-clothes policeman and specialist interrogator. Hektor-Jan heads off to work on New Year's Day, aware that he is unbearably close to a bloody drama about to unfold. As Janet's world tightens and threatens to ...