A luminous collection of literary and metaphysical stories, where ordinary lives—a factory worker, a gardener, a supply teacher, a lost property office worker and a bus driver—become vessels for quiet acts of kindness, memory, and transcendence. Blurring the line between the everyday and the extraordinary, these tales explore how small gestures echo through time, revealing the profound meaning hidden in the seemingly mundane.

Three stories. Three objects. Three connections across time that should not be possible.In Hello, Across the Silver Line, a woman moves to Bath carrying the wreckage of a life and finds, in the back of a dresser drawer, a silver hairbrush that opens a doorway to 1919 — and to Lydia, a seamstress navigating grief and survival in the aftermath of war. What begins as a conversation becomes something neither of them has a word for.In The Level...

Tom Marlowe has spent thirty-two years frozen in the aftermath of abandonment, painting the same Welsh beach obsessively, convincing himself that solitude is safety. Lauren has spent two years on the Maine coast learning to trust her own perceptions after someone taught her not to, reclaiming the music that was once made to feel like imposition.Neither is looking for connection. Both have chosen careful distance over dangerous proximity.Then one September evening, Tom sees ...

Miriam has one year to uncover an unimaginable past and a secret that only women can discover.The life of a freelance illustrator will never rake in the millions so when twenty-eight year old Miriam discovers she's the sole surviving heir to her great-aunt's fortune, she can't believe her luck. She dreams of selling her poky city flat and buying a studio.But great fortune comes with an unbreakable contract. To earn her inheritance, Miriam must live a year and a day in the d...

Sometimes the past endures-and sometimes it never lets go.This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she’s healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit. On the rugged wes...

What if the serial killer you were investigating was someone you knew?DS Wendy Knight's first murder case was always going to test her limits, but even she couldn't anticipate that a sadistic serial killer might be someone she knew - very well.As her investigation unfolds, so too does a sinister plot that will turn her world upside down and make it increasingly difficult to distinguish friend from foe in her tightknit world.By the time Wendy realise...

Voted the UK’s Favourite Nature BookThe memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger’s and MeEvery minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence.An introverted, unu...

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, which offer the gimlet eye and delightful social critique that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time.Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; ...

****THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER**'An inspirational study in leadership and a powerful testament to the human spirit at its very best.'** - Mail on Sunday'The energy of the book gives it pace and you whip through, rather as Purja nips up verticals... Whether or not you are a lover of the mountains, you will marvel at his tenacity, his fearlessness. No one can fail to be inspired by what he achieved.' - The Times...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhat are you afraid of?In his first-ever Doctor Who novel, Tom Baker’s incredible imagination is given free rein. A story so epic it was originally intended for the big screen, Scratchman is a gripping, white-knuckle thriller almost forty years in the making.The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at a remote Scottish island, when their holiday is cut short by the appearance of strange creat...

’TWISTY, SEXY, SMART ’ – Kiran Millwood-Hargrave‘A MODERN GOTHIC GEM’ – Samantha Shannon‘OH SO ROMANTIC’ – Alexandra Christo‘AS SEDUCTIVE AS IT IS SINISTER’ – Kate Dunn‘THE SAPPHIC DARK ACADEMIA OF DREAMS – Francesca MayA dark academia thriller romance with a supernatural twist. From the winner of the Comedy Women in Print PrizeTen years ago,...