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.

Somewhere in the drizzle of the North-East Riding stands a university that has never quite recovered from being built. Its canteen soup develops opinions. Its lost-property office discovers that umbrellas, once surrendered, refuse to be lost. A grieving man chases a hat that obeys the uncertainty principle, and a woman who presses flowers for a living finds that time is not a corridor but a room she can see all at once.In these ten stories, John B. Sullivan borrows the findings of ...

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...

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...

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...

The brave and inspiring true story of renowned climber Nims Purja's mission to summit the fourteen highest peaks on Earth - as seen on Netflix.'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 TimesFourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the brain and body withers and dies....

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...

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; ...

’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,...

A tense psychological thriller ideal for fans of Faye Kellerman and Louise Penny.Things are not going well for prestigious lawyer and professional mistress Sarah Fortune. Her life is a mess, but it would be so much simpler to try and fix somebody else's. So when she meets the vulnerable and troubled Jessica Hurley, Sarah feels she must save her.Jessica longs to return to the small village where she grew up, but she has burned all her bridges. Instead, Sarah travels to Jessi...