Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, BlindsightTwo months since the stars fell...Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's...

The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple escaping to enjoy the fruits of French rural summer living - an irresistible feast of humour and heart.‘One of the most successful travel books of all time… Mayle created a new travel genre’ Guardian‘Engaging, funny and richly appreciative’ New York Times Book ReviewPeter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dre...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICEBEST THRILLER, iBOOKS BEST OF 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING SILVER DAGGER, 2015SUNDAY TIMES, TATLER, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND GOLDSBORO BOOK OF THE MONTHYou should never talk to strangersWith his flight delayed, Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner, a magnetic stranger, in an ai...

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION BY THE AUTHORThe No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller | A Sunday Times Book of the Decade**'**Many books have been written which claim to be “A New History of the World”. This one fully deserves the title' The TimesFirst published in 2015 to unparalleled global acclaim, Peter Frankopan's Th...

The Vagrant is his name. He has no other.Years have passed since humanity’s destruction emerged from the Breach.Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn landscape.As each day passes the world tumbles further into depravity, bent and twisted by the new order, corrupted by the Usurper, the enemy, and his infernal horde.His purpose is to reach the Shining City, last bastion of the human race, and deliver the only weapon that may make a differen...

‘The Alan Banks mystery–suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I’m wrong’ – Stephen KingA house of horror. A despicable serial killer. Banks’s darkest case.When a concerned neighbour calls the police to number 35, The Hill after a domestic disturbance, the two constables are led to a truly horrific scene. They unwittingly uncover an elusive serial killer known as the Chameleon. With the killer finally in cust...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD GLOBALLY'One of the most important books you'll ever read' –Steven D. Levitt, bestselling author of Freakonomics‘Jam packed with things you will wish you had known before. I devoured the audiobook and instantly bought a hard copy to keep on my desk' –Dr Julie Smith, bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me T...

Celebrating its 50th anniversary with 20 million copies sold, Peter Benchley's Jaws is the gripping pulp thriller that inspired Steven Spielberg's classic, blockbuster film adaptation.**Now, with exclusive bonus content from Peter's personal archives and an exclusive foreword from his wife, renowned ocean conservation advocate Wendy Benchley.It's never safe to go back in the water . . .**It was just another day in the life of a sma...

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human fami...

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS**'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today' Undiscovered Scotland'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May' New York Journal of BooksFIVE DREAMS OF FAMEGlasgow, 1965. Jack Mackay dares not imagine a life of p...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I’m wrong’ – Stephen King'Move over Ian Rankin - there's a new gunslinger in town looking to take over your role as top British police procedural author . . .' Independent on SundayWhen Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother, Roy, he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales to seek him out amidst the bright lights of Londo...

THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY'S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.A MURDERThe body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.A SECRETFin Macleod left the island ten yea...