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...

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.

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...

Preorder Mhairi's new novel COVER STORY – coming soon!If faking love is this easy… how do you know when it’s real?The brand new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Mhairi McFarlaneLaurie and Jamie have the perfect office romance(They set the rules via email)Everyone can see they’re head over heels(They staged the photos)This must be true love

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...

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, with everything that readers love about her novels—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.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 secret...

He had met her three times and three times forgotten all about her...William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform. All he can play, haltingly, is Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand.Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough pupils to pay the month's rent. In the local café, the elegant writing of a job adverti...

‘Beautiful, amazing, mesmerising’ ALAN CUMMINGA MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHERI am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden.A father who is trying to rescue his lost wife.Their child, desperately searching the wild forests and dangerous mountains of the Scottish Highlands, not knowing what’s out there.An abandoned cottage in the remote wilderness, filled with thousands of confusing, terrifying handwritten ...