A razor-sharp psychological suspense thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn about the family secrets that bind us - and break us.When Elspeth returns from New York to her hometown of Geelong, it's not for a holiday - it's because her mother has vanished.While her sister, Aoife, and Elspeth wait for news, they circle around their father's death years earlier, reopening old wounds. But Elspeth's own behaviour soon unsettles those around her, and the police begin ...

Three women – all with secrets. Secrets that can no longer be ignored...Catherine is a good mother and a good wife. The family home is immaculate, her husband's supper is cooked on time, but when she starts writing to Michael, a prisoner convicted of murder, she finds herself obsessing about his crime and whether he can ever truly be forgiven...Kate has no time for herself. Caught in the maelstrom of bringi...

A riveting, cathartic literary debut about love, addiction, and what it does to us.Wouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him?In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing....

An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes.'Ali's memoir absolutely wrecked me - in the best, most necessary way. It's brutally honest, beautifully written, and I have huge respect for her for putting this into the world' Paula Penfold'I couldn't put this book down. And it's haunted me since I finished it' Claire Mabey, The Spinoff'Gripping, revelatory, gen...

'Bruce is doing for Cambridge what Colin Dexter did for Oxford with Inspector Morse' Daily MailDC Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive and the youngest detective at Cambridge's Parkside Station. He is the first on the scene when the body of a young woman is discovered on Midsummer Common and for the first time in his career is given the chance to work on a murder investigation.Soon there is an identity for the victim: Lorna Spence. Richard Moran,...

A wrenching new novel of guilt, good intentions, and terrifying twists by the acclaimed author of Casual Cruelties.On paper, Claire has it all. A long and happy marriage, two lovely daughters, and a big house in the country. But she's hiding a secret . . .Struggling with issues from her school days, Claire finds her life beginning to unravel as she seeks comfort in the arms of her best friend's husband. When she learns of a school reunion, she sees h...

It is December; Christmas is approaching and the magic of one of Europe's most beautiful cities beckons. A father looks for himself in the past, struggling to deal with a recent divorce, his teenage son in tow. A single, selfless mother accompanies her only daughter and friends for a weekend-long bachelorette party. And a husband treats his wife to a birthday weekend away, somehow heightening her anxieties and insecurities about age, desire, and motherhood. As these people brush against on...

In Helen Callaghans chilling, tightly-spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girls abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case...Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, Dear Amy, for the local newspaper.When one of Margots students, fifteen-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot ...

The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things.Michel Faber's short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. 'Some Rain...

An "illuminating and thought-provoking" novel revolving around an academic gathering at a hotel on a Scottish island (Irvine Welsh, The Guardian).At Willowdale, a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students have arrived from Glasgow. They are preparing for a weekend of lectures and intellectual discussions, though some look forward to less studious interactions as well. But as they gather, they don't y...

'Mrs. Hinch meets Raven Leilani's Luster' Elle'Gen Z's Lady Macbeth' Times Literary Supplement'Gem of a debut novel... funny, vibrant and utterly unpredictable.' Service95 (Dua Lipa's cultural concierge), August's Best New Releases'Sharp, funny and engaging' Daily MailGQ Best Books of 2025A LOVE READING DEBUT OF THE MONTH, STAR BOOK AND BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK...

There is a piece of cod-wisdom regularly dispensed to single women: romance will arrive when you least expect it. I had assumed it would also make its own travel arrangements too.Emma John is in her 40s; she is neither married, nor partnered, with child or planning to be.In her hilarious and unflinching memoir, Self Contained, she asks why the world only views a woman as complete when she is no longer a single figure and addresses what it ...