Twelve

RRP: £9.99

Waterstones’ Books of the YearNick McDonell’s electrifying novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City …

Merciless Gods

RRP: £8.99

A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda. Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and r …

The Puttermesser Papers

RRP: £25.00

Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental; her love life is minimal. And her most idle fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true. She yearns for a daughter and pr …

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

RRP: £18.99

Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before sweeping across time and continents to unravel tangled knots of romance, espionage and vengeance. In riveting prose, Shacochis …

Volcano Street

RRP: £8.99

‘What would Germaine do?’This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the twists and turns that life brings. Such as the sectioning of their mother Karen Jan …

The Queen Alone

RRP: £7.99

Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is a lonely New York teenager. It’s Christmas, and with her pop-star mother away on a whirlwind tour, all is not well with Katie. She is having visions. She remembers… Katie …

The Locked-Room Mysteries

RRP: £19.99

In this definitive collection, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler selects a multifarious mix from across the entire history of the locked room story, which should form the cornerstone of any crim …

The Last Days of the National Costume

RRP: £12.99

You’d think that mending clothes would be an uneventful, uncomplicated occupation. No drama, no unnecessary explanations, no personal involvement. But people love to talk, and as they make their excus …

Return to Fourwinds

RRP: £8.99

***Shortlisted Author For Historical Writers’ Association’s Debut Crown For Best First Historical Novel***What will it cost to hide your deepest secrets from those you love most? At Fourwinds they gat …

Snake Bite

RRP: £12.99

Jez is seventeen and lives with her alcoholic single mum in in a government rental in Canberra’s outer-suburbs, with little money or future prospects. As well as suffering from terminal boredom, Jez h …

The King and the Slave

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Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus’s army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king’s son and heir Cambyses, who has inherite …

Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone

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After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals with the devil in …

The Changeling

Kogito is a writer, and is in his sixties when he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law Goro. Goro sends Kogito a number of cassette tapes onto which he has recorded refle …

The Chef

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A huge international bestseller – The Chef is a thriller and a love story that has gripped readers across Europe

The China Lover

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When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, it is his dream posting. By day, he works in the censor’s office watching Japanese films; at night he …

The Incorrigible Optimists Club

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The Incorrigible Optimists Club is a huge, exhilarating whirlwind of first love, radical art, colonial war, progressive politics, Chuck Berry and chain-smoking intellectuals.Paris, 1959. As dusk settl …