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Title: 61 Hours
Author: Lee Child
Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere…
Title: The Midnight Line
Author: Lee Child
Jack Reacher is having a bad day.
It would be a dumb idea to make it worse.
Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window…
Title: Inventing Ourselves
Author: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
The brain creates every feeling, emotion and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists believed our brains …
Title: My Brief History
Author: Stephen Hawking
My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity …
Title: The Lying Game
Author: Ruth Ware
The twisting new thriller from international sensation Ruth Ware, author of Sunday Times bestsellers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10…
Title: Orbiting Jupiter
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
A heartbreaking story, narrated by twelve-year-old Jack, whose family is caring for fourteen-year-old Joseph. Joseph is misunderstood…
Title: Educated
Author: Tara Westover
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that…
Title: The Terror
Author: Dan Simmons
The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph…
Title: Killing Floor
Author: Lee Child
Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he’s about to regret…
Title: Ragdoll
Author: Daniel Cole
A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together, nicknamed by the press as the ‘Ragdoll’…
Title: Origin
Author: Dan Brown
In keeping with his trademark style, Brown interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art and architecture into this new novel…
Title: Die Trying
Author: Lee Child
Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn’t know why they’ve been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI. She’s certainly tough enough…
Title: The Award
Author: Danielle Steel
Gaelle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France…
Title: The Lost Symbol
Author: Dan Brown
A mysterious invitation brings Robert Langdon to Washington DC.
There, he is presented with a sequence of bloody clues which he must unravel if he is to prevent a terrible plan…
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum…
Title: Deception Point
Author: Dan Brown
A rare object has been found deep in the ice at the Arctic Circle. And Rachel Sexton is called to verify this game-changing discovery…
Title: Nothing to Lose
Author: Lee Child
Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can’t find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee…
Title: Angels & Demons
Author: Dan Brown
A famous scientist is found dead, a strange symbol burned brutally into his skin. Many miles away in Rome, the world’s cardinals assemble to elect a new Pope….
Title: Digital Fortress
Author: Dan Brown
Susan Fletcher has been summoned to the one of the world’s most secretive organisations, the National Security Agency…
Title: Inferno
Author: Dan Brown
Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object found hidden in his belongings…
Title: The Girl with Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found…
Title: A Farewell To Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the ‘war to end all wars’. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated…
Title: The Essential Hemingway
Author: Ernest Hemingway
The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. This impressive collection includes…
Title: The Girl in the Spider`s Web
Author: David Lagercrantz
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder…
Title: The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Inspired by Hemingway’s adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and…
Title: The First Forty Nine Stories
Author: Ernest Hemingway
From Ernest Hemingway`s Preface: `There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go…
Title: Green Hills of Africa
Author: Ernest Hemingway
I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P. O. M. kneeling to shoot him…
Title: Have Mercy on Us All
Author: Fred Vargas
Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box…
Title: Hypo Thermia
Author: Arnaldur Indridason
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide…
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Author: Ernest Hemingway
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dyamiting…
Title: Or the Bull Kills You
Author: Jason Webster
Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you – traditional proverb. Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one hot afternoon in Valencia he has to replace his boss…
Title: SideTracked
Author: Henning Mankell
Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him…
Title: The Line Becomes A River
Author: Francisco Cantu
Francisco Cantu was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. He worked the desert along the Mexican border…
Title: Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s classic work, published when she was just twenty years old, tells the tale of eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a terrifying creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment…
Title: The Invisible Woman
Author: Claire Tomalin
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens Winner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize…
Title: The Snowman
Author: Jo Nesbo
A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Outside, he sees her favourite scarf – wrapped around the neck of a snowman…
Title: Pablo Escobar : My Father
Author: Juan Pablo Escobar
We believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time…
Title: Darkest Hour
Author: Anthony McCarten
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside…
Title: Nothing Stays Buried
Author: P. J. Tracy
Once again working with Grace MacBride and her team of analysts, they discover a web of evidence stretching back into the past. And there is little time to untangle it: this killer has a taste for blood…
Title: The Black Swan
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists?…
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Title: Falling in Love
Author: Donna Leon
In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut…
Title: Into the Water
Author: Paula Hawkins
In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn’t pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help…
Title: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Author: Haruki Murakami
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84…
Title: The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on…
Title: Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
The best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient… Looking at our present trajectory we are on the way to Brave New World…
Title: Hag-Seed
Author: Margaret Atwood
Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded…
Title: After the Quake
Author: Haruki Murakami
For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man…
Title: A Wild Sheep Chase
Author: Haruki Murakami
The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big blank. His girlfriend has perfectly formed ears, ears with the power to bewitch, marvels of creation…
Title: Underground
Author: Haruki Murakami
In spite of the perpetrators’ intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects…
Title: Dance Dance Dance
Author: Haruki Murakami
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers…
Title: The Elephant Vanishes
Author: Haruki Murakami
When a man’s favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple’s midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald’s…
Title: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Author: Haruki Murakami
Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child…
Title: Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
Author: Haruki Murakami
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians…
Title: After Dark
Author: Haruki Murakami
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude…
Title: Sputnik Sweetheart
Author: Haruki murakami
Twenty-two-year-old Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful…
Title: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Author: Haruki Murakami
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear…
Title: Kafka on the Shore
Author: Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father`s dark prophesy…
Title: Norwegian Wood
Author: Haruki Murakami
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki…
Title: The Classic Works of Thomas Hardy
Author: Thomas Hardy
Dealing with themes of determinism and inescapable fate, Thomas Hardy’s novels are also reknowned for depicting the intimate relationship between character and the environment…
Title: About a boy
Author: Nick Hornby
About a Boy is Nick Hornby`s comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller `How cool was Will Freeman?` Too cool! At thirty-six, he`s as hip as a teenager…
Title: 13 Reasons why
Author: Jay Asher
Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box with his name on it, outside his front door…
Title: The One-in-a-Million Boy
Author: Monica Wood
The unforgettable novel about a boy in a million – and the 104-year-old woman who saves his family.Not to be missed by readers who loved THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY ELIZABETH IS MISSING or…
Title: Mortdecai
Author: Kyril Bonfiglioli
Don`t Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli – Book 1 of the Mortdecai Trilogy, now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp Introducing the Hon…
Title: The One Plus One
Author: Jojo Moyes
One single mum. With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best. But it`s hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you shouldn`t…
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Title: Black Mass
Author: Dick Lehr , Gerard O’Neill
Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon,’Whitey’ Bulger, godfather of the Irish Mob, waits for an old school buddy. Since they last met, Little John Connolly has become a high-ranking FBI agent…
Title: The Everything Store
Author: Brad Stone
Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. …
Title: McMafia : Seriously Organised Crime
Author: Misha Glenny
Organised crime is part of all our worlds – often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through the new world…
Title: My not so Perfect Life
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed. But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren’t they?…
Title: Messy
Author: Tim Harford
Ranging expertly across business, politics and the arts, Tim Harford makes a compelling case for the creative benefits of disorganization, improvisation and confusion…
Title: Live and Let Die : James Bond 007
Author: Ian Fleming
James Bond’s new assignment will take him to the heart of the occult: to infiltrate this secret world and destroy Mr Big’s global network…
Title: My Own Story
Author: Emmeline Pankhurst
Don`t miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Emmeline Pankhurst was raised in a world that valued men over women…
Title: Nutshell
Author: Ian Mcewan
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John…
Title: Waverley
Author: Sir Walter Scott
King George is on the throne, but there are those in Scotland who swear loyalty to the Stuart heir, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and are prepared to stake his claim in conflict and bloodshed…
Title: Theatre
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions…
Title: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Author: Julian Barnes
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway`s account of life on board Noah`s Ark, A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents…
Title: Ulverton
Author: Adam Thorpe
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years…
Title: Restoration
Author: Rose Tremain
When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into a vibrant world of luxury and opulence…
Title: A Prayer For Owen Meany
Author: John Irving
If you care about something you have to protect it. If you`re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it…
Title: The 4-Hour Work Week
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan – there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times…
Title: Reunion
Author: Fred Uhlman
Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be discovered. On a grey afternoon in 1932…
Title: Vulgar Favours
Author: Maureen Orth
The basis for American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin…
Title: Star Wars: Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel
Author: Daniel Jose Older
It’s one of the galaxy’s most dangerous secrets: a mysterious transmitter with unknown power and a reward for its discovery that most could only dream of claiming…
Title: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Author: Jason Fry
From the ashes of the Empire has arisen another threat to the galaxy’s freedom: theruthless First Order…
Title: The Airbnb Story
Author: Leigh Gallagher
In 2008, two broke art school graduates and their coder-whiz friend set up a platform that – in less than a decade – became one of the largest provider of accommodations in the world…
Title: Like A Virgin
Author: Sir Richard Branson
In Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You in Business School, Richard distils and shares the wisdom and experience that have made him one of the world’s most recognised and respected entrepreneurs…
Title: The CEO Next Door
Author: Kim Powell
Everything you thought you knew about becoming a CEO is wrong. You must graduate from an elite college or business school…
Title: The Virgin Way
Author: Sir Richard Branson
With over 40 years in business, Richard Branson is an inspiring pioneer of humanitarian projects and an iconic business leader…
Title: Screw Business as Usual
Author: Sir Richard Branson
In Screw Business as Usual, Richard Branson at his brilliant and motivating best, shares some fascinating and inspiring stories about the people who are already leading the way in transforming business into a force for good…
Title: Reach for the Skies
Author: Sir Richard Branson
As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible…
Title: Business Stripped Bare
Author: Sir Richard Branson
In Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals…
Title: Freakonomics
Author: Steven D. Levitt
This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner’s rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers…
Title: Screw It, Let’s Do It
Author: Sir Richard Branson
Richard Branson is an iconic businessman. In Screw It, Let’s Do It, he shares the secrets of his success and the invaluable lessons he has learned over the course of his remarkable career…
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Author: Thornton Wilder
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy…
Title: Nudge
Author: Richard H. Thaler
Nudge is about choices – how we make them and how we can make better ones. Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat…
