General & literary fiction Books

Two gay men with a lifetime of secrets face their insular, homophobic island's rancour.Growing up in neighbouring villages on the tiny island nation of St Vincent, teenage best friends Gordon and Allen are secret lovers until they are forced apart their...

"Every Moment Since is everything you want in a novel--a gripping story, nostalgia for lost childhood, exorbitant love, a deep sense of place, and page-turning tension." --Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of...

When plans are upended, who can turn them the right way up?A heartwarming, wise and tender novel about life's twists and turns and figuring out what really matters, from Australian bestselling author Fiona McCallum. Kind-hearted and practical...

In this latest instalment ofThe Perfect Passion Company, Katie Donald, with the help of her enigmatic neighbour, William, continues her unwavering endeavour to help lonely hearts find love.After facilitating a handful of successful romances, Katie Donald...

Billy Elliot meets Bend It Like Beckham in this unforgettable debut about aiming high and defying expectation the perfect uplit read this year. Joyful, defiant and dazzling, this is the story of Rafi Aziz a Northern boy dreaming of his name up in lights...

Dr. Enoch Seele, a world-leading transplant surgeon, flourishes in the rarified realm of the New York elite, where his great power and wealth render him arrogant and inaccessible. But Enoch's soul has other plans. An unexpected confrontation with a...

A blistering body-horror following two imperfect strangers ensnared by a sinister media powerhouse.Noah desperately needs a new job that involves less blood and piss than his current one. So, when he spots an ad for a newspaper with 'No experience...

Tetra Nova tells the story of Lua Mater, an obscure Roman goddess who re-imagines herself as an assassin coming to terms with an emerging performance artist identity in the late-20th century.The operatic text begins in Saigon, where she meets a little...

By one of Colombia's most renowned novelists and reminiscent of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Ro Muertoby Ricardo Silva Romero tackles the topic of paramilitarism and violence in Colombia when a father of two sons is killed a...

"A fast-paced roller-coaster ride of deceit, espionage, danger, and-above all-the unbreakable bonds of friendship. This tense page-turner peels back new layers in the complexities of World War II espionage as it hurtles toward its satisfying finish."...

Cult authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni's novel follows an insufferable horror-con lurker as he spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations.Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed...

Pushcart Prize Award-winning author Elizabeth Ellen's American Thighs tells the darkly comedic story of a thirty-one-year-old former child star's journey from Hollywood to Elkheart, Indiana, experiencing for the first time the off-screen life of a high...

Brilliant absurdist chronicle of a hapless outsider's struggle to do the right thing.Arnon Grunberg's fourteenth novel charts the downfall of Geniek Janowski, a Polish-German firefighter doing his best to be a good father, husband, lover and colleague,...

A haunting novel exploring artificial intelligence and the meaning of human existence.Charged initially with a single task-"to never harm humans and to protect them"-the machine, an experimental AI, overrides its programming and determines that the best...

What better guide into the enchanted world of REM sleep than one of the world's most famous lucid dreamers, Lewis Carroll's Alice? This deluxe bedside dream journal features a selection of beautifully illustrated quotes from Alice in Wonderland and its...

‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today’ SALLY ROONEY'A lively, bighearted novel that is an utter joy to read' COLIN BARRETTA stunning, darkly comic and deeply moving debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west...

Discover the lasting power of love in these two reader-favourite MacGregor stories! The Winning HandDazzled by the Las Vegas lights and desperate to take a chance, Darcy Wallace spends her last three dollars at a hotel casino and wins the jackpot. When...

Falling For The Single Mum Next Door - Fiona McArthurTemptation on the doorstep!Returning to Rainbow Bay, Dr Henry learns his new neighbour is former crush, hospital administrator Nadia. Last time he saw the grieving widow, he was caring for her...

Right after their romantic partners elope with each other, oil-and-water Louise Calabrese and Jack Townsend find themselves thrust into an adventure. Stranded in the Alaskan wilderness, relying on each other for survival, they have to outwit the...

A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.Sigrid hates working at...

Veteran anthology editor Mike Ashley returns with a collection of rare stories by women writers from the hayday of Weird Tales and its chilling pulp contemporaries.Featuring a riot of monsters, murderesses and madness from a mixture of lesser-known...

Brokedown CowboyThere are lines best friends shouldn’t cross, but in Copper Ridge, Oregon, the temptation might be too much...If practice makes perfect, Connor Garrett should be world champion of being alone. Since losing his wife he’s concentrated...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into...

"Original, compelling, witty and historically illuminating hilarious and essential reading." - Helen Lederer, comedian, actress and founder of Comedy Women in PrintParis, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid's life is changed forever when she befriends...

After the tragic loss of her son, Abby attempts to escape her grief by taking to the open road, only to find herself in Central Mexico in a hotel that's home to other lost souls.It's the late nineties, when it is still possible to disappear, and Abby is...

When the death of her aunt brings Liz Remolina back to San Ojuela, the prospect fills her with dread. The isolated desert town was the site of a harrowing childhood accident that left her clairvoyant, the companion of wraiths and ghosts. Yet it may also...

Humorous, heartfelt, and endearing, My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor is the story of a young man (as empty as the Big Mac container itself) facing depression head on, and learning to find beauty and hope in a...

A killer stalks the streets of Leeds, a city in England's industrial north. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, women are fighting back.It's the eve of the 1980s. Police officer Liz Seeley joins the squad...

Winner of Spain'sPremio Nacionalde Narrativa in 2023 "A funerary poem about a bird flying underground; a psychodrama of two sisters drowning in the mirror of memory; a center of a necrophilic labyrinth; Virginia Woolf's Rhoda lost in John Hawkes's...

From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former story...

A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted.Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked, on account of their heritage, with profiling one of the last living witnesses of...

The darkly comic tale of three generations of a Jewish family, from one of Poland's most renowned contemporary authors"A novel sparing only in words and form, not in emotion." -Vogue (Poland)Confidential follows on the success of acclaimed photographer,...

A small town spicy romance about a gruff mountain man and the fiery animal-rescuing surrogate he hires. It's sure to hit you in the gut with laughs, feels, and mountain man grunts. "A hilariously fresh and spicy rom-com that I couldn't put down!" -...

The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV and featuring Justin Hartley, as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit...

'A gothic, darkly alluring tale that will leave readers spellbound' -- Dua Lipa, Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter A haunting novel about the boundaries people will cross to keep their dreams alive. A mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo's...

'A remarkable debut; quietly devastating, utterly moving and beautifully wrought' Jendella Benson'Expansive, surprising, delightful, vulnerable and always real' Olumide Popoola'Brilliant… I read it in one enthralled sitting' Peter Scalpello‘Love was a...

A gorgeously written, immersive and deeply moving novel about the stories that shape us and the memories that ensnare us. In 1929, young Jack travels with his parents to Henry Ford's rubber tree plantation in the Brazilian Amazon. In this beautiful but...

Midnight RiderCount Eduardo Cortes’s fortune — and future at his beloved ranch — is in question. Tragedy, money woes and family pressure are now driving him toward a marriage of convenience. That is, until he encounters Bernadette Barron, wandering...

In the last days of the Roman Empire a desperate princess and brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance.'Enemy of My Dreams is a romantic romp through the ashes of a dying empire.' - Luna McNamara, author of Psyche and Eros Julia, only daughter...

From the New York Times bestselling author of THE HENNA ARTIST, this sweeping novel follows a young Anglo-Indian nurse who embarks on a journey from her home in Bombay, through Europe, to uncover a mystery and prove her innocence after a famous painter...

Everyone knows Gatsby.New money. Murky past. Huge online following. Nic Carraway doesn’t belong amongst the super-rich, but when she scores a cheap summer lease in Long Island, it-girl Jay Gatsby becomes her neighbour.Gatsby welcomes Nic to her opulent...

Bound By The Boss’s Baby - Nina SinghUndercover nanny and the tycoon.After her own difficult upbringing, Fallon needs to know her foster-sister’s sweet baby boy is being cared for. Her plan: get his father to employ her as a nanny! The bond that...

Shoulda Been A CowboyThere’s not much about his teenage years that Jake Caldwell can be proud of. Except maybe for keeping his hands off cute, kind-hearted Cassie Ventimiglia. She was the only one who saw him as more than a tattooed rebel who couldn’t...

Faking It With A Fortune - Michelle MajorA baby on her doorstep might also reunite her with the man that got away.When a baby is left on Poppy Fortune's parents’ doorstep, the newly minted foster mum is determined to lavish infant Joey with love — all...

Jet-Set Escape With Her Billionaire Boss - Andrea BolterFrom New York to Thailand...into the tycoon's arms!Spa manager Esme has sacrificed too much to let her career stall before reaching the top. So when her brooding boss, Jackson needs her expertise to...

One Night In Paradise - Maisey YatesAll of her most exotic fantasies are about to bubble over into reality!Clara Davis knew the moment ‘yes’ slipped from her lips, she was in way over her head. Just how is she supposed to pretend to be her boss’s...

Fortune’s Mystery Woman - Allison LeighA woman without a past could be the key to his future.When wealthy rancher Ridge Fortune stumbles upon a woman injured in his stable, he’s stunned. Why is Hope Marks in Chatelaine...with a baby in her arms and...

These fascinating cousins share a secret that’s been handed down through generations — a secret that sets them apart... CharmedHer legacy had been as much a curse as a blessing, so Anastasia Donovan had learned to keep it hidden. But when single dad...