Winter, upstate New York. Outside the Half Moon bar, a blizzard is raging. Inside, bartender Malcolm and his wife Jess are coming face to face for the first time in four months. Malcolm never understood why Jess packed up and left him suddenly,...
Anna's Christmas Eve To Do List: 1. Wrap the kids' presents? 2. Peel the potatoes ? 3.Get rid of the dead body?! Hungover and exhausted after her family's annual party, all Anna Johnson wants for Christmas is to finish her to-do list and finally s...
Under the winter stars, anything is possible… Ezzie Wynter can’t wait for Christmas on the beautiful Isle of Skye. Her island home sparkles at this time of year thanks to the snow-capped mountains and frosty winter walks, topped off with family ga...
A set of symbols scratched on the wall of a crypt in southern France. A flag bearing a red cross on a castle fortress high on a stone ledge. And deep in the heart of the Vatican, a team of agents charged with making sure no one discovers what conn...
Now you see her… Julia Miller puts her teenage daughter on a plane, secure in the knowledge that she will see her again in a few days. Now you don’t… But when the plane lands, Anna is nowhere to be seen. She definitely got on the flight, but then ...
From Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most feted and critically acclaimed authors, a collection of mysterious, suspenseful and macabre tales. In her inimitable style, Oates takes the reader on unsettling journeys through the modern American psy...
The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers. 'The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy a...
All alone during winter - will she find somewhere to call home . . ?As the year ends, seventeen-year-old runaway Kathleen stumbles through the snow, alone and about to give birth. But when she's carried to safety by a mysterious figure, her lif...
How far would you go to find home? Relics of a mysterious god, the Spice Gates connect the eight far-flung kingdoms, each separated by a distinct spice and only accessible by those born with a special mark.
Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch.
Granta Best Young British novelist and acclaimed author of Attrib. and other stories, Eley Williams returns with a thrilling collection of short stories exploring the nature of relationships both intimate and transient – from the easy gamesmanship...
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako ...
This is the hen do to end all hen dos. And you're invited... Poppy Greer is getting married and four of her old schoolmates are to be her trusted bridesmaids. They may have drifted but true friendships last a lifetime, don't they? Plus, who wou...
Four handsome fae princes. One awkward bookworm. An Enchanted Vale. A beastly curse to break. Rosalina O’Connell lives her life in Orca Cove as quietly as she can. When her father turns up missing, Rosie goes after him and finds herself in the ...
