Collection: Fiction

Darien was the singular event at the end of the 17th century that changed Scotland's future, yet few know its story. Told through letters from colonist James Wallace to the first Geographer Royal and his wife, this epistolary novel reveals Scotland's global ambitions and the devastating forces th...

'A comedy about tragedy. Seamas O'Reilly has written a brutal, profound, and very funny novel' NINA STIBBE'Prestige Drama is bristlingly funny, richly humane . . . Seamas O'Reilly is a writer with a rare and vital comic gift' MARK O'CONNELL'Seamas is one of my favourite living writers.

This is a searing story of love denied, then shattered, under the chilling wheels of the state. It follows one day in the life of a young unnamed journalist about to attend a celebratory May Day parade. His lover, Suzana, whose father's political star is on the rise has just left the journalist i...

Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)

A terrible arson in Manhattan burns an old building to the ground. Amelia Sachs criminalist Lincoln Rhyme's wife and crime scene investigator extraordinaire manages to save a victim from a fiery death. And in doing so she makes an eerie discovery.

When cosmetics mogul Billie rolls down her town car window and offers Lily a ride home from a glitzy Manhattan gala, Lily figures there could be a useful professional connection to broker. She's heard the legends of Billie's rise as a business titan, the product of white New England privilege and...

Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need.Afterglow is a stunning collection of original short stories in which writers from many different backgrounds envision a radically different climate future.

Gun violence, climate change and unemployment have ravaged the United States beyond recognition. Amidst the wreckage, an online retail giant named Cloud reigns supreme. Cloud brands itself not just as an online storefront, but as a global saviour. Yet, beneath the sunny exterior, lurks something ...

When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control u they must be kept under the whip.

Reader-favourite antiquarian bookseller Orlando Forbes first introduced in The Shadow Sister returns in this dual-timeline saga. When Orlando uncovers a hidden cache of manuscripts in an old Harrow rectory, his investigation draws us deeper into the private longings and unresolved fractures of th...