New Trade Paperbacks - Fiction

The Shadow Child is a book of hope and reconciliation, of coming to terms with trauma and learning to love again. Most of all, it's about how you can never quite escape from the shadows of your past - especially when one of those shadows is a child ...

Two novellas by Peter Handke - his first works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Knowledge is power. And they know everything. The tech company Public Square believes in 'doing well by doing good'. It's built a multi-billion dollar business on this philosophy and by getting to know what people want. They know a lot. But who else can access all that information and what are they planning to do with it?

Racing between Sydney, New York, Seville and London, The Burning Time is a smart, fast-paced and action-packed international thriller for the 21st century.

What if the only way you could prevent a murder was by confessing to it?

A special edition of the 100 best crime stories written by women, selected and introduced by award-winning author Sophie Hannah.

You're on your honeymoon at an exclusive couples-only resort. You receive a note warning you to 'Beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours'. At dinner that night, five other couples are present, and none of their tables is any nearer or further away than any of the others. It's as if someone has set the scene in order to make the warning note meaningless - but why would anyone do that? You have no idea.

Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows abandons her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can't afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find it already occupied - by a man and a teenage girl.

You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the police on the doorstep. First they check you're who they expected to find at the address. What they say next traps you in a nightmare, and there seems to be no way out. It starts with the words, 'I'm afraid...'

The new Hercule Poirot mystery by Sophie Hannah, follow-up to the bestselling Hercule Poirot's Silent Night.

"Wondrous." JOHN IRVING, THE NEW YORK TIMES "An exuberant odyssey." The Guardian The raucous, irreverent and heart-wrenching story of a trans woman's re-entry into life on the outside after over twenty years in a men's prison.