New Trade Paperbacks - Fiction

Poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny - the tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country that's rapidly coming apart, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends

The History of a Difficult Child is about what happens when mother, God, and country are at odds, and how one difficult child finds her voice.

Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle.

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost.

Alexander of Macedon was just twenty years old in 334BC when he set out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world. The Macedonians marched East into the unknown, won battles against overwhelming odds, stormed impregnable fortresses. In the deserts and mountains between the Aegean and India they conquered nature itself. Yet disaster was never more than a sword stroke away.

The thrilling new historical adventure in the Warrior of Rome series from Sunday Times bestseller Harry Sidebottom.

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'Yrsa gets better with each book' LIZ NUGENT

It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip, a chance for mother and daughter to talk. But it changes the course of their lives forever.

On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it...