Rural noir from the author of the acclaimed Summerstoke trilogy

The life of a global adventurer

A quirky time-slip comedy featuring 18th century portrait artists Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds and their rivalry for the affections of the Royal Family

A tale of passion, power and dirty parsnips

A tale of barley, blackberries and some very bad behaviour

The most difficult, emotionally charged, funny and baffling episodes in a 12-year career flying on police helicopters

Jules Mountain has reached Everest Base Camp, within reach of fulfilling his life’s ambition, when the earthquake sets off the avalanche. Something sets him apart from the other surviving climbers: is it that he has already cheated death once before? Does his gung-ho attitude show him to be brave, fatalistic or irresponsible? Will he finally have picked a fight he cannot win?

Based on his own travels through Africa, Michael Meegan shares his unique and inspiring insights into love, hope, compassion and happiness

A powerful, pacy tale set in post-war Central Europe about making peace with the past, shortlisted for the Yeovil Prize

A writer and book-lover’s eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England

When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends.

A canonical comedy about the life and legacy of England's lost patron saint, St Edmund, whose body is rediscovered under a Suffolk tennis court, and the hapless Westminster spin doctor who attempts to exploit the find for his boss's political gain

A rediscovered work by one of the most exciting novelists of the 1930s, exploring the ongoing conflict between nature and nurture

How to make a living from doing what you love

As a founding member and leader of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party,Morgan Tsvangirai was harassed, tortured, charged with treason and labelled a traitor. His autobiography charts his rise from teenage mine worker, to trade union leader, to Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in a fragile coalition government with President Robert Mugabe, the beacon of hope for a beleaguered nation

The challenges, the characters and the comedy of trying to do business in a war zone

A tale of tea, cake and riotous goings-on from the author of Marrow Jam

Lydia Laube set off in search of adventure, to work as a nurse in Saudi Arabia

When Jeremy Thorpe hired thugs to kill his ex-lover, they botched it. What if they had succeeded?

Another entrancing fictional story, based on Tess Burrows’ real adventures in Hawaii, involving scumbag villains, mystical dolphins and an ancient prophecy

A retired teacher approaching his eightieth birthday attempts to drive around the edges of England by electric car, despite the alarming lack of charging points. With endless patience and good humour, this unlikely pioneer is a wise and witty guide to the country’s left-behind periphery

Set in contemporary London and 1950s Kenya in the midst of the Mau Mau rebellion, Madeline Dewhurst’s captivating debut, longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, spins a web of secrets and deceit

Now a father of two and juggling multiple businesses, Simon Fenton continues to face the everyday frustrations and exhilarations of life in Senegal that made Squirting Milk at Chameleons such a compelling and entertaining read.

A bonus instalment from the author of the super-selling Cockleberry Bay trilogy

Cold hands, warm heart Tess and Pete joined the historic South Pole Race, to compete with the likes of Olympic champion James Cracknell and Ben Fogle in the first race to the South Pole since Scott and Amundsen

The hilarious new dictionary for the lockdown age

Pokes fun at some of the more ridiculous examples of the UK's cycle lanes, while raising awareness of some important issues of safety and convenience 

‘An enthralling journey of courage and endurance’ Joanna Lumley

A dark literary comedy, with shades of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, where the patients in the asylum are all famous authors from history, including Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker and Wilkie Collins

A delightful fictional story, based on Tess Burrows’ personal journey walking across the Himalayas, following the Karnali River up through north west Nepal into today's Tibet and around the legendary Mount Kailas

Can you rise to the top without losing your soul? An authoritative, ground-breaking guide.

In the thrilling second instalment of the Mars Alone trilogy, teenage computer whizz Leo Fischer and his girlfriend Skater Monroe team up with Taffy, the AI robot whose memory contains the knowledge of an ancient alien civilisation, to fight ruthless forces who have been lying to the entire human race

Buy six brilliant books in our travel/adventure imprint

First Contact is a true story of modern day exploration and the discovery of cannibal tribes in the 21st century

‘An emotionally gripping and page-turning read’

Fusing science, poetry, history and a deep love of landscape, Joanne Bourne pays tribute to flint, the magical and deeply practical stone made from sea creatures which has been part of human development for three million years

Breast cancer survivor Sue Riches and her daughter Victoria join the world’s first all-female expedition to the North Pole. Their joint accounts of their Arctic ordeal is a celebration of the ‘anything is possible’ attitude that can transform life’s tribulations into its most rewarding experiences

A deliciously daft comic caper about skulduggery and suspicion at Ireland's second-biggest cat-food manufacturer

When 14-year-old Charlie finds a mysterious old box buried in sand dunes on the East Anglian coast, he thinks he has found treasure from a shipwreck. The truth is much darker, and Charlie and his cousin Ariel soon find themselves fighting to save their small town from an assault by evil spirits

After the fall of the Taliban came a radio station with a mission...

‘A vastly entertaining screwball comedy’ – Washington Post

Emily Joy puts on her rose-tinted specs, leaves behind her comfortable middle class life as a doctor in York and heads off for two years voluntary work at a remote hospital in Sierra Leone

The first in a magical new series for children aged 9–12, set in the fairytale world of the Black Forest

Creationism is the latest Fashionably Irrational Belief. All mention of volcanoes or dinosaurs is banned. But the Yerfs are fighting back in the latest biting from the author of The End of the World is Flat

Nicola Naylor had always been enthralled by India, but her travel fantasies dissolved when she lost her sight

A journey of discovery in Peru

We all have secrets, but some of our secrets are darker than others

In this charming sequel to Working It Out, will Ruby Matthews let love win or allow her past to haunt her?

Comics 2010–2019

In the plague-ridden, battle-torn Northumbria of the Dark Ages, seven-year-old Wilfrid is banished by his parents to the windswept island of Lindisfarne, where he has only one protector. Fortunately that protector is St Cuthbert, the holiest and wisest man alive. Although perhaps also the strangest...

Eight of the best from Down Under

Four glittering comic novels