Rural noir from the author of the acclaimed Summerstoke trilogy

The life of a global adventurer

A Georgian entertainment featuring Thomas Gainsborough and another painter

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 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 featuring a medieval patron saint, a tennis court and a Westminster spin doctor

A rediscovered work by one of the most exciting novelists of the 1930s

How to make a living from doing what you love

At the Deep End is the story of a man who, through everything he has endured at the hands of Robert Mugabe's government, has remained committed to working for peace and democracy for all in Zimbabwe, and in the process become a 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?

Madeline Dewhurst’s captivating debut, longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, spins a web of secrets and deceit

Chasing Hornbills is Simon Fenton's follow-up to Squirting Milk at Chameleons; the further adventures of the Accidental African

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 hair-raising Himalayan hike

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

Buy eight 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’

In 1997, a group of twenty women set out to become the world’s first all female expedition to the North Pole. Sue and Victoria were surprised to find themselves amongst them

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

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

Eight of the best from Down Under

Four glittering comic novels

Why is so much of the world managed by arseholes?

The acclaimed graphic biography of Katherine Mansfield

Murder, mystery...and marrows

The sequel to the number one bestseller

A decade of living dangerously

Mood of Future Joys follows Alastair on the first leg of his epic journey around the world, starting in Yorkshire, then going down through Europe and travelling the whole length of Africa, including Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya

"...that is what we do - we go out and destroy other people's lives." Former news editor on the News of the World

A time-travelling caper

‘Easily one of the greatest books I’ve ever read about music and being in a band’ Eric Alper

On Turpentine Lane

A new set of 104 photographic cards and linked commentaries, biblical verses and prayers to add depth and insight to your understanding of life

A new set of 104 cards to add depth and insight to your understanding of life and the Christian Bible

A darkly comic dystopian crime novel

The Trump satire that America wouldn't publish

Inspired by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Simon Casson and Richard Adamson follow on horseback the trail of their boyhood heroes

Riding with Ghosts is Gwen’s frank but never too serious account of her epic 7,500 mile cycling tour

A memoir of literary ambition

Some of the finest debut fiction from Lightning Books