Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them.... read more

Lily (Quick Reads) by Adele Geras (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

"My name is Marie Cotter and I want you to believe me. Every word of this story is true. This is what happened to me. I'm back home again now, and sometimes, when I think about Bowdon House, I feel... read more

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Charles Frazier's debut novel, Cold Mountain, is the story of a very long walk. In the waning months of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate veteran named Inman gets up from his hospital bed and... read more

The Pact by Jodi Picoult (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Friendship, loyalty, lifelong love -- and teenage suicide. A riveting, timely, and terrifying novel from an acclaimed writer who skillfully intertwines the intimate perceptions of Anne Tyler with... read more

The Shadow In The North (Sally Lockhart Quartet) by Philip Pullman (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Any book by Philip Pullman, award-winning author of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, is guaranteed to be a corker and The Shadow in the North is no exception. Set against... read more

Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

In this latest novel from the poet laureate of Gen X--who is himself now a dangerously mature 36--boy does indeed meet girl. The year is 1979, and the lovers get right down to business in a very... read more

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in... read more

Trumpet by Jackie Kay (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Jackie Kay's first novel is a curious and haunting story about mixed-race jazz trumpeter Joss Moody (Irish mother, black father), who turns out, on his death, to have been a woman all along. The... read more

The Soldier's Wife by Joanna Trollope (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste... read more

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her... read more

Slaughterhouse 5, Or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance With Death by Kurt Vonnegut (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a... read more

Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

A luxury-hotel manager reveals what goes on behind closed doors...and sometimes, right out in the hallway. The manager of an exclusive boutique hotel (who shall remain nameless) exposes the low-life... read more

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the... read more

The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. Unable to cope... read more

The Host by Stephenie Meyer (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has... read more

The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a... read more

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared... read more

The Help by Kathryn Stockett (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi,... read more

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge' in the raw Alaskan... read more

Sense And Sensibility by Jane Austen (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the... read more