New Adult Fiction

At 19, Auris Afton Grieg has led an unusual life. Since the age of 15, she has been trapped in a sinister prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the children's prison, and rumours say that...

Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of 9th century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish a...

Ezeani is no ordinary child. He sees things others don't. Despite the burden of these visions, his precocious nature blossoms into genius and Ezeani grows up to be a gifted mathematician and physicist. When he leaves Nigeria and his adoring family behind to study at Cornell in the US, he remains ...

Knowing she was found wrapped in a velvet cloak as a baby, Joanna bears her life of drudgery by dreaming of a better life. The truth behind her parentage will only reveal itself on the day of her wedding to successful factory owner Abraham.

The girl emerged from the woods. Traumatised and emaciated; close to death, but alive. Her story seemed too terrible to be true. But it was. Every dreadful word of it. When, days later, another desperate survivor is found, a pattern becomes clear. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned t...

With 'Sword Song', bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell weaves love, rivalry and violence as he tells the story of England's making. The year is 885. Uhtred, half Saxon, half Dane, a man feared and respected throughout the land, must expel the Viking raiders from London and take contr...

This is a jaw-droppingly cinematic, genre-busting debut that's part virtual space opera, part classic coming-of-age story, part brilliant pop-culture mash-up.

Who is in Coma Suite Number 5? A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife? All of these. For this is Silvia Shute who has always done exactly what she wants. Until now, when her life suddenly, shockingly stops. Her past holds a dark a...

Continuing the saga of South London life made popular by her novels, Old Father Thames and Those Golden Days, South of the River is a tale of the courage, warmth and sheer grit that the Cockney community can display when it is up against trouble.

Agatha Raisin's detective agency has become so successful she decides to take a well-earned break. She helps organise the church fête, where dark forces are lurking behind the innocent fun. Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned and the festive entertainment be...