New Adult Fiction

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.

In exchange for hard currency the Russian Federation promised to scrap its super submarines but one escaped the cutter's torch. It is now involved in a deadly cat and mouse game with the captain and crew of the USS Portland. Only one vessel will survive but neither side can afford to lose this ba...

For the body snatchers, death is a lucrative business. But it's the corpse they leave behind, horribly mutilated and nailed to a tree, which sets Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood on their trail.

This is the journal of Cassandra Mortmain. First, there is her eccentric father. Then there is her sister, Rose - and her stepmother, Topaz. Finally, there is Stephen, who is in love with Cassandra. Cassandra records her feelings on all of them.

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...

'The Lost Symbol' is the follow-up to Dan Brown's bestselling 'The Da Vinci Code'. Once again Robert Langdon finds himself in mysterious chambers, tunnels, temples and Masonic secrets.

From the best-selling author of 'The Gladiator' and 'Fire and Sword' comes the final volume in his epic quartet of novels about Wellington and Napoleon.

John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home - to gain their freedom and, using the evidence they have from Admiral, Lord Hood, to put Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. But first they must take part in the evacuation of Toulon.

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...

The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now he is disgusted by Alfred's lack of generosity and repelled by the king's insistent piety. This is a story of betrayal, romance and struggle, set in an...