An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy. On a cold January morning he stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. In the aftermath of the murder, the victim's wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private, Jack has at his disposal the world's largest investigation agency, but what he discovers shakes him to the core. Jack identifies another murder in Moscow that appears to be linked so he heads to Russia and begins to uncover a conspiracy that could have global consequences. With powerful forces plotting against him, will Jack make it out alive? 'Great action sequences... breathtaking twists and turns.' - Anthony Horowitz. Feel the chill of this thriller. 448pp, paperback.

Showgirls. Millionaires. Murder. Jack Morgan, head of Private Investigations, the global PI agency of the rich and famous, is being pushed to the limit. His car has been firebombed, his ex is dating someone else, and his twin brother is still out to destroy him. But Private doesn't rest, and nor do its clients - not the LAPD who need Private's help catching two scumbags with diplomatic immunity, and not the client who has just confessed to murdering his wife. Add to that Jack's best friend being held on a trumped-up charge that could see him locked away for a very long time, and it seems like all bets are off. 501pp in paperback.

From the author of 'The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle', the international bestseller, here is a heart-warming story of friendship and family, chances missed and taken and the eternal power of love. Australia, 1993. At the age of 74, former cane farmer Grace is feeling her age, and thinks the best of life may be behind her. Elsewhere in town, high school teacher Patricia has given up on her dreams of travel and adventure and has moved home to look after her ageing parents. Meanwhile café owner Dorothy is struggling to accept that she may never have the baby she and her husband so desperately want. Each woman has an unspoken need - reconnection - and that's how they find themselves at Orange Blossom House, surrounded by perfumed rainforest, being encouraged by their yoga teacher, the lively Sandrine. Together they will find courage and strength and discover that life has much more to offer than they ever expected. You will end up falling in love with each of the characters as their stories are fleshed out and despite their flaws and difficulties you want the best for each of them. An uplifting and easy read, 410pp in large paperback with fairly large print.

Cunningham's novels are said to fuse political material with psychological realism and a lyrical sensitivity to place. This novel is a wonderful brew of politics, family, violence, love and betrayal and it is intricately structured, taking us on a devastating tour past the landmark events of the Troubles, through Bloody Sunday and centres around one man's conflicted self and his search for his father. Paris, May 1969. Irish diplomat Marty Ransom has been asked by Minister of Finance Charles Haughey to become a go-between with the new IRA faction in the North where Marty's cousin Ignatius is a key player. But Marty is secretly reporting to MI5 in Dublin, playing a deadly game that will force him to choose between the past and all he holds dear. A wonderful novel about an Irishman who spies for the British in the modern era and a moving portrait of human nature tucked into a thriller. 275pp, paperback.

Phoebe is many things, but she is not in control. As she stands on Pulteney Bridge, trying to cover her face with her hair so she won't be recognised, her tights are ripped from toe to thigh, and she has lost a shoe. It is five or ten minutes later that she hears the commotion. She runs down the road until she sees mangled metal and blood running down the walls. Phoebe believes this is of her making - murder she thought. Now she must not let her thoughts unravel because of they do there is no telling who might be caught in the crossfire and Phoebe will have to live with the consequences. Kate Hamer skilfully recasts Shakespeare's witches as her three teenage leads in a novel that is as much about family dysfunction, burgeoning sexuality and abuse of power as it is about teenage mysticism. Phoebe believes herself to be as powerful as one of the witches in Macbeth as she entices her friends into ever more dangerous territory. The novel makes good use of its Bath setting. 395pp in large softback with fairly large print.

Langdon Taft is a crabby alcoholic schoolteacher in rural Vermont, at a loss until a voice startles him from the rocking chair where a stranger has appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Dangerfield (a thinly disguised Mephistopheles) is a well-dressed, smooth talking and devilishly charming drinking partner. He offers Taft the chance to have anything he's ever wanted - for a price - before he is transported to Hell on Columbus Day, just seven months hence. Will he choose to be younger, powerful, wealthy and have more sex? Instead he does not behave as we think he might - he pays a very sick child's hospital bills, gives a wife beater a lesson he will never forget, prevents a dodgy bank foreclosing on a local farmer, rescues a drowning girl and even attacks school bus bullies. Does he deserve to go to Hell? He also had the reward of a flirtation with an attractive female State Trooper organised by Dangerfield. Taft would argue that he has successfully fooled the Devil by diverting his power to do good and to help the community in which he lives. Then there is the parallel story of Calpurnia, a 98 year old woman in a hospice waiting to die. 191pp, US first edition.

After an extremely violent first chapter, the book, set in Norway, is the story of one family and how their lives were ripped apart by the mass murder of children and the search for the body of one of them. Scottish born satirist Cal and his Norwegian wife Elsa had arrived in Oslo for a six month stint with their three young children, before their return to life in Washington DC. Their eldest daughter Licia is away at a summer camp on a small island off the coast of Oslo. A bomb ripping through a building in the town centre sends shockwaves through the city, but it is what follows that truly horrifies a nation. Gunmen alight on the island where the camp is being hosted, and mercilessly open fire on the teenagers. The death toll is staggering and a community mourns. Bodies are repatriated onto the mainland and families grieve, but for Cal and Elsa their horror is only just beginning. Did Licia survive the shooting or is she gone forever? 424pp.

Peru's foremost author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 lives in London. Here is a thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirling around a scandalous exposé that leads to murder. The Nobel Laureate has written a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. During Alberto Fujimori's turbulent presidency in 1990s Lima, two wealthy couples find themselves embroiled in a disturbing vortex of political sabotage and erotic betrayals. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. While fielding the explosive scandal, his wife suddenly begins a passionate, secret affair with his lawyer and best friend. When Garro shows up murdered, the two couples are thrown into a whirlwind of navigating Peru's unspoken laws and customs, while the staff of the magazine embark on their greatest revelation yet. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has Vargas Llosa's signature style. The novel is a scathing indictment of Fujimori's regime that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system. A twisting and unpredictable tale mixing pulpy dialogue and even pulpier characters and seedy tabloid journalists. 244pp, paperback.

Set primarily in America during the McCarthy era during the making of a film, the book looks at deception, hiding in plain sight, denying who you are, creating a mask within the film industry. The title of the book Night for Day is common parlance in film language to shoot scenes in the day and light them to give the illusion that they are taking place at night. Desmond Frank, an elderly American ex-pat living in Italy, is reflecting on the life he gave up more than half a century ago. Back then he was a successful Hollywood screenwriter, working on a major studio script for a gritty piece of underworld noir and conducting a secret relationship with the film's leading man. But when Desmond's friend and collaborator leftist director John Marsh learned that his wife was about to expose them both to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the two men were chaotically thrown into making impossible choices - between complicity or defiance, the compulsion to live a lie, or the freedom to leave everything behind. Set in Los Angeles 1950 over the course of a single day while the two friends grapple with the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Beautifully written, expansive in scope, tenderly intimate writing from the American writer who is Professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. 661pp in sturdy softback.

13 haunting short stories about different people in one particular block of flats, lonely residents living in close proximity while longing for connection. This new talented author has brilliant insight and casts her own unique spell from the surreal in the first story Eggs, stuffed squids, and the boat in the story Black, Dark Hill. In Paradise Block, mould grows as thick as fur along the walls, alarms ring out at unexpected hours, and none of the neighbours are quite what they seem. A little girl boils endless eggs in her family's burnt-out flat; an isolated old woman entices a new friend with gifts of cutlery and cufflinks; a young bride grows frustrated with her unappreciative husband who is the caretaker of their crumbling, dilapidated housing complex. With a haunting sense of place and a keen eye for the absurd, these 13 surreal stories lure us into a topsy-turvy world where fleatraps are more important than babies, and sales calls for luxury coffins provide a welcome distraction. Don't expect to emerge from this book the same as you went in. 232pp.