» A Delicate Truth

» John le Carré

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, the Minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?

» Billy and Me

» Giovanna Fletcher

When you've got the dream boyfriend everything should be perfect, right? So why isn't it? (wonders Sophie May). When Sophie and Billy met and fell in love, she thought she was living in a fairytale. After all, Billy is an actor, a teen heartthrob adored by girls around the world - and he loves Sophie. She's the only girl for him. But being on Billy's arm comes at a price.

» The River of No Return

» Bee Ridgway

1812: On a lonely battlefield in Spain, Lord Nicholas Falcott, Marquess of Blackdown, is about to die .... But, the next moment, he inexplicably jumps forward in time, nearly two hundred years - very much alive. Taken under the wing of a mysterious organisation, The Guild, he receives everything he could ever need under the following conditions: He can't go back. He can't go home. He must tell no one.

» The Other Typist

Suzanne Rindell

New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side. When the captivating Odalie begins work at the precinct Rose finds herself falling under the new typist's spell. But just who is the real Odalie, and how far will Rose go to find out?

» Call for the Dead

» John le Carré

An anonymous letter had accused Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan of being a communist. George Smiley, assigned by the Secret Service to vet Fennan, had assured him he had nothing to fear. No one believed this nonsense. But clearly something had rattled Fennan, for a day after the interview he killed himself.

John le Carré's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduces the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.

» The Accidental Husband

» Jane Green

Jane Green's The Accidental Husband is a powerful story about two women connected by an earth-shattering secret. Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than they could ever imagine.

» The Help

» Kathryn Stockett

In Jackson, Mississippi, there are lines that are not crossed. Black maids raise the white children, but no one trusts them not to steal the silver. But The Help is not just about race, it's about how women, whether mothers or daughters, the help or the boss, relate to each other. It's about the dramas of domestic life and that horrible feeling that those who look after your children may understand them, deal with them and love them.better than you.

» Me Before You

» Jojo Moyes

2012's greatest love story is still selling like the hot buttered buns at Lou's teashop. Richard and Judy described it as 'a very powerful and emotional novel, full of insight into people's lives. We think it is a perfect read - uplifting, but also tragic.'

» Reflected in You - A Crossfire Novel

» Sylvia Day

'We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession…' The second novel in the erotic romance Crossfire series by Sylvia Day.

» Beautiful Creatures

» Kami Garcia
» Margaret Stohl

A brand new film tie-in edition of the bestselling love story, Beautiful Creatures - a delicious gothic romance that has captured the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere.

» Pray

» Nick Hornby

The 2011-12 Premier League season finished on an afternoon so extraordinary that it prompted Kevin Pietersen's tweet. Yet this was just the climax of an incredible season. By May fans of most clubs had been enthralled, appalled, depressed, elated, shocked and enraged. Along the way football had somehow managed to encompass politics, high finance, the law and matters of life and death.

» The Economist: International Banking

Jonathan Rosenthal

Retail banking is heading for a revival. With the financial crisis still hanging over Western economies, banks have rejuvenated the retail arm of the business. They are now seen as more stable sources of profit than the risky traders.

» Being Sam Frears: A Life Less Ordinary

Mary Mount

This is Sam Frears' story.

This is also the story of an actor, a rock-climber and a man born with an extremely rare genetic disorder. Sam was only supposed to live to the age of 5. In September, he celebrated his 40^th birthday.

» My Dining Hell

» Jay Rayner

'I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out in the bush.'