'Sometimes I have the feeling I'm going to turn out to be something *** when I grow up. Mathilda is so ordinary, she makes me feel special. I am not like her. I want to be different, I don't know how. Mathilda hates to be different. I am different already.' Millicent King, 26 November...

The latest offering from Banks gives a scion's-eye view of an eccentric, splintering Scottish business family. Having secured immense wealth via the Empire! board game (invented by a relative in 1880) and its various offshoots, the Wopuld family must now decide whether to sell the company: the American...

Description: In Sparta, southern Greece, a close-knit group search for the buried traces of a formidable ancient power. A latecomer, Ben Mercer finds himself drawn to their brilliance and charisma: to the double-edged friendship of his countryman Jason, the unsettling beauty of the women, Natsuko and...

Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch. Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—...

Amazon.co.uk Review Margaret Atwood charts the psychological process of memory as compulsion and memory as a healing act through the character of Elaine Risley, an artist who returns to her home town of Toronto for a retrospective of her work. Elaine's visit triggers thoughts of her childhood with...

Review 'In this fascinating thriller, the remote Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched and untroubled by modern life - until the battered body of a young woman is found at the foot of a cliff' Woman's Own 'Absorbing and beautifully written and reveals the savage, superstitious reality...

I finished Dancing Backwards yesterday and, although it's not my favourite Salley Vickers novel, it is very enjoyable. Vi Hetherington herself is a very engaging character, and I found the way she matures between the flashbacks and the present-day bits intriguing and very well done. I would agree...

Product Description (from Amazon) Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, became victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God' killer who terrorised New Jersey City throughout the summer of 1984. This murderer went after young courting...

Synopsis: On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love...

Synopsis Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic and his brother, whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin. Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible...