General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

The life Oscar Wilde never had - reimagined by John Boyne in his most ambitious and emotionally powerful novel yet.'Exceptionally moving... A granularly imagined, witty, hugely pleasurable read' Neel Mukherjee'Wise,...

A story of wealth, power and attraction - and the truth behind two of America's wealthiest men - from billion-copy bestselling author Danielle Steel.When talented journalist Charlotte Ramsey is tasked...

When Evgeny Shtorn flees the rising tide of homophobia and authoritarianism in Putin's Russia, he leaves behind his home and the life he has spent years building. Arriving at a...

WATERSTONES AND FOYLES BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD FOR FICTION 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE...

It is 1918 and the world is at war. But this feels a million miles away for Laurel Shelton. In the house where her parents toiled and died, in the...

The only way to get my inheritance? Marry Alexei Volkov-the grumpiest enforcer in the NHL, a brutally handsome jerk, and the last man I'd ever fall for.In public, we act...

* 'Hilariously accurate. The funniest novel about the female mid-life crisis' The Times *Clara Hutt is forty-six years old, and in pretty good nick, considering. She has kick-ass underwear, a...

From No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn and television pioneer Shonda Rhimes comes a powerful and romantic novel of Bridgerton's Queen Charlotte and King George III's great...

'A detailed and convincing portrait of an extraordinary life... this series is a serious achievement' THE TIMES'This brilliant series has brought Henry VIII's six wives to life as never before....

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' GuardianAnne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of...

*A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of The Lost Tudor Princess, is the first in a spellbinding six novel...

Some people are good at keeping secrets but some secrets are never meant to be kept... The beautiful old Bath House in Ballytokeep has lain empty and abandoned for decades....

Shortlisted for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, author of All The...

With an introduction by Sadie Jones.'Engrossing . . . the reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving, surrendering to the story's exotic magic.' - The TimesWhite. Like...

'I will tell you a story, but it comes with a warning; when you hear it, you will become someone else.'He calls himself Alif, a young man born in a...

Jack Middleton, once 'England's most promising young composer' now lives comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress. Jack is no longer young nor has he ever quite fulfilled...

How many times can you lose the person you love? High-concept romance from debut writer Lauren James.A powerful and epic debut novel about fate and the timelessness of first love....

A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world'A startling prose hymn to food and sex, love and violence' GUARDIAN'Unique, ambitious,...

Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.But the wind does not...

In this beautifully written and compulsively readable story of love and the mutability of human relationships, pianist Witold's infatuation with Beatriz will change them both.A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and...

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's new mind-bending epic: a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time.2031. America...

'The enemies-to-lovers banter is top-notch' Camilla Isley'Smart, sassy and sexy' Caroline Khoury'A perfect snack of a romantic comedy' Jodi McAlisterHe's her work nemesis. They're fake dating. What's the worst that...

A beautifully atmospheric new tale from the prize-winning, bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan.In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever...Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited newly married and ready for...

In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85 years old and with failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great...

Ron Rash has been acclaimed as 'the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years' (Scotsman), a writer with an 'exceptional quality of characterisation and storytelling'...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decadesMeet the Padvano girls. Best friends and...

Award-winning writer Sue Hubbard delivers a poignant story of transformation, conjuring the rugged beauty of County Kerry's coastline.Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a virtually...

Survival is only the beginning.Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They're exhausted, traumatised, desperate...

Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in...

'Liked this. Went someway to plugging the ginormous hole that Philip Kerr's sad passing has left in my life' DERMOT O'LEARY. Barely half of the Bomber Command's aircrews survive a...

'Jennie Felton knows how to tell a cracking story and keep the reader gripped... if you enjoy reading books in the style of Catherine Cookson then this one is for...

The bestselling author of The Thorn Birds moves to HarperCollins with a novel of laughter, passion and more than a little magic ... 1960, Sydney's Kings Cross. Harriet Purcell leaves...