Inspired by the real life stories of women like Natascha Kampusch and Elisabeth Fritzl, held captive for years in tiny rooms, this is the story of Jack, an intelligent, inquisitive five year old whose entire universe has been a tiny room where his mother has been kept a prisoner more...

Ellie, whose journalistic career once held so much promise, is on a last chance. Her drinking and her obsession with an ill fated love affair means her performance has slipped and she knows she has to deliver a cracker of a story if she’s to keep her job. Searching through her more...

I loved, loved, loved this one. It's a slim volume but it's exquisitely crafted with twists and turns and tension weaved through to make this a cracking page turner. Young Sig is alone in his family's hut - alone apart from his father’s body lying on the kitchen table. His more...

It’s tempting to see this account of life in the Mr Asia drug syndicate as a cynical attempt to cash in on the popularity of the Underbelly series - crime not having paid for Jim Shepherd. Jim was born in New Zealand and was one of this country’s most notorious criminals before more...

This is a beauty. Jake has chucked in his job at a London investment bank and is at a loose end. His colleague and friend Lucy Harrison invites him down to her family’s home for the weekend, but when he arrives it’s clear that she has an ulterior motive. Her little brother, more...

As a reviewer, I’m automatically biased against blockbusters. When you have to read six to eight books a month, I look at anything over five hundred pages with deep suspicion. And I’m also very wary of books that are over hyped by the publishers and this one came with a lot more...

I wouldn't dream of setting foot outside of New Zealand without a copy of Lonely Planet tucked into my bag. These invaluable travel guides now come pocket sized for even more convenience and are packed full of the sort of vital information the traveller needs to know - what days more...

This is a lovely story of redemption and the underlying message that it’s never too late to find happiness. Feliks Zhukowski has lived in Paris for more than fifty years but he has never called it home. He has no family, no children and no lovers. Decades ago, he chose more...

One year before John Grisham colonised the legal thriller genre, Scott Turow defined it with the multi million copy best seller Presumed Innocent. You may have seen the movie starring Harrison Ford, who played Rusty Sabich, a United States prosecutor charged with the murder of more...

After the death of his pregnant wife, DI Thomas Lynley disappeared from the Met to roam the moors as fans of Elizabeth George will remember. In this latest novel, Lynley is still on compassionate leave but back in London, when he gets a house call from the Acting Superintendent more...