Sophie Aldred

"The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long...

Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail...

In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It gives us X-ray vision. It reveals inequalities and offers fertile new ways...

Feminist autofiction from one of Sweden's blazing talents. Blending autofiction and essay, The Bear Woman is a journey of feminism and literary detective work spanning centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned on an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and her lover. In present-day Stockholm, an author and mother becomes captivated by the image of Marguerite sheltered...

Aboard the submarine HMS Thunder during WW2, the Doctor and Ace join Commander Fitzgerald and his crew as they track a sub in trouble. Ace joins in a daring rescue of sailors in the water. With German planes overhead, no-one's survival is guaranteed...

The Doctor's diary indicates that Edvard Munch's The Scream is about to be destroyed in 'mysterious circumstances', and when he and Ace arrive on the barren dust world Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway...

George travels to the future in the epic conclusion of the George's Secret Key series from Lucy Hawking. When George finds a way to escape the spacecraft Artemis, where he has been trapped, he is overjoyed. Surely now he can return to Earth. But when George touches down, he knows immediately that something is wrong. There's a barren wasteland where his home town used to be, intelligent robots roam the streets, and no one will talk to George about...

A thousand years ago, the evil Cult of the Dark Flame infiltrated every star system in the galaxy. But for some the Dark Flame still burns. For some, its horrifying power remains the ultimate goal...

The library on Kar-Charrat is one of the wonders of the Universe.The Doctor and Ace discover that the librarians have found a new way of storing data - a wetworks facility - but the machine has attracted some decidedly unwelcome attention...

Moscow 1967. The Doctor and Ace have arrived behind the Iron Curtain, and the Soviet Union is seeking a new weapon that will give it mastery in the Cold War. What is the secret of the Martian relics?