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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern new hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. in a story spanning five decades, last night in twisted river – john irving’s twelfth novel – depicts the recent half-century in the united states as a world ‘where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.’ from the novel’s taut opening sentence to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes last night in twisted river is the author’s unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

Marie-laure has been blind since the age of six. her father builds a perfect miniature of their paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. but when the nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. werner is a german orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father’s life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. his talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. at the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. but all around him, impending danger closes in. doerr’s combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electric.

“the twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the night” jane corry introducing the next generation of domestic thriller… every marriage has secrets. everyone has flaws. your wife isn’t perfect – you know that – but then again nor are you. but now a serial killer is on the loose in your small town, preying on young women. fear is driving your well-behaved young daughter off the rails, and you find yourself in bed late at night, looking at the woman who lies asleep beside you. because you thought you knew the worst about her. the truth is you know nothing at all. praise for my lovely wife “wow! my lovely wife is a stunner — full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense” harlan coben “an assured and deliciously engrossing debut. you’ll surely devour my lovely wife, but it will linger long after you’ve reached the last page” sarah pinborough, sunday times bestselling author of behind her eyes “dexter meets gone girl – i loved this this brilliantly dark and twisted novel. one of the best books i’ve read this year” c. j. tudor “you’ll never look at your neighbors the same. i couldn’t pull myself away from this story… make sure you clear your schedule before you pick it up. absolutely unputdownable.” liv constantine, bestselling author of the last mrs. parrish “my lovely wife is a knockout. it’s not just a novel about serial killers. it’s family drama, about a marriage, about kids out of control, about infidelity, and about the news media; and it’s also about the folks next door. it’s an effortless page-turner.” publishers weekly

Heather should be happy. she’s finally got a boyfriend and although he was only supposed to be her “rebound guy”, things have gotten serious fast . . . she’s also actually passing her first college course, and better yet her dad’s moving out. on the down side, her boss, dr. veatch, may well be the most boring man on the face of the planet . . . but that hardly seems reason enough to put a bullet through his head. can heather find her boss’s murderer, answer tad’s question, and get her landlord cooper to realize that by letting her go, he’s making the biggest mistake of his life, all while maintaining a fifteen hundred calorie per day diet?

A young man is fighting for his life. into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. their journey will have you believing in the impossible. the nameless and beautiful narrator of the gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. he crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned. his life is over – he is now a monster. but in fact it is only just beginning. one day, marianne engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles, enters his life and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval germany. in her telling, he was a badly burned mercenary and she was a nun and a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of engelthal. as she spins her tale, scheherazade fashion, and relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in japan, greenland, italy and england, he finds himself drawn back to life – and, finally, to love.

On the day that rachel jenner’s eight-year-old son ben goes missing, the bottom falls out of her world. desperate to find her boy, she’s completely unprepared for how quickly her personal hell is thrust into the media spotlight. she let ben out of her sight, and now he’s gone – so of course the nation thinks she is to blame. but what really happened that afternoon? caught between the tragedy of losing her son, a frenetic police investigation and a public who have turned against her, rachel must now face the awful truth – that everything she knew about herself and the people around her is a lie. and there is nobody left, not even her family, who she can trust. in this emotional and wholeheartedly captivating psychological thriller, we see how a mother’s single mistake can cause nationwide fury. the clock is ticking to find ben alive. but this is a trial by public opinion. whose side are you on?