 | The Mother's Tale: A Novel: A Mother's Tale by Camilla Noli
Buy new: £5.65 / Used from: £5.98 THE MOTHER'S TALE is a taut, beautifully constructed book which, once begun, cannot be put down, told by a narrator who will not be easily forgotten
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 | Little Gods by Anna Richards
Buy new: £10.91 / Used from: £3.74 An adventure, a fairy tale, a black comedy and a love story, Little Gods is the story of Eugenia Clocker, whose birth challenges the balance of nature and her mother's capacity for punitive cruelty
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 | The Coroner by M.R. Hall
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £0.01 Jenny Cooper has been recently divorced, and has suffered a nervous breakdown. Jenny is hoping that her new job Coroner for the Severn Vale -- will get her life back on an even keel
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 | The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Buy new: £3.84 / Used from: £0.97 'An incredibly passionate and convincing novel.' -- Daily Express
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 | Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Buy new: £7.27 / Used from: £6.25 Based on the extraordinary life of Walls' grandmother - a sassy, straight-talking heroine for whom saving lives, taming wild horses and beating ranch hands at poker are all in a day's work
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 | Kissing Alice by Jacqueline Yallop
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £4.50 The darkly intimate story of a family in which the ties of love and hate, fear and jealousy, innocence and experience, have all become dangerously confused
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 | Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.20 'Black Water Rising is a stylish, involving literary thriller with a strong emphasis on human politics and character.' -- George Pelecanos
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 | The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.50 A profound and darkly poetic story of a land roughly sewn together under the ambitious imagining of a nation, and of the life of a boy whose identity does not - can not - unite with this vision
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 | City of Strangers by Ian MacKenzie
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £0.81 A stunning debut by a gifted young writer, an unforgettable exploration of how we live now, of the city's latent violence, of masculinity, and of the chance encounters upon which lives turn
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 | The Cradle by Patrick Somerville
Buy new: £10.47 / Used from: £4.66 "Watch out for this when reviewers start listing the year's best fiction....The Cradle is much stronger than a typical first book, it is a more satisfying read than many a contemporary novel"
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 | A Cure for Night (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Justin Peacock
Buy new: £8.46 / Used from: £6.37 Intense courtroom thriller.
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 | Fortune's Folly by Deva Fagan
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £4.90 In Fortunes Folly, a girl who survives by telling fake fortunes must make one of them come true to save her fathers life
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 | The Twelve by Stuart Neville
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £4.49 An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville's The Twelve is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge.
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 | The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £5.35 A story of love, loss and complicated loyalties, combining a sweeping narrative with subtle psychological observation, "The Very Thought of You" is a haunting and memorable debut
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 | The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £4.64 A remarkable tour-de-force of the imagination, full of instantly memorable characters whose lives intermesh and boil over in a cauldron of domestic mayhem, unleashing unworldly spirits into the air
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 | The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £0.01 "This is one of those books you read at one sitting, tea and biscuits at your side and a big 'Do Not Disturb' notice on the door. Superb." (Voracious reader)
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 | The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.01 "'Mixing romance, classic allusion and reality, Davidson's debut is a bravura performance.' **** Marie Claire"
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 | The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
Buy new: £4.63 / Used from: £0.01 'A lovely novel - it has an old-fashioned solidity and craftsmanship and effortlessly recreates the atmosphere of post-war Hong Kong.' (Sunday Times)
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 | American Rust by Philipp Meyer
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £5.95 It's the story of two young men caught up in a murder and the dramatic consequences it has on their families
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 | Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £4.27 A funny, sad and thought-provoking story about a menopausal Tanzanian grandmother who spends a year in Kigali baking cakes for people's celebrations
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 | Love Me by Gemma Weekes
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £2.65 Love Me tells the story of Eden, a twentysomething East Ender who falls in love with a Brooklyn rapper
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 | Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel) by Leigh Russell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.20 A gripping psychological thriller introducing Geraldine Steel, a woman whose past is threatening to collide with her future
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 | The Christmas Virus by Michael John Howell
Buy new: £9.99 It is seven days to Christmas, and the world awakes to find itself in the grip of a computer virus of terrifying power. The BBC are contacted with a list of terrorist demands
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 | And No Wings by Nigel Jay Robson
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.79 Earth is on the brink. Global warming, climate change, environmental disaster, human catastrophe. Then suddenly something weird happens in energy-guzzling America. God steps in....
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 | The Frog and the Scorpion by Steevan Glover
Buy new: £7.88 / Used from: £6.31 Mistaken for serious underworld players the two friends play at being gangsters, but events and lies spiral out of control until they become embroiled in drug deals, a gangland war and murder
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