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Constance by Patrick McGrath, paperback by Bloomsbury, £12.99 (ebook £8.51)

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:27:15 GMT

Award-winning British novelist Patrick McGrath, author of The Grotesque, Spider, Asylum (all of which have been subsequently made into films), returns with the psychologically scarring Constance.

Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver, hardback by HarperCollins, £16.99 (ebook £10.99).

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:25:04 GMT

Pandora, the main character and our narrator in Big Brother, is described by her husband Fletcher as “stealth attractive”.

This House Is Haunted by John Boyne, hardback by Doubleday, priced £14.99 (ebook £8.54)

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:04:13 GMT

Many people will be familiar with Irish novelist John Boyne for his international best-seller The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, which went on to be made into a successful feature film.

Inferno by Dan Brown, hardback, by Transworld, £20 (ebook £7.20).

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:58:00 GMT

It’s been almost four years since Professor Robert Langdon, the renowned Harvard symbologist, last embarked on a mystery.

The Last Hangman by Shashi Warrier,hardback by Atlantic Books, £12.99 (ebook £5.87).

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:57:19 GMT

Economist and software specialist turned author Shashi Warrier’s The Last Hangman is set in south India, where he grew up. It is the story of a retired hangman who is visited by a writer interested in producing his biography.

Leftovers by Stella Newman, paperback by Avon, £6.99 (ebook £0.99).

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:41:54 GMT

Stella Newman’s latest novel is the happy-ending type that makes you sigh ‘Ahh’ as you close the final page.