Collection: Reader Development

A generation after the events of 'The Long Earth', mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is s...

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plung...

In an old mansion in the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, an aspiring writer, receives a mysterious letter from a French editor, promising literary stardom if he will fulfil just one task. But the character is not all that he seems, and soon David has entered into a pact that will l...

Logan Finch has made a new life for himself with his daughter Ellie. But a blossoming relationship with DC Rebecca Irvine is about to be put to the test when Irvine's old flame, drug-addicted rock star Roddy Hale, enters her life again. And there's a small matter of a professional killer followin...

In this sequel to 'Envy', foreign exchange student Olivia Grant is stabbed to death after a party and the prime suspect is her best friend. As twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan get pulled into the aftermath of the crime, they realise nothing is what it seems. Could it be betrayal of the ultimate kind?

Freeflow, a group of Internet activists committed to the freedom of information, have chosen Iceland as their HQ while they prepare to unleash their greatest coup on the world's media. Minutes later, amidst the steam and mist of an erupting volcano, one of them is murdered. Magnus Jonson has a lo...

This title features one of Herbert's best-loved characters, David Ash, the sceptical paranormal detective, first encountered in 'The Ghosts of Sleath' and 'Haunted'. Ash is investigating a mysterious and secluded stately home, deep in the countryside.

You've met the Rose Room, Poppy Room, Lily Room and Daffodil Room princesses - now meet their friends in Tulip Room as the Tiara Club moves to Diamond Turrets!

Captain West and his small team of elite misfits are on the trail of the six ancient pillars that can prevent the arrival of the dark star, a deadly celestial event that could bathe the globe in lethal radiation.

Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, this novel from Ian M. Banks, author of 'Consider Phlebas' and 'The player of Games', is science fiction at its best.