Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn't know existed has died and left them her flat in an apartment block overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin ... but have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the twins' mother - and who can't even seem to quite leave her flat...With Highgate Cemetery itself a character and echoes of Henry James and Charles Dickens, HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY is a delicious and deadly twenty-first-century ghost story about Niffenegger's familiar themes of love, loss and identity. It is certain to cement her standing as one of the most singular and remarkable novelists of our time.

Edward Rutherfurd tells the story of this great city as no other author could - from the grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived today at breakneck speed. The novel begins with the Dutch traders who first carved out their hopes amidst the splendour of the wilderness. The British settlers and merchants followed, with their aristocratic governors and unpopular taxation which led to rebellion, war, the burning of the city and the birth of the American Nation. A country that had already rent itself assunder did so again as the country fought its bloody Civil War, the city was torn apart by riots.Hopes and dreams, greed and corruption, have always been the companions of freedom and opportunity in the city's streets. As the immigrant ships berthed next to Ellis Island in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, they poured more and more Germans, Irish, Italians and Jews into the churning ethnic mix of the city. Deals were struck, politicians corrupted, men bought or assassinated, heiresses wooed, fortunes were speculated on Wall Street and men became rich beyond their dreams. The seesaw of wealth and poverty was seen in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash, the city's future symbolised by its buildings which literally touched the sky: the Empire State, the Chrysler Building, the Twin Towers.Rutherfurd tells this irresistible story through a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates interweave as the city's fortunes fall and rise. It is the story of how in four centuries New York became the envy of the world. And in telling the story through the lens of New York, Rutherfurd brings the story of America itself to life in this epic masterpiece.

Annie Ferguson was one of Manhattan's brightest young architects. Talented, beautiful, already a success, she had a world of choices - until a single phone call altered her course forever. Overnight, she became mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she'd never regret making. In the years to come, she would raise Liz, Ted, and Katie while putting together one of the city's top architectural firms. It wasn't the life she'd planned, but one that rewarded her tenfold for every sacrifice she'd had to make.Now, at forty-two, as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a fulfilling family life, Annie has reconciled herself to being single. With the kids young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, she is navigating a parent's difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting them go. The eldest, twenty-seven-year-old Lizzie, a rising star in the international fashion world, has landed a high-powered job at Vogue and fallen in love with the one man she's ever allowed close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious and hardworking law student, is captivated by a woman much older, much more experienced, and who may be leading him much further than he wants to go. While the youngest, twenty-one-year-old Katie - impulsive, artistic, rebellious - is about to make a choice that will lead her to an encounter with a culture whose expectations of a woman's role are far different than anything she imagined.But, perhaps, most surprising, is the accident that leads Annie to a man who will tempt her to reconsider her belief that it isn't too late to fall in love, after all.

Wildly witty, clever and touching, with a gorgeous and compelling twist, I THINK I LOVE YOU asks what happens when the man you thought you loved turns out to be somebody else entirely.In her bestselling debut, I Don't Know How She Does It, Allison Pearson spoke to millions of working mothers; in I Think I Love You her pitch-perfect ability to observe our lives, loves and relationships is on dazzling form. Meet two unforgettable friends: thirteen-year-old Petra and Sharon, stoking their dreams in 1970s Wales, and whose screams can be heard in California when they receive the midriff portion of their life-size poster of their teen idol, David Cassidy. Said midriff is stapled into the official fanzine, an almost-Bible for the girls; and they memorise David's 'letters' to his fans, hoovering up apparently insignificant details, in the hope it will help them qualify as a future Mrs Cassidy. But unbeknownst to Petra (and the thousands of other hopefuls) David's 'letters' are all penned in a grotty London office, miles from the LA set of the Partridge Family. Bill Finn, English graduate turned reluctant pop impersonator, is forced to compile the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz which Petra and Sharon enter, in the hope of winning the trip of a lifetime to meet their crush.Some twenty years later, bruised by grief and her husband's departure, Petra is living with Molly, her thirteen-year-old daughter (whose bedroom walls are papered with the new boy on the block, Leonardo DiCaprio). Petra discovers a decades-old letter addressed to her from the now defunct David Cassidy fanzine, informing her that she was the winner the Ultimate Quiz back in '74. Nearly a quarter of a century late, with her dreams in tatters, Petra decides to claim her prize. It's not long before Bill is forced to confront the obsessions of her youth with a confession of his own.

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.Arrow's 50th anniversary edition of the bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic.

'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it.'It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. As Joakim struggles to keep his sanity in the wake of the tragedy, the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him. Joakim has never been in the least superstitious, but from where are those whispering noises coming? To whom does his daughter call out in the night? And why is the barn door for ever ajar?As the end of the year approaches, and the infamous winter storm moves in across Oland, Joakim begins to fear that the most spine-chilling story he's heard about Eel Point might indeed be true: that every Christmas the dead return...