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The village school is to get a new head, and the inhabitants of Turnham Malpas await her arrival with curiosity. At first sight,...

In a seaside suburb on Australia’s golden coast, four women head to the water to swim every day . . .

Housewife Theresa wants...

In Second World War Bath, young, naive wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and...

When middle-aged veteran Meadows learns that the authorities have told him a lie about the circumstances of the death of his son,...

'It was just sex, Anj, it didn't mean anything.'

When Anjali finds out that Jack, her boyfriend of ten years, has been...

In this addictive short story collection, twenty-four very different women reach a pivotal moment in their lives.

A widow is...

Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of...

'Trust wasn't something you could have in degrees; it was all or nothing...'

Greg and Amanda are happy. They've been together...

Elderly retired architect Otto Laird lives a peaceful, if slightly bemused, existence in Switzerland with his second wife, Anika....

Jean Collins had two daughters. But she only loved one of them.

She knew it was wrong, but she just couldn't help herself....

For a moment it's as if they've never been apart. They're still Vixen and Cassandra, summer sisters forever. The rest is a...

Helen Ross, a twenty-nine-year-old biologist, is sent to a sleepy Rocky Mountain ranching town to defend a pack of wolves from...

Meet the Dobsons and the Jamiesons: two ordinary families on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Joe Dobson left his wife and kids...

Welcome to South London, to one of the nicest streets in one of the country's vilest boroughs...For the residents of Lark Grove,...

Faith Jackson fixes herself up with a great job in TV and the perfect flatshare. But neither is that perfect - and nor are her...

Never Far From Nowhere is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a...

Better opportunity that s why Angela s dad sailed to England from America in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Six months later her...

The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her bed, Pat said, 'You can't live...

An unforgettable story of loneliness, isolation and finding your way. Heart-wrenching, wise and wryly funny, this novel will make...

When your mother considers another country home, it's hard to know where you belong. When the people you live among can't...

A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting...

An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family....

Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighbourhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those...

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of...

A terminally ill old man returns to his hometown, Cherry Village, to live out the remaining days of his life. Kang Dae-su...

A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her death. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, he and...

A grandfather who learns to let go. A grandson who learns to love.

Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon...

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best...

Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum,...

This gripping, moving and hiliarious novel introduces seven characters, each of whom has a profound effect on each other s lives....