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The start of something new...

When Kate is faced with an 'empty nest' when her youngest daughter, Ella, leaves for university,...

They recognized that they were all existing in a perfect moment, and eventually it would have to end. Other times it felt like it...

This is a True Story.
An author goes on a book tour for his new bestseller Hell of a Book - which, as people keep telling him,...

Hannah is twenty-eight when the worst happens.

Her first instinct? To call her mum.

The problem is, her mum having an...

Underbelly
[n.] singular
The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.
An area vulnerable to attack.
A dark, hidden part of...

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks...

At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's...

It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of...

Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh...

Behind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Metal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative...

"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger"

Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our...

The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns in the murky waters of the Kusagawa...

A vivid portrait of life in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, focusing on the secrets, lies and traumas of the inhabitants of a Caracas...

Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her...

Andreas Ban is a writer and a psychologist, an intellectual proper, but his world has been falling apart for years. When he...

A twenty-four-hour whirlwind of death and life.

In the depths of a winter's night, the heart of Simon Limbeau is resting,...

When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed -...

Georgina fell in love with Hugh the moment she first saw him, aged just eighteen, and she's never loved another man....

The House of Farrell - home of The Cream, an iconic face product that has seen women flocking to its bijoux flagship store in the...

Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated...

Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he...

Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his...

Julio Carrion Gonzalez, a man of tremendous wealth and influence in Madrid, has come home to be buried. But as the family stand...

An extraordinary, beguiling bestselling tale of fly-fishing and political spinning, of unexpected heroism and late-blooming...

It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as...

Summer at Fairacre charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the...

'People in Fairacre simply won't stand for their children being uprooted, and carted away in buses like so many - er, so...

Thrush Green is buzzing with gossip, which everyone is keen to share with two ex-schoolteachers, who have returned to visit their...

When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she...

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place, eight...

Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living up to his predecessor when he moves to the parish of Lulling. He...