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It’s the last place she wants to be. It’s the only place left to go . . .

Marianne left home when she was fifteen following a...

The simple fact of the matter is that Iris loves life. Maybe she’s forgotten that. Sometimes that happens, doesn’t it? To the...

The lives of two women - the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find...

On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries.

Mary...

Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in.

At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her...

A beautifully written atmospheric story of trauma, grief and redemption, Still Water is a debut from a bright new voice in...

Sometimes it only takes one night to change everything…

Elizabeth Place might have been jilted on her wedding day one year...

Your roots can always lead you home…
Amjad cradles his baby daughter in the middle of the night. He has no time to mourn his...

When a small child is found wandering alone, the local shopkeepers call the authorities immediately. Twenty minutes later, the...

This is the story of Ella.
And Robert.
And of all the things they should have said, but never did.

'What have you been up...

'We’re alive. So let’s start living.'

Two strangers

Jack was sporty and outgoing. Alice was bookish and introverted. Their...

‘How could I explain to her that nothing in my life felt real? That in a country like Kuwait, where everyone knew everything...

Meet Tom. Or Dr O’Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don’t even give him a second...

Heartwarming, hilarious and fun – the perfect read for anyone who loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, A Man Called Ove,...

Lady Penelope cares for all creatures.
Gabriel Duke cares for no one.
Can they care for each other?

Wealthy and ruthless,...

In her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age's most enduring obsessions: property.

A...

The hand of friendship can span a thousand miles…
Pakistan
Among the almond orchards of the Swat Valley, Zamir tends goats with...

Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England....

A frank and beautiful story of damage, survival and restoration from an exhilarating literary voice.
As Charles Redfern lies...

An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers whose lives collide with far-reaching...

A stunning, delicate portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores the legacy of loss, the strictures of class and...

On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence - street...

The house where Stella and her sister Amy grew up never changes - the red front door, the breath-taking view over the Cornish...

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.

Doc...

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.
When an...

When you feel invisible, friendship can offer a ray of hope

Sometimes it's the things we don't say that we need others to...

84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the...

Mae has watched as her three older sisters have gone through the process of finding their place in the world and faced the...

Heart-warming storytelling with strong themes of sisterhood from nation’s favourite and former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain,...

A spine-tingling collection of haunting tales, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay.
Sands of Time features...