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Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter...

Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs...

Growing up after the war in Westmere, an English seaside town, Kitty has been sheltered by her parents, but meeting Danny changes...

A prize-winning tour de force when it came out in France, this brilliant translation of Violaine Huisman's 'witty, immersive...

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before...

An intense, searing novel exploring the damage of racial and sexual violence.

Eva Medina Canada sits in her psychiatric ward,...

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall fall in love at university.

Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself...

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with...

By a frozen lake, ten-year-old Jesse waits for his father. It's New Year's Day, and his dad promised a fresh start. But Jesse...

Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far,...

All over Britain life is beginning again now the war is over but for Lenny and Miriam, East End London teenage twins who have...

Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose...

A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady...

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic...

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong...

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by...

When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labour? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become...

We don t want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don t want to spoil it.

Nevertheless,...

Timothy Gandy has kept his lifetime's ambition secret for forty years.

Now, suddenly (if tragically) released from the...

Attacked, damned, praised and read around the world, The Carpetbaggers was first published in 1961 and shelved high enough that...

A septuagenarian contract killer, a chronic hypochondriac, two zombie-creating comedians, a good Samaritan and a man called...

Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that s...

How to turn forty:

1. Set yourself a personal challenge.
2. Clear wardrobe of all age inappropriate clothing.
3....

Their holiday brochure said 18-30… But they've just turned 35.
After ten years together Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his...

From their first meeting at the student union over a decade ago, Jim and Alison successfully navigated their way through first...

In a world where people slaughter the innocent without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or the...

Meet Will Kelly. English teacher. Film fan. King of sandwich construction. Still in love with The One, desperately searching for...

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in...

Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and...

Cowan's beautifully drawn, multi award-winning first novel of love in the hostile climate of modern British society

When his...