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Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people...

A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear's cherished fool for years, from the time the king's grown daughters - selfish,...

It's the summer of 1994, and all Maeve Murray wants is some money and good exam results so she can escape her shitty wee town in...

Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean...

You've never seen romance do this before. So brutally honest and breathtakingly perverse you'll want to throw this book at the...

We’ve all stood on a street corner and let the city’s lights and sounds pass by. What do we hear when we listen to the sounds of...

All her life, Epiphany Salerno has been tossed like a dandelion seed on the wind. Now, at sixteen, she must move to the low-rent...

It seems as if Christmas will be perfect this year. But not everything is as peaceful as it seems.

Phyllida and Frank have...

Wahoo Cray has grown up with a zoo in his backyard - alligators, snakes, rats, monkeys and parrots ... but it's his dad who's the...

A major, double celebration is planned in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green: the village school is in its centenary year; and...

The stories found in this collection explore the worlds of thirteen older women, reframing their intellectual and emotional lives...

Ben Short has a successful career in advertising, a flat in a trendy part of London, a flashy motorbike. But after years of...

As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she...

When Tam Lambert learns that her family are about to be evicted from their lovely home, the privileged life she's known is...

Your sister or her baby. Who do you choose?

A moving page-turner with a heart-pounding dilemma. Fans of Jodi Picoult and Jojo...

A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild.

In this innovative novel...

A summer cruise should be just the ticket for a few weeks of luxury and relaxation - but for the passengers and crew of the...

As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour...

The New York Times bestseller – of how six bonobo apes change the lives of three humans, from master storyteller Sara Gruen,...

Can a prison free those who enter?

Nisida, moored like a boat in the Mediterranean, is a small island nestled between Capri...

Lahore, Pakistan. Then.
Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young...

Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks....

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill

New Delhi, 3...

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.

At the beginning of this...

When Rebecca Macklin receives a long-distance call from the Dallas police to explain her aging father has been found repeatedly...

The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in...

Their secret love affair has lasted for decades - but will it last one more summer?

For the last twenty-eight summers, Mallory...

'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my...

Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self?

Edi...

Upstate is a funny, moving family drama from one of the world’s most influential literary critics.

Alan Querry, a successful...