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'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...

Back at dinner, somebody said that the goose thinks it’s a dog. No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t think it’s a dog. The goose doesn’t...

Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown...

Within the pages of 96-year-old Doris's red address book are the names of all those she has loved and lost, telling the story of...

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...

To Christina Olson, the entire world is her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home...

On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on,...

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

David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that...

Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers.
A...

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

Grab your passport and let the Shergill sisters take you on a journey…
Meet the Shergill Sisters.

The know-it-all,...

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...

The long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller PS, I Love You.
The PS, I Love You Club.

These are the six words...

The dark, doomy humour of Care of Wooden Floors mixed with the fantastical, anarchic sense of possibility of The Way Inn, brought...

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,...

The four Amir sisters – Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae – are the only young Muslims in the quaint English village of...