Ana is born in Galilee at a time when women are seen as possessions, only leaving their fathers' homes to marry.

Ana longs to...

Lydia Perez owns a bookshop in Acapulco, Mexico, and is married to a fearless journalist. Luca, their eight-year-old son,...

Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and...

A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight...

When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to...

A hilarious, razor sharp and poignant story for the #metoo age, about a 29-year-old comedy writer, an ageing chat show host and...

In one new volume, an irresistible collection of stories from two previous works, Smile and Changing Babies, with additional...

Laura, a laundress, meets her young husband when they are both placed in service in Teignmouth in 1914. They have a baby,...

I am, I Am, I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death...

It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie...

As a young boy, aged seven, Jimmy loses a lower limb to an attack dog - the first of many disasters that shape him for the...

'None of my books is just about race,' Levy has said.'They're about people and history.' Her novels have triumphantly given voice...

Ania Khurana is beautiful, clever and in need of entertainment. She's wrapped Delhi society around her little finger, and now her...

A deeply personal novel of identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction...

Ireland, 1959. Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to...

Naomi Ishiguro's fresh, magical and delightfully speculative short story collection merges the inventiveness of David Mitchell...

During your three years at Catherine House you will have no contact with those in the outside world.

Each of our students has...

Domina Tey is a playwright, celebrated by friends, her husband, and the public alike, yet she fears losing her vital edge. Her...

American Professor Evan Kirby, moving to Barrowcester to research Paradise after a successful book on Hell, expects a very...

For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music...

On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day take charge,...

In the vein of Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, The Watch House by Bernie McGill is the story of the modern world arriving on Rathlin,...

Set in London in 1837, Anna Mazzola's THE UNSEEING is the story of Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother, sentenced to hang for her...

Cambridge 1963. Charlotte struggles to reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to...

Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. Her mother says she's difficult and her father says she's remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh...

Each summer, Jenn and her husband Greg return to Deia, on Mallorca's dramatic west coast. This year the arrival of Emma, Jenn's...

Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto...

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

Never Far From Nowhere is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a...

Better opportunity that s why Angela s dad sailed to England from America in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Six months later her...