‘How much longer will I go on believing you are still coming home?’– Will this house last forever? [ About the Book ] When Xanthi Barker’s father died when she was in her mid twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life.…
Observer‘s ‘Ten Debut Novelists’ of 2021′Harper’s Bazaar‘s ‘Five Debut Female Authors to Read This Summer’– MOTH [ About the Book ] Delhi, 1946Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter – precocious, headstrong Alma– is soon to be married: Alma is mostly interested in the wedding shoes and in spinning…
‘He was troubled. It came off him like a smell. He was running away from something or someone.She’d heard Dublin in his accent. Not the colourful Dublin of Moore Street, less earthy than that, but his roots were definitely in the capital. Coming here put plenty of distance, almost four hundred kilometres, between him and…
His dying wish was to set her free. So why does she feel so trapped?– Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase [ About the Book ] Jack had two dying wishes: that his wife scatter his ashes somewhere ‘exotic’, and that she not give up on life once he was gone.He intended to spur her on to…
‘Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honourable barnacle goose…. “Nora,” Jim says, “you are story.”’– NORA [ About the Book ] When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets…
‘Welcome to Willow Close, where everyone is a suspect….’– Suspects [ About the Book ] As young couple Nina and Conrad move into their first house together in Willow Close, they see horrified neighbours gather by a police cordon in the street – one of the residents has been attacked and brutally killed in the…
Russell Banks’ first new novel in a decade– FOREGONE [ About the Book ] At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal…
‘A poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters.‘– Fresh Water for Flowers [ About the Book ] Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues—three gravediggers,…
‘He’s coming for you….’– The Killing Kind [ About the Book ] He tells you you’re special…As a barrister, Ingrid Lewis is used to dealing with tricky clients, but no one has ever come close to John Webster. After Ingrid defended Webster against a stalking charge, he then turned on her – following her, ruining…
From the author of Sunday Times Bestseller, Dear Mrs Bird, comes a much hoped-for follow up, Yours Cheerfully. Charming, heart-warming and hilarious, Yours Cheerfully is just the tonic we’ve all been waiting for. ‘Full of wit, friendship and the uplifting knowledge that when people come together, great changes can be made’ – Katie Fforde [ About the Book ] London, September,…