[ About Habitat ] Habitat follows seven neighbours over the course of a surreal and life-changing week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo begins to inexplicably break down around them. Connected by familial ties, long acquaintance, simmering feuds and longing glimpses, the residents of the building are bound to one another in more ways than…
‘Mountains are at once unmistakably present yet never truly fathomable.‘– Ghost Mountain [ About Ghost Mountain ] Ghost Mountain, is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly, and the way in which its manifestation ripples through the lives of characters in the surrounding community. It looks at the uncertain fragile sense of…
‘The irresistible, utterly satisfying new contemporary novel from beloved bestseller, Sheila O’Flanagan’– The Honeymoon Affair [ About The Honeymoon Affair ] Izzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon-that-isn’t after her fiancé broke her heart. She’s not looking for someone new. But when she meets Charles Miller, a successful writer holidaying alone, the electricity is…
‘A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, You Are Here is a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.‘ [ About You Are Here ] Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a…
‘Follows a successful architect whose carefully constructed life is turned on its head when a malevolent stranger arrives unexpectedly at her lighthouse home’– The Dying Time [ About The Dying Time ] Architect Kate O’Connor appears to have it all. A lighthouse home, a successful politician husband and an eight-year-old daughter. Yet everything is not…
‘He vanished ten years ago. Only they know the truth.’– The Trial [ About The Trial ] 2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo gets up one morning, leaving behind his sleeping girlfriend, Dani, and his studies – never to be seen again. With…
‘Capturing the spirit of the place and the challenges and threats it faced, some from the predominantly male establishment of the time, was very important to me. It was a unique and special place. I wanted it to live again, even if only in a crime fiction book.’– Julie Anderson, author of The Midnight Man…
‘Would this be his life from now on, falling asleep in a semi-drunken haze as the spirit of his best friend watched telly in the next room? Waking up hungover every morning and grimly consuming spirits? How long could he keep that up?’– Spirit Level [ About Spirit Level ] Danny Hook is a directionless…
‘THEY SAY YOU CAN NEVER MAKE NEW OLD FRIENDS‘– Greener [ About Greener ] As teenagers, Helen, Annie and Laura were inseparable, bonding over family, boys and their dreams for the future. But when school ended, so did their friendship. Twenty-five years later, a snowstorm forces the three women to spend time together, leaving them…
‘Living with him was like living at the centre of the universe. It was electrifying and humbling, blissful and destructive, all at the same time.’– The Paris Muse [ About The Paris Muse ] Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced to Pablo Picasso, she is mesmerized by…