Family life fiction

The latest unputdownable bestseller from Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and EVERYONE HERE IS LYING'The queen of the one-sit read' Linwood Barclay'Shari Lapena is one of the best thriller writers in the business' Steve Cavanagh*****Why would you run scared from a happy home?

'Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp.

'I loved CLEAR MY NAME.

THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIA'Profoundly intelligent and humane.

Ellen thought she d always live in the remote, pretty coastal village where she grew up.

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***Get ready to fall in love with the funny, feel-good novel and instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick Love Untold and co-creator of Gavin & Stacey.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, PICKED FOR THE ZOE BALL TV BOOK CLUB'Ruth Jones is excellent on human nature and why we make the mistakes we do.

Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIANIn 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.

From the Booker longlisted author, and an Irish Times No.

______________________'Every now and then I come across a book I wish I d written.

With unforgettable characters, charming romance and lots of laughter, A Merry Mistletoe Wedding is a gorgeous Christmas read from much-loved and ever-popular author Judy Astley.

The haunting and heartbreaking suspense novel in the bestselling No Child of Mine series from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis.

THE LANDMARK SECOND NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST WRITERS'A pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event' GUARDIAN'Beguiling and distinctive' INDEPENDENT'Warm, sardonic .

'Artful and beautifully ambiguous' Irish Independent'Captivating and entertaining' RTEEight-year-old Jess and her little brother were playing at the water's edge when their parents vanished.

When baby Oliver breaks his arm, no-one can (or will) say how it happened.

What surprises might life have in store for you?

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.

In their tiny, sea-beaten cottage on the north coast of Scotland, Liska and Ruth await the birth of their first child.

'Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling.

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell.

From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate exploration of marriage, devotion and sacrifice, and a woman's enduring search for freedom.

'A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemption' Sunday TimesA retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years.

Chester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle, to find out more about Carrie's Scottish ancestry.

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic lifestyle.

A witty and intelligent tale about the terrifying, seductive lie of stability emotional, physical, financial, sexual Mail on SundayGordon Hammond, sixty-five, a builder who has built up his own, modestly successful business, has a heart attack.

It is 1982 and Thatcher is in Downing Street, Human League is in the charts and Dallas is on the telly.

In school playgrounds across the country parents huddle in worried packs, desperately putting together their final plans to survive the summer weeks of mayhem - school is officially out!

Born into poverty, saddled with a born loser and parrot-strangler for a dad, short sighted and ungainly, young Henry Pratt doesn't exactly have a head start in life.

THE TWELFTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN We ll just have to carry on in the belief that the end of the war is finally in sight'It is 1944 and Anne Black is making the best of a new life in Somerset, but bringing up her daughters so far from their father, her mother Peggy and their real home of Cliffehaven isn t easy.

THE TENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN I m not working on a factory floor or digging for victory, but in my own small way I do what I can for those I love.

Noel's sister, Ethel, is dying, and for the first time since childhood, he spends a week in her company.

One of the definitive novels of the twentieth century, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

The comforts and terrors of middle-class provincial life have seldom been more sharply dissected than by Stanley Middleton, and his new novel adds to this social insight a new poignancy.

John Riley is in his early-thirties and has been separated from his wife, Helen, for two years.

Frank Montgomery is in T.

A chance encounter with an old schoolfriend confronting a devastating disease leads Colin Turnbull to reassess his life.

John Taylor, an accountant, has been deserted by his wife, Stella, after three years of marriage.

Stanley Middleton has been described as the Chekhov of suburbia .

Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent.

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.

Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians Irish TimesWilliam and Emily Crowne seem to have it all they live a life of privilege and glamour in London, the children of a successful poet, attractive, happy, largely blind to the world around them.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon.

Elissa Koebel's memoir is as scandalous and self-absorbed as its writer, but for Hope, it is more than just the latest salacious read.

Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise.

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of Hull.

'Absorbing and insightful .

From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie starring Jim Broadbent - an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.

From bestselling author Katie Flynn.

The Three of Us is an exclusive short story introducing Zara, the village midwife whose story you can read in Follow Me Home, and bringing us up to date with what's happened to Tessa and Jack from The Village VetTessa and Jack live at the animal sanctuary in Talyton St George.

In the 1920s, nobody is safe from scandal.