Family life fiction

Betsy Canning is dissatisfied with life.

Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark.

The Coffey siblings are having a rough year.

'A response - finally - to the new norms of femininity' Rachel CuskHaving reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all.

In this challenging novel, where striking workers march among dreaming spires, the worlds of industry and learning collide as the Owen family are caught in a web of conflicts: of politics and sex, loyalty and independence, English lives and Welsh memories .

This is a novel of small-town life.

Sylvie is half French and half English.

Their public pleasures are legend Their private secrets are scandals Born to wealth and weaned on power,they live the life thatothers imitate and envy.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Christmas to Remember.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A fiercely beautiful novel about friendship and the ties that bind us.

From the bestselling author of Going Gently and the hugely successful autobiography I Didn't Get Where I Am Today.

Mara is a successful lawyer, and devoted wife and mother.

Is love just an illusion?

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE - A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD'The Butterfly Lampshade is an unflinching, empathetic portrayal of a childhood touched by mental illness.

There they are, still as a photograph, listening for the distant thud of the sun as it prepares to drop from the sky.

If you like Katie Flynn, Rosie Clarke and Catherine Cookson, you will love this captivating and heart -warming saga by bestselling and prizewinning author Marie Joseph.

Discover this powerful novel about a family falling apart, from the Booker Longlisted author of A TOWN CALLED SOLACE'Tender and surprising.

Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardJimmy Rabbitte is back.

Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man.

A decent, harried young banker travels north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GLENN CLOSEA husband.

She's no more than an unpaid servant.

All she has is her reputation.

Fans of Bridgerton, Georgette Heyer and Jenny Hambly will love this sensational and sexy romantic adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'The most polished crime writer on the murder beat' Daily ExpressFive footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here.

Life is beautiful for Claudia and Jeremy.

BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE'A work of psychological genius' OBSERVER_______________________________-Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be.

Mr & Mrs Max Irving request the company of:Mrs Fran Friedman, mourning her empty nest, the galloping years and a disastrous haircut.

Explosive, dark and tender, The Last Boat Home is a devastating novel about sacrifice, survival and a mother s love.

THE FIFTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANUnited by love, separated by war .

A sharp, perceptive and painfully funny book about money, love and the sorrows and joys of modern family life.

'He had in some sense, prepared the trap and fallen into it.

A sweeping family saga travelling from England to China at the beginning of the 20th centuryIt is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love.

From the bestselling author of I Came to Say Goodbye.

Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist.

It is the height of summer.

'Darling, this is Younes.

Discover the suspenseful crime thriller from the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Raymond is mad, clever, manipulative and totally out of his parents' control.

Only one person knows what happened that day.

An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds apart.

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOKCLUBThe Morrison siblings have been haunted by tragedy since the sudden death of their parents in an accident when they were young.

From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high societyMorris Duckworth has a dark past.

THE STUNNING FIRST NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF HEART BE AT PEACE AND STRANGE FLOWERSWinner of the Guardian First Book Award Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book AwardsWinner of the European Prize for Literature Voted Irish Book of the Decade in 2016 My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in.

After years of watching her best friends Ben and Claire try for a baby, Romily offered to give them the one thing they most wanted.

Readers of Philippa Gregory will love this compelling and captivating, sweeping and sensational and enthralling and entertaining historical novel from international multi-million copy bestseller Jean Plaidy.

Almost any family looks odd from the outside.

Joshua Gilfoyle has decided there are two things he wants from life before he dies: to find his lost son and to commission an artist to produce his lasting legacy - a new angel for Foxbarton church.