Family life fiction

With his widely acclaimed debut, 28-year-old William Kowalski emerged as one of the most exciting and distinctive new American writers in years.

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLHeavy rain falls on Lafferton.

Guy Boucher, a fatherless teenager oppressed by the boredom and poverty of rural Nova Scotia, is dominated by his monstrous uncle, Isadore - alcoholic, capriciously violent and preternaturally vital.

By the Sunday Times bestselling author and multi-million copy seller Susan Sallis, this is a beautiful and moving novel perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Lucinda Riley and Rosamunde Pilcher.

On a remote farm in northern Norway, eighty-year-old Anna Neshov is rushed to hospital after suffering a stroke.

A festive treat from a treasured comic writer.

What makes a father violent?

Beatrix, an old lady with frequent, irrational phobias, changes her will after she has an argument with her daughter, leaving her daughter nothing, her son a little, and her servants Clive and Gwenda with the majority.

A short story about the shocking revelations of the realities that lie concealed behind day-to-day family life: an ailing woman's covert cruelty to her caring daughter-in-law; a desire to escape the family shackles; and resignation to loss.

They were brothers and they knew each other better than they had ever known anybody, and when you are like this you can sit in silence and not speak and it is the most comfortable thing in the world.

Over the past 21 years Jilly Cooper has written a selection of best-selling books, mixing outrageous anecdotes from the lives of her family and friends with shrewd and wicked social satire and criticism.

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.

Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex.

Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz.

'An astute and accomplished work' Daily MailJoyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband.

Susan finds her year-old marriage to Alistair less than ideal.

Flynn is a thirteen-year-old girl caught between her violent, out-of-control brother, Sam, and her mother, who is struggling to cope.

'Few disappointments compare to the loss of eternity.

Landish Druken, son of a Newfoundland sealing captain, is a formidable figure - broader than most doorways, quick-witted and sharp-tongued.

Far away from home and her beloved but distant sister, Norah, Alice meets an old Japanese man on a train journey.

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers.

Earth and Ashes is a story of such spareness and power it leaves the reader reeling.

For Pip, swimming is a necessity.

Lose yourself in this beautifully written, emotional and enthralling novel from much loved author Constance Heaven.

'I'll always remember that Christmas.

From the bestselling author of MAGGIE CRAIG, A BETTER WORLD THAN THIS, and numerous other novels, this is a collection of some of Marie Joseph's most outstanding short stories, previously published in magazines in the 60s and 70s and follows her volumes WHEN LOVE WAS LIKE THAT and THE WAY WE WERE.

Brief romantic encounters that sparkle with humour and poignancy.

Fans of Katie Flynn, Rosie Clarke and Catherine Cookson will love this wonderfully enchanting and moving saga by bestselling and prizewinning author Marie Joseph.

A beautiful and touching wartime romance from the pen of bestselling and prizewinning author Marie Joseph.

When the exotic stranger walked into the loveless Clancy household, he brought a gift to innocent seventeen-year-old Annie that neither her five brothers, nor her brutal father, had ever given her .

Fans of Katie Flynn, Rosie Harris and Catherine Cookson will love this heart-warming collection of short stories exploring the themes of love from bestselling and prizewinning author Marie Joseph.

Here in a specially chosen edition are three of Marie Joseph's best-loved novels.

'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam' - Ali Smith, author of How to be BothInfluenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories - equal parts wholesome and uncanny - beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe.

Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf's exquisite final novel, is a deeply affecting love story about finding happiness later in life.

Everybody wants it to snow at Christmas .

The House of New Beginnings is a moving and uplifting novel from bestselling author Lucy Diamond.

The Secrets of Happiness is an extraordinary tale of sisterhood, from Lucy Diamond author of The Beach Cafe.

Against the backdrop of impending war, experience the trials, triumphs and camaraderie behind the Woolworths counter, in Elaine Everest's historical romance The Woolworths Girls.

A moving Yorkshire saga, Daughter of the Dales is the much anticipated finale in Diane Allen's Windfell Manor Trilogy.

A moving Yorkshire saga, The Windfell Family Secrets is the much anticipated follow up to Diane Allen's The Mistress of Windfell Manor.

Rachel and Shirley.

Chosen by Bernardine Evaristo as one of her Top 20 Books by Black British Womxn Writers, Yvvette Edwards' second novel, The Mother, tells Marcia's story.

'A powerful story, sweetly told' - Antonio Iturbe, author of The Librarian of AuschwitzA country torn apart by war.

The Snow Rose is the gripping story of a woman on the run from her past by Lulu Taylor, author of The Winter Folly.

Following the gripping story of the Ryan family in Margaret Dickinson's top ten bestseller The Buffer Girls, Daughters of Courage sees Emily and Trip fight to keep their new life afloat in the turbulent 1930s.

Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.

'A literary colossus' - The Sunday Telegraph'A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art' - The New York TimesDon DeLillo's powerful epic, spanning fifty years of American history.

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall.

Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue's Room, is a world-changing story of a boundless love.

The Angel Tree is a powerful story of family mysteries and forgotten pasts, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series.