Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird cherries, lilacs, hollyhocks and lilies crowding the vision.
Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique bond.
**Sunday Times Number One Bestseller**A classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's best storytellers - 'a masterpiece' The TimesTrudy has betrayed her husband, John.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEThe Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra s prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.
'Lucy Dillon's books never fail to make me happy' Jenny Colgan'Deeply moving' Sophie Kinsella'I felt bereft for having finished it' Milly Johnson____________________Sometimes the cracks in your heart can be mended in unexpected ways .
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?
'An electrifying plot that keeps you guessing to the last' Fiona Barton'Yet another gripping, heartbreaking read from a brilliant writer' Jill Mansell'Thrilling, compelling, clever and hugely entertaining.
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.
***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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
