Family life fiction

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 Julia was the only person who knew 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** In a small town in Northern Ontario, Arthur and his brother Jake are divided by temperament, ambition and their shared love for the same woman.

After their parents die, the Morrison siblings try to stay together but one brother s sacrifice changes them all.

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.

Born and raised on a thoroughbred horse farm in the green hills of Kentucky, Knox Bolling has grown up steeped in the comforting rhythms of family life.

Alice's world is blown apart when her husband Rob dies suddenly of a heart attack - in another woman's bed.

She s bound by her duty to her family.

Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone.

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLHow do you catch a killer who doesn't exist?

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SUSAN HILL AND STEVEN CONNORThe Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s.

Toni Morrison s fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations.

Peter H eg's first novel is an interweaving of the lives and loves of four families, within which histories time expands, clocks stop or race forward at will.

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLA deadly new threat awaits Simon Serrailler in this compulsive thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black DC Simon Serrailler's devastating last case was nearly the death of him.

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLSimon Serrailler faces his most dangerous challenge yet in the edge-of-your-seat thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARDPeggy Kirkpatrick has been talking about a baby called Eleanor.

On a weekend in late summer, Jo is fleeing to London with her children when, a few miles into the journey from the Kent coast, her teenage daughter jumps off the train.

If you loved William Boyd s Restless, you ll enjoy this Viv Groskop, Red Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists to unworldly Joan it is dazzling.

Ryan's Bakery is at the hub of Liverpool life in the late thirties: its driving force, Kathleen, who loves her quiet husband, Michael, and her family, and is fiercely ambitious for them all - Rita, soon to be a teacher; stage-stuck Shirely Anne; Chris, a baker like his dad, and carefee young Joey.

Can she hold on to hope?

A heart-tugging read - Yours Heartwarming - My Weekly You won't be able to put this down until you have read every word - No.

From the author of Mums Like Us comes a fun, witty novel about what it's like when an ordinary mum has had enough.

It s Mums Like Us vs Mother Superiors.

THE FOURTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANFebruary 1941.

Twenty-two-year-old Galen is a New Age believer on a warpath towards transcendence.

** SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REN E ZELLWEGER, LOUIE ANDERSON AND OWEN TEAGUE **Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I can t remember when I read anything that moved me quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison.

One mother's last trip to see her son on death row.

In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up.

Sonia, Lady Duntan, loves the family seat rather more than she does her husband.

**Now adapted for the stage by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti as a Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Birmingham Rep co-production running 22nd May 21st June 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD AND LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOY WITH THE TOPKNOT AND EMPIRELAND'Enormously enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES'A satirical masterpiece' TELEGRAPH'Sanghera's tender and funny book is a cracking and pacy read' OBSERVER'A stunning novel .