Narrative theme: Coming of age

It is the autumn of 1940, one year into the German occupation of Poland.

Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere.

Let bestselling author Iris Gower transport you to South Wales at the turn of the century in this beguiling and bewitching saga, set during the hard times of copper smelting.

Sarah Scarse may be young but life in the notorious St Giles and St George s workhouse has forced her to grow up fast.

'A magical invention of page-turning suspense, of sadness, grief and passion' The TimesLewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice.

Gardening at Night follows the unfolding of a young girl's life through a childhood filled with silences, through adolescence and young womanhood.

For fifteen-year-old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cut-throat Teds and a job picking cherries with the gypsies.

Told from Gretel Samuelson's sly and knowing perspective, Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way though the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in a family which is rocked by divorce and disaster, bad judgement and fierce attachments.

Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to wail out across London.

Antietam (Andy) Brown - named for the great-great-grandfather who died on that Civil War battleground - was ten years old when he killed his abusive foster father.

The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism.

A young girl's search for her identity and for a love that can overcome her past.

Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will love this vivid and compelling saga, set around Tiger Bay and Cardiff.

Scarborough, 1880Jeannie spends her days in the town's teeming fishing port, waiting for Ethan Wharton to return on his father's trawler.

From Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler, a novel about first love, dangerous obsession and unintended consequences.

William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school.

'A masterpiece, a perfect book' David NichollsDiscover this unmissable modern classic where the fragile friendship between two teenage boys has devastating consequences that echo throughout the years.

From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong.

It's 1989, and in the dying years of the Apartheid regime, eleven-year-old Jack Viljee considers life to be simple.

Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare.

Forster's classic novel, with a new introduction by Sarah Winman, bestselling author of Still Life'One of the most beautiful, poignant and poetic love stories, as relevant today as it was then'SARAH WINMAN'My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction'ZADIE SMITH'Brimming with yearning and desire .

A breathtaking novel about the ties that bind mothers and daughters together and the secrets that tear them apart.

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDETwo childhood best friends.

FIREBRAND IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ALICIA VIKANDER AND JUDE LAWFor fans of Wolf Hall and the BBC's The White QueenDive into Elizabeth Fremantle's vivid Tudor England and meet the woman who survived Henry VIII---My name is Katherine Parr.

Welcome to Drayton Hills!

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'In the top flight of crime writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHTHE CHILLING NEW SUSPENSE THRILLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELSIn the dead of winter, even brothers become strangers.

One summer her sister never came home from the fair.

An uplifting, surprising family story with a devastating secret at its heart'It was original, beautiful, moving and insanely addictive - I wept and I laughed and I will be recommending it to everyone I know.

'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella Frostrup'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father.

A captivating all-action tale of otherworldly magic, death, destruction and a fight for survival by the Sunday Times bestselling author David Gemmell, perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, Duncan M.

In the arid summer heat, four children Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom find themselves abruptly orphaned.

Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.

Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.

On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coru a and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight.

This is the tale of three women - one witch, one mermaid and one missing - and how Ruby was caught up in between.

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs.

A special edition of Julian Barnes s first novel with an introduction from the author and previously unseen archive material.

The unforgettable, award-winning debut novel and modern classic from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Life After Life and Shrines of Gaiety.

A chance encounter in a French town brings dark memories flooding back to fifty-five-year-old Kate.

A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war.

By the time most people hit 30, they've managed to do one of the following things:1.

In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends Ashvin and James, stand on top of twin tower blocks.

Anti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabi n, who is everything Anti isn't: handsome, athletic and popular.

SPECIAL TIE-IN EDITION INCLUDING EXCLUSIVE IMAGES FROM THE FILM.

Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself, but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kenna's classroom, Richie thought he'd finally succeeded: it was a real-life Worst Case Scenario.

It is the blazing summer of 1981 and Catherine is laid low by childhood illness.

A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKPennsylvania, 1968.

It is January, 1914 and Jonathan Crane returns home from his travels with a new American bride, former Coney Island showgirl Beatrice.

It's 1899 and a young girl is abandoned in London by her feckless family.