Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss

Utterly delightful, touching and romantic, Summer at Shell Cottage is the perfect summery read from Lucy Diamond, author of the bestselling The Beach Cafe.

Hood is a powerful and moving story of a hidden, secret grief from Emma Donoghue, the author of Room.

A sunken jet.

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize'Unforgettable' - Anne Tyler'Stunningly original' - GuardianOne long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado.

Some Hope is the third of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose Novels, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

An accident, a suicide, an act of criminal negligence .

'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See.

Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

'Stuart Nadler is a great writer' - Time Out'Perfectly crafted' - Financial TimesThe Book of Life is comprised of seven stunning tales about all the big things: faith, love, family, temptation and redemption.

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingFrom the multi-million copy number one bestselling author of The Women, The Nightingale and The Four Winds, Home Front is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness and the elusive nature of love.

At Last is the fifth and final instalment of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

A beautiful, lyrical novel about love and loss, and grief and mourning from the author of The Woman in Black.

A heartbreaking debut about family, love, grief and food.

At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window.

One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief.

Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2013After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee starts an apprenticeship at the local funeral home.

36-year-old Sophie Stanton has lost her young husband to cancer.

'(Thich Nhat Hanh) shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth' His Holiness the Dalai LamaThich Nhat Hanh says: 'Our biggest fear is that we will become nothing when we die.

A heartrending but uplifting story unfolds in the Yorkshire Dales when a promising new life instead demands the utmost of Cara Dunning.

Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, this is the sensational final instalment of the Cordwainers series from bestselling author Iris Gower.

Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower, and soldier - has become unstuck in time.

Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITALLeonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his father's death.

The most important things are hardest to find words for, her father once said.

A Methodist minister gone astray, a trout bum gone fishing with his father's ashes, an artist overwhelmed by embodied beauty-these are among the uncommon heroes and exquisite narratives in this first collection of stories by the American poet and essayist, Thomas Lynch.

On August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, Ohio, the baker Rocco LaGrassa receives a devastating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea.

Cambridge, Budapest, New York, Zurich, The Hague, Tel Aviv, the South Downs of England: the narrator has travelled everywhere.

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories - Joseph O'Connor's first collection in more than twenty years - offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls who contend with the confusions of living.

Since the publication of his first book in 1967, Paul Durcan has made satirical, celebratory and extraordinarily moving poetry out of his country's fortunes and misfortunes.

An unforgettable story about a family with a terrible secret.

THE BOOK; Alice Kessleris a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it.

Let much-loved and ever-popular author Judy Astley sweep you away to magical Cornwall in this lively, laughter-packed and heart-warming read - a return to the setting of her fantastically successful first novel, Just for the Summer.

What would you do, given the second chance of a lifetime?

WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMANThe serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye.

From the pen of bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a moving and heart-warming novel that will stay with you long after you finish the last page.

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.

By the award-winning author of The TwinOn a hot summer's day in June 1969 everyone in the village gathered to welcome Queen Juliana.

From the author of The Gustav SonataFat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis.

From the author of The Gustav SonataToday is Jack Sadler's birthday.

Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the sleeping town.

John Segovia is many things - American, corpulent, shambolic, and obsessed with the history of South America.

Ethan and Jorie, a perfect, beautiful couple, have been married for 13 years, and are still very much in love.

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century.

Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to.

Don and Louise's eighteen-year-old daughter Miranda has died in a sailing accident.

A train screeches to a halt in the middle of the English countryside and, observed by her fascinated fellow travellers, a woman climbs down and rushes to the aid of a sheep, stranded on its back and unable to rise.

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided to End It All.

From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, 'a powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love' (Independent on Sunday).

In this book the author addresses the problem of growing old and the "e;warts of the soul"e; which, if gouged out, ruin the flesh.