Narrative theme: Identity / belonging

Angela Bradbury's 'Poor Mother' : delicate, humble, permanently disappointed, has made endless sacrifices for her family, for which they can never quite be grateful enough.

Madeleine - the spoilt daughter of wealthy parents who abandons her babies to search for the only man she will ever have.

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

With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life.

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.

Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother.

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A milestone in the campaign for racial equality' GuardianIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering.

Orphaned at a cruelly young age, little Hugo Dinsmore is torn from his pampered life and plunged into the nightmare world of brutish country relatives, a world where his refined ways and small stature are a constant source of mockery and torment.

'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand'- Sunday TelegraphPhilip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a CommunistIt is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town a distinguished classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist.

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 .

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser's manifesto, Rejection radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn’t getting him laid and a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

A Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Electric Literature and more.

‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age’ VOGUE

‘An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress’ THE TIMES

‘Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House

‘Audacious and painful and addictive … I loved it’ RUFI THORPE, author of Margo's Got Money Troubles

‘The funniest, darkest thing – it’s like Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground meets Instagram’ ST. VINCENT

‘You will be crawling out of your skin from the very first words’ JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror

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

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial.

'Rose Tremain does not disappoint.

Every time someone changes sex, there's one less freak in the worldMeet the Divots.

A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKPennsylvania, 1968.

Salman Rushdie s critically acclaimed magical realist novel explores good and evil, power and responsibility, exile and homecoming.

Let million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham sweep you away with this sparkling, moving and emotionally charged novel of the complexities of female friendship.

'There's seven ways to kill a cat.

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.

Hilarious, playful and just a little risqu , this is a novel you won't put down!

A chance meeting has New Zealand writer Laszlo Winter thinking back to his time in London in the late 1950s.

'What is a really good novel like?

Set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, this is a powerful and unusual love story told by one of the 20th century's greatest writers.

1864.

One night a young couple sneak onto the estate of wealthy Lydia Blessing and leave a box in the driveway.

'The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.

Tina Suzuki has just begun her first year of graduate study.

When The Emperor of Ocean Park was published, the Observer declared: 'The book is superb, both as a thriller and as a novel of social observation.

In Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity.

Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix.

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT CHELSEA KNOT CAN'T KEEP A SECRETUntil now.

A poignant novel of hope, acceptance, forgiveness and the heartbreaking compromises people make in the name of love.

Home, heart and family.

EVER FEEL LIKE SOMEONE'S WATCHING YOU?

This time her mission is personal.

She is Rhia, bound to the Spirit of Crow and gifted with vision.

Meet four women who think they share nothing but a spit of land called Happiness Key.

For twenty-five years multimillionaire businessman Ron Raven played the loving husband and father-to two very different households.

I just want a normal life.

They say blood is thicker than water.

IF YOU TRUST YOUR HEART, YOU'LL ALWAYS KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Praised for her "e;haunting"e; (Booklist) and "e;tremendously touching"e; (Kirkus Reviews) novels, Elizabeth Flock reveals the inner workings of a modern marriage with unflinching honesty in Sleepwalking in Daylight, delivering a provocative story that Publishers Weekly calls "e;redemptive.

With the immortal denizens of the subterranean Lightworld and Darkworld societies locked in battle, the heiress to the Faery throne is exiled to the Human realm above.

Teen Genius (and Hermit) Carrre Pilby's To-Do List:1.

Can Kate Morgan stand up for herself-without being labeled a snitch?

As a wolf, she was intoxicated by his scent, his strength and power.

Ein scharfsinniger Roman über die Geschichte unserer Gegenwart und die Kraft unserer Träume – von der Autorin des Bestsellers Mädchen, Frau etc.

Her story could blow apart the secrets they'd both agreed to keep.

Most days Kathleen O'Leary is a penniless maid.