Narrative theme: Interior life

If you like Maeve Binchy, Fiona Valpy and Rosamunde Pilcher, you'll absolutely love this beautifully emotive and compelling novel of love and loss from the Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis.

In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to.

A literary tour-de-force of power, guilt and obsession - two people stalk each other through the shadowy, tangled web of the past - man and woman caught in a dangerous game of confession, each partly predator and partly prey.

*Don't miss The Lost Wife - the brand new jaw-dropping thriller from Georgina Lees*'Compelling, heartbreaking and beautifully written.

I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment.

The highly acclaimed, thought-provoking debut novel that has everyone talking.

CHOSEN AS A 2026 MUST-READ BOOK BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, NEW ARAB AND BBC CULTURE

EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . .

The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighbourhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father's eye.

But when Zorah dies in an unthinkable tragedy, the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that the Sharafs' happy household was anything but, and soon the veneer of the model immigrant family starts to crumble.

Those who knew her best - and those who never met her - all have an opinion on who Zorah really was, and what really happened to her . . .

Told through the chorus of voices surrounding the Sharafs, Good People is a riveting, provocative and unforgettable story of community, family and identity.

The unmissable novel from Fran Littlewood, the New York Times bestselling author of Read With Jenna pick Amazing Grace Adams A STYLIST MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025A SUNDAY TIMES STUFF EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT PICKAN OPRAH BEST SUMMER BOOKS TO READ 'FABULOUS .

'Had me laughing, wincing, cheering, recognising, admiring - and turning pages, rapidly' MAGGIE NELSON'A masterful contribution to the canon of queer women's literature.

A New Scientist best new science-fiction book 'Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense' Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights 'The ultimate haunted house story, in space' Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger 'This story slides and slithers from creepy and atmospheric to skin-crawling, edge-of-your-seat terror' T.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD'Beautiful and unflinching, Cloudless is a phenomenal debut' ANNA HOPE, author of Albion Attends to the bonds we have to family, landscape, global politics with uncommon attention, extraordinary depth and lightness of touch ELIZABETH O'CONNOR, author of Whale FallIt is autumn 2004 and in a farmhouse on the hills outside Llandudno, Catrin and John endure the agonizing wait for their older son to return from Iraq.

'This great read manages to be both funny and emotionally charged' Fabulous, The SunFour women who have lost themselves or who want to be lost, spend a life-changing weekend at a wild retreat on Bodmin Moor.

'Remarkable' New York Times'No one is better than Simenon at showing how banal domestic conflict can lead to murderous catastrophe' Financial TimesAn acerbic tale of marital warfare and emotional estrangement, in a brilliant new translationIn the oppressive silence of the sitting room, the woman finally smoothed out the paper and, without putting on her glasses, read the two words her husband had written:The cat.

Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2025*'An irresistible read' YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN, Women's Prize-winning author of THE SAFEKEEP'An intricately woven epic, Confessions is both intimate and expansive, a novel that teems with raw, hungry life' COLIN WALSH, author of KALAIt is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing.

A BOOK OF THE YEAR choice in the New Yorker, Washington Post and Electric LitDeeply uncanny and hauntingly resonant strange stories about modern America, for fans of George Saunders, Mariana Enriquez and Shirley Jackson'One of 2024 s superlative debuts - this writer s got talent to burn' Washington Post'These stories will change you' Jonathan Safran Foer A young family is trapped in a time loop in an idyllic holiday cabin.

Renting is a nightmare.

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024'Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration' SIGRID NUNEZ'One of our finest living authors' NEW YORK TIMES'Bruising, beautiful' GUARDIANA dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost.

The cosy, heartwarming first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series.

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023'A hugely impressive debut' SARAH WATERS'[A] haunting and moving story' SUNDAY TIMES'A powerful and inspired achievement.

'Sue Moorcroft delivers great stories time after time.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMESAn electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.

'Beautiful, amazing, mesmerising' ALAN CUMMINGA MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHERI am not gone.

Let bestselling author Judy Astley sweep you away with this insightful, uplifting and hilarious novel where a family holiday turns into more of a torment than a treat.

Escape to the snow-covered mountains of the Isle of Skye this winter, where romance, new adventures and unexpected surprises are just waiting to be found.

Vengeance or love?

Tokyo, 1912.

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Fans of Lee Child and Harlan Coben will love this gripping, moody and heart-stoppingly tense crime thriller from Hollywood screenwriter David Levien.

'Funny, inspiring and uplifting' Nina Stibbe'Raging, outrageous and joyous' Nikki May'A must-read for all people-pleasers!

The wonderful story collection from the author of Standard Deviation'Heiny's work does something magical: gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve and makes you laugh along the way' Lena Dunham'Like Cheever mixed with Ephron' New York Times'Simply wonderful, I savoured every page' GuardianMaya's dog is dying, and she is planning to leave her boyfriend.

Enter the strange world of the Elliott family: it will change you forever.

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction'Simply exceptional.

The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court's Maze.

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From the author of the Man Booker prize-winners 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies' comes a story of suburban mayhem and merciless, hilarious revenge.

'Shot through with compassion .

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the the Orange PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award`Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail'Our most brilliant English writer'GuardianEngland, the 1520s.

If you want a dose of escapism, then look no further than bestselling author Belinda Jones's sparkling and sizzlingly seductive comedy set on the island of Crete.

'I was hooked from page one.

Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold .

The new addictive, compelling and immersive thriller from Nell Pattison, with enough dark twists to give you whiplash.

A brilliantly observed, funny, poignant and utterly real portrait of a mid-life woman and her family.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE Vivid, poignant, hilarious and tragic: the most rewarding and beautiful novel I've read in ages BARBARA TRAPIDO'A family saga like no other.

The enchanting fifth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEARAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST'A triumph .

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The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict Italo Calvino Gonzalo is a highly educated man living alone with his ageing, widowed mother in a town scarred by war.

Was tun, wenn man in der zweiten Lebenshalfte noch einmal von vorn anfangen muss?

'A tour de force of oral poetry' Guardian'I could get drunk just on the sound of the words' Sylvia PlathA definitive new edition of Dylan Thomas's beloved radio playIt is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent.