Narrative theme: Interior life

By the Sunday Times bestselling author and multi-million copy seller Susan Sallis, this is a beautiful and moving novel perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Lucinda Riley and Rosamunde Pilcher.

Twenty five years ago, during the spring and summer of 1975, a rapist stalked the streets of Cambridge, attacking young, single women in their bed-sits and flats and subjecting them to horrifying and increasingly violent assaults.

We should have awakened to the sun streaming in from across the valley, but this is not a story about things as they should be, and it was a dark blustery morning, blasting the blossom off the may.

Hailed as a masterpiece, Tinkers, Paul Harding s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, is a modern classic.

Thrown out of her long-established office job, Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists.

WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE'Compulsively readable' Independent on SundayA discontented ad salesman finds his life changed, in the wryly funny and addictive novel from Booker-shortlisted David SzalayPaul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life - professional, sexual, weekends, the lot.

'An astute and accomplished work' Daily MailJoyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband.

Susan finds her year-old marriage to Alistair less than ideal.

Kabul, 1979.

Short and strange, this is a story about a dark and depraved love triangle: Annabel lives with both her young, beautiful husband, Lee, and his demonic brother, Buzz.

Let bestselling and prizewinning author Marie Joseph sweep you away with this captivating and enthralling saga about poverty, passion and an unquenchable desire for a better life.

A beautiful and touching wartime romance from the pen of bestselling and prizewinning author Marie Joseph.

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyThe world just goes along.

Rachel and Shirley.

The Making of Zombie Wars is a hilarious black comedy from Aleksandar Hemon, celebrated author of The Lazarus Project.

Over one million copies soldToo many broken hearts to count'A book unlike any other' - The Guardian'This novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship' - Dua LipaThe million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.

A profound exploration of the nature of reality and the human mind, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and No Country for Old Men.

Darkly funny and full of stubborn optimism, Quartet in Autumn is a classic.

Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable modern classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall.

Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue's Room, is a world-changing story of a boundless love.

The Angel Tree is a powerful story of family mysteries and forgotten pasts, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series.

When a Lesley Kinnock buys a lottery ticket on a whim, it changes her life more than she could have imagined .

You know that feeling.

Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum.

A body, a nightclub - and long-buried memories.

The Beauty of the End is a gripping psychological thriller from Debbie Howells, author of the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club success, The Bones of You.

For New Adult readers - The In-Between is an emotional, spellbinding, addictive story about friendship and obsession.

Falling is an astonishingly tender love story from the internationally bestselling author, Jane Green.

Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin.

A sunken jet.

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Lottie Moggach's thrilling Kiss Me First is the inspiration for the major Channel 4 and Netflix TV series from the co-author of Skins, Bryan Elsey.

'Our purest living prose stylist' - The Guardian'Tantalizing .

'I've loved Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels.

'The multi award-winning Charlotte Mendelson is famous for whipping up the hottest, messiest family dramas a writer of literary fiction can .

How to Be a Good Wife is a haunting and unforgettable literary thriller about the 'perfect marriage', by Emma Chapman.

A Sunday Times bestseller & Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.

The gripping new psychological drama from the author of Richard and Judy Book Club selection This Perfect World As a teenager, Rachel lived through the death of a friend, and discovered that even the most enchanted of lives can be easily shattered.

With a preface by the author.

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.

The nightmare begins before you sleep .

'At Last is a miraculously wrought piece of art' - Suzi Feay, Financial Times'A terrifying, spectacularly entertaining saga' - James Lasdun, The GuardianAt Last is the fifth instalment in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose novels.

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.

Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day.

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013Today is Christmas Eve.

If you like Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley, you will love this brilliantly funny romantic comedy buzzing with speculation and scandal from bestselling author Judy Astley.

Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley, this is a story full of wry laughs and shrewd insight into friendship and family from bestselling author Judy Astley.

Whether on holiday or dreaming of one, this is the perfect easy-going, cosy read to relax with.

This captivating and moving story of dark secrets, violence and scandal by the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton is perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court.