Narrative theme: Love and relationships

Can Alice protect her siblings?

Readers have fallen in love After the Rain:'I enjoyed this book immensely.

The latest unputdownable bestseller from Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and EVERYONE HERE IS LYING'The queen of the one-sit read' Linwood Barclay'Shari Lapena is one of the best thriller writers in the business' Steve Cavanagh*****Why would you run scared from a happy home?

'Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp.

'I loved CLEAR MY NAME.

THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIA'Profoundly intelligent and humane.

'Intriguing .

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***Get ready to fall in love with the funny, feel-good novel and instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick Love Untold and co-creator of Gavin & Stacey.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, PICKED FOR THE ZOE BALL TV BOOK CLUB'Ruth Jones is excellent on human nature and why we make the mistakes we do.

___________________________Sisters Willa and Harper mean the world to each other.

Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIANIn 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.

From the Booker longlisted author, and an Irish Times No.

With unforgettable characters, charming romance and lots of laughter, A Merry Mistletoe Wedding is a gorgeous Christmas read from much-loved and ever-popular author Judy Astley.

A Times bestseller'Wonderful.

Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Dorothy Koomson and Liane Moriarty, this is an uplifting and heartfelt novel from the author of The Memory Book, which was featured in the Richard & Judy book club 2014'I immediately read The Memory Book and it's WONDERFUL .

In their tiny, sea-beaten cottage on the north coast of Scotland, Liska and Ruth await the birth of their first child.

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell.

The charming, fan favourite romance from bestselling author Cathy Bramley, perfect for anyone looking for a feel-good, light-hearted read.

From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate exploration of marriage, devotion and sacrifice, and a woman's enduring search for freedom.

It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to question everything he once revered.

England, 1873.

A witty and intelligent tale about the terrifying, seductive lie of stability emotional, physical, financial, sexual Mail on SundayGordon Hammond, sixty-five, a builder who has built up his own, modestly successful business, has a heart attack.

Gustav Perle grows up lonely and watchful in post-war Switzerland, aching for a closeness his own mother cannot give him.

A flooded world.

Back to his violent best dark, gruesome and captivating EsquireThe most terrifying character from Trainspotting returns.

It is 1982 and Thatcher is in Downing Street, Human League is in the charts and Dallas is on the telly.

From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday.

John Riley is in his early-thirties and has been separated from his wife, Helen, for two years.

A chance encounter with an old schoolfriend confronting a devastating disease leads Colin Turnbull to reassess his life.

From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday.

John Taylor, an accountant, has been deserted by his wife, Stella, after three years of marriage.

When Tim Hughes joins his precocious schoolfriend Julian in a holiday job sorting out the library of an elderly neighbour, Harald Meades, he doesn't comprehend the emotions, both adult and adolescent, with which he is about to tangle.

Stanley Middleton has been described as the Chekhov of suburbia .

Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent.

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.

She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed Anita Brookner Hugo Potts is a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety.

Elissa Koebel's memoir is as scandalous and self-absorbed as its writer, but for Hope, it is more than just the latest salacious read.

Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise.

A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of The Finkler Question.

SOMEONE'S GETTING MARRIED.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITALIn the middle of a winter s night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend.

NOW AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLETV+THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016'Sensationally good.

From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie starring Jim Broadbent - an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.

In the 1920s, nobody is safe from scandal.

Torn between his kingdom and the woman he loves.

I never think of Laura as my step-sister, but that s what she is.

I often think my mother would prefer colonic irrigation to hanging out with me.

THE GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKAMAZON EDITORS' 20 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR'With its countless epiphanies and surprises, Oona proves difficult to put down' USA Today'By turns tragic and triumphant, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read' Guardian___________OONA'S LIFE IS OUT OF ORDER Brooklyn, 1982.

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her extraordinary Psy-Changeling world with a story of wild passion and darkest betrayal .

Willkommen in diesem neuen Buch von Mia Graf, einer Sammlung sinnlicher Erzählungen, die die Grenzen der Lust und Leidenschaft erkunden.