Narrative theme: Love and relationships

March returns to her childhood home with her teenage daughter, Gwen, to attend the funeral of the housekeeper who brought her up.

For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple.

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear.

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.

Rose Pendlebury has little in common with her Islington neighbours.

Rowena wants a baby.

What do men run away from?

London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No.

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love.

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

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over.

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.

Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man who inherited his father's philanthropic attitude along with his beautiful house, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to the West Country as his new wife.

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

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town whilst her parents prepare to depart for life in colonial India.

Laura Thornby is independent, individual and perfectly in control of her life.

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder.

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner.

It is 1926.

On 21 April 1926, three baby girls are born.

Dot Tegydd is the third daughter of propertied parents who longed for a son.

From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - winner of the 2022 British Book Awards.

Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women.

To hesitate on the edge of life or to plunge in and risk change -this is the dilemma explored in THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.

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

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

This is the story of two people living one life.

Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints.

Scarborough, 1880Jeannie spends her days in the town's teeming fishing port, waiting for Ethan Wharton to return on his father's trawler.

Another engaging and enthralling saga from much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris.

From Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler, a novel about first love, dangerous obsession and unintended consequences.

'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain.

Like no poetry you've ever known before, Fred D'Aguiar's novel-in-verse sweeps you up in the scintillating story of a young female slave who falls in love with the son of the plantation owner and runs away with him in search of a new life.

Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer.

Kurt Vonnegut has surpassed even his own giddy heights of hilariously bitter irony in Bluebeard.

One of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, Richard Yate's universally acclaimed debut novel is a masterful portrait of East Coast life in 1950s suburbia.

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.

William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school.

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider.

Love, money, revenge and betrayal - this is the Jazz Age novel that became the great American classic.

If you like Philippa Gregory, you will love this vibrant and captivating historical page-turner from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy - the perfect blend of history with romance and drama.

A beautifully evocative and enthralling historical novel from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy - perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory.

A deliciously atmospheric, moving and evocative historical novel from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy - perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory.

Historical romance at its very best: fans of Philippa Gregory will love this captivating journey back in time from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy.

'Delightful.

Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker.

In her latest collection of stories, Janice Galloway turns her unflinching gaze on relationships: the struggle to love against the odds, the overpowering yearning to communicate, and the extraordinary epiphanies where the World falls away leaving only the lovers.

A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts.

A poor city worker keeps seeking pockets of nature in modern urban life, with comic and sometimes disastrous results.

A novel built from beginnings.