Practical Magic meets Gilmore Girls - a gorgeous cozy read and a Waterstones Best Romantasy Book of the year*************************************************'Magical and grounding at the same time, otherworldly and natural.
Powerful Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece Sunday MirrorBrother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal.
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017A finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeMy sister Sil ncia was the most recent victim of the lions, which have been tormenting our village for some weeks now When Mariamar Mpepe s sister is killed by lions, her father imprisons her at home.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SARA WHEELER'He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing' William FaulknerThis timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest.
Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon.
FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Ra l Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.
Kelsea Glynn is the sole heir to the throne of Tearling but has been raised in secret after her mother a monarch as vain as she was foolish was murdered for ruining her kingdom.
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'The most polished crime writer on the murder beat' Daily ExpressFive footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here.
A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle WalkerHere John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755.
Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and Darkness On the kibbutz it s hard to know.
THE STUNNING FIRST NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF HEART BE AT PEACE AND STRANGE FLOWERSWinner of the Guardian First Book Award Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book AwardsWinner of the European Prize for Literature Voted Irish Book of the Decade in 2016 My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in.
'A persuasive storyteller and the setting is mesmerising' Antonia Senior, The Times_________________The year is 1853, and a young Japanese girl s world is about to be turned upside down.
EPISODE 5 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Freddie must keep his new Portuguese wife a secret from Connie.
The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America s racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering MiamiAs the police boat speeds across Miami s Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho s great moment of heroism.
If you loved William Boyd s Restless, you ll enjoy this Viv Groskop, Red Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists to unworldly Joan it is dazzling.
The North Precinct of Portland, Oregon, is home to two kinds of cops: sergeants and lieutenants who've screwed up somewhere else, and patrol men who thrive on the action on the Avenue.
To the island of Mannar - once an enchanted paradise, now polluted, its wildlife dead or dying - comes Sir Alexander Haye, zoologist and TV personality, determined to acquire one of the last of the island's elephants for London Zoo.
Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away.
EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND JOHN BANVILLEIn this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city.
The White man in the Tree is a comedy of cultural misunderstanding set in the Caribbean, New York and Paris, a novella and eight stories about people who, because of their differences - between men and women, blacks and whites, Jews and Christians, rich and poor - misjudge each other.
*** Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 ***In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers.
An emotional and moving epic saga of determination and drive by multi-million copy seller Elvi Rhodes, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin, Dilly Court and Catherine Cookson.
