Narrative theme: Sense of place

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street.

Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war.

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed.

It's the '90s and Dot, Saul and Owen are living together on the fringes of the Hoxton art scene - shoplifting, dole-scrounging, swapping drugs, clothes and beds.

After failing to get into medical school, Ollie Cross takes a job as a paramedic in Harlem.

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago.

Winter, 1860.

Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power.

It is January, 1914 and Jonathan Crane returns home from his travels with a new American bride, former Coney Island showgirl Beatrice.

Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money.

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes.

John Cheever s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.

Panoramic, sweeping, monumental, haunting: a story of four families which spans the centuries of Russia from Edward Rutherford, the author of Paris, London and New York.

Hull Fair, October 2007.

A grand, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day.

'There's seven ways to kill a cat.

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Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation.

'The stand-out read of the summer.

William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West.

Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own.

'A wonderful, rich and humane novel.

Colin.

In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "e;filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra"e;, stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be "e;globally sad"e;, but "e;locally glad"e;.

Like so many other young Westerners in the 1960s and 1970s, Matteo leaves home to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India.

Eric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself.

Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York.

Adri n Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Lima s wealthiest neighbourhoods.

Readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will devour this gripping novel about love and marriage - and the ties that bind us - from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope.

Joanna Trollope has the priceless gift of drawing characters so clearly, and cleanly, that within half a dozen pages, you feel you have known them all your life - and The Rector's Wife is no exception.

_________________________A sweeping, epic novel of the greatest city in the world.

Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix.

Caught at the crossroads of Art and Murder New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers is widely acclaimed as a master of atmospheric romantic suspense.

Against the peaceful night sky, a barn burns.

Home, heart and family.

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - CandisEmily Springer decides to leave Leavenworth, Washington, to spend Christmas with her daughter in Boston.

In dire need of a job, Todd Fielding accepts the offer to work at The Brindle Times-even if she has to move to the lackluster town of Brindle.

Harriet Allistair came west to Montana to build a new life, convinced that inheriting her uncle's farm offered the chance to prove herself to her family, to the world and most important, to herself.

Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts.

Hannah Shay has finally shown the town of Black Falls what she's worth.

Chosen to be the ultimate secret operative, Helen Roston has become the most dangerous woman in the world.

A channel for the dead-a warning to the living A chill falls over Christina Hardy's housewarming party when talk turns to a recent murder that has all the hallmarks of the so-called "e;Interstate-Killer"e; murders from fifteen years before.

READ THE INVENTIVE, HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONEHow do you catch a killer, when all your suspects know how to get away with murder?

If you like Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale, you will love this emotional and captivating saga, set amongst the romantic clay potteries of South Wales, from the pen of bestselling author Iris Gower.

*BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE*'Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility.

Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence.

Discover Jane Austen s most beloved classic.

Judge On Trial is Ivan Kl-ma's epic novel about those who stayed in Prague after 1968.

An enthralling and visceral thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben.

A captivating, adrenalin-fuelled thriller that will keep you hooked from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben.