Narrative theme: Sense of place

Longlisted for the Women s Prize for FictionYael, Avishag and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty village in Israel.

'That exotic tribe was us.

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

Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.

Carol Milford is a free-spirited young woman who marries Will Kennicott, a small-town doctor.

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.

Trapped in an isolating newspaper reporter job in New York City with her husband in an insane asylum, Dawn O'Hara has not yet reached 30 and she already fears she will never be happy again.

After a loss, a year in the country: four seasons to transform a garden and a self.

In der eigenen Partei gelten sie vielfach als «Verräter», in den Medien als «Rebellen» – die vier hessischen SPD-Landtagsabgeordneten, die verhindert haben, dass sich Andrea Ypsilanti im November 2008 mit Duldung der Linkspartei zur Ministerpräsidentin einer rot-grünen Minderheitsregierung wählen ließ.

A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old.

Lila Nova never imagined her desires could prove so dangerous.

The second novel in one of the **MOST TALKED-ABOUT** post-apocalyptic series.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"e;A masterpiece.

Entertaining.

Silver Hill Village, 2012.

Dies ist die Geschichte einer unwahrscheinlichen Liebe.

'An incredible human being with an extraordinary story to share' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A beautiful, life-changing manifesto' Bren Brown'I will be forever changed by Dr Eger's story' Oprah'Her story is a testament to our true human potential.

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.

Statt seinen Ruhestand zu genießen, muss Kriminalkommissar August Höfner auf dem Gelände der "Industrie-, Gewerbe- und Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf" Wachdienst schieben.

'Leaves you with a smile on your face and hope in your heart' MILLY JOHNSONEscape this summer with the page-turning new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author'A fantastic, compelling story .

Discover the beautiful, escapist Bluebell Cliff series from bestselling author Della Galton'I haven't read such a sweet book for years.

Since the publication of his first book in 1967, Paul Durcan has made satirical, celebratory and extraordinarily moving poetry out of his country's fortunes and misfortunes.

A Telegraph Best Book of 2025'Ingenious' - Telegraph'Candid and compelling' - Guardian'Wistful, sad and funny' - Spectator'Working-class life pinned to the page' - Herald'Already your future has been planned out.

Something hasn't been right at the Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why .

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE 2019****NOMINATED FOR THE M DICIS PRIZE 2018**'A tale of travel and adventure, the story of a body utterly surrendered to pain and joy.

An emotional masterpiece .

Cesenatico, Romagna, in den 1920er Jahren.

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood inYou Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side.

Ashton, Mississippi, provides the deceptively sterile, conforming, and blindly respectable background in The Welcome, a novel written by Hubert Creekmore in 1948.

*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*'A masterly novel' New York Times'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility' GuardianRead the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar.

Dos mujeres.

Five hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy vacationers, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Veronica, returning after living in Mexico City, ready to understand herself and the place she came from.

'Moore writes in lush, enveloping prose.

Katharina die Große und ein preußischer SpionSankt Petersburg, 1762.

The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy.

Exquisitely observed and wickedly playful, The Waiter is a novel for lovers of food, wine, and of European sensibilities, but also for anyone who spends time in restaurants, on either side of the service.

Callahan and her cohort of continuing characters.

'Magical and evocative' Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2025'Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it' TESSA HADLEY'Powerfully compelling' GUARDIAN'Unbelievably good' ELIZABETH DAY'Complex and nuanced.

Ragged Dick (1868) is the first in a series of six novels by American author Horatio Alger.

The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts .