Narrative theme: Social issues

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.

The Tower Guesthouse lies nestled between the beech woods of Buckinghamshire.

Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city.

Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine.

As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's dreams and secrets in the poor black mid-West of their childhood.

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.

Louisa is at a music festival and the sun is blazing down.

For Pip, swimming is a necessity.

New Zealand twenty years ago, when margarine was sold on prescription in pharmacies and protective tariffs ruled- The Minister of Cultural Links and Trade, an ex-dairy farmer called Hamish Carew, sets off on a 'Swing Around' of New Zealand's Asian friends and neighbours.

Chosen by Bernardine Evaristo as one of her Top 20 Books by Black British Womxn Writers, Yvvette Edwards' second novel, The Mother, tells Marcia's story.

Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize'Rich, taut and compelling' - Melvyn Bragg, The Guardian'An accomplished display of vocal versatility' - The Literary ReviewThe death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.

That's when it hits me.

From the author of Poldark, the bestselling book and hit television series.

From the author of Poldark, the bestselling book and hit television series.

Only the lawless will survive .

Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin.

Henry Page, owner of The Northern Light, the oldest and most respected newspaper in Tynecastle, is offered a vast sum to turn over control to a mass-circulation group based in London.

The Stars Look Down was A.

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran.

Miguel Street, V.

A pulse-racing spy thriller by Andrew Grant, now the co-author of the Jack Reacher novels as Andrew Child.

Choose life.

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

From Oxford during the dark days of the Second World War to contemporary London, this is Alan Hollinghurst's intimate novel about sexuality, art and family secrets.

SOON TO BE FEATURED ON THE GRAHAM NORTON BOOK CLUB PODCAST ON AUDIBLEDiscover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.

'There is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love.

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin s best-selling San Francisco saga.

Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna.

'The past is never dead.

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil.

'Brisk, bawdy and reckless' Evening Standard'A freak writer, he defies classification.

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.

When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country.

'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.

A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEDeep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people.

Three dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in Sway - the early days of the Rolling Stones; the life of avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger; and the community of Charles Manson and his followers.

**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING TOM HOLLAND AND ROBERT PATTINSON**'Some people were born just so they could be buried'In Knockemstiff, Ohio, war veteran Willard can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'.

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend.

Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives.

Lionel Asbo has just won 139,999,999.

A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town - a one-armed Liverpudlian.

Tamara Sim, a ruthlessly ambitious young journalist, is thrilled when she is sent to interview veteran war correspondent Honor Tait.

The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper.

With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life.

THE BOOK; Alice Kessleris a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it.

The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century.

'BLOOD is a virtuoso work: the writing sinewy and beautiful.

Five-year-old Kerrie-Ann Hill has an unusual neighbour.

Let bestselling author Iris Gower transport you to South Wales at the turn of the century in this beguiling and bewitching saga, set during the hard times of copper smelting.

We all know how it works: first you go to School, then you go to University, and then you enter Real Life.