Narrative theme: Social issues

The central novel from V.

A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year'An astonishing debut .

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

On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home, where one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever.

Visit the delightful Colorado mountains of Cedar Ridge in this enchanting collection by New York Times bestseller Jill Shalvis.

Fans of Suzanne Brockmann, Maya Banks, Christy Reece, Julie Ann Walker and Cindy Gerard will adore Pamela Clare's expertly plotted romantic suspense series, which sets the pages alight with sizzling chemistry.

Can we ever be wholly free?

Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.

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

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma.

Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021'Excellent, lucid, intelligent and gripping' - Scotsman'An utterly riveting read' - Guardian, Thriller of the Month6 December 1993.

What does it take to stand together?

The Times Top Ten BestsellerA Granta Best of Young British Novelist'Trainspotting for a new generation' - Independent'An instant Scottish classic' - The Skinny2005.

A Bend in the River is V.

At a time when gay communities were hidden worlds, Crang needs to root out a killer and do his best to right a grave wrong.

'Sad, sonorous, occasionally hilarious, an extraordinary first novel' Washington Post'Striking .

Only one person knows what happened that day Julia was the only person who knew what happened that day.

With an introduction by publisher and acclaimed author Robert McCrum.

Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer.

'Gobsmacking' - Daily Mail'Masterful' - Karin Slaughter'You won't be able to put this one down' - GlamourA Richard and Judy Book Club BestsellerShocking and psychological, The Wife Between Us is a twisting, pulse-pounding thriller about the disturbing secrets hidden in an ordinary marriage .

With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff.

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'Masterful .

Discover the bestselling Mulberry Lane historical series by Rosie Clarke - you don't know what you've been missingJoin Peggy and Maureen as their siblings embark on life's new adventures and try to forge a partnerships for successLondon 1958Life has moved on since the war and the youngsters of Mulberry Lane are growing up fast.

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022'Remarkable' - Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn'Like Finnegans Wake, only readable' - The TimesIn A Shock, a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear.

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

'Every single woman out there needs to read this, because you either know this man, or you know a woman who knows this man' - @bookwormescapes'Razor-sharp, spine-tinglingly convincing and unputdownable' - Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True'This book will hook you from the first page' - Alice Feeney, author of Beautiful Ugly* * *Cole is the perfect husband: a romantic, supportive of his wife, Mel's career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker.

TWO BROTHERS: Cicero Grimes - freelance psychiatrist and one-man detox unit in America's white trash Deep South; and Luther Grimes - bad news Vietnam veteran and smack dealer.

'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ngugi wa Thiong'o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer.

'Engrossing .

Are the parents always to blame?

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money.

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.

The Sunday Times Thriller of the MonthExpertly researched and visionary in scale, international number one bestseller Ken Follett's Never is more than a thriller.

Es geht um die Erfahrung einer Frau - die sich auf dem Autismus-Spektrum bei 300 befindet - einen IQ von 120 hat, aber von der Welt nicht wahrgenommen wird.

'The past is never dead.

'Beautiful .

'A triumph.

Devastating Anne Enright Beautiful Louise Nealon'Magnificent' Aingeala Flannery'Masterful' Kathleen MacMahonJean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban Dublin in the 1970s and '80s.

'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' The Times '[Reginald Hill] keeps one on the edge of one's wits throughout a bitterly enthralling detection thriller' Sunday TimesWhere better for a hitman to retire than in the Lake District, where the air is healthy and the scenery spectacular?

Die obdachlose Sofia Waters kommt mit Erschöpfung und starken Beinschmerzen ins Krankenhaus.

An action-packed dystopian drama following a group of neurodivergent teenagers on their quest to free the British people from an army of cloned soldiers.

Set in an unnamed African country, V.

Dark, timely and thought-provoking THE SUN Set to be a big summer hit THE INDEPENDENT A gripping read that is visceral and raw.

A Times Best Novel of the Year.

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

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

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