Fiction: narrative themes

The Beach Cafe is Lucy Diamond's classic bestseller, a story of new beginnings, love and adventure.

'Stuart Nadler is a great writer' - Time Out'Perfectly crafted' - Financial TimesThe Book of Life is comprised of seven stunning tales about all the big things: faith, love, family, temptation and redemption.

THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERChoose life.

Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeWinner of the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer AwardBord Gais Energy Irish Book of the YearSolace by Belinda McKeon is a dazzling story of love, family and divided loyalties.

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

A tense, evocative, portrait of love and deceit set during one long hot summer in France, The Greengage Summer is a hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age story by from Rumer Godden, the author of Black Narcissus, a major BBC drama series and classic film.

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.

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingFrom the multi-million copy number one bestselling author of The Women, The Nightingale and The Four Winds, Home Front is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness and the elusive nature of love.

The Track of Sand is Andrea Camilleri's twelfth outing in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series.

The nightmare begins before you sleep .

At Last is the fifth and final instalment of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

It all began with a simple seaside vacation, a brother and sister recapturing their childhood.

A beautiful, lyrical novel about love and loss, and grief and mourning from the author of The Woman in Black.

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.

You are crossing the Atlantic on a liner with your boyfriend who may or may not be planning to propose.

Edward has lost his short term-memory.

Far away from the city of his birth, in a frontier town on the edge of tribal wilderness, a doctor tries to resolve the seemingly unreconcilable demands of his public career and his personal feelings.

Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s and '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different.

Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm.

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

"Una Sconfitta d’Amore" di Lara Steele è un romanzo erotico che ti trascinerà in un vortice di passione, desiderio e conflitti interiori.

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

At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer.

In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia and Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled.

A heartbreaking debut about family, love, grief and food.

*THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG*'Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' Independent'Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart' CNN'Ernest Cline's novel deserves to be a modern classic' SciFiNow'Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, this really is a spectacularly successful debut' Daily Mail_______________A world at stake.

When Nicholas was four years old his mother took him by the hand and led him away from his father, his brother and his Ukrainian home, across the Carpathian mountains, through the Iron Curtain and eventually to Britain, and a new life.

WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM PRIZE'Funny, sad, bewildering and painfully honest, it s a must-read for all fans of Joe Dunthorne s Submarine' Emerald StreetJim Thorne.

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth.

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven.

'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverBucharest, 1940.

Jane Spring has discovered that twenty-first-century relationships are built on a myth.

'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverAthens, 1941.

Perfect for fans of Kitty Neale, Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, this is the powerful sequel to Madeleine written by multi-million copy seller Elvi Rhodes.

Mergers & Acquisitions is the story of Tommy Quinn, a recent Georgetown graduate who has just landed the job of his dreams as an investment banker at J.

MARINA ENDICOTT PRESENTSTHE THREE GRACEFUL AVERY GIRLSTHE SISTER ACT TO TAKE VAUDEVILLE BY STORMSTARRING: AURORA, CLOVER and BELLA As they set off on the road to fame and fortune, the Avery sisters join a cast of extraordinary and unforgettable characters charming charlatans, unpredictable eccentrics, and some who seem ordinary but have magical gifts.

'A rare treat, delivered with aplomb' Sunday TelegraphOn the day of Charles and Diana's wedding, Rebecca Monroe's mother locked herself in the bathroom and never came out.

Discover this funny and warm novel for anyone who has ever been curious about their partner's past from the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Meet Buffy.

At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window.

Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day.

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013Today is Christmas Eve.

One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief.

A young girl struggles to realise her dreams when her life is derailed - from the Sunday Times bestselling author Val Wood.

Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2013After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee starts an apprenticeship at the local funeral home.

Readers of Jo Thomas, Lindsey Kelk, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon will love this deliciously funny and uplifting romantic comedy set amongst the glitz and glamour of Venice.

36-year-old Sophie Stanton has lost her young husband to cancer.

'(Thich Nhat Hanh) shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth' His Holiness the Dalai LamaThich Nhat Hanh says: 'Our biggest fear is that we will become nothing when we die.

Peace activist, poet, scholar and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh invites us to welcome The Sun My Heart into our lives like a friend.

Is anxiety making your child's life a misery - causing problems at school, difficulties in making friends or facing new experiences, even affecting their physical health?

At least one in ten people suffer from migraine.