Fiction: narrative themes

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.

Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, this is the emotional third instalment in The Cordwainers series by bestselling author Iris Gower.

If you like Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley, you will love this brilliantly funny romantic comedy buzzing with speculation and scandal from bestselling author Judy Astley.

Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley, this is a story full of wry laughs and shrewd insight into friendship and family from bestselling author Judy Astley.

Whether on holiday or dreaming of one, this is the perfect easy-going, cosy read to relax with.

Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Erica James will love this collection of stories to suit the reader's every mood - tender, funny, romantic, ironic, bitter-sweet, nostalgic - multi-million copy seller Elvi Rhodes has captured them all.

A heartrending but uplifting story unfolds in the Yorkshire Dales when a promising new life instead demands the utmost of Cara Dunning.

Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas, Rosie Clarke and Katie Flynn, a heart-warming saga set during World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.

This captivating and moving story of dark secrets, violence and scandal by the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton is perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court.

Perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Georgette Heyer and Jenny Hambly, a sizzling historical romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey that will have you gripped!

Prepare to get swept away by this sensational romantic adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey.

Are you looking for an engaging novel with a warm sense of humour and loveable characters?

The continuation of a wonderful saga telling the story of a Cockney family in peace and war from multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples.

By Sunday Times bestseller Mary Jane Staples, this is the gritty and uplifting next instalment in the Adams Family saga.

'Emotional and gripping' Daily MailHappiness can be found in the most unexpected places .

If you like Dilly Court and Catherine Cookson, you'll love this emotional and powerful story of revenge and retribution from the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton.

This dramatic, heart-wrenching and emotional saga full of twists and turns, leading up to a violent and terrible climax, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton is a must - read for fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.

Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, this is the sensational final instalment of the Cordwainers series from bestselling author Iris Gower.

The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of GreyA beautiful young French woman, known only as O , is taken by her lover Ren to a splendid mansion near Paris.

From bestselling author Margaret Mayhew, an emotional and gripping wartime saga, full of the tension and adventure of World War Two.

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Joshua and Natalie share a vexed five-year history of sporadic encounters, explosive drunkenness and failed intercourse, spliced with sad intimations of true love.

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.

Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South.

Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.

Faulkner's final novel is a tale of three Mississippi travellers.

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.

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelEast is East and West is West Fresh from London, Christine and Donald Manley have come to the alien swelter of Karachi: Christine to conceive a child, Donald to sell the Pill for a pharmaceutical company.

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.

Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked by rare intensity.

'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.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIE WITH MEIt is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war.

Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE'A conspicuously gifted writer To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt.

In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, a womanising 'People s Champion of Art and Culture' who once penned a world-famous novel, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West.

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

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL**Leonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his father's death.

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'.

The most important things are hardest to find words for, her father once said.

A Methodist minister gone astray, a trout bum gone fishing with his father's ashes, an artist overwhelmed by embodied beauty-these are among the uncommon heroes and exquisite narratives in this first collection of stories by the American poet and essayist, Thomas Lynch.

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.