Fiction: narrative themes

Your Truth or Mine?

Set in a picturesque Cotswold village, The Telephone Box Library is an uplifting story about fresh starts and new beginnings, by bestselling author of The Village Green Bookshop, Rachael Lucas.

Finding Hope at Hillside Farm is a heartwarming tale of loss, love and new beginnings by Rachael Lucas.

The chance to join 'the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin' (New York Times)From the author of A Manual for Cleaning Women.

Returning to the magical Amsterdam of her million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune is a story of love, fate, and two women determined to make their own way.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles.

Under a Wartime Sky is an enthralling historical novel by Liz Trenow, based on real-life events at a top-secret wartime research station.

The House of Always is the fourth book in Jenn Lyons's epic fantasy series A Chorus of Dragons, which starts with The Ruin of Kings.

Prophecy and magic combine in The Name of All Things, Jenn Lyons' powerful epic of imperial politics, dragons, gods and demons.

In this thunderously good read, prophecy and magic combine in an incredible epic fantasy of imperial politics, gods and demons.

'Joan Aiken writes superbly, with a force, a colour and strength of imagination that one encounters all too rarely today.

From the bestselling author of The Girlfriend, now a number one Amazon Original series.

When I Was Ten is the stay-up-all-night thriller by acclaimed crime author Fiona Cummins.

Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell's beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared 'an instant classic' by the New York Times Book Review.

Gods, demons and dragons collide in one final epic battle in The Discord of Gods, the unmissable conclusion to A Chorus of Dragons by Jenn Lyons.

Gods, demons, and even more dragons .

Ambition, corruption, and murder in 1960s Mexico: the shocking novel behind Netflix's hit series.

For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Girl Who Reads on the Metro is the French phenomenon by Christine Feret-Fleury, ready to charm book-lovers everywhere .

For fans of Jodi Picoult and If Only I Could Tell You, Penny Hancock's The Choice is an engrossing, thought-provoking novel about family secrets and the way that even the smallest decisions can sometimes have far-reaching consequences.

Funny, warm, and poignant with her trademark wit and wisdom - The Greek Holiday is Maeve Haran at her very, very best.

'Wonderfully entertaining .

Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship.

An explosive thriller from former MI5 officer, Tom Marcus, author of the bestselling Soldier Spy.

The world of Sir Lewis Eliot draws to a close in Last Things, the eleventh and final novel in C.

The eighth novel in C.

Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

In this, the quietly powerful third novel in C.

'A glorious love story' - Sarah Winman, author of Still Life'Exquisite lyrical writing and page-turning adventure' - Emma Stonex, author of The LamplightersFrom a 19th-century Prussian village to the dusty plains of Australia, Devotion is a stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist.

When Julia Gideon is widowed during the Second World War with five children to look after, she is left to manage Westover House with insufficient means for its upkeep.

Frost at Morning is the heartbreaking story of four young children who, deserted by their parents, have been sent off to a vicarage that takes in children as paying guests.

Weatherley Parade is the compelling saga of the lives and loves of the Weatherley family, spanning the years 1902 to 1940.

'Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable .

Joanna Nadin's first novel for adults, The Queen of Bloody Everything, is about mothers, daughters and how we can make many choices in life but can't choose where we come from.

'A novel of heartbreak told with intellectual rigor.

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri.

Now a major film on NetflixEdoardo Albinati's The Catholic School creates a world: a world of power, sex, violence and the threat of masculinity, of the power wielded and misused by men.

'Beautifully written and unbearably tense, this is a standout study of ambition, rivalry and fear.

'Remarkable' - Ian McEwanShortlisted for Hearsts' Big Book Award 2018.

The charming and hilarious tonic we've all been waiting for.

'Atmospheric, thrilling, sexy and so clever' - Laura Pearson, bestselling author of The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke UpWhat happens when truth and lies collide?

Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary FictionShortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and the Arthur C.

'Companionable, exotic, witty and glamorously suggestive' ObserverOne more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolano, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literatureRoberto Bolano's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas.

'There's an elegance to Drake's writing that marks her out as a writer to be reckoned with and she shows fearlessness as she explores the mind of that most troublesome of creatures, the teenage boy .

'Hugely enjoyable, a unique love story that's both witty and poignant.

A beloved classic and undisputed masterpiece, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre explores class, society, love and religion through the eyes of one of fiction's most unique and memorable female protagonists.

Now a major motion picture starring Timothee Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson and Meryl Streep.

Les Miserables is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive amidst the poverty-stricken streets of nineteeth-century Paris.

**THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER** SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR****ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2025 AS SELECTED BY THE OBSERVER, THE IRISH TIMES, JOURNAL.

How much do we know about the people we love?

The unstoppable Ruby Darke returns as old enemies threaten her family in The Edge, a gripping gangland thriller from top ten bestselling author Jessie Keane.