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Set on Exmoor, it's the story of a cat-and-mouse game between 12-year-old Steven and Arnold Avery, the serial violator and killer of children who, 18 years… read more

The Nightingale is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah. The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II… read more

From the classicist and author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar comes another bravura reimagining of Greek myth as the story of Medusa is transformed… read more

Elegiac and unforgettable, Healy's modern masterpiece explores the diverging myths and landscapes that make Ireland what it is through the story of heartbroken alcoholic writer holed… read more

The opening volume of Howard’s charming and poignant family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, The Light Years finds the three Cazalet brothers gathered at their Sussex family… read more

This story of grief, community, friendship and the restorative power of books, is charming, witty and thoroughly absorbing from first page to last. Gertie is the… read more

Based on the historical incident of an unspeakable massacre at the site of Sant'Anna Di Stazzema, a small village in Tuscany, and on the experiences of… read more

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that… read more

One year after her husband’s death Emma has become a wallflower, hiding among the brighter blooms in the florist where she works.But when a colleague invites… read more

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it… read more

When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned… read more

This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty hardbacks. It's… read more

In 1974, two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the… read more

When the Bow Street constables unearth the identity of a dead woman they cease to care entirely. However, Caro has motives of her own for wanting… read more

A fictional journey of the Joads, a family of sharecroppers from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, forced to migrate west during the Dust Bowl. The Joads join thousands of… read more