‘A young woman defies convention in a small Pakistani village, with devastating results for her and her family. A stunning, immense beautiful novel about courage, family and the meaning of love, when everything seems lost…‘– No Honour [ About the Book ] In sixteen-year-old Abida’s small Pakistani village, there are age-old rules to live by,…
‘Please do whatever you can do to live this next half of your life’ I mean LIVE from this moment on – as if life for you begins in the middle’– On the Bright Side [ About the Book ] There’s always time for a second chance… At least that is what people say. But…
Their love is against the laws of a merciless state―but the heart has its own power The Law of the Heart [ About the Book ] For rollercoaster designer Theo, living on the edge is just part of the job. He’s used to wandering the world perfecting thrills, his heart immune to commitment. But then…
‘A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment’– Afraid of the Light [ About the Book ] Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he’s a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what…
‘Armed with one broken heart and a (borrowed) sausage dog, Rachel is on a mission to find out why her baby was born sleeping.Because Everything Happens for a Reason…Doesn’t it?’ [ About the Book ] When Rachel’s baby is stillborn, she becomes obsessed with the idea that saving a stranger’s life months earlier is to…
‘The story of several families who live on the same suburban street, all secretly struggling with the anxieties of the modern world whilst trying to maintain the illusion that everything is fine.’– Everyone Is Still Alive [ About the Book ] It is summer on Magnolia Road when Juliet moves into her late mother’s house…
His dying wish was to set her free. So why does she feel so trapped?– Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase [ About the Book ] Jack had two dying wishes: that his wife scatter his ashes somewhere ‘exotic’, and that she not give up on life once he was gone.He intended to spur her on to…
‘Welcome to Willow Close, where everyone is a suspect….’– Suspects [ About the Book ] As young couple Nina and Conrad move into their first house together in Willow Close, they see horrified neighbours gather by a police cordon in the street – one of the residents has been attacked and brutally killed in the…
Russell Banks’ first new novel in a decade– FOREGONE [ About the Book ] At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal…
‘A poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters.‘– Fresh Water for Flowers [ About the Book ] Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues—three gravediggers,…