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In 1989, eighteen-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and down the country and the rest of the week trudging th...

Emily is expecting. She is 34 weeks pregnant, her ankles are swollen, her hair is falling out and she's worried about the baby. Now she's been pass...

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absol...

Vivien's mother Hilda had always been the black sheep of the family: the only person to have a child out of wedlock; the first person in the family...

Jess Tavener would have said that her life in a Somerset market town, with her husband Matt and their small daughter Lucy, was happy and settled. T...

‘Exceptionally beautiful, emotionally charged and inspirational’ MIRANDA DICKINSON ‘A wonderfully told tale of devastation, grief and ultimately h...

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City ...

Ben Killigrew is no longer the man that morwen married as financial troubles hit the killigrew household , the passion and strength of the man she ...

Education: Four Highers: French (A), English (A), Maths (A), Chemistry (A), 1981; Ordinary Arts degree, MA, 1990; Certificate in Counselling Skills...

From Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Jenny Eclair comes her heartbreaking new novel. In deepest Cornwall, the mansion Kittiwake has seen many pass...

'I am shouting from the rooftops to anyone who will listen about this book. It’s so so good – realistic and funny and so truthful it almost winded ...

Michael Morpurgo has a distinctive writing style that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary with a lyrical twist that make him an undeniable gr...

A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to gener...

Cullercoats Bay, 1895. Titian-haired Kate Lawson is eighteen when the sea claims her beloved and leaves her with a broken heart - and a shameful se...

Linda, a top-level recruitment consultant, finds herself placing her husband's secretary in a new job when Carrie quits out of disgust at his affai...

Mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold and in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day and the battle to liberate N...

Enter the world of Olivier and Madison Malin - glittering inhabitants of the Left Bank, they have a dream life in the exclusive neighbourhood. But ...

Tim's passion is playing games: first football, then rug, and then cricket, lured the vision in pink cheesecloth that was Sharon Batters. This nov...

‘He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn’t hear them talking. Mother must have been giving...

Sadie's life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come...

At 52, Dorothy is a Somerset midwife who, as she sees her ladies through the trials of childbirth, finds a kind of peace. But she has bleak memorie...

The restored Tuscan farmhouse on the edge of an ancient wood is the perfect setting for a late September holiday. As Justine Elliott, her friends a...

In this remarkable debut Karen Gillece weaves a compelling tale of secrets revealed, regrets faced, lives re-evaluated - and a death that changed l...

A beautiful new edition of Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex. 'A poet's eye cle...