The Belladonna Maze

Sinéad Crowley

“Deirdre loved the Maze and her father loved to please her and so it stood, and flourished, and had become, over the years, her playground. Here too the belladonna had taken hold and a trail of black…

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FellowCountrymen

Sylvia Nasar

In the darkest decades of the last century, when it looked as if capitalism and democracy could no longer deliver jobs or social justice, a group of privileged, intelligent, ambitious individuals join…

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THE SPY WHO INSPIRED ME

Stephen Clarke

For legal reasons, this novel does not mention J*mes B*nd. Which is a shame, because it is a comedy based on the idea that I*n Fl*ming’s famously macho spy might have been inspired by a woman … It i…

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Skylark

Alice O'Keeffe

Their ideals brought them together, but how closely should you follow your heart? It is the mid-nineties, there is sense of excitement and social change in the air.  Free spirited Skylark is an anti-r…

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Nemesis

Anthony Stone

Nemesis stars Mickey Bale, a close protection officer at the Met, who is tasked with guarding the Defence Minister, just as Chinese-British relations hit boiling point. In a dangerous political climat…

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TAKE MY HAND

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend is passionate about putting choice into women’s hands. She brings the option of birth control to their doorsteps, and with i…

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We Are The Brennans

Tracey Lange

In the same vein as J. Courtney Sullivan and Mary Beth Keane, We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame and loyalty in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. When 30-year-old Su…

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Red Traitor

Owen Matthews

The highly anticipated follow up to Black Sun. Alexander Vasin returns in the stunning new thriller from Owen Matthews, set against the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis. MOSCOW. SUMMER. 1962. Al…

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Night Came with Many Stars

Simon Van Booy

“Simon Van Booy’s spellbinding novel is told with an exquisite and poetic delicacy, imbued with a profound compassion for the humanity of its characters. It is a gorgeously written, deeply moving triu…

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Our Happy Days

Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre

“For thirty years, Edouard Vian and Laure Brankovic were the most notorious couple in European cinema. Amidst divorces and remarriages, they made thirty films, and one child: that child was me. They a…

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