Fiction
The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree
Lucille Abendanon
Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for sa…
The Ice
Gabrielle Froden
Both chilling and exciting, The Ice is a story about finding yourself and your place in life—and that our origins may not always be what we think… A few years after fleeing Syria, Josef and his family…
The Monuments of Paris
Violaine Huisman
A remarkable novel drawn from life about a Frenchwoman’s efforts to come to terms with the legacy of her father and grandfather, both powerful forces who left a mark on their country’s culture but who…
The Train of Dark Wonders
Alex Bell
Bess has always loved her grandfather’s collection of curiosities. So she’s delighted when she’s handed the keys to his Odditorium. But unless she finds a way to draw in the crowds, she’ll have to clo…
An Orphan’s Wish
Lizzie Page
England, 1953. An emotional and heartbreaking story about children tragically orphaned by the war, and the woman who is determined to save them, whatever it takes. When Clara Newton became House Mothe…
Bella Bright and the Ghost Game
Carolyn Ward
Eleven-year-old Bella Bright has just moved into Darkling House in Castleton. On her first day at her new school, she is spotted by a pair of manipulative mean girls, Skylar…
Upon A Frosted Star
M.A. Kuzniar
The invitations always arrive the same way – without warning, appearing around the city on the first snowfall of the year, simply inscribed with ‘Tonight.’ When struggling artist, Forster, finds an in…
Tempting Fate
Walid Hajar Rachedi
Lisa’s career is just taking off… Salem’s professional success disguises a painful past… Amateur writer Matthieu is delighting in his dilettante persona… Ronnie dreams of becoming a rapper… Céline is…
More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
Alexandra Potter
There is no magical land you finally arrive at where everything is figured out, fixed and sorted. Life, like us, is a sum of moving parts, and if we’re lucky, we get to keep f**king up, figuring it ou…
The Weekend Trip
Joanna Bolouri
Five old friends. Two new partners. One big problem… In Erin’s beachfront home in Ireland, I blink at my former best friends and laugh. Is it awkward we haven’t seen each other in ten years and nobody…