Fiction
When I Hit You
Meena Kandasamy
Caught on the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors, she discovers that her perfect husban…
Adele’s Secret
Valérie Trierweiler
Vienna, 1910. Born into the circles of the haute bourgeoisie, twenty-three-year-old Adele Bloch-Bauer is beautiful, wealthy, and marked by tragedy. A late miscarriage, followed by the sudden death of…
The Return Home
Justin Huggler
When Jack, a war correspondent and wayward soul, returns home to Jersey from Afghanistan, he turns the life of the Merryweather family upside down. To ten-year-old Ben and his sister he seems frighten…
The Housekeeper
Suellen Dainty
When Anne Morgan’s successful restaurateur boyfriend – who also happens to be her boss – leaves her for another woman, Anne finds herself in desperate need of a new job and a quiet place to recover fr…
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Joanna Bolouri
Emily has a satisfying job, fab friends and, most importantly, a wonderful flat, exactly 411 miles away from the crazy, interfering family she reluctantly sees once a year. The only stress in her life…
Taboo
Danielle Thiéry
Bordeaux, France. Just days before Christmas, a mother and her baby disappear from their hospital room. For this high-profile case, riddled with contradictory clues and tracked by the press, high-rank…
Swan Song
Miklós Vámos
Syria, 2015. Fleeing their war-torn home, the Rahman brothers come across an ancient manuscript, indecipherable to the modern eye. Their quest to unravel its secrets leads them to Hungary on a journey…
The Last of Our Kind
Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
An impossible love story. At a time when everything was possible.. Werner Zilch is an up and coming entrepreneur in New York in the early 1970s. Young and dashing, hungry for recognition and success,…
Invincible Summer
Alice Adams
Four friends. Two decades. Inseparable throughout college, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate in 1997 into a world on the brink of a new millennium. Eva, keen to shake off the socialist politic…
Treacherous Strand
Andrea Carter
A woman’s body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen Peninsula. Partially-clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been livin…