Fiction
The Savages
Sabri Louatah
It’s the day of the presidential elections and all of France is in a state of shock: the first Arab candidate, who was projected to win, has just been shot. The sprawling Nerrouche family is devastate…
The Well of Ice
Andrea Carter
December in Glendara, Inishowen, and solicitor Benedicta ‘Ben’ O’Keeffe is working flat out before the holidays; the one bright spot on her horizon is spending her first Christmas with Sergeant Tom Mo…
The Last of the Stanfields
Marc Levy
Eleanor Rigby is a journalist for National Geographic in London. One morning, she receives an anonymous letter informing her that her mother has a criminal past. George Harrison is a carpenter who liv…
P.S. from Paris
Marc Levy
On the big screen, Mia plays a woman in love. But in real life, she’s an actress in need of a break from her real-life philandering husband-the megastar who plays her romantic interest in the movies….
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy
In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved fathe…
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…