The Return Home


by Justin Huggler
All of us look to our childhoods to explain our failings. But what would our childhood selves make of the people we have become? Autumn 1983. Eight-year-old Ben watches from the top of the stairs as a haggard figure limps [...]

Pugh’s New Year’s Resolutions


by Jonathan Pugh
Cutdown B Format Hardback
The very best of Jonathan Pugh, Daily Mail pocket cartoonist Day in, day out, Jonathan Pugh delights Daily Mail readers with his uniquely affectionate and witty cartoons. He has a disarming ability to poke gentle fun while cutting right to the heart [...]

Hows Your Father


by Rose Boyt
B Format Paperback
Sometimes there is just not enough love to go round… Maureen’s family is a blessing and a curse. Her mother did her best but everyone is still fighting for survival at the expense of their loved ones. Susan thinks her [...]

What Was Never Said


by Emma Craigie
B Format Paperback
15-year old Zahra has lived in England most of her life, but she is haunted by memories of her early childhood in Africa: the warm sun, the loud gunfire, and the happy days playing with her older sister before “the [...]

The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay


by Andrea Gillies
B Format Paperback
All her life, Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with two Italian brothers – Paolo, whom she marries, and Luca, who remains her best friend – until a dramatic series of events changes everything, apparently for good. Estranged [...]

The Beggar and the Hare


by Tuomas Kyrö
B Format Paperback
Vatanescu is striving for a better life, and with it a pair of football boots for his son – but his search has led him to collecting small change on the streets of Helsinki, and he needs something drastic to [...]

Hows Your Father


by Rose Boyt
Demy
What goes on behind closed doors? Hows Your Father tells the story of four generations of one Hackney family on a rollercoaster ride of drugs, violence, sickness, infidelity and the redeeming joys of motherhood.  I am smiling. It ain’t just [...]

The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay


by Andrea Gillies
Royal Paperback
Nina Findlay, alluring, accomplished, deluded, always the heroine of her own life, has found an irresistible safety in being adored by two men, brothers she’s known since childhood. But when her sister-in-law becomes gravely ill, the triangle that Nina’s depended [...]

The Beggar and the Hare


by Tuomas Kyrö
B Format Hardback
“There would certainly have been other alternatives; our hero could have stolen cars, salvaged the copper from telephone cables or sold his kidneys. But of all the bad offers, the one from Yegor Kugar was the best…” Vatanescu, an impoverished [...]

Our Happy Time


by Gong Ji-young
B Format Paperback
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER  Yujeong – beautiful, bright and wealthy – is in hospital recovering from her third suicide attempt. Angry at the world, she reluctantly accepts her no-nonsense aunt’s suggestion: to accompany her on charitable visits to inmates on death [...]

The Burden of the Desert


by Justin Huggler
B Format Paperback
Zoe Temple, a young British journalist who dreams of being a war correspondent… Lieutenant Rick Benes, an American officer trying to get his platoon home alive… Adel, an Iraqi, who wants revenge for the death of his father… Mahmoud, an [...]

The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone


by Will Storr
B Format Paperback
ROALD DAHL MEETS AMERICAN PSYCHO IN A GRIPPING TALE ABOUT THE FILTH BEHIND FINE DINING… “An adult fairytale set in the eighties restaurant scene.” – Esquire “Hell’s Kitchen has a new head chef…Max Mann is one of the most compellingly repulsive villains in [...]

A Commonplace Killing


by Siân Busby
B Format Paperback
A SUPERBLY ACCOMPLISHED AND GRIPPING PIECE OF POST-WAR NOIR. –The Times London, July 1946. A woman’s body is found in a disused bomb site off the Holloway Road. She is identified as Lillian Frobisher, “a respectable wife and mother” who [...]

My Education


by Susan Choi
B Format Paperback
In the heat of September, and the heady rush of starting her graduate degree, Regina Gottlieb is entranced by her seductive, controversial English professor, Nicholas Brodeur.  Against all advice, she becomes embroiled in his world, only to betray him in [...]

A Commonplace Killing


by Siân Busby
B Format Paperback
LONDON, 1946 THE WAR IS OVER AND SO ARE THE CELEBRATIONS On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a woman’s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife [...]

Lost Luggage


by Jordi Punti
Paperback
Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristòfol are four brothers – sons of the same father and four very different mothers. They live in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Barcelona and they unwittingly share the fact that their father, Gabriel Delacruz – a truck driver – abandoned them when they were little.

Whirligig


by Magnus Macintyre
Ebook
“Impressively immersive… wry, often brilliantly dark… Strong and clear and fresh and rousing. Like a bagpipe.” Jez Butterworth, playwright, author of Jerusalem  Claypole is not ‘a large man’. He is a fat man. A fat man with thin limbs, like [...]

The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone


by Will Storr
Paperback
Killian Lone knows he was born to cook. But if there’s one thing he worships more than food, it’s the superstar chef Max Mann. In 1985, Chef Mann’s glamorous London restaurant King is as famous for its ultra-refined Nouvelle Cuisine menu as it is for its starry clientele and its apparently good natured executive chef. When Lone secures a coveted apprenticeship at King, he is horrified to find that, behind closed doors, Chef Mann runs his kitchen with a regime of fear, violence and psychological torture.

The White Lie


by Andrea Gillies
Paperback
On a hot summer’s afternoon, Ursula Salter runs, sobbing, from the loch on her parents’ Highland estate, and bursts into the house with devastating news: “Michael! I’ve killed him. I’ve killed him.”

The Trouble With Alice


by Olivia Glazebrook
Paperback
With poignancy and humour, The Trouble with Alice unwinds the conventions of a love story. It offers a powerful study of estrangement in the aftermath of tragedy but also speaks of compassion, of renewal and ultimately, perhaps, of reconciliation.

The J.M. Barrie Ladies’ Swimming Society


by Barbara J. Zitwer
Paperback
Joey Rubin is a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker – single and a workaholic. Her only intimate relationship is with her dog. When she is sent her to England to oversee the renovation of a stately home, it seems a dream come true...

Baskerville


by John O’Connell
Paperback
Based on real events, Baskerville is a thrilling exploration of friendship and rivalry, ambition and the limits of talent. It takes us from the clattering heart of Edwardian London to the eerie West Country…

Ophelia In Pieces


by Clare Jacob
Paperback
On the eve of her 39th birthday, top barrister Ophelia Dormandy decides she is going to make amends. Tonight, after months of late nights at her desk, she’s going to return home early, cook a special supper – maybe wear that red dress Patrick once said he liked...

The House On Paradise Street


by Sofka Zinovieff
Paperback
The House on Paradise Street is an epic tale of our times. Taking the reader from the war-torn streets of 1940s Athens to the partisans’ mountain caves after the war, through the ‘Regime of the Colonels’ and on into the present day,

The Last Day of Term


by Francis Gilbert
Paperback
All told within a single day, The Last Day of Term weaves a gripping drama about life in an inner-city multicultural school.

We All Ran Into the Sunlight


by Natalie Young
Paperback
Moving between the postwar years and the present day, We All Ran into the Sunlight is a heartbreaking story of love, misplaced desire and the damage done when the truth is withheld.

Seven Days One Summer


by Kate Morris
Paperback
Everything’s set for the holiday of a lifetime; but as the week progresses, and tensions rise in the August heat, relationships unravel, old rivalries re-emerge, and uncomfortable truths have to be faced...

The Harlot’s Press


by Helen Pike
Paperback
The Harlot’s Press is a gripping historical drama, in which St James’s and Cheapside, royalty and the rabble become thrillingly entangled as Nell battles to stay alive

Crimson China


by Betsy Tobin
Paperback
On a freezing night in February, a woman wades into the waters of Morecambe Bay in a drunken bid to commit suicide. Braced for death, she finds herself instead saving a man’s life...

McNaughten


by Siân Busby
Paperback
The winter of 1843 is one of bitter strife for England. The nation is on the brink of ruin and revolution, the government struggling to stand firm against the rising chaos.

Chocolate Cake With Hitler


by Emma Craigie
Paperback
Chocolate Cake with Hitler tells the remarkable story of Helga Goebbels who spent the last ten days of her life cooped up in a bunker in Berlin with Adolf Hitler.

The Days of Judy B


by Rose Heiney
Paperback
A stunningly accomplished debut from Rose Heiney, The Days of Judy B is clever, touching, disturbingly funny. This is a book for anyone who has ever felt their life teetering on the edge; it will take you from laughter to tears and back again.

Benny and Shrimp


by Katarina Mazetti
Paperback
In alternate chapters, Benny and Shrimp tell the story of a love that started by mistake in a village cemetery, a love that should not really be as complicated as it seems.

Ice Land


by Betsy Tobin
Paperback
Ice Land is an epic tale of forbidden love. Set in the year 1000 AD, in the shadow of a smouldering volcano, it portrays a society on the brink of change, where the old values of loyalty and kinship are threatened by a new world order.

Rubies in the Snow


by Kate Hubbard
Paperback
Cast your mind back, to the early years of the 20th century. To Russia. An endless country of icy wastes and dusty plains, of silvery birch trees and black earth. A country of extremes. Of unimaginable wealth and unspeakable poverty.

A Chance Acquaintance


by Charles Chadwick
Paperback
A Chance Acquaintance is a beautifully crafted novel of reparative love. Chadwick evokes the precarious balance of comedy and melancholy at the heart of things, and the bewildering resilience of the human spirit.