Fiction

An unsettling but intriguing and consuming dystopian world, about fertility and choice.

Just out in paperback. The compelling and shocking story of a mother and son seeking to escape from Mexico across the border to the USA.

One summer, in Suffolk a body is found draped over a baby's cot, but the baby is missing. In France a family holiday is interrupted by the police making an arrest for murder. How are the families connected, what secrets are they hiding, and where is the baby? Published 28 May 2020.

A wry account of a young woman leaving home for her first job as a dental assistant, growing up in the 1970s.

The lives of six strangers collide when they pick up a notebook and confront the truth about their lives. A lose-yourself, uplifting read with a serious theme to ponder.

Why did Cassandra burn the letters written by her sister, Jane Austen? It has troubled academics for decades, but novelist Gill Hornby gives us her perspective in this beautiful and sensitive portrayal of Cassandra in old age and in flashback.

Former police officer, and now a lecturer in criminology, Kate Marshall is drawn into investigating some horrific copycat murders. This is a graphic and disturbing book, but the characters, pace, and twists and turns of the investigation make it a compelling read.

This Josephine Tey mystery revisits her youth when the playwright and sleuth lodged with two teachers at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex.

An astonishing concept in which to explore the life, and death, of a woman and her friends living in Turkey today.

The latest investigation by Simon Serrailler begins with a clever and unnerving burglary. Murder follows.

A fascinating premise for a gripping thriller, which continued with twists and turns to the conclusion.

Wonderful to return to the life of Olive Kitteridge and the daily challenges of life in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine.

A compelling and intriguing account of the self-indulgent and complicated relationships between a group of friends.

A man steps off the platform into the path of the passing train. The woman who witnessed his death has her own shocking and tragic reasons for being at Peterborough station in the middle of the night.

Three women ponder life as they care for the younger generation in a charming, amusing and poignant novel. Published November 2019.

When Kate and Callum meet again 20 years after a destructive affair, they make some foolish and devastating decisions.

A gentle but powerful tale of friendship, community and determination.

An all-engrossing thriller - enthralling, intriguing, puzzling.

A heart-wrenching account of three generations in South Africa. Terrible and brilliant.

An astonishing book about grief, coming of age, and the healing, redemptive power of stories.