Fiction

This felt like two books in one and as such they were both readable, but I don't think really confronted the main issue.

A year in the life of a woman caring for her four chickens as she comes to terms with not having children. Brilliant!

What would happen if you got to know the people in your train carriage? A brilliant, wonderful read with characters I didn't want to leave.

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.

A story of father and son, grief and loss, mental health and climate change, and astrophysics! Brilliant.

Based on real events in a surreal Soviet city, this is described as 'a sweeping historical adventure'. What will we think of it?

A heart-wrenching tale of love and loss and the harrowing decisions faced by a young woman in rural America.

The joys and struggles of bringing up a young family are told in this beautiful, sensitive and entertaining account of life on Magnolia Road.

A captivating tale of passengers embarking on an ocean liner to Australia in 1939. War will soon be declared, and all have their own disappointments and tragedies they are eager to leave behind. How will they fare?

The village of Worlingworth in the 1980s - a bleak, dark, disturbing account of the secrets of village life.

It's Geneva, 2012. A Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with details of hacking of unmanned drones in an Anglo-American Defence programme. But he will only speak to Liz Carlyle.

A gripping tale of two women: a mother who discovers her two-year-old missing, and the nanny who has taken the child wanting him for her own.

Now in her nineties, bestselling writer Ruby Devereaux thought she had put away her typewriter and is seeking a quiet life, but her publisher wants one last story telling 'warts and all'.

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

A beautifully atmospheric, nostalgic yet contemporary account of a family spending one summer together by the sea.

A beautifully atmospheric imagining of the lives of those involved in the first performance of Bach's St Matthew's Passion.

Much more than the blurb on the cover - beautiful descriptions, sensual colours, powerful presentations of sultry summers and freezing wastelands.

Kit and Summer have enjoyed a holiday romance but with misunderstandings and near misses when they return home, they look destined never to meet again.

A charming and compelling love story about chance meetings and where they might lead.