little scratch is a fierce, bold and wryly moving depiction of what it means to live out just a single day humming with trauma. 'An extremely perceptive depiction of power and agency.' Guardian 'An absolute gift.' Naoise Dolan

Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting novel of psychological suspense.

Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet.

A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about love, family, war and resilience from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day

* The brilliant and chilling new novel from Sarah Waters - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 * 'Sarah Waters has worked a spell' GUARDIAN

The story of two families over three generations. A novel about resilience, forgiveness and the true meaning of family, about finding one's place in the world and discovering how we all belong somewhere and to someone.

The story of two families over three generations. A novel about resilience, forgiveness and the true meaning of family, about finding one's place in the world and discovering how we all belong somewhere and to someone.

Presents Little Women which describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, and Good Wives which is the story of March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness.

JFK is President and Ezekiel (aka Easy) Rawlins has a job with the Los Angeles Board of Education as a school janitor. No dogs are allowed on the school premises but Pharaoh, the dog in question, belongs to Idabell Turner, a curvaceous teacher whose husband has murder on his mind.

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, a TV crew will record the Crucifixion, live from Golgotha, in order to boost NBC in the ratings war. In this iconoclastic novel, Vidal japes at the expense of religion, history and taste, mixing Hollywood tough talk with biblical jargon and camp.

Maria del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she misses class, and discovers she cannot return to her ordinary existence but must pursue her passion for dancing across the city. We follow her from rumbas in car parks to concerts in shantytowns as she gives in to every desire - however dark.

Fresh translations of Tolstoy's richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk.

Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances.

The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria.

Extraordinary lives, tangled relationships, innovative art: the story of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf and their Bloomsbury Group.

Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces - in the hope of a fresh start. Amongst them are Francis, from Scotland, and his friend Jan, the son of Latvian refugees: two teenage boys. But, violence hangs in the Corby air. This title offers a story of friendship and loss.

'Bruce-Lockhart ramps up the tension and the result is a read-at-a-sitting page-turner.' Best Crime Thrillers, Guardian. 'This impressive debut is written with huge verve' The Daily Mail.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024 In this stunning series of interconnected tales, fires both literal and metaphorical, local and all-encompassing, blaze together to herald the emergence of a singular new Welsh literary voice.

With Local Souls, Allan Gurganus returns to the small town of Falls, North Carolina - the setting of his modern American classic Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. In this darkly funny tale of adultery, obsession and incest, Gurganus brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O'Connor kicking into our new century.