The phenomenal word of mouth bestselling author Sophie Hannah explores the various sides of motherhood in her third stunning psychological suspense novel.
The phenomenal word of mouth bestselling author Sophie Hannah explores the various sides of motherhood in her third stunning psychological suspense novel.
Frances Doughty turns detective when her father's customer dies of strychnine poisoning. Armed only with her wits and courage, Frances uncovers a startling deception as she solves a ten year old murder. Will Frances redeem her ailing father's reputation and save the business?
This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
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Tells the story of a father and daughter. This title also tells the story of a menage a trois and explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette.
Includes all issues such as political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. This title offers an essay on style.
Alice Barton finds adventure during a Friday-to-Monday at a grand country house in Angela Thirkell's classic, deliciously diverting 1930s romantic comedy.
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Claire-Louise Bennett's startlingly original debut collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving.
Set in Singapore, and spanning fifty years, Ponti is a sweeping story of three women and the guilt that ties them to each other. For fans of Zadie Smith and Elena Ferrante.
In Lake Wobegon lives a Lutheran lady who wishes for her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake. Meanwhile, a wedding between a veterinary aromatherapist and her boyfriend Brent is set to take place aboard a pontoon boat. All is in readiness for the wedding and then something quite unexpected happens.
It is middle England, mid-1980s. It is the kind of place where nothing ever happens, except something has happened. A sixteen year old boy called Robert had been killed, down by the pools. And half a dozen lives will come unravelled.
"Our Joy" walks down Fulham Broadway carrying week-old baby Jonny. Twenty-two, with bleached hair and shoes too high, she dreams about "oh, loads of things - to have something, to be something". Then her husband Tom is sent to prison for thieving, leaving Joy and Jonny to move in with Auntie Emm.
Introducing the first in a long line of underground's characters, Poor People, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction, is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels.
The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is caught up in a mission to Rome by a sect of secretive monks from a Baltic island, their first pilgrimage in 200 years.