Fiona BartonThe Widow(Kate Waters #1)When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad...

Fiona Barton 'The ultimate psychological thriller' Lisa GardnerWe've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime.But...

Robert HicksTennessee, 1864. On a late autumn day, near a little town called Franklin, 10,000 men will soon lie dead or dying in a battle that will change many lives...

Sally GunningMarried for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself...

Julia GlassSeventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. But his routines are disrupted when he is persuaded to...

Sujata Massey   1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes...

Meg Wolitzer "The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness...

Greer Hendricks and Sarah PekkanenWhen you read this book, you will make many assumptions. It's about a jealous wife, obsessed with her replacement. It's about a younger woman set to...

Anne Enright The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love,...

Jim Fergus As a young man, Ned was part of an expedition to find and free a boy who was captured by the Apaches-using an Apache girl as ransom. Ned...

William FaulknerIn this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem and now published in the authoritative Library of America text—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing...

Mark Bittner Like a lot of young people in the 1970s, Mark Bittner took the path of the "dharma bum." When the counterculture faded, Mark held on, seeking shelter in...