Jeannette Walls A tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the author the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on...

Prue SmithPrue Smith spent much of her childhood in South Africa but as soon as World War Two ended she moved to England. It was only after apartheid ended that...

Bernardine EvaristoBarrington Jedidiah Walker.Barry to his friends.Trouble to his wife.Seventy-four years old, Antiguan born and bred, flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro...

Elizabeth Strout   Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of...

Jeffrey Archer   Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war's end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously...

Michael OndaatjeIn the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England – a ‘castle that was to cross the sea’. At mealtimes, he is placed at...

Marlon JamesJamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night...

Penny VincenziA fabulous collection of short stories and essays by much loved and multi-million-copy bestselling author Penny Vincenzi.From her sweeping novels to her searing journalism, Penny Vincenzi has been writing...

Author: Thomas Hardy Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright...

Alice MunroA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star TribuneHere is a selection of Munro’s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two...

Dov IndigDear Dov, You must really be surprised to be receiving a letter from a girl you don't know... Dov Indig was killed on October 7, 1973, in a holding...

Philip LarkinA subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by man critics as a classic...