Fiction: special features

The most scandalous royal book of the year. Who is the secret royal? Some say they're a disgruntled courtier; others that it's King Charles' Head of Pens. Perhaps it's just the Countess of Wessex (as you'll see they do appear to be close to the late Queen). But then they do have the same cadence ...

Detective Jake Jackson moved to the countryside for a quieter life. And now, he finally seems to have his wish - spending his time swimming in his lake, tending to his chickens, and enjoying long, lazy evenings with his newfound love, Livia. But the return of an old case shatters the calm, and pu...

An inmate at Tonsgrove prison is murdered in her cell, but no one is willing to talk to the police. DI Gareth Williams is receiving pressure from above to solve the case - and quickly. Then, a local seventeen-year-old girl vanishes from her home. The close-knit community is shaken and they each h...

The Garnett Girls Joseph and Evelyn's New England beach homes have been side by side for generations. And in the summer of 1941, on the shores where they were raised, these two childhood friends fell in love. Now, more than sixty years later, Joseph and Evelyn gather their three grown children to...

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, 'Day' is a searing, exquisitely crafted m...

Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn't be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at th...

The Dales Detective Agency is on the brink of closure. Samson O'Brien has returned to his position as an undercover operative for the Met in London, and his relationship with Delilah is under pressure. Their troubles are only multiplied when an ecologist is found dead and the finger of blame is p...

For as long as they can remember, Claudia, Margo and Jackie have been told how lucky they are. Rescued from their own family tragedies, they were raised by a loving foster mother on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance for a happy family life. But the girls' childhood wasn...

Heartbroken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings when their beloved mother dies. Putting her own dreams aside to keep the family together, she's watchful of her youngest sister, Janette, fast on the way to becoming a tearaway. Her father Fred, often in the pub rather than striv...

Heartbroken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings when their beloved mother dies. Putting her own dreams aside to keep the family together, she's watchful of her youngest sister, Janette, fast on the way to becoming a tearaway. Her father Fred, often in the pub rather than striv...