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'Summer of Hate' is a novel about flawed reciprocity and American justice, recording recent events through the prism of a beleaguered romance.

Pippa has long felt like the odd one out in her family. Taking a job driving a mobile bakery van around Shetland's villages gives her a sense of freedom and purpose, but also makes her realise how much she wants to belong. Natalia has recently returned to Lerwick hoping to reconnect with an old f...

As the crowds gather for charming and charismatic Seb Cooper's funeral, three women sit in the congregation, mourning his loss. First there is Clair, Seb's wife and partner of twenty years, and mother of his two children. Furious at Seb for dying and leaving their children without a father, Clair...

After ten years of loyal service Daisy Butterworth has been made redundant. Like any clever woman, she knows the cure to redundancy is a little too much wine and her best friend. Only the next morning, Daisy has more than a hangover - she has a whole new house - in France! Seeing this as an oppor...