Modern fiction

Evelyn and Muriel Axon, mother and daughter, lead a haunted existence. Objects of horror to their neighbours, they evade or terrorise any social worker who crosses their path. Inside their house, they pursue a covert persecution of each other, shrinking from the unseen occupants of their spare ro...

When Mirka gets a job in a country house in rural England, she has no idea of the struggle she faces to make sense of a very English couple, and a way of life that is entirely alien to her. Richard and Sophie are chaotic, drunken, frequently outrageous but also warm, generous and kind. Mirka find...

Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn’t remember to drink it. She sometimes thinks her daughter Helen is a total stranger. But there’s one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about ...

Perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson and Maggie O’Farrell, The First Time Lauren Pailing Died is a book about loss, grief – and how, despite it not always feeling that way, every ending marks the start of something new.Lauren Pailing is a teenager in the eighties, becomes a Londoner in the nineties....

Jarlath "Jar" Costello's girlfriend, Rosa, committed suicide when they were both students at Cambridge. Jar is obsessed with the idea that Rosa is still alive and is tormented by disturbingly real sightings of her. When a startling discovery convinces him more than ever that these are not just ha...

Lindsay Gordon finds herself dragged into a sordid world of blackmail, prostitution, lies and murder when she investigates the case of a former colleague jailed for killing a notorious Glaswegian journalist. Third in the popular mystery series. When Alison Maxwell, a well-known Glaswegian journal...

Maeve Binchy's bestselling novels not only tell wonderful stories, they also give an insight into how Ireland has changed over the decades, but how people remain the same. They still fall in love, sometimes unsuitably, they still have hopes and dreams, they have deep, long-standing friendships an...

How far would you go to find the truth?Since Amber lost her child ten years ago, her sole focus has been keeping her small business afloat. Her life seems to be on hold, until the morning she finds a girl on the beach outside her gift shop. A girl who has no shoes, no name, and no idea where she ...

The follow up to the bestselling The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters from the nation’s favourite and former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain.The four Amir Sisters, Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae, are as close as sisters can be but sometimes even those bonds can be pushed to their limits. Becoming ...

When Charlie’s husband Matt tells her he wants a divorce she has to start from scratch. Single, broke and approaching 40 she is forced to return to her childhood home. Charlie finds her new life refreshing. Now that she’s single she’s got no need to be the perfect wife. But just as she begins to ...