Fiction: special features

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Newly arrived from the UK, Claire starts the book club at the suggestion of her grandmother and invites her cousin Vedran - still reeling from the disappearance of his girlfriend - her employee Luna, and other local ex-pats, like Karmela, a professor originally from Sarajevo, to join her in broad...

It's the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island hom...

Rose Vernon is headed to a quiet Cornish village - to find the man who saved her life. For Rose, every day is a gift. She narrowly survived a life-threatening illness and owes everything to her anonymous donor. Determined to thank him, Rose follows a trail of clues that lead her to the little Cor...