Fiction: general & literary

This award-winning novel is a hymn to friendship and to boundless giving that ultimately restores life - it is a story about memory and history, a story against forgetting. Suhaila lies in a coma in a Paris hospital. The loved ones of the title are the constellation of friends, predominantly wome...

Book 4 of Love Comes Softly. Reuniting with their daughter's family, grandparents Clark and Marty's hope and faith are tested by a tragedy. Another Janette Oke bestseller!

Book 2 of Love Comes Softly. Their family growing, Clark and Marty look to bind each other together with love and faith. Over 800,000 sold!

Book 3 of Love Comes Softly. Clark and Marty's daughter, ready to start her own life, must rely on faith in the face of homesickness and mounting hardships.

When Marty and Clark Davis return home after Clark's accident, there are adjustments to be made to their lives, but the lives of their children have already changed. Book 5 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Marty Davis had thoroughly enjoyed her visit with daughter Missie, even though ...

This is an enchanting collection of stories both melancholy and funny about an Italian peasant's struggle to reconcile country habits with urban life. Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an...

In this book, The Missing Heiress, the fifth in the DCI Buchanan series, DCI Buchanan is asked by his good friend Sir Nathan Greyspear if he could help his friend Amal Barazani with a private matter. Sir Nathan takes Buchanan to his club meet Amal Barazani. Amal Barazani explains that his daughte...

The chronicle of six generations in a Sephardi Jewish family, from the mid-19th century to the present. Told through a series of five conversations, the story moves back and forth between Europe and Jerusalem, the focal point. Yehoshua's previous books include "The Continuing Silence of a Poet".

Meredith Mitchell's holiday is interrupted by the murder of a local woman at the controversial opening of a country house hotel. She and Chief Inspector Markby must team up once more to find the killer.

This exquisite novella explores the complications of intersecting lives and the harbouring of secrets. It is about the absence of women - through death, disappearance, separation - and from just failing to be noticed. In these intricately woven lives, we hear the sage advice of the absent yet eve...