Fiction: general & literary

It is 1953. Five American Airforce wives in Norfolk are waiting for their husbands to return. There is very little to do, so they dare to look beyond the safety of the perimeter fence for a little excitement with the natives.

'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!'This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions. Bored and unconvinced by what she's taught, Gigi surprises everyone with her earnest approa...

As children growing up in the English countryside, Henry Marshalson and Cato Forbes were inseparable. But, as time went on, their lives took different paths. For Henry, whose older brother would inherit his father's estate, the United States called, with a professorship to teach art history, whil...

In early 20th century Belfast, working class Meg Preston struggles to accept her own sexuality and yearns for forbidden love. Battling the customs and hardships of their time, Meg pursues a relationship with her childhood friend, Lillian Watson. But soon, tribulations of war, violence, and emigr...

Hestan Island, marooned in the Solway Firth, tethered to the mainland at low tide by a causeway called The Rack. Hestan is home to two men quietly living out their lives, until a boy is almost crushed to death in their tiny copper mine after which the horrors of their shared past begins to unrave...

Six friends have spent the dark, deprived years of World War II fantasising—in air raid shelters and food queues—about an idyllic life in a massive country house. With the coming of peace, they seize on a seductive newspaper ad and take possession of a neglected 33-room manor in Kent, with acres ...

After twelve years of marriage, Caroline and Dominic are set to divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Really? With six-year-old twin girls and an eye-watering mortgage to take into consideration, how can the reason for the split be explained in two words? Their fathers, Len, a retired polic...

Karoo is a drunk, a hopeless husband, a worse father and a second-hand genius. He spends his life turning other people's film scripts into box office hits, but now he's reached a mid-life crisis and needs to prove himself. Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad...

Set in Changi, the most notorious prison in Asia, King Rat is a heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in 15 had the strength and luck to survive. He was that man.