Fiction: general & literary

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.

A poignant story of love, loss, betrayal and redemption set against the dying days of colonial India.

As well as a perceptive, witty look at the pretensions of suburbia, Learning to Swim is a quirky, moving story of friendship and love, peopled with irresistible, unforgettable characters who haunt the reader's mind after the book has ended. From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - wi...

'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. This is a story of pirates, slave-girls and princesses, in a world in a state of religious flux. From his chlidhood in Fez, having...

A young man is about to fulfill his dreams when he is wrongly accused of fathering his landlord's daughter. "A story of love, loss and tragedy; a heartbreaking and moving tale. " Readers' Favorite. From the author of A Greater World and Kurinji Flowers.

Esther, a pregnant amputee, and her husband, Dan, are seeking a new life, setting up home - restoring an abandoned railway station called Rosgill, far away in the Scottish Highlands.Spanning the course of a week, Bee Lewis's gothic fantasia follows Esther as her marriage, life and body begin to d...