Modern fiction

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Billy's got a lot on his mind that he’d rather not think about. So instead, he watches David Attenborough (because Sir David's got all the answers) and swims in the sea, just letting his mind drift… So when new boy and nature fan, Patrick Green, starts at school and becomes Billy’s friend, things...

My hands are shaking as my fingers curl around the small, neatly wrapped box. There’s a tag dangling from the centre of the red bow which says Love from Kayla in her beautiful, swirly handwriting. I read over the three words countless times, tracing the letters with my fingertip. How is this poss...

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past from the No. 1 bestselling author, Lesley Pearse. Read by the actress Alison Dowling.Cheltenham, 1991When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating ...

The annual grape harvest at the Cambon family's magnificent vineyard is always a cause for celebration. But not this year. When an accident destroys the crop, Clarisse Cambon knows exactly who to blame - her daughter-in-law, Jane. Forced to take charge of the ailing vineyard, Jane uncovers proof ...