Form/Genre: General Fiction

ANIMALIA retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an inten...

Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin...

First published in 1927, this novel draws on the author's recollections of family holidays at St Ives, Cornwall, although the setting is ostensibly the Hebrides and her parents provided the inspiration for Mr and Mrs Ramsay. The author also wrote "Mrs Dalloway", "The Waves" and "Orlando".

Set in British India in the 1920s, this book looks at racial conflict. The characters struggle to overcome their own differences and prejudices, but when the Indian Dr Aziz is tried for the alleged assault of Adela Quested even the strongest inter-racial friendships come under pressure.

Out on the Romney marshes, on a dark and misty night over 200 years ago, a country doctor has a close encounter with a mysterious group of horsemen speaking a strange tongue. Their appearance will completely change his life...

In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, nameless numbers, survivors of a devastating war, live out lives devoid of passion and creativity. Until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Reputedly the inspiration for Orwell's 1984.

The first novel by the author of "The Road Less Travelled". It is a psychological thriller set in the self-contained world of a nursing home which is shattered by violence. Residents and staff must confront a terrifying evil and face their innermost fears and suspicions, and their darkest secrets.

Offers a solution to the centuries-old mystery of the fate of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother, who were believed killed by their uncle, Richard III.

This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman; a chess...

James Munroe was a cool cat. He took his prison sentence without blinking and by the fourth year he had it made. Then a youngster named Dido moved into his cell block, and Munroe's shell began to crumble.

It is the summer of the Watergate scandal in 1972 in Washington DC and 10 year old Marsha's parents are divorcing. Then a murdered body of a local boy is found and suspicions and anxieties transform her once-secure neighbourhood.

Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York. He visits the country before his job starts in holiday mood, but ends up staying in a haunted chateau where he learns to let go of the past and move into a liberating future.

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this is the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel who try to craft a childhood for themselves amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory.

Sam Hall is Mohawk's resident gambling hellraiser. His son Ned is the opposite and when his father returns to Mohawk, Ned's quiet life is turned upside down. Over the next 20 years he struggles to please Sam whilst avoiding Sam's costlier mistakes.

Salt explores the complexities of the still young Trinidad where the roles of slave and land-owner still linger. Earl Lovelace is one of the pre-eminent novelists of the Caribbean, and in this novel he questions the nature of liberty and nationhood.

'The Bluest Eye' chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.

Rosemary Manning's 1962 gem The Chinese Garden is a delicate and finely crafted novel of the discovery -- and betrayal -- of love. In a girls' boarding school in the late 1920s, a world of iron-willed authority, frigid rooms, and forbidden friendships, sixteen-year-old Rachel struggles to find a ...

Brought to the edge of despair, physically attacked beyond recognition, haunted by abuse in her present and her past, Gabriella manages to find hope and the courage to face the past in this harrowing novel by the author of Malice and The Gift.