Stunning Fiction for 2021
The Maidens
19.00€
Published:8 Jun 2021 'Absolutely brilliant ... A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY From the author of the global #1 bestselling debut The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding literary thriller which weaves together Greek mythology, psychology, and murder... St Christopher's College, Cambridge, is a closed world to most. For Mariana Andros - a group therapist struggling through her private grief - it's where...
Seven Years of Darkness
15.00€
Published:6 May 2021 'The queen of crime . . . You-Jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense' Glamour'You-Jeong Jeong is a certified international phenomenon . . . one among the best at writing psychological suspense' Los Angeles Times A young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a reservoir in a remote South Korean village. The police immediately...
China
20.00€
Published:15 May 2018 Edward Rutherfurd, the internationally bestselling author of Sarum, London, New York and PARIS, turns his pen to the bustling modern behemoth that is China - a country full to the brim with a deep, beautiful and sometimes violent heritage.Set from the 1800s onwards, Rutherfurd's beautiful novel explores the modern history of China with all the signature authenticity...
Scenes of a Graphic Nature
15.00€
Published:1 Jul 2021 After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur pornography and watching her father's health rapidly decline, Charlie and her best friend Laura journey to her ancestral home of Clipim, an island off the west coast of Ireland. She knows this could be the last chance to connect with her dad's history...
The Golden Rule
15.00€
Published:29 Apr 2021 Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 A Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms' Sunday Times'An irresistible summer read' Guardian Book of the Day'A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner' Daily MailShe's such a skilful storyteller' Bernardine...
The Book of Longings
15.00€
Published:18 Mar 2021 A New York Times Bestseller Taught to read despite her mother's misgivings, she wants to be a writer and to find her own voice. A voice that will speak for the silenced women around her. Betrothed to an elderly widower, Ana almost despairs. But an encounter with a charismatic young carpenter in Nazareth awakens new longings in...
Small Pleasures
15.00€
Published:29 Apr 2021 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down...
Exciting Times
15.00€
Published:4 Mar 2021 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she's not sure what to call it, but it involves:- a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich children;- Julian, who likes to spend money on Ava and lets her move into his guest room;-...
Red at the Bone
15.00€
Published:21 Jan 2021 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 *** ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR: New York Times; Washington Post; Time With urgent, vital insights into questions of class, gender, race, history, queerness and sex' New York Times An unexpected teenage pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes,...
Latitudes of Longing
15.00€
Published:13 May 2021 Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award Tender in every detail, touched with humour and profound humanity, this is a novel brimming with life, an original masterpiece.
The Constant Rabbit
15.00€
Published:1 Jul 2021 The Sunday Times Bestseller An astonishingly well-crafted work of social and political satire.' Kirkus 'Fforde presents a milquetoast cog in an absurdly bureaucratic wheel, this time cleverly skewering Brexit, conservative politics, and white supremacy in this surprisingly uplifting tale of one man doing his best, even if it is the bare minimum.' Booklist'The Constant Rabbit is designed...
The Image of Her
20.00€
Published:22 Jul 2021 STELLA and CONNIE are strangers, brought together by two traumatic events - cruel twists of fate that happen thousands of miles apart. Stella lives with her mother, a smothering narcissist. When she succumbs to dementia, the pressures on Stella's world intensify, culminating in tragedy. As Stella recovers from a near fatal accident, she feels compelled to share...
