Fiction

Synopsis Olive Kitteridge is a novel by American author Elizabeth Strout. It presents a portrait of the title character and a number of recurring c...

Synopsis Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma...

Synopsis Comic novel about old age and the trouble which such a state brings. Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis...

Synopsis Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, ...

Synopsis . . . and "Through The Looking Glass." Alice lives an ordinary life, until the day she follows the White Rabbit down, down, down a rabbit ...

Synopsis Pål has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much bigger than he can ever hope to repay on his modest civil servant sala...

Synopsis Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. ...

Synopsis Fevre Dream is a 1982 vampire novel written by American author George R.R. Martin. It is set on the antebellum Mississippi River, beginnin...

Synopsis A Delicate Truth is a 2013 spy novel by John le Carré. Set in 2008 and 2011, the book features a British/American covert mission in Gibral...

Synopsis This is the second novel in the "Corduroy Mansions" series by Alexander McCall Smith. In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlic...

Synopsis The Twelve is a 2012 horror novel by Justin Cronin and is the second novel in The Passage trilogy, following the novel The Passage. In his...

Synopsis Amazon's #1 Book of the Year 2014 & New York Times Bestseller. Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inher...

Synopsis Introduced by John Burns. A lesser known Science Fiction Classic. This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bomb...

Synopsis Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city wa...

Synopsis When a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for ever. Joseph Brennan sees Michael Bugl...

Synopsis The McGregors : A Novel of an Ontario Pioneer Family. By Robert Laidlaw. Published posthumously in 1979. This novel tells of the three gen...

Synopsis The fifth screamingly funny novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and best selling children's author in the country. Hot on the...