Fiction

Synopsis The Girl from Venice is a stand alone 2016 historical fiction novel by American author Martin Cruz Smith. The novel details the encounte...

Synopsis Meet Maud . . . Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she wen...

Synopsis Costa Book of the Year 2016. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army...

Synopsis From the acclaimed author of The Biology of Luck comes a hilarious, Kafkaesque satire. Arnold Brinkman is a shy and retiring botanist; he...

Synopsis Winner of the 1970 the Lost Man Booker prize. Troubles is a modern classic by a superb writer. Insights into 20th Century life in Ireland,...

Synopsis No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. The great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman....

Synopsis Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. This is such a book - a magical fable about learning ...

Synopsis Joint Winner 2019 Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the icon...

Synopsis The intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent begin in the first volume of the 'trilogy of five', Douglas Adams' comedy sci-fi classic The H...

Synopsis When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a co...

Synopsis She arrived in the village on the spring tide and hoped to be at the heart of it, knowing its secrets and weathering its storms. It was to...

Synopsis A special 10th anniversary edition of the standalone bestseller, Winter in Madrid, by the author of the much-loved Shardlake series, C. J....

Synopsis Silence can be deafening. Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, an...

Synopsis Book #5, Part 2. A Dance With Dragons is the fifth volume in the series. A Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s international...

Synopsis "It was so twentieth century and concrete and hard and opened up to the sky with no alleys or big wooden doorways. ‘Unforgiving’ might be ...

Synopsis A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're ou...

Synopsis “This is not a story about old people,” Bernard MacLaverty told the Guardian, “It’s the story of two young people who got old and they hav...

Synopsis "Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt down, exhausted, and stayed." Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abando...

Synopsis Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tr...

Synopsis A Song of Ice & Fire (A Game of Thrones) - Book #3, Part 1. Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast. The Seven Kingdoms are div...

Synopsis A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the author of Atonement & Amsterdam. Now a major film adaption. The title is a reference...

Synopsis "All I did is marry him. You are the ones who gave him power." Quiet, bookish Alice Blackwell never dreamed of being First Lady. Much less...

Synopsis The 2nd Book of the Dark Materials Trilogy. Lyra has escaped Mrs. Coultar, she has escaped with her daemon (we would call it our spirit) i...