Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

August 31, 2019
Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to...

So Lucky by Dawn O’Porter

August 29, 2019
To a stranger’s eye, they’ve got it made. Beth shows that women really can have it all. Ruby lives life by her own rules. And then there’s Lauren, living the dream. If only you knew the full story. Beth hasn’t had sex in a year.  Ruby feels like she’s failing.  Lauren’s happiness is fake news. Peel back the layers, and no-one’s life is as perfect as it looks....

Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood

August 13, 2019
In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley’s best friend. She is also Ernest’s lover. Mrs Hemingway depicts the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway...

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

August 01, 2019
If you put The Crucible and Lord of the Flies in a blender, you would get a tantalizing potion that resembles The Grace Year. In another life, girls are sent into the wilderness for their Grace Year - the year that they must embrace their toxic magic and use up every wicked drop before returning home to become either a docile housewife or...

Happy Publication Day to The Furies!

May 02, 2019
Wishing Katie Lowe an enchanting publication day! Violet is returning home, back to the sleepy coastal town which holds so many memories. In 1998, after a tragic accident claimed the lives of her father and sister, she joins Elm Hollow Academy, a private girls’ school with an unpleasant history of 17th century witch trials. There she is drawn to Robin, Grace, Alex and...

Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce

April 22, 2019
Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise - she's just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems... Blood Orange is the debut novel from Harriet Tyce. It's a gripping thriller set around the scandalous legal scene of Lincoln Inn's Fields. Alison is a successful barrister who has...

Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor

March 06, 2019
Sylvia Penton has been hibernating for years, it's no wonder she's a little prickly... Sylvia lives alone, dedicating herself to her job at the local university. On weekends, she helps out at a local hedgehog sanctuary because it gives her something to talk about on Mondays - and it makes people think she's nicer than she is. Only Sylvia has a secret: she's...

You Were Made For This by Michelle Sacks

October 24, 2018
Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place. Merry adores baking, gardening, and caring for her infant son, while Sam pursues a new career in film. In their idyllic house in the Swedish woods, they can hardly believe how lucky they are. What perfect new lives they've built for themselves, away from New...

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

September 26, 2018
There's no real way around saying this. The Pisces is about a passionate and erotic love affair with a mer-man. Hats off to the cover designer who really nailed the brief. As a floundering PhD student, Lucy is despondent, unfulfilled and recently heartbroken after her long term relationship ends with a doughnut fueled breakdown. She spends the summer house-sitting for her sister and the...

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

June 04, 2018
"In the arid summer heat, four children – Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom – find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children’s lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them." I'm going to start by saying I...

Sal by Mick Kitson

May 01, 2018
"This is a story of something like survival..." Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a Bear Grylls knife, waterproofs and a first aid kit from Amazon using stolen credit cards. She read the SAS Survival Handbook and watched loads of YouTube videos. And now Sal knows...