It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh?s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn?t know when her husband will r...

In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles ...

This is an ambitious novel set in the latter half of nineteenth century. It follows the up-and-down turns in fortune of the Fainhope family and household. Reminiscent of an earlier style of writing Barrett expertly evokes the lives of rich and poor, ma...

A brilliantly entertaining Victorian novel of aristocratic skulduggery, London vice, and heirs lo...

Charles A. Lindbergh, aviation hero, anti-semite and admirer of Hitler, defeats Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election and becomes president of the USA. What follows as the new president enters into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany and pur...

When Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in...

The community in Sugarmilk Falls is inward looking: cut off from the outside world during the snow season, suspicious of strangers especially those who show an interest in land values. The sugar maker and guest are curious to hear the neighbours? views...

The isolated Canadian town of Sugarmilk Falls is wary of outsiders. As the snow of a winter's nig...

The author transports us to the bright landscape of her 1050s? Bronx childhood in a vehicle of tragedy but fuelled by comedy.

Features an American memoir of growing up in New York with eccentric uncles.

When Billy Ray Rickman boards the Queen Mary in 1957, he leaves his humble Minnesotan background, his family farm and his demons behind to head for riches and prosperity in the burgeoning oil industry and High Society London. This is a sweeping love st...

Presents a love story that spans generations and decades, from rural Ireland to the oil fields of...

When Christopher Rush?s wife died suddenly of cancer, leaving him with two young children, his world fell apart. This is a compelling memoir of grief and recovery.

A memoir of grief and recovery that records a journey of the spirit from defeat to victory.

This is the story about the end of a life sentence and the prospect of release from prison. James describes his imprisonment and imminent freedom with humanity and honesty. An extraordinary of prision life.

Nineteen years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment. Over the past 5 years, he has...

Shoba Narayan paints a rich portrait of small-town life in South India, populated by characters like the flower woman who brings jasmine for the gods, the milkman who names his cows after his wives, and the iron-man who picks up red-hot coals with his ...

Shoba Narayan paints a rich portrait of small-town life in South India, populated by characters l...

In prose as lithe and imaginative as that of Alexandra Fuller, Rachel Zadok re-creates the voice of a young girl growing up during the height of apartheid unrest in South Africa.

Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and come to terms with the ...

An old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the belongings of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, the tale grad...

Tells the story of an old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, who seek shelter in a b...

This is a tale of food, love and geography. Sirine is 39, half-Iraqi and half-American and working as a cook in a Middle Eastern restaurant in Los Angeles. She falls for Hanif, a dashing professor at the local university, but she feels that she is too ...

Sirine is thirty-nine and a breathtaking golden-haired beauty. Half-Iraqi and half-American, she ...

This is a fscinating story of sexual jealousy at a time of political and social crisis. There is lots to keep a reading group happy!

A novel of sexual jealousy set in the world of imperial 10th century Japan.

This is a compelling suspense story embracing love, neglect, anger, sexual obsession deceit and ultimately, forgiveness. There is so much to discuss.

A highly suspenseful, beautifully written morality tale for our times from the writer of An Empty...

Sanity - there's more of it about than one might think. Adventurous reading groups who fancy a change from fiction should find much to discuss here.

We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? Answering this question, the author delve...