- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
When Harriet Westmoreland goes into labour with twins in Harvey Nichol’s men’s underwear department at exactly the moment she sets eyes on Alex Hamilton, it marks the start of a year of madness – for her, her family and,...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story. Benjamin’s world is turned upside down the day he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that she is his person and he is hers, but the events of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Lucy Ashford lands a top job at a leading theatrical agency in London, work mixes with pleasure, as she literally falls into the arms of big screen heartthrob Daniel Miller. Handsome, charming and irresistible, Daniel is just what...
- Location(s): Lithuania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Winner of the Nautilus Award and the New England Society Book Award, Monica Wood’s The One-in-a-Million Boy is the incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house–a friendship...
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In “Beg Borrow Steal,”...
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): N/A
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden...
- Location(s): Lebanon, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1980s
Scotiabank Giller prize-winner Linden MacIntyre is back with a timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father’s death–a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Chantal, Stuart and their son are the perfect high-profile family. And it’s all built on a lie. A lie told by Chantal. When someone discovers her secret and starts to blackmail her she decides to fight fire with fire....
The Only Gaijin in the Village
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2016
In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the...
The Only Kayak: A Journey Into the Heart of Alaska
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve....
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