Gwen Jones, a young Welsh writer, is desperate to save the family farmhouse from being sold from under her critically ill mother and herself. When she lands a lucrative three-book deal with an eminent publisher, she thinks her problems...

Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents’ wealth but nevertheless finds herself living in their carriage house; Gracie, her mother, who claims she can tell your lot in life by looking at your teeth;...

Rachel Teller and her husband David appear happy, prosperous and fulfilled. The big house, the successful business . . . They have everything. However, control, not love, fuels their relationship and David has no idea his wife indulges in...

Muriel’s life is changed unexpectedly and forever when she meets Franz: but after many years of happiness the dream is in danger of being shattered when she discovers Franz’s first wife is guarding a mysterious, dangerous secret.

Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She’s even become a flight attendant for his airline, so she can keep a closer eye on him. They are meant to be. The fact that Nate broke up with her...

Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Young, poor Sira Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco, her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned,...

Alicia Berenson writes a diary as a release, an outlet – and to prove to her beloved husband that everything is fine. She can’t bear the thought of worrying Gabriel, or causing him pain. Until, late one evening, Alicia...

When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five…He said the words ‘Irreconcilable differences’, and saw real confusion in his wife’s eyes. ‘Irreconcilable differences?’ she said. ‘Of course there are irreconcilable differences....

What was it about Hjoggböle, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots – and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing...

Balram Halwai, the eponymous ‘white tiger’, is a diminutive, overweight ex-teashop worker who now earns his living as a chauffeur. But this is only one side of his protean personality: he deals in confidence scams, over-ambitious business promotions (built...