The Day We Met is an absolutely wonderful story. I’d been warned that tissues would be needed and yet I’d got almost all the way ...

“I didn’t do anything” says Victoria the narrator and main character in this teen/YA novel by an American author who herself ...

Smoke and Ashes is a top-notch historical crime novel, a page-turning mystery that reimagines a fascinating period of Indian history under the ...

From the editors of The Djinn Falls in Love (2017) comes this diverse collection of short stories based on the broad theme of ‘the night’. ...

This novel, published in Germany for the first time in 1992, was translated into English by Charlotte Collins last year. Trying to ignore the †...

I am a little late to the party on this one but up to a point I was scared to read it! I invested so much in The Book Thief emotionally that the ...

A terrorist bombing on the London Underground kills scores of people, one casualty being the wife of Michael, headteacher of an inner-city ...

The Bothy is a confident debut novel, exciting and fast paced, an exhilarating read. It is also a very subtle exploration of grief, betrayal, ...

This is a novel of many parts and does not have a plot as such. Instead we have a cast of characters on the Burn Estate in Middlesbrough. Like ...

A project for her A-level studies sends seventeen-year-old Saffron on a search for old family photographs – “the kind that have sepia ...

To the Lions is the debut international thriller from investigative journalist Holly Watt, the first in a new series featuring reporter Casey ...

When my grandfather was alive, as a Polish soldier who had fought in the defence of his country from the 1st September, as someone who by 1940 ...

Ordinary People is a story about two couples living south of the river in London in 2008 and how they reach breaking point. Melissa and Michael ...

Any Means Necessary is a dark, nihilistic slice of Nordic Noir. Off the rails and outrageous, this novel doesn’t obey boundaries. It’s also ...

A young girl forced to become a concubine to a much older man, a curse, a haunted house and a tragedy affecting four generations of one family. ...

Esteemed nature writer Robert Macfarlane calls Miriam Darlington’s Owl Sense ‘a beautiful book; wise and sharp-eared as its.& ...