The Timetraveller’s Wife (2023) by Audrey Niffenegger Summary Clare and Henry met when Clare was just six and Henry thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love. Henry is a librarian who suffers Read more
Love Untold (2023) by Ruth Jones Summary Grace is about to turn ninety and she doesn’t want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants a quiet celebration: her daily swim in the sea and a cup of tea with granddaughter Elin and great-granddaughter Beca. More than anything, she wants to Read more
Everything is Everything (2023) by Clive Myrie Summary As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cover to cover and dreamed of becoming a journalist. In this deeply personal memoir, he tells how his family history has influenced his view of the Read more
The Maid (2023) by Nita Prose Summary It begins like any other day for Molly Gray, silently dusting her way through the luxury rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel. But when she enters suite 401 and discovers an infamous guest dead in his bed, a very messy mystery begins to unfold. And Read more
Widowland (2023) by CJ Carey Summary To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year – but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II.Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany was formalized. George VI and his family Read more
Cahokia Jazz (2023) by Francis Spufford Summary A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, Read more
Godmersham Park (2023) by Gill Hornby Description Early evening, 1804: Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent. Alone and desperately in need of an independent income, she is to become a governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. But her new role in this large household where she is neither a Read more
The Hiding Places (2017) by Katherine Webb Description ‘What could be more important than finding the truth?’ Wiltshire, 1922. Fifteen-year old Pudding Cartwright has begun the career she always wanted, as ‘girl groom’ to the Hadleigh family’s horses at Manor Farm. Irene Hadleigh is struggling to adjust to her new Read more
Lessons in Chemistry (2022) by Bonnie Garmus Description THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The multi-million copy bestsellerAs read on BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeWinner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel AwardBritish Book Awards Author of the Year ‘Sparky, rip-roaring, funny, with big-hearted fully formed, loveable characters’ SUNDAY TIMES Read more
A Little Life (2022) by Hanya Yanagihara Description The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise and The People in the Trees, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book AwardsShortlisted for the Read more