Family life fiction / Stories about family
Rosetta Books Make Me Even And I'll Never Gamble Again: A Novel
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£20.39
Catapult Celestial Bodies
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£12.34
Catapult The Summer Demands
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£14.39
Dottir Press Banshee
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£17.09
Dottir Press Banshee
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£13.29
Kasva Press Our Lying Kin
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£13.46
Leapfrog Press The Home for Unwed Husbands
£15.26
Leapfrog Press But First You Need a Plan: Leapfrog Global
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£15.26
Madville Publishing Genesis Road
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£16.72
Gibson House Someone Should Pay for Your Pain: A Novel
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£12.34
Torrey House Press Church of the Graveyard Saints
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£16.16
Torrey House Press Accidentals
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£16.11
Torrey House Press To the Mountain
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£13.56
Torrey House Press What Falls Away
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£16.11
Open Letter The Regal Lemon Tree
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£14.39
Dorothy a Publishing Project The Long Form
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£15.30
Suma Crazy Rich Asians (Spanish Edition)
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£16.96
Woodhall Press Catchlight
Book SynopsisWho would you be without your memory??When Katherine Keene is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her four grown children must grapple with how to care for her - and how to remake their relationships with each other. ?And then there’s the secret that threatens their family’s very identity. Will the Keenes find healing and reconciliation - or implode from within??Catchlight is the winner of the 2019 Fairfield Book Prize.
£14.41
Haverhill House Publishing Girl Gone North
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£24.69
John F Blair Publisher Holding On To Nothing
Book Synopsis"Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the South, all whiskey, bluegrass, Dolly Parton, tobacco fields, and women who know better but still fall for the lowdown men whom they know will disappoint them." —Lauren Groff, National Book Award finalist author of Fates and Furies and Florida Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music, tobacco fields, and a Walmart full of beer and firearms for the hunting season. Their path is harrowing, but Lucy and Jeptha are characters to love, and readers will root for their success in a novel so riveting that no one will want to turn out the light until they know whether this family will survive. In luminous prose, debut novelist Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne brings us a present-day Appalachian story in the tradition of Lee Smith, Silas House, and Ron Rash, cast without sentiment or cliché, but with a genuine and profound understanding of the place and its people.Trade ReviewNamed One of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019 by The Millions Named One of the 25 Books to read in the second half of 2019 by The Week Selected as an Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Named One of the 5 Hottest Debuts of Fall 2019 by The Writer "Shelburne's stunning debut novel is a long trip into small-town Tennessee. . .riveting, touching, heart-wrenching, tragic, and beautiful." —Booklist "Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the South, all whiskey, bluegrass, Dolly Parton, tobacco fields, and women who know better but still fall for the lowdown men whom they know will disappoint them. Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne writes with extraordinary love and compassion of the lives of her flawed characters; she shines a clear, calm light on their tragedies, their joys, and their hard-won redemptions." —Lauren Groff, Florida and Fates and Furies "Forget Hillbilly Elegy and read this gorgeous novel instead. Every detail is exactly right. Contemporary themes of work and no work, drinking, sex, guns, music, community, and no future—along with in-depth character development and a hard-driving plot—make this a book you literally cannot put down." —Lee Smith, Dimestore: A Writer's Life and The Last Girls "With her immense empathy for her characters, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne refuses to give the reader a simple, and stereotypical, tale of Appalachian dysfunction. Instead, we get a story of a seemingly star-crossed couple striving to create a better life in the most trying of circumstances. Holding On To Nothing is a gem." —Ron Rash, Serena "With unflinching candor imbued with love and understanding, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne's evocative debut novel explores the meaning of family and the choices people make when the world denies them good options. A compassionate but unsentimental tale of love, loss, and hardship in modern-day Appalachia." —Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light "Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne’s debut novel sings and burns in equal measure. Holding On To Nothing is a gripping story of love and place, of the small choices and large passions that determine our lives, of the gorgeous hope that tomorrow will bring something solid and sturdy, something lucky and true." —Bret Anthony Johnston, Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi "Following in the literary footsteps of Silas House's debut novel Clay's Quilt, Holding Onto Nothing is a tragically beautiful tale of love, loss, music, and blue-collar mountain life. Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne is a fresh contemporary Appalachian voice that I hope to hear from again and again." —Amy Greene, Bloodroot and Long Man "Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne writes with a chafe and charm that makes you give a damn about these flawed characters, Lucy and Jeptha, makes you root for them when what little they have is at risk. This novel has all the makings of a true ballad—heartache and dead ends, booze and bad decisions, double-crossing relatives, a hand-me-down mandolin, and a loyal dog named Crystal Gayle. It also has a deep humming heart that knows sorrow. Like Lucy’s beloved Dolly Parton, Holding On To Nothing is not just country, it’s mountain. Shelburne is a literary force to be reckoned with." —Susan Bernhard, Winter Loon "In this gritty debut, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne deftly captures the blue-collar ache and darkly comic sensibility of what it means to exist in a world of disappointment and generational trauma, where one is both cussed and cursed. It's impossible to turn away as these hardscrabble characters embark on a long shot at love despite voices real and imagined that shout in dissent. A stunning debut by a fierce new voice in southern fiction." —Kelly J. Ford, Cottonmouths "Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne writes with an unprecedented lyricism that is both highly literary and charmingly accessible. From the opening moments of this page-turner, the reader can’t help but surrender to the titanic love affair that is Jeptha and Lucy. The storytelling is so masterful and enchanting that no matter what happens, you know you’re safe with Shelburne at the helm." —Jennie Wood, A Boy Like Me and Flutter "Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne’s complex, moving portrait of Jeptha—universally dismissed as a loser in his small town in Tennessee, but who, in Shelburne’s hands, is a wounded, sensitive soul who was never taught how to be the good man he longs to be—resonates long after the final chapter . . . Holding On To Nothing marks the debut of an important new author of Southern fiction." —Lisa Borders, The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land "Holding On To Nothing is a smart, wry novel filled with bourbon, bluegrass, grit, and heart." —Patricia Park, Re Jane "Holding On To Nothing is a novel of big skies and limited choices, of sweet bluegrass in a sticky hometown bar, of tobacco and guns, danger and desire. Shelburne shoots straight, never allows us to turn our heads. And even non-praying folk will pray for the desperate mismatch of Lucy and Jeptha and their lonely, shivering hearts. Shelburne has done the small town novel a wondrous turn." —Michelle Hoover, The Quickening
£18.04
John F Blair Publisher The Coal Tattoo
Book SynopsisIn World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, lose their parents young, so they must raise each other. Easter finds her life in the Pentecostal Holiness church and its music, while Anneth dances and drinks in less-than-holy honky-tonks. Will the differences in their young lives and in their very natures tear them apart or will the bond of the sisters prevail? In lucid prose with an ear for the voice of the sisters’ time and place, Silas House brings readers a rich and moving story of coal country. This novel was named The Appalachian Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize. Blair brings this novel into a beautiful new paperback edition, along with two other Silas House novels, Clay’s Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves. The three novels, which share a common setting and some characters, are companion novels. They may be read individually, in any order, but collectively, they form a rich tableau of life in rural mountain Kentucky in the last century.Trade Review“House is a master…a writer of startling abilities.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Lovely and cadenced…starkly beautiful.:” —Booklist “Lovely.” —USA Today “House’s beautiful third novel is both a story of survival and sacrifice and a stirring testament to the love of the land.” —BookPage “A gentle tale with appealingly flawed people and an exquisite sense of the quotidian.” —Kirkus Reviews
£12.99
John F Blair Publisher The Gods of Green County: A Novel
Book SynopsisCoralee Harper struggles for justice for her dead brother and her own sanity in Depression-era rural Arkansas. In 1926 in rural Green County, Arkansas, where cotton and poverty reign, young Coralee Harper hopes for a family and a place in her community, but when her brother Buddy is killed by a powerful sheriff, she can’t recover from his death or the injustice of his loss. When she begins to spot her dead brother around town, she wonders—is she clairvoyant, mistaken, or is she losing her mind? What Coralee can’t fathom is that there are forces at work that threaten her and the very fabric of the town: Leroy Harrison, a newly minted, ambitious lawyer who makes a horrible mistake, landing him a judgeship and a guilty conscience for life; an evangelical preacher and his flock of snake-handling parishioners; the women of the town who, along with Coralee’s own mother, make up their own kind of jury for Coralee’s behavior; Sheriff Wiley Slocum who rules the entire field, harboring dark secrets of his own; and finally, Coralee’s husband Earl, who tries to balance his work at the cotton gin with his fight for family and Coralee’s life. When Coralee ends up in a sanity hearing before Judge Leroy Harrison, the judge must decide both Coralee’s fate and his own. The chain of events following his decision draws him more deeply into the sheriff’s far-reaching sphere of influence, and reveals the destructive nature of power, even—and especially—his own.Trade Review"The Gods of Green County is a harsh tale of people put in conflict by their searches for justice and mutual welfare...This bleak novel about the dangers of power will grip readers from beginning to end."—Kristen Allen-Vogel for Shelf Awareness"At the center of Mary Elizabeth Pope’s compelling debut novel, The Gods of Green County, is a murder mystery, but there is so much more to be discovered along the way. It is a vivid and memorable portrait of a time and place—intricate threads weaving together a whole community—and the journeys of those forever changed."—Jill McCorkle, Hieroglyphics "Vibrantly portrayed, the characters in The Gods of Green County inhabit the crossroads where faith intersects with madness, and hope meets despair. Mary Elizabeth Pope has captured, in finely wrought prose, the tragic impact that passion and self-interest so often have on human lives."—Andrew Geyer, Lesser Mountains"The Gods of Green County instantly drew me in to its time, place, and circumstances. I trod along with its characters as their stories unfolded, a mute onlooker struck by the many moments of grace Pope wrote for them."—Ellen Airgood, Tin Camp Road "The perfect combination of gorgeous, seemingly effortless writing and a suspenseful plot that will keep you guessing until the very last chapter. A stunning debut novel.”—Anne Panning, Dragonfly Notes
£17.09
Two Lines Press Empty Wardrobes
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£11.69
Two Lines Press Days Come and Go
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£18.69
Two Lines Press About Uncle
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£14.41
Inkshares Henderson House
Book Synopsis"Like a love song to my Oklahoma roots. Henderson House offers a sweet window into a past when lives and loves moved to the gentle rhythm of small-town cafes, front porch swings, and old two-lane highways." — Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursAn enchanting boardinghouse tale of sisters, secrets, and later-in-life romance, Henderson House invites you to pull up a rocking chair and lose yourself in the heartaches and hopes of 1940s Oklahoma.In May 1941, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, hums with talk of spring flowers, fishing derbies, and the growing war in Europe. And for the Blackwell sisters, who reside in a quiet neighborhood boarding house, the winds of change are blowing.Bessie Blackwell, copy room manager at Phillips Petroleum and faithful churchgoer, is the reluctant owner of a new pair of glasses. The young women in the office swear by Bessie's romantic advice, despite the fact she's a self-proclaimed spinster. Frank Davis, Henderson House’s newest tenant, throws that status into question with his gentle eyes and ready smile. But the scar on his forehead and rumors of divorce speak of a troubled past.Bessie’s sister, Florence, a sales assistant at the men's clothing store downtown, knows all about troubled pasts. Her husband is dead, and it’s only with her sister's help that she’s able to raise Johnny. Life at Henderson House is luxurious compared to growing up in Cherokee Indian Territory, but Florence wants more for her boy than a rented room. When the flagship store in Tulsa offers her a management position, Florence sets her sights on the future and keeping the family together. And neither future nor family includes Frank Davis.Mrs. Henderson, the landlady, cook, and adopted matriarch of the Blackwell clan, possesses an uncanny intuition about all her boarders. She knows true love when she sees it. But soon even her vision becomes clouded as Florence schemes to undermine her sister’s budding romance. In a desperate attempt to keep Bessie by her side, Florence exposes the sisters' darkest secret. A secret that will change their lives, and the lives of those they love, forever.Trade Review"One of those rare novels that just makes you smile, [with] plenty of betrayals and secrets to keep you turning pages." —Addison Armstrong, author of The Light of Luna Park and The War Librarian"In Henderson House, McVicker has created a world that is both cozy and yet brimming with dark secrets, the possibility of new love, and conflicting plans for the future. The very walls of the building buzz with the hopes and dreams of its variety of inhabitants, from sweet Bessie, to scheming Florence, to the mysterious new boarder, Frank Davis. Alive with small-town, 1940s details, readers will be charmed by this sweet story." —Juliette Fay, bestselling author of Catch Us When We Fall and The Half of It"A charming novel about real people, flawed but lovable. Promises, heartbreaks, and betrayals are tenderly rendered, always with a dash of humor." —Kathryn Holzman, author of The Cost of Electricity and Real Estate: A Novel "A heart-warming tale of lost love and seemingly never found family, faith, and the deep dark secrets we all keep. McVicker’s Henderson House is far more than it seems, as she bursts into the Romance world with her innovative debut novel. McVicker’s writing breathes life into the story, much like the Henderson House itself. A story virtually decades in the making, McVicker’s ability to paint a picture with words proves that some things are worth waiting for." —M.B. Lewis, author of the Award-Winning novel The Pilate Scroll
£13.29
Scribe Us Prosopagnosia
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£14.40
Dzanc Books The Middle Daughter
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£18.99
Skyhorse Publishing The General's Cook: A Novel
Book Synopsis** Library Journal's Editor's Pick! ** Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington’s chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theater. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in the kitchen and rewarded far over and above even white servants, Hercules is enslaved in a city where most black Americans are free. Even while he masterfully manages his kitchen and the lives of those in and around it, Hercules harbors secrets-- including the fact that he is learning to read and that he is involved in a dangerous affair with Thelma, a mixed-race woman, who, passing as white, works as a companion to the daughter of one of Philadelphia's most prestigious families. Eventually Hercules’ carefully crafted intrigues fall apart and he finds himself trapped by his circumstance and the will of George Washington. Based on actual historical events and people, The General's Cook, will thrill fans of The Hamilton Affair, as they follow Hercules' precarious and terrifying bid for freedom.
£14.44
Unnamed Press Edie Richter Is Not Alone
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£18.40
Unnamed Press Edie Richter is Not Alone
Book SynopsisOh how I love this book. I finished Edie Richter Is Not Alone in one sitting, then reread it immediately. Hilariously heartbreakingly honest on every page, Rebecca Handler's novel is that rare thing: a perfect book. Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LessFunny, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move, Edie and her husband were content, if socially awkward?given her disinclination for small talk. In Perth, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can barely admit to herself. In some ways, the landscape mirrors her own complicated inner life, and rather than escaping her past, Edie is increasingly forced to confront what she''s done. Everybody, from the wildlife to her new neighbors, is keen to engage, and Edie does her best to start fresh. But her relationship with her husband is fraying, and the beautiful memories of her father are heartbreaking, and impossible to stop. Something, in the end, has to give.Written in clean spare prose that is nevertheless brimming with the richness and wry humor of the protagonist''s observations and idiosyncrasies, Edie Richter is Not Alone is Rebecca Handler's debut novel. It is both deeply shocking and entirely quotidian: a story about a woman''s visceral confrontation with the fundamental meaning of humanity.
£12.34
Arcade Publishing Little Brother: A Refugee's Odyssey
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£18.39
Carpenter's Son Publishing BLACK and BLUE HEARTS: The Ties That Blind
Book SynopsisAnnalee marries Ned with a need in her heart to rescue, a personal sense of unworthiness, and a desperate need to be loved. Ned comes to his second marriage grieving for his young children who were kidnapped by a family member and abused before being placed in foster care. Annalee uses her background in legal work to negotiate the return of Ned's children to his custody. While working on her plans to adopt the children, Ned has a tragic accident leaving him with brain trauma. His emotional abuse escalates to outbursts of rage. Their home becomes a place of violence and terror. Although Annalee still loves Ned, she realizes the devastating effects of Ned's abuse on both her and the children. She feels trapped, terrified of the children being returned to foster care—or worse— returned to the abusive family member. Since the adoption is incomplete, Annalee has no legal right to take the children to safety, so she chooses to stay herself. While remaining married, Annalee and her children learn to break the cycle of abuse, reclaim their dignity, and hope for a future. This story is a testament to the overcoming power of faith, family, and forgiveness.
£11.23
Strategic Book Publishing Random Summer Storms: Book Three - Family
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£13.62
Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC Home
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£15.09
Kitsap Publishing Running with Motorcycles
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£13.99
Delphinium Books The Blackmailer's Guide to Love
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£18.99
Delphinium Books You Would Have Told Me Not to: Stories
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£11.99
Delphinium Books Pleasure Palace: New and Selected Stories
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£13.29
Delphinium Books 31 Paradiso
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£23.39
Delphinium Books The Blackmailer's Guide to Love
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£12.34
Delphinium Books The Opposite of Chance
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£11.99
Delphinium Books Listening for Ghosts: A Novella and Four Stories
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£18.99
Delphinium Books Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My
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£18.99
Delphinium Books Underburn
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£18.99
Delphinium Books Listening for Ghosts: A Novella and Four Stories
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£12.34
Delphinium Books Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My
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£12.99
Delphinium Books 31 Paradiso
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£12.99
