Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction

Book SynopsisINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.“The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington PostVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing

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Book SynopsisOne of the New York Times Book Review's Top Ten Best Crime Novels of 2020One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020[A] hypnotic debut. . . .[An] uncommonly clever whodunit. --The New York Times Book ReviewA thrilling debut novel perfect for lovers of Agatha Christie and The Secret History, exploring deceit, first love, and the depths to which obsession can drive us.People disappear when they most want to be seen.Jess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat gray skies of East Anglia for one reason: to be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr. Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess's thinking on life, love, and Agatha Christie. Swept up in Lorna's thrall, Jess falls in with a tightly knit group of rule-breakers--until the dynamic among the friends begins to darken. When a tragedy shatters their friendships and love affairs and reveals a terrible secret, Jess must face the question she fears

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes “a brilliant, rueful look at love—what we do for it, how we experience it and what makes it die” (People). One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s forty-eight, confident, witty, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is a warm companion, her bond with Paul immediate. And soon, inevitably, they are lovers. Basking in the glow of one another, they set up house together in London. Decades later, Paul looks back at how they fell in love and how—gradually, relentlessly—everything fell apart. As he turns over his only story in his mind, examining it from different vantage points, he finds himself confronted with the contradictions and slips

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Book SynopsisA comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime.Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has become a soul-crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat himself to a tour of the world's most breathtaking architectural sites. Perhaps not surprisingly, Louie gets waylaid on his very first stop in Rome--ludicrously, spectacularly so--and fails to reach most of his other destinations. He embarks on a doomed romance with a jilted bride celebrating her ruined marriage plans alone in London. And in the Arctic he finds that turf houses and aluminum sheds don't amount to much of an architectural tradition. But it turns out that there's another sort of architecture there: icebergs the size of cathedrals,

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Book Synopsis“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. • An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world. —The AtlanticAfter salaryman Hanio Yamada puts his life up for sale, interested parties quickly come calling with increasingly bizarre requests. What follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him through

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Book SynopsisA deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and loveWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE • “Golden Child is a stunning novel written with force and beauty.  Though true to herself, Adam's work stands tall beside icons of her tradition like V.S. Naipaul.”—Jennifer Clement, author of Gun LoveRural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.<

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Book SynopsisThe fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fearsFor Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around him. He and his older brother Danny are fatherless, and their mother, Bethie, is still grieving for her fighter-pilot husband. Most of all, Grady senses it in his two uncles: young combat veterans determined to step into a fatherhood role for their nephews, even as they struggle with the psychological scars they carry from the war. When news breaks that a leopard has escaped from the Oklahoma City Zoo, the playthings and imagined fears of Grady’s childhood begin to give way to real-world

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Book SynopsisLet’s not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down... sophisticated, smart and uncomfortable, and the story is cracking. – Lionel Shriver, Washington Post Startlingly good...Osborne has been described as an heir to Graham Greene, and he shares with Greene an interest in what might be called the moral thriller.” – Katie Kitamura, New York Times Book ReviewA seductively menacing new thriller by Lawrence Osborne...who unites Graham Greene’s fondness for foreign soil with Patricia Highsmith’s fascination with the nastier coils of the human psyche.” –NPR’s “Fresh AirFINANCIAL TIMES SUMMER PICK 2017GUARDIAN BEST HOLIDAY READS 2017 On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. Naomi, the daughter of a wealthy British art collector who has owned a villa in the exclusive hills for decades, convinces Sam, a younger American girl on vacation with her family, to help this stranger. As the two women learn more about the man, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean Sea, their own burgeoning friendship intensifies. But when their seemingly simple plan to help Faoud unravels all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion.In this brilliant psychological study of manipulation and greed, Lawrence Osborne explores the dark heart of friendship, and shows just how often the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Bowen’s deceptively simple novel opens with the weddings of two quietly conventional sisters: Laurel to Edward, and Janet to Rodney. Ten years later, one intense week is all it takes to unravel the couples’ peaceful lives as a long-concealed secret explodes to the surface. The repercussions ripple through four different families connected by the two marriages, hinging on the comic interventions of such vivid characters as Edward’s mother, the glamorous and scandal-ridden Lady Elfrida; Rodney’s notorious rake of an uncle; and a stridently awkward teenager, Theodora, who is keen to insert herself into the drama. Humor and pain abound in Friends and Relations, as Bowen weaves the barest hints of menace and the subtlest nuances of emotion into this devastating tale of the tangled web of human relationships.

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Book SynopsisAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” (Wall Street Journal), “immersive” (The New Yorker), and “seriously entertaining” (The Sunday Times, London). Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city.Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free.A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.

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Book Synopsis“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying

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Book SynopsisA woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents—only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey calls “an ingenious master of domestic suspense.”ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Reader’s DigestIn the end, I have only myself to blame. I’m the one who let her in.Jodi Bishop knows success. She’s the breadwinner, a top-notch real estate agent. Her husband, Harrison . . . not so much. Once, he had big dreams. But now, he’s a middling writer who resents his wife’s success.Jodi’s father, Vic, now in his late seventies and retired, is a very controlling man. His wife, Audrey, was herself no shrinking violet. But things changed when Audrey developed Parkinson’s ten years ago and Vic retired to devote himself to her care. But while still reasonably spry and rakishly handsome, Vic

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Book SynopsisWhat would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer? Jim Beckett was everything she''d ever dreamed of . . . But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped—and the most dangerous game of all begins. . . . After a lifetime of fear, Tess will do something she''s never done before. She''s going to learn to protect her daughter and fight back, with the help of a burned-out ex-marine. As the largest manhunt four states have ever seen mobilizes to catch Beckett, the clock winds down to the terrifying reunion between husband and wife. And Tess knows that this time, her only choices are to kill—or be killed.

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Book SynopsisA Good Morning America Buzz Pick, and a BuzzFeed and New York Post Best Book of 2022 If you’ve ever felt tempted to ‘keep tabs on’ a partner’s ex on Instagram and then found yourself down a rabbit hole of their vacation posts from three years ago, this debut novel—which follows a 24-year-old New Yorker named Naomi who becomes obsessed with her boyfriend’s former girlfriend—is for you.—Vogue, “Best New Beach Reads”Twenty-four-year-old New York bookseller Naomi Ackerman is desperate to write a novel, but struggles to find a story to tell. When, after countless disastrous dates, she meets Caleb—a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all her quirks—she thinks she''s finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. Then Caleb''s ex-girlfriend, Rosemary, enters the scene.    Upon learning that Rosemary is not safely tucked a

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Book SynopsisWickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel. “A super-thief who leaves no trace.”—Andy Garcia “An anti-hero for our times.”—Sarah Dunn “A can't-miss master.”—David Baldacci Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips. ONE MADMAN. TWO HOSTAGES. It’s not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it’s the fact that Riley has to do the man’s dirty work to set them free. It’s something Riley ordinarily would find a modest day’s work, infiltrating a madman’s Soviet missile silo in one of the world’s most remote places, all to f

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Book SynopsisTHE BIGGEST HEIST. THE MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY. FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE. OH, AND EXPLOSIONS.  Impossible doesn’t belong in Riley Wolfe’s vocabulary. He’s a master of heists and disguises, whose life''s work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley . . . No matter—with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful cultural institution in the world and bring home the supposedly unstealable Rosetta Stone. With the Cobra waiting for the right moment to strike, Riley is put to the ultimate test as he faces this most venomous villain—and tries to make it out alive.  Packed with Jeff Lindsay’s trademark style of intricately plotted twists, stunning glob

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Book SynopsisTwo girls went into the woods. Only one came back. . . .Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens is on the trail in this “riveting” (Publishers Weekly) crime novel from the acclaimed author of She Lies in Wait, Watching from the Dark, and Lie Beside MeONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: BookPageJonah Sheens is enjoying a moment of peace in a pub garden on his day off when a teenage girl wanders out of the woods. She’s striking, with flame-red hair and a pale complexion. She’s also covered in blood. When Jonah races to help, the girl insists she’s fine. Then she smiles. It’s her sister he needs to worry about. Keely and her sister, Nina, disappeared from a children’s home a week ago. Now Keely is here—but Nina’s still missing. Jonah is sure Keely knows where her sister is—but before she tells him anything, she insists, he has to listen to

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Book SynopsisA NEW YORKER AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.“A sweeping family epic that took me from one American coast to another…Simpson is so attuned to the family heart.” —Weike Wang, author of Joan Is OkayWhen Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. A single mother who maintains a wishful belief that her children can attain all the things she hasn’t, she’s worked hard to secure their future in caste-driven 1980s Los Angeles, gaining them illegal entry to an affluent public school. When she enters a state hospital, her closest friend tries to keep the children safe and their mother’s dreams for them alive.

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Book SynopsisThis irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the concealed inner selves of a woman on the brink: Katherine, a lost creative soul and suburban mother of two, who has struggled into her forties with the urge to self-harm.Tracks the scattered parts of one woman as she fractures and finds herself over the course of her lifetime. A wholly original and unforgettable debut. —Julia Phillips, best-selling author of Disappearing EarthKatherine, an attentive mother to her teenagers, comfortably married to her strapping provider of a husband, longs to overcome her dark thoughts and intermittent fears of sexual intimacy.This brisk, mesmerizing version of her life is told in alternating short chapters by Truitt, Star, and Smooshed Bug—her inner children, each with their particular strategy for coping with Katherine’s past at the hands of a hopeless mother and a terrifying, seductive father. Several o

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Book SynopsisThis provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society by controlling her body and mind in extreme ways, by one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.“Chrysalis is a thrilling look at how we spin silk around ourselves by watching the world on our screens.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIt was hard to be in the present, she said, but if her body were heavier and more in control, then her thoughts would clear and her mind would recover its power.What happens when a woman dares to take up space? An enigmatic young woman drastically transforms her body, working to become bigger, stronger, and stiller in the wake of a trauma. We see her through the eyes of three people, each differently mesmerized by her, as they reckon with the consequences of her bizarre metamorphosis. Each of them leaves us with a puzzle piece of who she was before she became

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Book SynopsisOn a summer night in 1985, three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything changes.A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year ? A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction ? A Real Simple Best Book of the YearSignal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken.On Division Street, time has moved on. When the Shenkmans arrive?a young couple expecting a baby boy?it is as if the accident never happened. But when Waldo, the Shenkmans? brilliant, lonely son who marvels at the beauty of the world and has a native ability to find connections in everything, befriends Dr. Wilf, now retired and struggling with his wife?s decline, past events come hurtling back in ways no one could ever have foreseen.In Dani Shapiro?s first work of fiction in fifteen years, she returns to the form that launched her career, with a riveting, deeply felt novel that examines the ties that bind families together?and the secrets that can break them apart. Signal Fires is a work of haunting beauty by a masterly storyteller.

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND GLAMOUR!“One of those rare emotionally intelligent books that are also fun reads… Going to keep readers turning pages late into the night.” –The New York Times “Ingenious…fresh and unpredictable.” –The Washington Post“Gleefully overturn[s] the age-old ‘woman-in-trouble’ plot…eerie and inventive.” –NPR's Fresh Air What if the murder you had to solve was your own?Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She’s also the victim of a local serial killer. Recently brought back to life and returned to her grieving family by a government project, she is grateful for this second chance. But as the new Lou re-adapts to her old routines, and as she bonds with other female victims, she realizes that disturbing questi

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Book SynopsisBook editor Katie is in love with poet, Matt Harrison. He seems to share her feelings, but refuses to talk about his past. All she knows is that Matt was once married. One evening, he suddenly ends their relationship, leaving Katie devastated. A few days later, he sends her a notebook that he promises will explain everything. Katie opens the book to find it is the diary that Matt''s wife, Suzanne, wrote for their baby son. It tells the story of her love for Matt and Nicholas, and reveals the tragedy that haunts Matt''s life today. And Katie realises he needs her to understand his past if she is ever to be a part of his future.Trade ReviewSuzanne's Diary was no.7 in the Observer and the Daily and Sunday Telegraph bestseller lists'An affecting love story awash in tragedy and hope' Publishers Weekly, 7/6/04 * Publishers Weekly *'A moving, and fast-moving fable' Kirkus Reviews'A whimsical romance... more American than cherry pie' MirrorSuzanne's Diary For Nicholas was no.10 in the Sunday Times, Observer and Daily and Sunday Telegraph bestseller lists and no.3 in the Times fastseller list

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Arthur redraws the map of passion in this story of a devastating love affair set against the dramatic landscape of OrkneyTrade Review‘Reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence in its attempts to evoke inner life and conjure up the subconscious ... it is an intense and often claustrophobic narrative, infuriating and addictive in equal measure' * Sunday Herald *‘A brilliant storyteller' * Woman & Home *

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Book SynopsisDuring his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971) and Factotum (1975). He is one of America's most distinctive writers and a voice for both the outsider and low life Americana.Trade Review1A poem about love and pain. - Los Angeles Times2A laureate of American low life. - Time3One of those writers whom each new reader discovers with a transgressive thrill - New Yorker4The ultimate Bukowski novel, packed with hilarious episodes - Uncut * - *

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Book SynopsisBy day, Charlie Bain is the school''s most inspiring teacher. By night he prowls the stylish bars of Glasgow seducing women. Fuelled by art, drugs and fantasies of being an indie star, Charlie journeys further into hedonism, unable to see the destruction his desires are leading everyone towards...One of Scotland''s dazzling young writing talents tackles the modern phenomenon of sex addiction. Dark, funny and deliciously erotic, DEATH OF A LADIES'' MAN is an intense portrait of male vanity, written with verve and emotional rawness.Trade Review'F*cked up, funny and fantastic' * Lauren Laverne *'An insane, hallucinatory mosaic of sexual dysfunction, pathos, humour and narrative energy' * A.L. Kennedy *'Bissett's third novel is delivered with invention and flair' * Esquire *'Hilarious, disturbing and hugely entertaining... Bain is a remarkable creation' * Big Issue *'[Alan Bissett] has pulled the sheets back on Lothario men and shown them lying there wriggling, pathetic, and bare-bummed...Bissett proves himself to be a fresh, compelling and distinctly Scottish literary talent' * Scotland on Sunday *'Devilishly funny and disturbingly accurate. A real gem' * News of the World *'A high-speed, coke-fuelled rollercoaster ride through bars, classrooms and bedrooms' * Scotsman *'This is a novel of real ambition and complexity, at its heart a delicious tension between the desire to be good and darker urges in a world of ever fewer boundaries' * Gutter magazine *'Bracing, funny and full of energy...Bissett's central character is a wonderful literary creation' * The Age *'This is a very funny book...a complex and nuanced take on the sexual and social behaviour of a certain kind of man' * Sydney Morning Herald *'Definitely worth a read... ****' * Look *

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Book SynopsisHE''S GOT TO GO by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O''Flanagan is a must-read for fans of Freya North and Fern Britton.What do you do when the man in your life lets you down? Show him the door? Chuck his clothes out of the window? Cut the crotch from his trousers? If only it was that easy - especially when you''ve got an eight-year-old daughter to think about and a part-time job that barely pays the milk bill. Nessa Riley, who believes that with her husband, her little girl, and the home she loves, she has it all, is suddenly faced with the hardest decision of her life. Can she ignore what Adam seems to be up to and hang on to the happiness they''ve enjoyed for the past ten years? Can they wipe the slate clean and start again? Or, as her sisters appear to think, has he really got to go?What readers are saying about He''s Got To Go:''So sweet and funny and so beautifully put together'' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars<Trade ReviewA must-read * Woman's Own (Summer Special) *Packed with action, romance and loads of characters to identify with * Evening Herald (Dublin) *

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Book SynopsisSheila O''Flanagan''s bestseller TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE is a brilliant, feel-good read about love, marriage and what comes next, perfect for readers of Freya North and Catherine Alliott.When Carey Browne decides it''s time for a holiday and flies into New York City - one of her favourite shopping destinations - she knows she''ll have a good time. What she doesn''t know is that she''s about to have the biggest adventure of her life. Within days she''s met and married Ben Russell, and a week later they''re heading back together to Dublin, where they both live, to share the happy news with family and friends. Except not everyone''s thrilled. And not everyone''s convinced this is really more than a holiday romance. Carey and Ben are about to discover whether they''ve found the kind of love that can survive a blast of reality...What readers are saying about Too Good To Be True:''I loved every minute reading Too Good To Be TrueTrade Review'Leaves you guessing right up to the very last page... Written with her usual sensitivity and sparkling wit, Too Good To Be True is possibly Ms O'Flanagan's best one yet' * Irish Independent *'A great read for anyone who has ever been in love - as well as for those still waiting to find it' * Liverpool Echo *

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Book SynopsisIn ISOBEL''S WEDDING from no. 1 bestselling author Sheila O''Flanagan, Isobel faces every bride-to-be''s worst nightmare. Not to be missed by readers of Freya North and Veronica Henry. Four hundred and twenty pearls hand-sewn onto the wedding dress. The Mediterranean honeymoon booked for months. A pile of presents bigger than Everest. And her lovely Tim, the most perfect bridegroom a girl could wish for.Except, two weeks before the wedding, he changes his mind... Isobel''s wedding is off. Her world in tatters, Isobel turns to Spain, a new job, a new life and as many men as she can decently manage. Including the very appealing Nico with whom, she feels, there could be a long-term future. But part of Isobel knows that she will have to go back home some day. And that, despite all that''s happened since she left, she still has unfinished business...What readers are saying about Isobel''s Wedding: ''The best book I have ever read. I wish Sheila O''Flanagan would write another novel about Isabel as she was such a fantastic, normal, real character'' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars''Fabulous! Not only do I feel like I was taken on a stunning journey through Madrid, but the ending was spot on. I just wanted more, more, more!'' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars''A great novel with an unbelievable ending'' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars''I would strongly recommend this to anyone looking for a compelling and light-hearted funny book'' Amazon reviewer, 5 starsTrade Review'Another fantastic book' * Irish News *'The Sheila O'Flanagan guarantee is a pretty powerful one' * Irish Independent *

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Book SynopsisAn irresistible tale of love, friendship and sweet revenge, perfect for readers of Cathy Kelly and Erica JamesDarcey and Nieve were best friends - until Nieve stole Aidan, the boy Darcey had fallen in love with while Nieve was travelling. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye - Darcey had seen the ring.Over the next ten years, Darcey has been haunted by the memory of her humiliation. Nothing can heal the wound - no career success, no comfort her eccentric but loving family can offer, not even her (short-lived) marriage to Neil.And then the invitation arrives: to the wedding of Aidan and Nieve. She''s seen neither of them since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They''re coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland''s most expensive hotel.Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? And can the past be put to rest at last?What readers are saying about Bad Behaviour: ''Read it from cover to cover in two days and loved every minute. Excellent'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Amazing read, just loved this book . . . On par with Mave Binchey'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Wonderful and totally absorbing'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''This author gets better with every book'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Trade Review'Complex characters woven into an easy, feel-good read - you'll stay up late to finish it!' * Candis *'A perceptive page-turner' * Closer *'Sheila O'Flanagan's best book yet' * Cork Evening Echo *

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Book SynopsisIn this engaging and perceptive novel Romy Kilkenny is living happily in Australia - till she gets the call that brings her home to a family in turmoil... From the No. 1 bestselling author of FAR FROM OVER and IF YOU WERE ME.Trade Review'Another first class "can't put it down" novel from Sheila O'Flanagan' * Woman's Way *'An absorbing and feel-good read' * Sun Herald, Australia *

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Book SynopsisA captivating novel about family ties, romance and leaving the past behind - THE PERFECT MAN by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O''Flangan. A perfect read for fans of Fern Britton and Veronica Henry.Brit doesn''t believe in love. One painful mistake was all it took. So she''s as surprised as anyone when her novel THE PERFECT MAN becomes a huge bestseller - how did she manage to write so convincingly about love if she really thinks it''s a myth?Heartbreak has never stopped her sister Mia from being a hopeless romantic. She can''t be with the love of her life, but she''s never stopped hoping. They both need to let go of the past to stand a chance of being happy in the future. Could a Caribbean cruise be just what they need to open their hearts?What readers are saying about The Perfect Man:''A soul-bearing story. Beautifully written as always. Two very different sisters at similar points in their lives'' Trade Review'A big, touching book sure to delight O'Flanagan fans' * Daily Mail *'[A] really great read, with a fabulous set of characters as well as great descriptions of some beautiful places. I wholly recommend it!' * chicklitreviews.com *'A big, touching book sure to delight O'Flanagan fans' * Daily Mail *'Another romp of a read from O'Flanagan that will have you turning the pages with speed, eager to know the fate of the McDonagh sisters. Filled with romance, humour and as always a twist in the tale... A definite pick-me-up during the current gloom!' * RTE Guide, Ireland *Acclaim for YOURS FAITHFULLY and BAD BEHAVIOUR: 'A big, comfortable, absorbing book...bound to delight fans and guaranteed to put O'Flanagan on the bestsellers list - yet again' Irish Independent Review; 'A variety of sub-plots keeps the pace going, making for an absorbing page-turner' Irish Mail on Sunday; 'This heart-wrenching story of love, loss, betrayal is captivating... The depth of characters, snappy dialogue, and emotive storyline... should make this...[a] number one bestseller' * North West Evening Mail, Australia *

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Book SynopsisIn No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O''Flanagan''s STAND BY ME, abandoned wife Dominique Delahaye could crumble - or she could start to enjoy a whole new life... Not to be missed by readers of Marian Keyes and Freya North. Dominique Brady''s life changed the day she met Brendan Delahaye. He was a man with big dreams and she was the girl he wanted to take with him. Madly in love, she married him without hesitation. Now she''s half of one of the most powerful and glamorous of couples.Then suddenly Brendan disappears without a trace.As her world crashes around her, Dominique must find a way to hold it all together. Will Brendan ever return? And if he does, will Dominique stand by her man?Don''t miss the irresistible new novel from Sheila O''Flanagan, THE HONEYMOON AFFAIR, coming in May.What readers are saying about Stand By Me:''Sheila O''Flanagan reallyexcels at telling stories and I got lost in the book while I was reading it. The perfect read to curl up with'' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars''It''s human, raw and relatable. I fell in lovewith the vulnerability of each character and saw myself in them. I did not want it to end'' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars''I just got lost in the book while reading it. It''s pure mind candy - definitely one of my favourites'' Goodreads reviewer, 5 starsTrade Review'A spectacular read' * Heat *'An evocative and entertaining story' * Irish Post *

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Book SynopsisSheila O''Flanagan''s No. 1 bestseller ALL FOR YOU is a wonderfully engaging read not to be missed by fans of Lisa Jewell and Jane Green. ''A good summer read'' HeatAs TV''s favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn''t foresee is that her own life is about to hit a stormy patch. With a string of failed relationships behind her, surely history isn''t about to repeat itself with her beloved Ken? To add fuel to the fire, her career-woman mother is returning to Dublin. Deanna has never approved of Lainey''s decisions about men, and her mother''s views are the last thing Lainey wants to hear now!Yet is there more to her mother than she knows? Uncovering some long-concealed family secrets, Lainey begins to reassess her life. Is the happy-ever-after she''s always dreamed of really what she wants after all?What readers are saying about All For You: ''ATrade Review'O'Flanagan's latest offering deserves its place on the bestseller list - it entertains, surprises and provokes' * Irish Independent *'A good summer read' * Heat *'O'Flanagan uses her considerable skills as a writer to keep the reader absorbed throughout - expect another huge success' * Irish Examiner *

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Book SynopsisA stunning epic novel of secrets, betrayal and passion, from 1933 to the 1960s1933. Tessa and Frederica Nicolson enjoy one last idyllic summer at the beautiful Villa Millefiore, overlooking Florence. Four years later, Italy is a distant memory and Tessa is revelling in the glamour and excitement of modelling in London, until a passionate affair with married author Milo Rycroft leads to tragic consequences. Tessa returns to Florence, and, missing her sister desperately, Freddie, too, travels to Italy, where she is swept up in adventure, danger and romance, and makes a chance encounter that will change her life.With the outbreak of World War Two, Tessa and Freddie must fight for their own survival and happiness, while they wonder whether they will ever see each other again...Trade ReviewPraise for Judith Lennox's novels: 'A fast-moving, complex story * The Times *A beautifully turned, compassionate novel. Judith Lennox's writing is so keenly honest it could sever heartstrings * Daily Mail *Great, old-fashioned storytelling in the best sense * Daily Express *A definite contender for Rosamunde Pilcher's crown * Bookseller *

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Book SynopsisNo. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks writes novels that real women want to read. With her trademark tell-it-like-it-is style, she gets right to the heart of the dilemmas people face in their lives and takes her stories to unexpected places.Trade Review'When it comes to fiction reflecting feminine issues, Adele Parks has her finger on the pulse' * Glamour *'Wonderfully plotted, moving and insightful...shot through with funny, tender and observant moments' * Daily Mail *'Full of emotional set-pieces and real insight into relationships between men and women' * Heat *'A fabulous mix of comedy, real life and emotional depth' * Daily Express *'A wicked pleasure' * Woman & Home *'She is a particularly acute observer of relationship ups and downs, and her stories are always as insightful as they are entertaining' * Daily Mirror *'Guaranteed to keep you hooked until the end' * She magazine *'Parks writes with wit and a keen eye for detail' * Guardian *'Deliciously down to earth' * The Times *'Entertaining and sophisticated' * Marie Claire *'Observant, sensitive and funny' * Closer *'Dark, funny and observant' * Cosmopolitan *'Compulsively addictive' * Elle *

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Book SynopsisA CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIEDTo call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales.So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars.In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

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Book SynopsisDark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche.An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and belonging. Through lucid detail, sparkling imagery and illumination, Peters' individual characters and the collective of The Town leap vividly, fully formed off the page. A hybrid i

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