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On one of the most important days of her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led them to the White House, and faces contradictions years in the making. Weaving race, class, wealth and fate into a tapestry, this novel lays bare the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love.
In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna witnesses an appalling crime. 30 years later the man convicted of the crime gets out of prison. In Edinburgh, 16-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a doctor. But Dr Hunter has gone missing & Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. DCI Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person.
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident – an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander – until he becomes a suspect.
Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She’s just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner into the icy Atlantic by her scumbag husband. Now she decides not to get mad – but to get even.
In this tale of two Muslim sisters Monica Ali explores how they live out their own personal tragedies. One lives in a tower block in London’s East End whilst the other lives in a Bangladeshi village.
A former detective leaves his beloved Balkan home to join his wife and daughter in Germany. When asked to return to Croatia to help the International War Crimes Tribunal bring the killers of Srebrenica to justice he accepts but his handlers don’t tell him the real reason. He is to be used as bait for a murkier purpose.
This novel is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness and bittersweet wit. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family.
For 20 years Anna Bouverie, as a priest’s wife had served God and the parish in a diversity of ways. When her husband failed to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreated into isolated bitterness, Anna suddenly rebelled and took a job at the local supermarket.
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend’s mother. Owen doesn’t believe in accidents; he believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
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