As Neve's wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap, a charming cottage in Cornwall. But her dream home quickly becomes her worst nightmare.
Psychological fiction
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Author:Green, CassSummary: - Author:Banks, SydneySummary:
Richard searches for a deeper understanding of his miraculous healing in the sequel to Second Chance, He returns to Maui where he reunites with Johnathan and Mamma Lila. Once again, he finds their wisdom intellectually contradictory,...
- Author:Stewart, JeremySummary:
John is the teenage terror of his northern industrial town. With his friends, James and Simon, he is a disciple of depression and ennui. His world is a haze of smoke and heavy metal, anchored by poverty. Every day he steps closer to the...
- Author:Tobias, ElianaSummary:
In the Belly of the Horse is a gripping story illuminating an historic period in the life of a Peruvian family separated and kept apart by seemingly insurmountable forces during a time of civil conflict. Outraged and fearful...
- Author:Hardcastle, KevinSummary:
A feared cage fighter in Mixed Martial Arts, Daniel is closing in on greatness - until an injury derails his career. Out of work in his country hometown, Daniel slips into the underworld, moonlighting as muscle for a childhood-friend-...
- Author:Pomare, J. P.Summary:
Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing, with her brothers and sisters--until a newcomer, a younger girl named Freya, joins the "family" and offers a glimpse of the outside world. When news breaks of a...
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
Thirty years after Lieutenant Jonathan Stride's sister-in-law, Laura, was murdered in a horrific crime, her best friend, Tish, shows up to write a book about the unsolved murder. The investigation leaves Stride questioning his entire...
- Author:Stone, D. K.Summary:
Trying to come to terms with the passing of her husband, a famous and controversial artist in Calgary, Aimee Westerberg is spiralling into depression instead. Her identity as Georges Westerberg's younger second wife leads to a fight...
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book. When Grace, a highly competent and...
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
A therapist named Grace attempts to help a man recover from his failed suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Grace's teen patient Annie runs away from home to reinvent herself in New York, and Grace's ex-husband leaves the comfort of a successful...
- Author:Pinborough, SarahSummary:
Forty-year-old Emma has a good life until she begins displaying symptoms her insane mother once did: lost time and an inability to sleep. Now she must unravel the past to protect the present.
- Author:Follett, BethSummary:
When Ydessa Bloom's husband dies in a Cessna crash in a mid-Ontario lake, she rents a cottage at that lake, without really comprehending why, and stays for three months. There she meets three people who will influence her life...
- Author:Kitamura, Katie M.Summary:
A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and...
- Author:Morgan, NorthSummary:
In Into? North Morgan shines a coolly mesmerizing light on the modern generation of gay men that are living firmly outside the closet, freed from the shadow of AIDS and elevated by popular culture, but plagued by a new set of problems,...
- Author:Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
She's a fashion model who has everything--until a sudden freeway "accident." Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her the real meaning of reinventing yourself.
- Author:De Marcken, AnneSummary:
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it—how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what...
- Author:Mankell, HenningSummary:
Mankell crafts the icy, atmospheric tale of Fredrik Welin, a disgraced surgeon living in exile on a small island. When Fredrik receives a surprise visit from a lover he abandoned decades earlier, he begins the difficult road to...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa.
- Author:Frédéric RaymondSummary:
Prédatrice. Le mot s'imposait à l'esprit de Christabel, qui tentait en vain de le chasser. Sa mère le lui avait répété des centaines de fois : elle était née prédatrice et elle devait agir comme telle. Pourtant,...
- Author:Berry, WendellSummary:
From the simple setting of his own barbershop, Jayber Crow -- orphan, seminarian, and native of Port William -- recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his...
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