Family life fiction Books

“Sophie Jordan is one of a kind!” —Samantha James In Scandal They Wed is the second book in USA Today bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s smart and sexy series in which students from the Penwich School for Virtuous Girls rise from simple beginnings...

Amy Ephron brings to life the freedoms and strictures of Jazz Age New York Society through the stories of five women whose lives will be changed by gossip, secrets, and betrayal. Four women at a bridge party in the elegant Gramercy Park Hotel spy a...

“A love comedy of sorrows,” Thanksgiving Night is set in the author’s familiar Virginia valley town of Point Royal in the late summer and fall of 1999. As the millenium approaches, predictions of catastrophe blare on the radio, religious fanaticism is...

Stella Pope Duarte’s strong and musical voice is reminiscent of Laura Esquivel and Alice Hoffman. Let Their Spirits Dance is a moving, spirited story of a family who takes a trip to the Vietnam Memorial 30 years after the war, and whose trip evolves...

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room… A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay...

The stirring conclusion to TAMAR and WHITE FEATHERS. On 3 February 1931, Napier is devastated by a powerful earthquake, and tamar Murdoch, beloved matriarch of Kenmore, is seriously injured. As she recovers, Tamar is preoccupied with the ongoing effects...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’.A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666, plague swept...

The Miles Franklin award-winning classic. 'One of the greatest books written this century' - The Illustrated London News 'the thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special...

On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. . . ...

The girl who has everything… Including a bullet in the head A cruise down the Nile on a river steamer sounds like the perfect way to get away from it all – a luxurious retreat, miles from civilization.But the warm and tranquil Egyptian evening is thick...

What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling comedy from #1 bestseller Mhairi McFarlane ‘Think of the great duos of history. We're just like them.’‘You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?’‘I...

The bestselling phenomenon of the Dollanganger family saga continues as the children who escaped the attic build new lives, haunted by their tragic past. Their captivity in their grandparents’ attic is finally over. But revenge is a torment they cannot...

The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants. 'I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.'Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in...

Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2004 Orange PrizeA haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by...

Assumption is set mainly in a small prairie town in Saskatchewan and on an isolated lighthouse island off the west coast of British Columbia. For over five decades, the lives of Laura, Michael and their mother Elizabeth are affected by the challenges of...

Fully welcome yourself to join hands with Homer today. Take an incredible stroll upon a memorable trail sprouting with an indescribable selfless love. Experience this unforgettable journey of courage and sacrifice on this miraculous walk with Homer down...