Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

Welcome to Merrywell. Population: small. Secrets: aplenty.‘Murder in Merrywell is an entertaining and engaging cozy mystery set against a beautiful backdrop.’ – Clare Chase Ex-journalist Violet Brewster is keen to make a good first impression in her new...

Three rural suspense stories about law enforcement officers and the small towns they've sworn to protect. Bloodtree River by Sarah BarriePolicewoman Indiana O'Meara is no stranger to the forces of evil. So when girls begin to go missing at a remote...

‘Funny, touching and wise, I loved it’ Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Wendy is lonely, misunderstood but coping. After her mum died, all she wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to buy...

A heartwarming, wry and deeply emotional story of the power of sisterhood, trusting your heart and finding forever. 'Think big. Live out loud.'When their mother passed away a decade ago, Evie Ross and her sister, Suda Kaye, were each left a stack of...

The third installment of Audrey Carlan's romantic women's fiction trilogy is a sassy and emotional strangers-to-sisters story about the enduring power of family -- both the one you're born with, and the one you choose. With the pull of Susan Wiggs' and...

‘A brilliant murder mystery with shades of Agatha Christie and The Great Gatsby . . . a glamorous and fun read’ Reader review ‘Louise Hare does it again – fabulous! Absolutely loved it and it kept me guessing until the very end! Very highly...

For the love of letters… Experience has told Jenna Oakhurst that Happy Ever After may happen in all the best stories, but Happy For Now is the best one ought to expect in real life. Yet lately even that isn’t quite enough, so when a strange set of...

Can a hometown Christmas bring together these two polar opposites? After traveling to all corners of the globe, Isla Wakefield has returned home to celebrate Christmas with her adoptive family. The gorgeous Alaskan wilderness is the perfect place to...

A missing woman. A husband suspected. The truth will … Take Your Breath AwayLinwood Barclay is… ‘A suspense master’ Stephen King    ‘In a class of his own’ T.M. Logan ‘One of the finest thriller writers in the world’ Mark Billingham It’s...

From one of Australia's bestselling and much-loved authors comes a sweeping, powerful story of a young woman who has to overcome loss and trauma to find the courage to live life on her terms. 'Treasure writes with true grit, wit and warmth' Australian...

'Penelope Janu's fresh, bright, funny new twist on rural romance is an absolute delight. Her wit is as sharp as a knife. She is one of my absolute must-read authors.' Victoria Purman, bestselling Australian author A kiss can change your life ...Jemima...

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die finds an unexpected reason to live 'Loaded with charm, resilience, and the deep desire for connection that all mammals share. I loved it' Ann Patchett'Utterly charming and heartwarming' Ruth...

In a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns grow where death will follow. And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker. When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives;...

For fans of Elsie Silver, a spicy and emotional Western romance between a woman looking for a fresh start and the hot, brooding cowboy who wants to make her Christmas dreams come true. Everyone daydreams about a fresh start...but Willow Quinn is making...

LawbreakerTony Garza has been Odalie Everett’s nemesis since the day they met. Once a New Jersey crime boss, Tony now owns an art gallery in New York, where he spends most of his time delegating his shadier business to subordinates. Odalie is a...

Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series… While the Riordan brothers have a reputation for being rough-and-tumble, Patrick has always been the gentle, sweet-natured one. But his easygoing manner is tested by his...

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, ‘The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair which will be...

A brand-new Bunyip Bay novel from bestselling Australian romance author Rachael Johns They spent one magical night together, but when he woke up she was gone ...Eight years later, Gabriela Jimenez is hoping a couple of weeks in Bunyip Bay with the Grand...

Available 2 October 2024. Preorder now!Will they get a second chance or will it be goodbye forever? An emotional and heartfelt rural romance from bestselling Australian author Mandy Magro. Jessica Sabatini had everything she ever wanted until a tragic...

THE INSTANT TOP 5 IRISH BESTSELLER‘Wild, singular…gripped me from the start’ DOUGLAS STUART'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS‘Intelligent, probing’ MAGGIE O'FARRELL‘A gorgeous, mysterious read’ AISLING BEA‘I adored it’ LOUISE KENNEDY ...

'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES 'Electric and intimate' Guardian'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful’ Russell T Davies'Intoxicating' Irish TimesThis...

Jane Austen’s Persuasion is now available in an exclusive collector’s edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.The Persuasion Jane Austen...

How hard can it be to resist temptation? Adeline Walsh never thought she would give up her worldly possessions - her iPhone, her make-up and even her successful life as a dog breeder - to join a convent on the other side of the country. But after the...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020A Spectator Book of the Year‘A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth – or with such brutal honesty – as only lived experience can...

Set in 1950’s America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a...

Agatha Christie’s seasonal mystery thriller in a sumptuous Christmas hardback Special Edition. ’There is, at Christmas, a spirit of goodwill. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! If you dam the...

We can’t choose who we love. We can choose who we fight for. ‘A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage’ Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing ‘Storytelling at its best’ Sarah Winman ‘The perfect book club read’ AJ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Young Charlotte Heywood arrives in Sanditon, a newly established seaside resort, with the Parkers: patrons and enthusiastic promoters of the town. Just as the town...

A moving story of secrets, love and new beginnings from bestselling and ABIA award winning author Rachael Johns. Who is the mysterious woman who has captured the town's attention?Lawson Cooper–Jones has two priorities in life – his son, Ned, and the...

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. MartinRobin Hobb returns to her best loved characters in a brand new series. Tom Badgerlock has been living peaceably in the manor house at Withywoods with his beloved wife Molly these many years, the...

A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as ‘ the typical old maid of fiction’, Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead...

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage… ‘Mrs McGinty’s dead!’ ‘How did she die?’ ‘Down on one knee, just like I!’The old children’s game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back...

A laugh-out-loud read from the Sunday Times bestselling author of If I Never Met You Anna Alessi – history expert, possessor of a lot of hair and an occasionally filthy mouth – seeks nice man for intelligent conversation and Mills & Boon moments...

A sweeping new epic fantasy series from worldwide bestselling author Raymond E Feist, marking the 20th year since the first publication of his first novel, Magician. Featuring one of the most fascinating characters and scenarios ever created in the...

In the second instalment of The Conclave of Shadows. The Conclave demands its membership price from their new protégé: Tal must gather information on the sinister magician Laso Varen. But, to do this means service with the sorcerer's master, Duke Kaspar...

​This 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle celebrates the beauty and wonder of Kya's marshland from the beloved bestselling novel Where the Crawdads Sing. Gorgeous full-colour photos and a lyrical quote from the book celebrate the wildlife, waterways, and magical...

A tender homage to the journeys of growth and change that we all experience, told through the theme of the four seasons and the connection they have to our lives. Growing pains, societal pressures, loneliness, grief––all these things make it hard to see...

For lovers of Nicholas Sparks, a heartwarming romance about a young woman whose dreams seem too big to let love into her life, until she receives an unexpected package from an old flame a decade after circumstances tore them apart.Who says you can’t...

Deeply moving, sad and haunting..." —Brandon Hobson, National Book Award Finalist and author of Where the Dead Sit TalkingInto Captivity They Will Go is a story for our time, told with sometimes brutal emotional honesty and always with compassion...

In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspicious death of a beautiful young doctor, with all clues pointing to the reclusive young man who abandoned the community in chase of big city dreams but...

‘A ruthlessly efficient, consistently surprising whodunnit. The depiction of the glowering inferno is so realistic you’re surprised to find your eyebrows aren’t singed’ Mark Sanderson, The TimesA town under fire. A detective with something to prove. A...

WINNER OF THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS' ASSOCIATION KATIE FFORDE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023.'A warm, romantic story about community, friendship and following your heart, Always By Your Side is a feel-good delight, I adored it!' HOLLY...

Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee...

‘One of the great novelists of all time’ STEPHEN KING ‘One of the finest thriller series in existence. Sandford is superb - in a class of his own’ JOHN CONNOLLYLucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982'There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing...

'Seven Exes made me laugh out loud. It's fresh, fast-paced and joyous. Lucy Vine's writing is so warm and funny - her books are the literary equivalent of an amazing girls' night out' BETH O'LEARY Esther is out with her two friends, bemoaning her lack of...

THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES #5'An absolute master of pace, plotting and character' ELLY GRIFFITHSA MISSING CHILD St Martin’s is shrouded in bitterly cold fog when Jade Minear and her twin brother, Ethan, are attacked in a field, late at night...

‘Crazy, sexy, cool: Caroline Kepnes gets better – and Joe Goldberg gets worse – with every book’ ERIN KELLY'Caroline Kepnes writes with such malevolent energy, such dark grace and such ink-black humour. An utterly unique character and an utterly unique...