Illyrian Spring

Author

Tracy Chevalier

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....

Author	Sophie Kinsella
ISBN	1787631974

Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic!

The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author.

Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas...

Author

Andrew Miller

By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.

One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous...

Author	Jessie Burton
ISBN	1509886141

The sensational new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.

One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is...

Author	Elizabeth Jane Howard
ISBN	0671534297

This novel observes the Cazalet families and extended families after the war, from July 1945 to the summer of 1947.

Casting off, as a term used in knitting, is the finishing row of whatever article is being knitted. It denotes the ending – a completion. Paradoxically, when people cast off...

Author	Elizabeth Jane Howard
ISBN	0671527940

In this second of the five Cazalet Chronicles, I was impressed once again with Elizabeth Jane Howard’s writing. These are not short novels, yet there is never a dull moment – there is always something interesting going on in their lives.

This story picks up a year after the last one left off....

Author	Natasha Lester
ISBN	0733640028

Inspired by the incredible true story of Lee Miller, Vogue model turned one of the first female war photojournalists, the new novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress

Manhattan, Paris, 1942: When Jessica May's successful modelling career is abruptly cut short, she is assigned...

Author	Cathy Kelly
ISBN	0007240457

Après soixante-dix ans passés à New York, Eleanor Levine revient s'installer dans sa ville natale : Dublin. Avec ses maisons en briques rouges, son petit parc et son salon de thé cosy, Golden square est l'endroit rêvé pour un retour aux sources. Eleanor y rencontre Megan, une actrice fuyant les...

Author	Val McDermid
ISBN	0802122043

Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between long time crime-fighting partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But just because they’re not talking doesn’t mean the killing stops.

Someone is killing women. Women who bear an unsettling resemblance to Carol Jordan. And...