Item category 1: Adult Paperback

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring writers a...

'Meditations for Mortals' takes us on a liberating journey towards a more meaningful life - one that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but with the reality in which we actually find ourselves. Designed as a four-week 'retreat of the mind', it offers daily wisdom, solace and inspir...

It's 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in - she's moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this? Rewind eleven months: Margot, a faded TV star, and her long...

Against the backdrop of an earthquake-ravaged Los Angeles, 'GRQ' follows one man's desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin.

The deeper into the past she digs, the higher the price she must pay for the truth. It's been ten years since Alison's perfect world fell apart. Ten years since her son Sam disappeared while on a family holiday. Lost at sea, they said, his body never found. And even though her brother and sister ...

Irishwoman Vivian Molloy has lived so long on the beautiful north-west coast of Tasmania, she considers herself a local. Recently separated from Dave, her husband of nearly thirty years, she is still trying to come to terms with her new single life when an old colleague asks her to run a writing ...

Nancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty streets of Victorian London, first as one of Fagin's child pickpockets and now on the arm of violent and mercurial Bill Sikes. Nancy does what she must to get by. She's attuned to the harsh realities of life, but also knows how to find mome...

England, 1941. Local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble Heath. But falling bombs aren't the only danger as the war hits close to home. She's not afraid to serve her country, where she and the land girls care for animals and protect the crops everyone relies on d...