Item category 1: Adult Paperback

First published in France in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - the first, to the process of ageing, in the second the loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.

When Kenton travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria. Stranded with no money, Kenton jumps at the chance to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities across the border. Yet he soon discovers that the docume...

Set against the backdrop of a post-conflict Northern Ireland struggling with its past, 'The Twelve' takes the reader from the back streets of Belfast, where violence and politics go hand-in-hand, to the country's darkest heart.

We are the Liars. We are beautiful, privileged and live a life of carefree luxury. We are cracked and broken. A story of love and romance. A tale of tragedy. Which are lies? Which is truth?

As a child Blake is taken in by neighbours after the death of his grandparents and works for his keep. As a young man he falls in love with his employer's daughter, Annie, and is forced to leave the farm and seek work in the shipyards of Sunderland.

Ruby, the love detective, has goes to Paris! The sequel to 'The Love Detective', this is a hugely fun, satisfying and gripping novel about love and secrets in the ultimate city of romance.

When Annette Clifford returns to her childhood home on the edge of Morecambe Bay, she despairs: the long-empty house is crumbling, undermined by two voracious sycamores. What she doesn't realise is that she's not alone: her arrival has woken the spirits of her parents, who anxiously watch over he...

In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.

For vicar's wife Dorothea Cassidy, Thursday was always special because it was her day off. But one day in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled. But who would murder this beautiful, caring woman? As the small town of Otterbridge prepares fo...

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's 'The Empress of Salt and Fortune' is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women. A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in a...