What Strange Paradise
What Strange Paradise is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair – and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us...
Book Reviews: tragedy
This Can Never Not Be Real
“At the end of the trail: two of them. Both in black, hooded, with scarves tied up over the lower parts of their faces. They had huge guns in their hands; rifles or something. The kind you hardly...
The Hate U Give
Starr walks a fine line between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she grew up and the expensive school her parents have sent her to. In each world she is a different person. Then after a party...
Us Against You
'Us Against You' is the sequel to the brilliant 'Beartown.'
The small town is still reeling from an event that tore the isolated community in two. New conflicts begin to arise...
The Clockmaker's Daughter
She is known as Lily Millington. Nobody knows or remembers her real name anymore as it was such a long time ago, but she remembers the start of the start of the summer like it was yesterday. By the...
The Possible World
Six year old Ben is the only survivor of a crime that killed his mother and many others.
Lucy, the doctor who tends to Ben, is dealing with her own personal upheaval but feels a profound connection...
Where First Love Blooms
In 1922 socialite Edith Ballanger is facing a tough decision - life as a trophy wife married to a pompous bore or life with the man she loves, Clyde. The problem is her father disapproves of her...
The Malinovsky Papers
Professor Nicholas Malinovsky is contacted by a dying Russian man in 1986 . The man, Dmitri Korshunov tells him a story about the fate of the two youngest Romanov children. The man is very convincing...
Only Child
Six year old Zach Taylor is hidden in a cloakroom with his teacher and classmates listening as a gunman roams the halls of his school. By the time he is done he will have claimed 19 victims....
Don't Close Your Eyes
Robin and Sarah are twin sisters who have grown apart and haven’t seen each other for a number of years.
Robin is agoraphobic and hasn’t left her house in years. She relies on a series...
The Confusion of Languages
Cassie and Margaret are two American expats living in Jordan a few months after the Arab Spring. Their friendship is one of circumstance, two opposites thrown together in the face of absent husbands....
Swimming Lessons
For years Flora has believed her mother is still alive and now her father claims to have spotted her.
" For years she had practiced what she would say to her mother when she saw her again....
Firefly Summer
The close-knit Quinn siblings enjoyed the kind of idyllic childhood that seems made for greeting cards, spending each summer at Whit’s End, the family’s home on Cape Cod. Then comes the...
