The One in a million boy by Monica Wood.
For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records–obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for his son’s unfinished Boy Scout badge
Inside the O’Brien’s by Lisa Genova.
Joe O’Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighbourhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganised thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. Read more...
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriaty.
Cecilia Fitzpatrick, devoted mother, successful Tupperware business owner and efficient P&C President, has found a letter from her husband. "For my wife, Cecilia Fitzpatrick, to be opened only in the event of my death". Read more ...
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone and, in the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless. Read more ...
The Dry by Jane Harper
Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. Read more...
The blue between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa
From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of powerful Palestinian women in Gaza.
Paris Letters by Janice Macleod
“How much money does it take to change your life?”Unhappy at her job and unsuccessful in the dating department, Janice MacLeod doodled this question at her desk. Then she decided to make it a challenge. Read More...
The House on Carnaval Street by Deborah Roderiguez
From Kabul to a home by the Mexican sea ... A life-affirming, sea-change memoir by the author of the international bestseller The little Coffee Shop in Kabul. Read more...
Eyrie by Tim Winton
Tom Keely's reputation is in ruins. Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he's retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the good fight, and well past caring. Read More ...
The one hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
After a long and eventful life Allan Karlsson is moved to a nursing home to await the inevitable. Read more ...
The Coat Route by Meg Lukens Noonan
A book that will change your attitude to what you buy and what you wear!!! Read more...
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948. Read more...
All the birds singing by Evie Wyld
Set between Australia and a remote English island, All the Birds, Singing is the story of how one woman's present comes from a terrible past. 2014 Miles Franklin winner. Read more...
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
From Khaled Hosseini ,the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns :his first novel in six years. And the Mountains Echoed is set in Afghanistan, 1952
Death comes to Pemberley by PD James
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. Read more...
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Controversial book by Herman Koch. A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Read more...
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Call the Midwife brings to life the colourful world of the East End in the 1950s Read more...
The Last Runaway By Tracy Chevalier
Honor Bright is a modest English Quaker with a broken heart. Emigrating to Ohio she soon discovers that 19th-century America hard, precarious place to live.
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Based on a true story, Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about personal freedom: Read more...
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simpson
A first-date dud, socially awkward, and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, Don Tillman has given up on love. Read more...
The girl under the olive tree by Leah Fleming
A romance story set around the 1941 Battle of Crete.
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
This mesmerizing Australian novel has been a bestseller around the world, and reached no.4 on the New York Times fiction list.
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family.
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
In 70 C.E., ancient Israel, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived.