literary fiction

A debutante uncovers her aunt’s deadly love affair

A debutante uncovers her aunt’s deadly love affair

It’s 1964 and Vivian Schuyler has defied her parents and moved from their lush home on New York’s Fifth Avenue to a grubby...

Sydney Loney

A blind French girl and a young Nazi set off on a collision course

Harrowing and heart-lifting by turns, Anthony Doerr’s masterful new novel gives history a human face and finds intimacy amid the...

Robert Wiersema

A girl retraces her puzzling and chaotic childhood

A girl retraces her puzzling and chaotic childhood

Tooly Zylberberg’s quiet life as a bookshop owner in a tiny Welsh town becomes cacophonous when an ex-boyfriend in New York...

Maryam Siddiqi

Author Michèle Forbes on choosing passion versus security in love

Author Michèle Forbes on choosing passion versus security in love

The author of Ghost Moth shares her thoughts on desire for passion, the inspiration behind the book, and the art of Celtic storytelling.

Alex Laws

Five books by women writers you should read

Five books by women writers you should read

Author Meg Wolitzer on why books by men and women on the same subjects – love, sex and marriage – are perceived so differently.

Laurie Grassi

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