January 2026

Maureen Lee / The House by Princes Park

Ruby O’Hagan never knew her parents she was taken from her mother at birth, and her father, a solider killed in the Great War, never even knew of her existence. Brought up in a convent, at fourteen Ruby chose to be a lady’s companion in a...

Joanna Trollope / The Other Family

Chrissie, in the twenty-three years since been together with Richie' had alwaysbelieved that he loved her'He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgateand their happy, lively existence. But if she really was thelove of his life, why...

Catherine Cookson / A Ruthless Need

A Ruthless Need Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton, a professional soldier, would alwayscarry with him the memory of the night he was on leave, when his timelyintervention rescued fourteen-year-old Lizzie from the oldest of perils for ayoung...

John Grisham / The Summons

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University Of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single,and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest,who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. And...

Josephine Cox / The Journey

Some Journeys are the loneliest to make. . . Three strangers are thrown together by chance. It’s an encounter which is destinedto change all of their lives for ever. Ben Morris is deeply unsettled when he makes the acquaintance of Lucy...

Helen Fielding / Bridget Jones's Diary

A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations?An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of thenuclear family?Or the confused ramblings of a pissedthirty-something? 'A brilliant evocation of the life of a single girl in acertain time . . ...

Arthur Golden / Memoirs of a Geisha

This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatichistory, and opening a window onto a half- hidden...