Book Club

It’s 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set…

Faith Severn’s life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it. Now, the time has come to piece her story together. What secret caused…

The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind and the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream . . .  1912. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not…

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the…

Barbara Kingsolver’s acclaimed international bestseller tells the story of an American missionary family in the Congo during a poignant chapter in African history. It spins the tale of the fierce evangelical Baptist, Nathan Price, who takes his wife and four…

Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. Realising he is running out of time, he…

Being a cop is in John Rebus’s blood. So when he ‘s asked to help with the investigation into the death of a senior lawyer whose body was found alongside a threatening note, Rebus doesn’t need long to consider his…

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India’s independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. He is one of 1001 children born at the midnight hour who all have special gifts and are…

It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up following every step of the French Revolution with interest, but she has recently married a man who has everything to lose from social…

‘A modern Graham Greene’ – David and Jo Henniger are on their way to a party at their old friends’ home, deep in the Moroccan desert. But as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, two young men spring…