Fiction

Susan Hawthorne | The Falling Woman | TOP TWENTY TITLE, Listener Women’s Book Festival

One woman’s journey into the heart’s landscape is mirrored by a haunting desert odyssey in t

Carol Guess | Switch | Carol Guess’s lyrical and accomplished second novel, set in small-town Indiana, is poised on the tension between the surface cheeriness of the waitres

Ann-Marie Macdonald | The Way the Crow Flies | To create a colourfully realised narrative seen through only youthful eyes is not an easy task, as the glut of badly written novels in this vein attes

Emma Donoghue | Hood | Pen and Cara meet in a convent school and become friends and then lovers, in a romance that is far from simple. Years later, when Cara dies in an acci

Fiona Cooper | Not the Swiss Family Robinson | ‘Monica Robinson, raised in the `middle of nowhere’, discovers early on that the American Dream isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Even Pop, who likes

Patricia Nell Warren | Wild Man | Antonio, a handsome and disillusioned bullfighter, secretly longs to release the wild bulls back to primordial freedom. Juan, a lusty, gentle peasant

Joanna Briscoe | Sleep With Me | Richard and Lelia’s child is conceived in a moment of giggling chaos as they dress for a Christmas party. They arrive rudely late and still glowing, a

Monica Nolan | Maxie Mainwaring, Lesbian Dilettante | ‘Madcap’ Maxie Mainwaring has been leading a gay life in Bay City, courtesy of her wealthy parents’ generous allowance. Then she’s discovered in the p