Fiction

Gwen O’Toole | Slow Blind Drive | Slow Blind Drive is a conversation with the dead. A letter to an unlikely muse and a testament to the resilience of unconditional love. All at once ha

Karen McLeod | In Search of the Missing Eyelash | Lizzie is lonely. Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he’s a woman, is missing. Most of all, though, Lizzie is preoccupied by Sally, h

Jennifer Harris | Pink | Who is the woman behind the little pink book?

‘When I first get the acceptance letter from the publisher about the book I will write, I will

Lisa Alther | Bedrock | This is the story of mid-life crisis, and the search for a pastoral idyll, which becomes a sort of ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ of the 1990s as Clea comes to k

May Sarton | The Education of Harriet Hatfield | ‘Harriet Hatfield begins a new life at the age of 60 after her lover of 30 years has died and left her comfortably well off. But when Harriet opens a

Nora Johnson | Uncharted Places | Amnesia victim Dinah arrives in New York and makes an improbable new life for herself, but revelations about her past enliven her life, and she experi

V.G. Lee | Always You, Edina | At the beginning of VG Lee’s fourth novel, Always you, Edina, Bonnie Benson is visiting her grandmother in the Three Elms Nursing Home. ‘Your dad was

Juanese Brooker | Even the Rain Was Crying | After the Ku Klux Klan murders her father in 1950s South Carolina, Chancie and her mother, Clara, move to Hicks, Georgia, for a better life. Clara wor