Item category 2: Paperback

During winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life. ...

The Abbotts' new lodger Luke hasn't told them much about himself, but they can't expect to know everything about a stranger who's just moved in. Only Luke keeps asking about their family photos, and snooping through their things. Why does he want to know everything about them? Then, suddenly, Mum...

A decade after they said goodbye after graduation, old friends Jack and Annie reunite in the beautiful village of Clove Lore in Devon - what more could these bookworms want than a holiday running the tumbledown bookshop? Unbeknownst to Annie, Jack is arriving with a bruised heart after the end of...

How do you find your daughter when no one believes she is missing? Single mother Jess and her daughter Issie have always shared an unbreakable bond. For the last seven years, it's been just the two of them. That is, until Issie meets Dylan. When the pair announce their plans to go travelling, Jes...

Hazel is given a one-two punch when she's forced to move out of her Upper East Side apartment and is given a final warning from her publisher. If she doesn't turn in a book by her next deadline, they're cutting her loose. Hazel rashly decides to leave what's left of her city life behind and impul...

‘Every story needs a happy ending. And you can’t have yours until you find the bookstore.’

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? 'Abroad in Japan' charts a decade of l...

Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her trea...

Max Van Doren has a wish list, and a great career and a girlfriend are at the top. But despite being pretty good at her job, she has no idea how to move up the ladder of Hollywood agenting. And when it comes to her love life, well, she's stuck in perpetual lust for an adorably perfect bartender n...