Books

Rachel’s Garden

A darkly emotional book-club novel about a woman who creates a garden for everyone she has loved, lost or wronged — and discovers that grief, guilt and revenge all have roots.

At Maple Cottage, on the edge of Peckforton Woods, Rachel Jordan begins to build a garden of rooms: one for her dead mother, one for her lost father, one for the friend she...

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Distorted Days

A darkly comic literary novel about betrayal, miscarriage and the strange, unruly business of surviving yourself.

Doris is not the sort of woman who falls apart elegantly.

When she discovers her husband, John, in bed with Lisa — her closest friend — she is carrying a pregnancy she has not yet announced, a future she has barely dared to imagine,...

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Doctor Glass

She saved lives as a therapist. Now she's destroying her own.

Dr Emma-Jane Glass is a respected clinical psychologist who believes the world gets it wrong about women who commit the unthinkable.

When she publicly argues that maternal filicide is often rooted in untreated depression rather than evil, the backlash is swift — and vicious.

A hate...

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The Entrepreneur

How far would you go to win fame and fortune?

Five contestants. One remote house. A million pounds at stake. And a business built on murder.

Stephanie is determined to win The Entrepreneur, a reality show in which ambition is everything. Her venture? Selling paintings by convicted serial killer Jonny Lang.

The public is fascinated by Jonny’s...

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Rosie Shadow

Some family trees are rooted in darkness.

He never met his daughter. Now he wishes he never had. Six years ago, Lennie walked away from Elly when she refused to stop drinking during her pregnancy. Now she's sending him desperate texts: SOS. Rosie 6 today.

When he arrives at her decaying flat, Lennie finds a child who barely speaks, a mother at...

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