Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Ranulph Fiennes

Ranulph Fiennes' family has lived for 621 unbroken years at Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire, with twenty-one generations fighting, marrying, plotting... Read More

The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

In his extraordinary first novel the author explores the deeply damaging effects that childhood experiences can have on young lives. Alice is driven... Read More

Far Cry by John Harvey

John Harvey writes with sensitivity and insight about a crime which will resonate with most of us - the abduction of a child. A psychological thriller... Read More

Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernieres

Notwithstanding is a charming English village from a vanished past, full of eccentric characters who include the mysterious 'hedging and ditching' man,... Read More

Ask Alice by D J Taylor

Alice Keach is a glamorous hostess who moves in glittering circles in the London of the 1930s. Whilst she is renowned for holding extravagant parties... Read More

One Day by David Nicholls

I was drawn to this by the many positive reviews and really enjoyed it. Emma and Dexter meet as students in the 80s. Emma, the northern 'leftie', no-nonsense... Read More

The Tent, the Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy

This is memoir of camping holidays at home and abroad during the 70s. Disaster is never far away, from nearly being blown off a cliff in a force ten... Read More

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory's retelling to the story of Elizabeth Woodville and her sons, the ill-fated 'Princes in the Tower' makes compelling reading. As always,... Read More

Family Britain 1951-57 by David Kynaston

This second volume of Kynaston's history of post war Britain is as riveting as the first; he has gathered and interpreted a vast range of diaries, reminiscences... Read More

A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve

When newlyweds Margaret and Patrick arrive in Kenya they are full of excitement and anticipation at the prospect of a life in a new country. Soon after... Read More