Fiction - Women

Was it anger, stubbornness, stupidity, fate or desire for adventure that led Jesse to the wilds of remote Alaska? The answer changes daily as she navigates a new chosen life in the wilds of remote Alaska, facing the harsh elements of virgin land in...

All she needs is a fresh start. Can she find it in a familiar place? It's been a rough year for Kate Duncan, both on and off the job. Being a mail carrier puts her in close proximity to her customers, with consequences that...

All she needs is a fresh start. Can she find it in a familiar place? It's been a rough year for Kate Duncan, both on and off the job. Being a mail carrier puts her in close proximity to her customers, with consequences that...

All she needs is a fresh start. Can she find it in a familiar place? It's been a rough year for Kate Duncan, both on and off the job. Being a mail carrier puts her in close proximity to her customers, with consequences that...

He's retired after the bull ride that nearly killed him. She's the ride-or-die rodeo queen he never forgot. Jenna's come a long way from her days as a desperate teenage runaway, working in barns and chasing after cowboys. Nearly twenty years on, and she's...

Camera Ready offers a compelling version of a love triangle at its center, as L.A. executive Jane Mercer follows a tortuous path toward her version of the American dream.Jane finally has her life together. She is vice president of accounts at the advertising agency...

I didn't expect to open my mailbox one summer morning and find an old letter stuffed between bills and a supermarket flyer. Penned in familiar handwriting, dated over fifteen years ago, the letter was written to me after my first date with the man...

If only she could see herself through his eyes... Deirdre Murphy is a good girl. She knows she's expected to live with her family in Ireland until she marries, and eventually run their pub. And she's accepted that plan. Lately, though, she's feeling...bored. A...

He could be her knight in shining leather-or just another heartache waiting to happen...Sean O'Malley isn't a forever guy. Looking for a night or two of wicked, dirty fun? He's happy to oblige. But relationships? No thanks. So, imagine his surprise when his connection...

Nothing gets under your skin quite like love... Norah O'Malley has way too much on her plate to even consider romance. Being home for the first time in ten years-single and pregnant-is more than enough. Too bad her heart has other ideas when she...

Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection PrizeA near-future farmer battling environmental crises takes ina mysterious girl he finds on the roadside. A bus driver navigates throughtreacherous weather and memories of her tragic past as she races to savechildren from the end of the...

Large Print Version She had big dreams. But will war, tragedy, and naïveté ruin her aspirations? America, the 1940s. Margaret Rose longs to escape her family's poverty. So against her domineering father's wishes, the determined young woman elopes with an older man. But shortly...

In How We Disappear, Tara Lynn Masih offers readers transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone-runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from...

A ranch they didn't expect to love. A family they didn't expect to find. Amanda and Abigail Brooks didn't even want a ranch. They should be pleased the secondary beneficiary is trying to take it away. But now they've been in Birch Creek for...

All he ever fought for... Miles McAlister had been dreaming of representing his hometown of Chances Inlet, North Carolina in national politics since he was ten years old. So when his mother fractures a hip, Miles seizes the day and moves home to manage...

Vonny Kwan wakes up in a Nevada hospital, the victim of a hit-and-run accident she doesn't remember. As she struggles to recover from her injuries, she learns that she also has no memory of the past nine years, including her marriage and what she...

The baby is quiet. Too quiet.When Madeline checks on her seven-month-old daughter, she discovers the reason for the baby's silence. Abigail is dead. Madeline is soon living every mother's worst nightmare amid a cacophony of sirens and police interrogations.Accusations and old resentments can't stay...

Blazing heat, laugh-out-loud humor, and an abundance of swoon-worthy moments make this sexy new standalone romance by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melissa Foster unputdownable. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and guaranteed to leave you breathlessly in love with the fiercely...

Surrendering to the tide of life might just make all their dreams come true. Lily is preparing for the high season at Glass Beach Cottage and looking forward to her son's upcoming visit, when she's hit with an unwelcome surprise-her estranged sister is back.Wendy's...

"A woman's fateful decision colors and molds her future." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A must read for fans of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Sherry Robinson, award-winning author of Blessed, returns with a daring novel about social taboos, secrets,...

The Pendulum Trilogy: when life gives you second chances"With Mary Strand at the controls, readers are in for a flight of a lifetime, spiraling downward, seemingly out-of-control, pulling up at the last minute, and into a beautiful, perfect landing. Emotional. Heartwarming. Deliriously Funny." -...

Fame, fortune, Hollywood legend? Yes.True Love?Not so much.Grace Woods is beautiful, elegant, talented - the definition of a Hollywood Superstar. She has all of the trappings to prove it, too - big houses, rich friends and critical acclaim that follows her wherever she goes.With...

Jilted a week before her wedding, a successful ad executive finds everyone around her is suddenly either engaged or getting married. Will her new anti-marriage guru be her savior-or something else? Samantha "Sam" Dennehy feels like the last single woman in New York City....

From the 2010 winner of the Best Translated Book Award comes a harrowing, controversial novel about a woman's revenge, Jewish identity, and how to talk about Adolf Hitler in today's world.Elinor's comfortable life--popular newspaper column, stable marriage, well-adjusted kids--is totally upended when she finds...

A peed-on stuffed unicorn, children who refuse to go to sleep, and a husband absent for five more days: not Ashley's description of an ideal evening. But maybe, with a little shift in perspective, she can still salvage the rest of her night... A...

Picking up at the exact moment where Awakening left off, Transformation brings you deeper into Marissa's (now completely upside-down) world. Will she find her feet while juggling college, shamanism, work, family and relationships, or has it all become too much after her terrifying experience?...

New York, 1970s. Janet Sproule lives in an affluent neighbourhood and comes from old family money. Her privileged life is suddenly turned upside down when her sister is kidnapped and held for ransom by a group of urban terrorists. Her parents' reaction to the...

Amy escapes her violent boyfriend with a job at Woodbrook Primary School, the place of traumatic memories that still plague her twenty years on.Secretly ashamed of her loser reputation, Amy hides her ex-pupil status from the staff, even pretending that she has never met...

Amy escapes her violent boyfriend with a job at Woodbrook Primary School, the place of traumatic memories that still plague her twenty years on.Secretly ashamed of her loser reputation, Amy hides her ex-pupil status from the staff, even pretending that she has never met...

An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal ... the sublime, achingly beautiful debut that everyone is talking about... 'A stupendous debut. A triumph....

How do you learn to trust yourself and hear your own truth? Based on a true story, Wild Egg explores one woman's struggle to break the deadlock of ambivalence to decide whether becoming a biological mother is her wholehearted choice, or simply what she...

Author: Leonie PearceISBN-10: 1913071901ISBN-13: 9781913071905Publisher: 2qt Limited (Publishing)Language: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2021Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.35d

The short fiction of Karine Khodikyan can be described as intellectual fiction for women. These short stories with a "mystical touch" tell stories about women - young and old, happy and sad; even when the protagonist is not a woman, the story will immerse...

Co-Wives, Co-Widows is the first adult work of fiction from the Central African Republic to be translated into English. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows of Lidou. Following their husband's sudden and unexplained death, they find themselves fighting...

How long can you hide your past from the one you love?When Abigail and Edward became co-owners of historic Winfield Hall in the beautiful Sussex countryside, they had little idea what the future held. But, as the days of summer lengthen, their feelings towards...

"I was genuinely sorry to finish this book. It had me completely engaged... and I loved the clever surprise in the middle of it." Louis de Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli's MandolinIn 1820 London, landscape artist William Daniell hires Jesse Cloud, a homeless teenager,...

In Caterina, Claudia Durastanti presents us with a Cleopatra for our times - no exotic queen courted by two lovers with the fate of an empire in their hands but a young would-be ballet dancer who now works in as a cleaner in a...

Angelica Kaufman is so successful that when she comes to England as a young woman in 1766 a word is coined: Angelicamad.'Miller's intricate fictions are lit by the dark flicker of a strong and original imagination.' - Hilary MantelThis sparky, true life novel tells...

In 1983, at the age of 86, Naomi Mitchison published Not By Bread Alone. Sixty years had passed since the publication of her first novel, The Conquered. As a lifelong advocate of socialism and feminism, Mitchison draws upon the speculative imaginary in Not By...

Can she keep her son safe?Previously published as A Father's Revenge.When Pearl's ex-husband Kevin was sent to prison, she left her old life in Battersea behind, determined to protect her son from the truth about his father. But when her dear friend Bessie dies,...

'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time ' Elizabeth Jane Howard * A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's finest novelists. When Amy is suddenly left widowed and alone...

1965, an English country mansion. Eleanora Byngh is not in a good state. Wedded to the whisky bottle and with her house crumbling round her ears, her days seem destined to follow a lonely (and grumpy) downhill path. Then the post brings an unexpected...

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament 'To mother is to...

'Compelling and claustrophobic, Nina is an exciting new voice and definitely one to watch' Phoebe Morgan, author of The Girl Next Door'Chilling and creepy. An atmospheric and addictive debut.' Diane Jeffrey, author of The Guilty MotherNo one is good enough for her son...As a...

'A gorgeous and captivating read that made me want to jump straight on a plane to the south of France.' Samantha Tonge*From the bestselling author of Villa of Sun and Secrets*Take time out to find what makes you happy...When Retreat owner Amy offers three...

What will be will be...Belinda Marshall's idyllic teenage life in Brittany, France, fell apart when her parents dramatically separated and her mother took her back to England.Fast forward thirty-five years when Belinda's world is once again turned upside down.It's the week before Christmas and...

'At a time when I needed a lift, this novel came into my life.' 5* Reader ReviewAmy Piper is in need of a bit of luck. She's lost her confidence, her mojo and her way.But one thing she has never lost is her total...

Two weeks, four friends and one big bucket list of secrets to unravel...Brand NEW from the bestselling author of What If? and What Now? - Pre-Order Now!Val Murray and her best friend, Josie had been planning a 'Thelma and Louise' bucket list style holiday.Now...

Perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan, Jessica Redland and Kate Forster.Do only fools rush in?When Myles and Darcy first met there were fireworks and ever since then it's been a rollercoaster ride, sweeping them both off their feet.Myles is determined to do things differently...

Perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan, Jessica Redland and Kate Forster.The Little Knitting Box has been in Cleo's family for nearly four decades, and Cleo's to manage for four years - ever since she arrived in New York, fresh off the plane from the...