Fiction - Women

Every guest who comes to stay at O'Mara's Guesthouse in Dublin has a story to tell. The little red fox who visits the bins in the courtyard has a tale of his own as do the long-serving staff, and the O'Mara family themselves have...

The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel--set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s--about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.Breaking into the newspaper business in 1960s...

An intrepid heroine confronts the dark underworld of espionage and war in this daring historical romance by Violet Marsh, the award-winning author of The Aviatrix.It's spring 1919, and the Great War has ended. New life flourishes on the red cliffs of the Northern Isles...

Th駻鑚e Raquin (1867) is a novel by French author ﾉmile Zola. Initially serialized in L'Artiste, a popular French literary magazine, Th駻鑚e Raquin, Zola's third novel, earned the author widespread fame and critical condemnation for its scandalous content and unsparing vision of human sexuality and...

Things between me and Papa are so different to what me and Mum have. It's been that way since the first day. An invisible bond. Papa was the one who never stopped encouraging me to strive for my goals. 'Take every opportunity dis country...

Shunned by a society that puts attractiveness above all else, Lady Eliza Darby's wallflower status keeps her from getting the one thing she wants most, namely, to be a mother. But when her scorned older sister returns home to see all of her sisters...

A woman and her beloved granddaughter take a trip of discovery...After agreeing to enter the New Life Assisted-Living Community outside of Boston, Agatha "Aggie" Robard talks her devoted, serious granddaughter, Blythe, into driving her to Florida, stopping to see old college friends along the...

In 1906, fifteen-year-old Forrestina Bradley runs away from her stifling life of ease and joins the circus as a tightrope walker. After a tragedy forces her to leave the circus, she embarks on a life of nomadic adventure, running a carnival rat-game and becoming...

Where do you run when your world implodes?"Mom?" Ashley's shakes can be heard in that single, whispery word. "Mom, what happened?"I take a breath, unable to turn my head. Unable to move at all. "I don't know, Ash." But somehow I do know, beneath...

Paris 1870. Raised for a life of parties and servants, Camille and Mariele have much in common, but it takes the horrors of war to bring them together to fight for the city and people they love. The story of two women whose families...

"Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things--an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with things. Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern world....

"A perfect work of the American imagination."-D.H Lawrence "The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delights. The reader's interest never flags for a moment...Hawthorne, when you have studied him, will be very precious...

At thirty-eight years old, Ruthie finds herself newly unemployed, freshly single, sleeping on a friend's couch and downing a bottle of wine each night. Having overstayed her welcome and desperate for a job, Ruthie responds to David's ad: he's looking for someone to drive...

Quinn Davis prefers to live her life quietly. She's the stereotypical tomboy with two overprotective big brothers who have always been there to protect her, especially from devilishly handsome cowboys with silver tongues. That is, until Tate Montgomery comes riding into town. Their first...

Liv has lost everything. She now has no family, no college education, no direction, and no plan. Well, she does have a plan - to dull her pain with alcohol and pull herself together long enough to make a trip to Scotland to scatter...

October 1943. While working at an RAF base in Lincolnshire, Nancy Dalton has been holding a vigil for the Lancaster bomber pilots, whose missions seem endless and whose chances of survival are slim. But her watchfulness has not prevented her own pilot brother from...

From USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Jewel E. Ann, comes a heart-warming, second-chance romance.Lake Jones has the perfect job, an addiction to binge-watching Netflix, and the world's ugliest cat. She's also a bit sexually-frustrated. Until ...Fate bestows a breath of mercy...

Adrianne Geffel was a genius. Praised as the "Geyser of Grand Street" and the "Queen of Bleak Chic," she was a one-of-a-kind artist, a pianist and composer with a rare neurological condition that enabled her to make music that was nothing less than pure,...

A homecoming snares a young woman in a dangerous tangle of lies, secrets, and bad blood in this gripping novel by the bestselling author of An Accusation.Running from a bad relationship, journalist Jo Sharpe heads home to Arthurville, the drought-stricken town she turned her...

How do you start a new chapter when you haven't closed the book on the last one?Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac's husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers--she still has no idea where he went or why. After being happily married...

New beginnings take determination...Welcome back to Star Gazer Inn. Alice McIntyre's fresh start after buying the Star Gazer Inn is filling her days, and she's now ready to open with the help of her best friend Lisa's culinary skills and uplifting attitude. And her...

This heart-wrenching novel about family and war unearths generations of secrets and sacrifices--perfect for fans of The Paris Orphan and The Lost Girls of Paris.2017, London. When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother's hidden secrets--including a...

These newcomers to Nugget have left painful pasts behind them--just in time to embrace a future together . . . Picturesque Nugget, California, couldn't be more different than the glittering caverns of Manhattan, but Brynn Barnes is grateful for the change. After the accident...

Pre-order your copy of the new heartwarming and romantic Anna Bell novel, Note to Self!A heart-warming and feel-good romcom about a second chance at falling in love, perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Beth O'Leary'Funny and relatable. I love books that blend poignancy...

A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to the Lost Apothecary.Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious...

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction An Intergenerational tale of life and love seen through the eyes of three women from Raqqa The western popular imagination about the now devastated city of Raqqa, Syria is filled with static and clich馘 images of...

May Dixon has never met a problem she couldn't solve--signs of her "tinkering" are all over her late-1940s Indiana farm--but she never thought she'd be inventing a whole new kind of family. Faced with losing her husband, May pulls herself together and comes up...

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Ingredients of You and Me comes a holiday novella about a travel journalist who visits a small town during the most magical time of the year and finds love in the process. Camille Douglas has one...

No one weaves a story as well as beloved New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. In the Sisterhood's 32nd adventure together, a team of unscrupulous doctors pushing destructive natural remedies is profiting from others' distress--but these loyal friends know just the cure... The...

'Engaging, light-hearted and deeply touching, this book deals with universal themes: alienation, exploration and the quest for reconciliation - with who you were, where you are and what you want to be.' Jane Bailey Bain, Author, LifeworksKaty is a career mum in her 40s...

The next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she's faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma Ramotswe and...

Behind the doors of the Clifford Charity School for Wayward Girls there lies a secret society of brilliant, fearless women who are bringing justice to London's most corrupt aristocrats, one nobleman at a time . . . Other young ladies might occupy their spare...

Run away to Sea Salt Bay, where the sand is warm and soft, the sea is a perfect blue, and a candy-coloured waffle house is about to change Sadie's life... For as long as she can remember, Sadie's grandparents have run the waffle house...

As the reader is pulled into a compelling story, they are exposed to the reality of a crime that is growing globally. After Mallory Shields graduates from college in her idyllic Midwestern hometown, she embarks on an adventure with her best friend Jenna, taking...

Nobody talks about my mother. Absolutely nobody. I have no idea what she was like. I'd always thought they kept quiet about her because they were sad. But what if it was because they were guilty?I watch them at the school gates, all the...

An endearing novel of friendship, forgiveness, and second chances by New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart.It was a lifetime ago that recently widowed Maggie Flynn was in Wyndham Beach. Now, on the occasion of her fortieth high school reunion, she returns to her...

Could you take in your best friend's child, even if it risked destroying your own family? Jo had thought that her life - and her heart - was full. With a busy job, a husband and a teenage daughter who is going off the...

"Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. . . . A lovely novel that does a remarkable job of bringing troubling realities to light,...

Farewell, Cowboy is a modern and hard-hitting novel by one of Croatia's best-known writers. It tells the story of Dada, who returns to her home town on the Adriatic coast, and tries to unravel the mystery of her brother Daniel's death. Daniel, although young,...

Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this...

Pre-order Five Days Missing now! The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author Caroline Corcoran, coming February 2022.'A rival to Gone Girl for its addictive, twisted plot.' STYLISTLexie's got the perfect life. And someone else wants it...Lexie loves her home. She feels safe and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They...

'I loved this book! I was hooked from the start... I devoured this.' NetGalley reviewer, 5 starsOnly she knows the truth. Only she can save them.1799Emily Moon lives with her mother in an inn on a clifftop in the darkest reaches of Cornwall. After...

A lifetime of lies, and a truth too painful to tell.When Suzanna Duff was ten years old, she lost her mama, and that's when the lies began. At first, they were just harmless little fibs, a way to hide her unbearable loneliness and the...

To move forward, she might have to take a step back.Divorced empty-nester Becky Linden wants a fresh start. After two decades away, she returns to her hometown to find herself. What she discovers instead is the long-abandoned schoolhouse where she had her first kiss...

This Pride and Prejudice sequel is a Regency coming-of-age adventure/clean romance that includes some of literature's most beloved characters, along with a new cast of friends, young and old.KITTY BENNET MUST MARRY WELL but she also means to marry for love. Longbourn holds no...

Promiscuous Wife Learns The Hotwife Game Rob and Dana have an unbreakable marriage.The loving couple are in their early thirties are keen to turn up the heat in their bedroom life.The stunning wife runs her own hair salon and on one otherwise innocent afternoon,...

ST. IVO is absolutely exquisite and perfect for poolside... [M]asterfully written and immediately captivating." - Elin Hildebrand, on InstagramHershon maintains a quiet terror throughout this slim, eccentric novel. . . Fiction full of complexity, devoted to reality. And in the end, a larger sense...

A Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love.When Leeds meets Layla, he's convinced he'll spend the rest of his life with her--until...

Behind every great love song is a great love story, from the author of Star-Crossed NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - "A tender tribute to the healing powers of love and music . . . Readers will...