'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cry. But the salons have given me the opportunity to look back and think about my life...I don't talk to anyone about these feelings outside of the salon.'We all carry stories within us - wrenching, redemptive, extraordinary, and laced with unexpected and hard-won wisdom.These are the real-life stories that a group of women tell each other when they gather for a deep and structured conversation - once a month in a suburban living room -...

An extraordinary personal journey through cancer and treatment."...Extraordinary...Its bravery, irony, humour and intelligence - everything shines through the transparent prose...a remarkable literary voice, or melding of three voices--the autobiographical, the poetic, and the allegorical." - Dr. Oliver Sacks"The life of an individual is as complex as a maze of reflecting mirrors. The life of a family is even more so." Doris Brett is an award-winning writer and poet. 'I for...

'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cry. But the salons have given me the opportunity to look back and think about my life...I don't talk to anyone about these feelings outside of the salon.'We all carry stories within us - wrenching, redemptive, extraordinary, and laced with unexpected and hard-won wisdom.These are the real-life stories that a group of women tell each other when they gather for a deep and structured conversation - once a month in a suburban living room -...

'You look the type to break your father’s heart.' 'Yeah, but he broke mine first.’ When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years later, Rosie returns to the house and living there is Martha, whom Seb Gennaro married less than a year after the death of Rosie’s mother. Martha is struggling to fulfil Seb’s dream, while Ros...

Bernadette Fox is notorious.To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife.To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace.To design experts, she's a revolutionary architect.And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum.Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee must take a trip to the end of the earth to find her.Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a compulsively re...

Brought to you by Penguin.Crossing continents and juggling lives, Black Cake is a powerful story of love and loss, kinship and separation, heartache and hope, spanning sixty years in the life of one familyEleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children - Byron and Benny - reunite for her funeral in California, they discover a puzzling inheritance.First, a ...

Brought to you by Penguin.An instant #1 New York Times bestsellerThe funny, touching and unpredictable new novel from the 15 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove.'A brilliant and comforting read' Matt Haig'Funny, compassionate and wise . . . an absolute joy' - AJ Pearce, bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird

#1 New York Times BestsellerA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!" Reese Witherspoon"Painfully beautiful." The New York Times Book ReviewFor years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase ...

**** Listen to the modern classic behind the Bafta-winning series. **'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' Guardian**'A Tube stop-missing, escalator-reading tale.' Evening StandardConnell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - s...

I close my eyes and feel my heart begin racingSomeone is comingThey're going to find meA mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her Prince. Reluctantly, clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin is drawn into the investigation when a former student, calling himself 't...

The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny. Perfect for fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared.The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: Soon to be a major film starring Tom Hanks.Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you w...

THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'I am loving Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Maybe my favorite novel I've read this year' John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars'To say I love this book is an understatement. It's a deep psychological mystery about the power of motherhood, the intensity of teenage love, and the danger of perfection. It moved me to tears' Reese Witherspo...