Books

The minister’s son was never meant to lose his faith. Determined to step out from beneath his father’s shadow, Kris walks away from the religion that shaped his childhood and gathers a small band of friends in a crumbling old farmhouse. What begins as an experiment in shared living—radical honesty, stripped-back belief, and a bold new philosophy...

En route from Dublin to their holiday on Madeira, archivist Brendan and his partner Gabriel come across an extraordinary file in the National Archive of Lisbon: six love letters written in 1690 by one monk to another, at the height of the Portuguese Inquisition. The find leads to a second trove of correspondence, from the same monk to his...

On holiday in Morocco, Charlie finds himself in a house that is instantly familiar to him. The vivid memories it holds transport him back to his childhood in London, when he first met Amira, the girl next door. It also recalls his first time in Morocco when having just obtained his language degree in Spain, he visited the Amira’s family, now...

A novel based on the intertwined lives of Margaret MacDonald & Charles Rennie Mackintosh. War has broken out and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is in self-imposed exile from his native Glasgow, painting wildflowers in watercolour in a sleepy Suffolk village. As a man from ‘foreign parts’, however, he falls prey to the suspicions of...

Eleanor’s son, Luke, left home on a “gap year” and never returned, cutting all ties and ending all contact. He had just come out to her as gay, which was so in conflict with her strong religious beliefs, that she disowned him – something she comes to regret when Luke’s father dies and she has no way of letting their son know. So she sets off on...

It’s summer—and escape is calling. From the shimmering Greek islands to the heat-soaked Costa del Sol, passion and danger simmer beneath the surface.

In A Footprint on the Sand, Jackie travels to Kalymnos with her boyfriend Tony and her gay friend Steve. She’s carrying news that could change everything—but before she can share it, Tony vanishes...