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Pioneering author Flora Nwapa paints the stirring tale of a young wife attempting to carve out her own independence against the traditional beliefs of Igbo society. Ever since she was young, Efuru has been famed for her beauty, intelligence, and noble lineage. So her family is appalled when they...

Mariama Bâ’s pioneering debut, So Long a Letter, captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal. Recently widowed, Ramatoulaye is required to take sole responsibility for the long mourning process of her late husband. A husband she has not seen in over four years – not after he...

In The New Tribe, pioneering author Buchi Emecheta tells the tale of a young Nigerian boy adopted by a white family. Life changes overnight for the Arlingtons when an abandoned baby girl, Julia, arrives unexpectedly on their doorstep. The couple take her in and settle into family life. But then...

From the author of The Brighter the Light comes a sweeping multigenerational saga about music and memory, the fluidity of family stories, and women who refuse to be forgotten. A fear of commitment has made actress Nova Kirkland a professional runaway. But while fleeing her fourth would-be...

This lush, revelatory debut narrates the decades-spanning love story of two women across the divide of consciousness, as one lies immobilized and the other sits vigil by her bedside. “Erlichman has a near-cosmic understanding of time, how every human life is winged by two infinities that are...

A taut, propulsive, one-sitting read about a wife and mother who, thrown into a strange and seductive world, tries to ignore what’s in front of her eyes. Something is wrong in the narrator’s marriage. Something is wrong at work. But if she ignores the warning signs, maybe they will all go...

Dr. Yadera Onoh wants only one thing: two more weeks with the man she loves. Four years ago, grief carved a hole in her life after the death of her fiancé, Kobi. Now a celebrated neuroscientist with a thriving practice, Yadera has built a fortress of logic around her broken heart. But...

Lion is the story of a father and a daughter. About growing up with the unlikeliest of fathers: a charismatic bon vivant, a polo player, race-car driver, cocaine addict, ex-con, pilot, and skydiver. A minor god who comes down to earth in a grand manner, falling in all the ways there are to fall...

One week in Croatia. One chance to change her life forever… Lara is finally getting her big break. She's just landed the job of every travel writer's dreams: a feature for the glamorous magazine Luxe Allure, about an exclusive hotel set on the beautiful azure shores of Croatia. Even better...

A 26-part Scottish drama blending family secrets, romance and mystery against the backdrop of a west coast harbour community. Set in the fictional harbour town of Lynton Bay on Scotland's west coast, the series follows Alistair's arrival by yacht and his growing determination to uncover...

Falling in love is only half the story . . . Daisy Moon has finally found happiness with the charming Kit Devereaux, but she’s beginning to wonder whether she truly belongs in his world. When a storm forces Daisy and her twin boys to stay at Winterbourne Manor, bringing their families together...

A moving, life-affirming story from an exciting new voice in bookclub fiction. Esther’s brother is twenty-nine years old when he dies. No warning, no goodbye, just an accident. And Esther is unmoored. When she wakes one night to find Brendan at the foot of her bed, she is somehow not surprised...

Escape to Scotland with another tender and hopeful story about new beginnings and finding yourself when you least expect it from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author! * * * * What if the life you built no longer fits the woman you’ve become? Annie Roberts thought she knew exactly who...

Another feel-good tale from the Sunday Times bestselling author Meadowsweet Close is where Marty Vaughan and his wife, Julia, brought up their three children. It had been a happy home for them all, or so Marty thought. But after Julia left him, things were never quite the same. Home though, is...

“If you like your summer read to be smart, sophisticated, and sometimes very funny, be sure to put this in your beach bag. I hope we’ll all see this as a series on the screen.” —Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Nantucket Christmas Stroll Perfect for fans of The Wedding...

Nona longs for a life of purpose—if only she can stop getting in her own way. Nona is stuck: happily married to Roy but chasing after a man she neither loves nor respects, unable to complete the book she’s writing about her late father, and, worst of all, battling a raging bout of insomnia...

From the author of Too Blessed to Stress, the in turns uplifting, emotional, and uproarious story of consummate people pleaser Kat, who has to stop fixing everyone else long enough to fix herself. Kat has spent her entire life making sure everyone else is okay. When her husband Pat announces...

This clever, tender, and very funny novel follows a recently divorced woman forced to confront the story she’s been telling about love—and herself—when she accidentally invites herself to her ex-wife’s wedding. "Touching, warm, funny and original―with a uniquely lovable protagonist.”...

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Every love story has its season. In this sweeping debut novel, the possibility of new love forces one woman to confront the tragedies—and hidden secrets—that are buried on her family’s beloved apple orchard. Vivienne Clairmont has been shaped by her family’s orchard: the sweet scent of...