A deceased nun’s deranged spirit that has been remanded to purgatory, haunts a troubled young woman who moves into her dream home. Sister Catherine makes short order of tormenting Anna into remaining in the home with her for...
The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English.
This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a...
**Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, *How Not to Die Alone* is the bighearted debut novel we all need, for fans of *Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine* , it's a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel...
The third installment in the saga introduces a kitten whose family thinks he is so remarkable that they call him "Wonderful Alexander." One morning, he sets out to explore the world. But soon he finds himself stuck in a tree, and is rescued by Jane,...
This 1946 novel (by the author of the Worzel Gummidge books) is about a woman who goes on a cruise and is swept overboard; she lives for three years on a desert island before being rescued by a destroyer in 1943. When she returns to England it seems...
It is an impossible reality that anything could exist in the vacuum of space. There is nothing that anything could survive on; it is the absence of all things. Beyond the twinkling of a thousand million celestial bodies, past all the reaches of life...
John Stieber was twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second World War, he was unable to return to his parents for seven years.
In due course, he was called to...