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In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, Sarah travels back to her home town with her young son and is forced to face what she fled from years ago. Set in the wild, beautiful and unreliable landscape of southern New Zealand, Emma Timpany's novella is an evocative story of a woman coming to terms with her past and forging a brighter future.

On an East Coast island, Delilah moves into a cottage. The neighbours gossip as they watch her plant a colourful garden out front. Very unusual, they whisper. Across the driveway lives a man who never goes out. Delilah knows he's watching her too and she likes the look of him, but perhaps life is too complicated already...

Longlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 and The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019. 1970s communist Romania. When Alina's brother-in-law defects to the West, her and her husband's careers come grinding to a halt. Alina turns to her aunt for help - the wife of a communist leader and a secret practitioner of the old folk ways.

Prince Albert Victor is heir presumptive to the British throne. Handsome and good-hearted, he is regarded as disastrously inadequate to be the king. By contrast, a renowned intellectual, Jem Stephen is a golden boy worshipped by all. He is appointed as Prince Albert's tutor - the relationship that will change both of their lives.

It's 1960s Mallorca. Thomas Sebastian, an English conman, has taken an old Spanish finca as his hideout. He finds the house untouched since its last owner, the renowned Senyor Rodriguez, died - with fine art on the walls, a library of books, a cellar full of wine. Thomas puts on Rodriguez's white linen suit and heads into the city.

The Madonna of the Pool is a collection of short stories which explore the triumphs, compromises and quiet disappointments of everyday life. Drawing on a wide array of characters, Helen Stancey shows how small events, insignificant to some, can resonate deeply in the lives of others.