Cool, clear-eyed, and bluntly cynical, the young narrator of The Society of Others embarks on a journey without a destination. He hitchhikes through Europe only to find himself in a mystifying country where terrorists are inexplicably after him,...

Laura is a happily married mother of two who begins to question her choices when her first love resurfaces after twenty years. She’s forced to compare the passion of that relationship with the domesticity of h...

Maddy is a sixteen-year-old who likes a boy in her theater club.   Joe is cute and popular and, incredibly, sending signals that he likes her back. Or does he? Isn’t Joe going out with Gemma?   Rich has a crush on Grace, and he ev...

When Belinda discovers her husband is having an affair, her world is turned upside down; she’s furious, hurt, and bent on evening the score. But Belinda isn’t the only one in her affluent suburban neighb...

How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it’s time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? In The Retreat from Moscow , William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands , tells the powerful story o...