The Offing by Benjamin Myers

‘What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ...’ - Max Porter

One summer following the Second World War, sixteen year old Robert, son of a coal miner, sets out on foot from his Durham village until he reaches Robin Hood’s Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing out to sea. The two come from different worlds, yet as the summer months pass, they form an unlikely friendship that will profoundly alter their futures.

£9.99 PB

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season.

As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.

Exquisite, miraculous, astonishing, beautiful and profound.

£9.99/£12.99

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?

Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away and their father in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

£9.99 PB

Summerwater by Sarah Moss

It is the summer solstice, but in a faded Scottish cabin park the rain is unrelenting. Twelve people on holiday with their families look on as the skies remain resolutely grey. A woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a teenage boy chances the dark waters of the loch in his kayak; a retired couple head out despite the downpour, driving too fast on the familiar bends.

One particular family, a mother and daughter with the wrong clothes and the wrong manners, start to draw the attention of the others. As darkness finally falls, something is unravelling . .

£8.99 PB