Elizabeth Jane Howard
Falling

Henry Kent is in late middle age, is almost without means and lives on a dank houseboat. He is not without charm though. When Daisy Langrish buys a cottage nearby, Henry becomes interested in her. She seems alone- and vulnerable. But when Henry starts work tending to Daisy's garden, her daughter is suspicious: there's something about Henry, something not quite right...

Frank McCourt
'Tis

The story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education, to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, and then by New York University,'Tis is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing and often hilarous as Angela's Ashes.

J. M. Coetzee
Disgrace

David Lurie is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching he has an impulsive affair with a student. He is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. He resigns and retreats to a smallholding owned by his daughter, Lucy. His daughter and the farm harmonise his discordant life, but then he and Lucy become victims of a savage attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship...