Maureen Lee
The Leaving Of Liverpool

It is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters - Mollie and Annemarie Kenny - escape from their home in an Irish village. Their beloved mother has died and the girls have suffered shocking abuse at the hands of their doctor father. With sensitive Annemarie so traumatised she can barely remember her name, Mollie decides they should make a new life for themselves, and she takes her younger sister to Liverpool where they will board a ship to New York. There, she thinks, they will be safe. But the smallest, cruellest twist of fate conspires to separate the two girls just as the boat is about to set sail, leaving Mollie stranded in Liverpool and Annemarie at the mercy of strangers in America.

Marina Lewycka
Two Caravans

An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? Ukrainians, Poles and Chinese are among those who lead dangerous lives as they take to the caravan road until each of them peels off to find their destiny .

Hilarious, gritty, moving and slapstick by turns, Two Caravans has every bit of the extraordinary wit and heart that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful.

By the author of A Year in Provence. An indispensable, hugely informative and consistently entertaining guide to Provence by the bestselling writer who has made the region his own. Organised from A-Z, but far from a conventional work of reference, this is a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle has found in his twenty years there to be the most interesting, delicious or downright fun. In more than 200 entries - from Accent to Zola - he writes about subjects as diverse as architecture, expatriates, lavender, linguistic oddities and the museum of the corkscrew. And, of course, he discusses food and drink: truffles, olives and the cheese that killed a Roman emperor.