Sometimes there is no happy ending, no one to save the day but just because the truth hurts it doesn’t mean it isn’t worth facing. Discover the emotional depths of humanity with these dark, triggering and heart wrenching reads. Fall in love with these flawed characters and let them break your soul.
The rain never stops, and the mundane routine of life continues yet in a flooded city there are whispers of the end of the world. Three sisters come together after the death of their father; a famed architect estranged from his daughters.…
Nestled in the valley lies a small town, to the east lies an identical valley but twenty years ahead and to the west lies another identical valley but twenty years behind. Every valley is heavily guarded, but people can travel west for a…
In the pastural English countryside lies a boarding school safe from the Great war raging in Western Europe. The students receive news of the war as well as the names of fallen classmates who gave their lives for their country. Half-German…
At the dead of night in Los Angeles three young teenage boys are kidnapped by their father, taken away to their ancestral homeland of Iran which appears foreign to the American boys. When they return to LA they are forever changed from…
A gentle touching read 'Pearl' is a story of motherhood, grief and loss. Marriane's mother disappears one day leaving behind only footprints in the riverbed. At only eight years old Marriane struggles to come to terms with the loss while…
A sequel to 'The Boy in Striped Pajamas' John Boyne delivers another tragic moving read. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel has lived peacefully in her Mayfair flat for years where no one knows about her past. However, the arrival of a young boy…
Nonfiction' is fictional but the visceral language will trick your heart in this confronting journey of a broken family destroyed by addiction. The epicentre of this epistolary novel is the relationship between mother and daughter where…
Against the bleak background of 1980's Glasgow, an innocent Hugh "Shuggie" Bain is exposed to the harsh realities of life in Thatcher's Britain. His mother Agnes tries to find comfort buried in the cans of lager hiding in her handbag while…
A poignant narrative of intergenerational trauma, this rare epistolary novel is equally beautiful and brutal. Written in the form of letters from a son to his mother who will never read them, we follow their devastating lives from Vietnam…
In the city of New York, four friends traverse the difficult path of adulthood. The protagonist, Jude, is a lawyer shrouded in ambiguity which is delicately unravelled revealing horrifying truths and opening old wounds of his painful…
On the surface, this book appears as a heart touching literary novel but it's so much more than that. Havisham, a private boarding school is a special place, it's where Kathy met her childhood friends, Ruby and Tony. Kathy works as a…
A classic of emotionally wrenching literature, 'All Quiet on the Western Front' explores the tragic lives of (mostly) young German soldiers fighting in the Great war. The graphic reality of war on the frontline is far from what they were…
