Rural Fiction

It’s autumn and with crisp frosty weather and the leaves as colourful as they've ever been, Olivia and Jago are nestling into their life in Penbartha. Until local resentment about incomers and second home ownership is ignited by what seems to be an increasingly militant action group. A violent death makes the situation even more sinister. Maybe Penbartha isn't the happy place Olivia thought it was? Is the discontent really about second homes or is someone exploiting a well-supported cause in order to pursue a much more personal agenda?

News on the docks is Adelaide Bradley is back in Seaside, and rumor has it she’s here to stay! (No ring was spotted on her finger, I might add!) After eight long years of living in the big city and working for Massachusetts General, she has decided to return to the shores. One can only imagine how thrilled Barbara and Keegan are to have their oldest daughter back. But it makes you wonder if Adelaide will continue to peruse her nursing career or is she here to help at her family’s restaurant, The Seaside Grill.

With Holding Lies, John Larison takes us deep into a thriving subculture of the Northwest, one born of the ferns and firs, rain and hot-springs, firebombs and whitewater. He takes us even deeper into the troubles of Hank Hazelton, a 59-year-old river guide, as he struggles to reconnect with his only daughter after a 14-year estrangement. His failure as a father haunts him, along with other deep regrets, tragedies, and longings. In the days before his daughter's arrival, Hank discovers a drift boat stranded below a rapid, empty except for a long smear of blood on its seat.

Kelly Roberts finds refuge in the rugged and remote cattle country of Northern Australia, but when tragedy strikes, she is forced to find a new life for herself and her children outside of Rainsford Station. She retreats to the family’s only asset - a freehold block of land owned jointly by her eccentric father-in-law, Quinn. In the valley at Evergreen Springs, Quinn hopes the fractured family might all come together to start over again.

When Gus Shepard’s quiet artistic life is upended by his mother’s death in 2003, he’s sent to the rural town of Livingston, Montana, to live with his estranged woodworking father. For Gus, it’s a place filled only with grief, painful childhood memories, and too much sawdust—until he meets Bridger Owens, a local skateboarder with a rebellious streak.

Isabel hates Christmas. She’s got a Christmas disaster for each of her 25 years. When her boss sends her from the sun-kissed beaches of Australia to snowy small-town Wyoming, it’s just another thing to add to her "do not like" list. Snow sucks. Christmas sucks. And cowboys suck most of all. Except, maybe, for one.

After landing a major cookbook deal, star food-blogger Tash Ranger swaps city life for the family farm. But Tash's homecoming is bittersweet, for now she can no longer avoid seeing her best friend Maddy, who was severely injured in a riding accident. When Tash returns to Castlereagh Road with her joy and boundless appetite for life, he realizes finally what his loved ones have been trying to tell him for months – that Maddy wouldn't want him to throw his life away.

A completely gripping and unforgettable story of long-lost family secrets and forbidden romance that will whisk you away to the beautiful village of Sandy Cove on the west coast of Ireland. When Laura inherits a small cottage from a friend who was like a mother to her, she wonders whether this...

Sean Davidson’s party night in the rural town of Moravian Village, Ohio, takes a shocking turn, spiraling into a living nightmare with an unimaginable outcome. Over a year later, Sean is struggling to put the pieces of his life back together when a stranger named Heather calls, and he learns that his dreadful ordeal was no isolated incident. A sinister presence threatens the village. Sean and Heather team up to hunt down the mysterious force. But when they dredge up Moravian Village’s horrific past, they discover they’re confronting a supernatural power they alone cannot defeat.

Adrenaline meets intrigue in a high stakes battle of good versus evil. After tracking down and eliminating the people who threatened his hometown, Case Younger is finally ready to leave his violent past and settle into a quiet life with the only woman he’s ever loved. But a stranger has come to town—one who’s handsome, charming, and on a mission to destroy everything Case holds dear. JC Wilks is the last surviving member of the Dead Rebels Motorcycle Club. He’s come to Pikesville hunting for Case Younger, and Wilks didn’t come alone. JC knows that Case will be a hard target.

'I've never felt so at home in all my life. Ireland isn't just in my blood; it's in my heart. But I was mistaken if I thought this safe haven could erase my past . . . ' When Marian Fleury finds a love letter hidden in her husband Theo’s belongings, her heartbreak puts her on the first plane...

‘I was hooked from page one. Be prepared to laugh and cry throughout this book!’ Reader review, ★★★★★ ‘A fabulous family drama…it kept me turning the pages from beginning to end’ – Kerry Fisher the bestselling author of The Silent Wife You can run from a lie, but you...

Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour. These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an...

Marchesa Colombi �� lo pseudonimo con cui Maria Antonietta Torriani (1840-1920) scrisse le sue opere. Questo romanzo, apprezzato da Natalia Ginzburg e da Italo Calvino, fece sì che questa scrittrice fosse apprezzata maggiormente dopo la sua morte. I suoi romanzi sono di stampo sociale e in difesa dell’uguaglianza tra donne e uomini, ma non per questo perdono la loro vivacità, umorismo e sensibilità.Cornice musicale: Musica proibita di Stanislao Gastaldon, suonata da Ivan Genesio.

He's a billionaire hiding at my bed-and-breakfast, pretending to be ordinary. I'm the woman who fell for every pretty word… Carter Banks shows up at my struggling beachside B&B looking for a place to disappear for the summer. I accept his reservation because we need the money. As it stands, I have three months to save my family's legacy and no time for distractions. But the chemistry is off the charts, and we can't get enough of one another. Between late-night meetups and early morning coffee runs, I'm falling for a man who feels like home.

Journalist James Brandt lives in a brittle truce with his partner Dylan and his family, never talking about the homophobic attacks he exposed in his rural hometown, including the brutal death of a beloved cousin twenty years ago. But this illusion of peace is ripped apart by the start of the...

The eagerly awaited second novel from GennaRose Nethercott, the award-winning author of Thistlefoot and Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart, in which a young woman must embark upon a haunted quest to find her missing friend The frogs of Lonehaven, Vermont have been watching their rural town for...

L'affascinante David Bell incarna la realizzazione del sogno americano. Nonostante sia poco piú che ventenne è già manager di una grande rete televisiva. All'apice del successo il giovane trova però davanti a sé un vuoto insopportabile che lo spinge ad allontanarsi da Manhattan per intraprendere un viaggio nel cuore dell'America, a bordo di un vecchio camper e con la cinepresa sempre a disposizione, accompagnato da tre stravaganti soggetti.

Zahn can't get the missing girl he found—and the one he can't find—out of his mind. Someone in this mountain valley is collecting children, and Zahn is gradually drawn into the case while still trying to break through to his daughter. Then she disappears too.

26 ans de Marine nationale, 91 ans de mauvaise foi... Quand Zoé, 17 ans, emménage dans le Finistère chez un oncle qu’elle connait à peine, elle ne décolère pas. Pour la lycéenne solitaire qui ne rêve que d’Amérique et de voyages, la petite ville de Saint-Renan ressemble à son pire cauchemar. Déterminée à en partir dès que possible, elle compte les jours qui la séparent de sa liberté. Mais toutes ses certitudes sont mises à rude épreuve par Pierre, son voisin nonagénaire au caractère bien trempé.