Left on the Shelf

It is definitely the short straw of hospital medicine. A & E in a trauma centre on a Friday night in late January; almost midnight, and ...

  It was late Friday afternoon. Sarah was speaking to Nick about their weekend plans, her mobile pressed to her ear as she tapped on the key...

  Today, I am delighted to be shining the spotlight on Saving Rebecca by Alex Amit.   Saving Rebecca is publishing today in e-book and is al...

  My great-grandmother has only eighteen days to go. There's no need for alarm though. The doctors have not predicted her precise date o...

  When I go back into the bathroom there it is. No more than a whisper, a shadow of a second line. A life changed in a 1mm by 2mm blush of p...

  A man called Lu Fang stole Alva's mother in Grand Ballroom B of Shanghai's Imperial Hotel. The 88,888-yuan luncheon wedding came w...

Tuesday 14th January 1986 Dear Mery, I'm writing this letter even though I haven't got your address. Mum says she's sure we'...

  On the many occasions Clio had imagined murdering her husband, it had never been anything like this. Her mind's eye had always turned ...

  They will be looking for me by now. I pause on the granite steps of the museum, reaching for the railing to steady myself. Pain, sharper t...

  I dream about Carmel often. In my dreams she's always walking backwards. The day she was born there was snow on the ground. A silvery ...

  Other people, when forced to start over, do so in appropriate places. New York. Los Angeles. Bozeman. Only Flair would wind up in Kansas, ...

  All the babies were wrapped like presents ready to be given. Some of them were dressed finely - though their mothers were not - in tiny em...

  The sounds of the fjord were different that night. Laila lay in bed, listening: a faint drone beneath the whine of the wind, a low hum fro...

In the distance, the rocky mountains of Missoula sit sombrely under an expanse of sky so big it feels like we're the only ones left in t...

  She couldn't think about the voicemail. Katherine inhaled sharply. The muscles in her neck clenched. She took another deep breath, wil...