Arts

‘In the search for truth, it matters not whether we find it. It matters only that we continue to seek.’

They’re all adults... so what could possibly go wrong when a separated couple – eager to give their young daughter a ‘normal’ family Christmas – take along their new partners for a shared weekend away?

It’s a busy year for Lynda La Plante, the Liverpudlian who became one of the UK’s most famous crime queens.

Finding a new business opening in New York is the final throw of the dice for the struggling half-German, half-English De Witt family as they try to save their home and their fortune.

When the body of a Hasidic Jewish woman is found in a New York scrapyard, rookie reporter Rebekah Roberts finds herself immersed in a cloistered world where it soon becomes clear she is not welcome.

Take a trip to beautiful Venice and the stunning Amalfi coast, join a group of brave women on wartime adventures, and meet a middle-aged woman on the cusp of a new life.

‘We all need a bit of magic in our lives.’

When the demolition of an old cottage exposes the skeleton of a man dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, an extraordinary chapter of Bath’s history looks like it may well have to be rewritten.

One of last year’s most outstanding thrillers was JP Delaney’s The Girl Before, a mesmerising exploration of obsession and deceit which was quickly snapped up for the big screen by Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment.

Life can be messy, can’t it. You think you’ve got things sorted – the kids are all grown and off to uni, the husband’s business is doing well, you’re ready to go back to work – and then the sky falls in on you.

When Rachel Walker wakes up with a crippling hangover in her neighbours’ spare bedroom on the morning after a party, she has no recollection of how she got there.

It’s holiday time and the Little Tiger Group, an exciting independent publisher on a mission to create engaging and inspiring books for children and young people, has a bundle of entertaining and enlightening books to keep youngsters busy over the summer.

Jess Pendleton has a shocking secret… but she’s determined not to let that spoil a holiday in France with her young son.

Sheffield’s indie darlings Pulp and ‘baggy’ Manchester band The Happy Mondays are set to go head to head with one another this September. In a special edition of quaint daytime TV show Bargain Hunt.

They say that love makes the world go round but relationships – in all their many forms – are surely what keep us humans ticking.

When Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts arrive in a peaceful Sussex coastal village for a summer camp in 1935, a restless teenage girl is seduced by their dark, alien charms.

A young historian’s holiday in Naples becomes an emotional journey into a long-lost wartime love affair in a beautiful and evocative novel from bestselling author Rachel Hore.