"Of course love is the ultimate luxury, but I am unwilling to continue in the certainty of its absence."
Grace is searching online for ways to die and she finds Daniel. Like a pied piper, he leads her and nine other people on a trek across Slovenia. For twenty-one days they share stories, play games, surprise themselves with laughter… and make their final decisions.
An intense love story told against the backcloth of the Slovenian landscape. It tackles contentious issues around suicide and assisted dying and yet remains uplifting.
Luca, a brilliant and self-absorbed young opera singer, is buried in the rubble of a collapsed building. A girl crawls through the debris to comfort him and then vanishes. Perhaps she died in the ruins or maybe she is just a figment of his imagination. When he discovers the strange truth, he is unwilling to accept it.
This is a story of love between two people who would never have met and never have found common ground without one of the catastrophes of modern life.
Unseen Unsung celebrates the power of music and the force of human survival in a complex world.
Silk: Alessandro Baricco
Our Endless Numbered Days: Claire Fuller
The Museum of Fractured Lives: Sally Jenkins
Dissolution: C. J. Sansom
A Place in the World: Cinda Crabbe McKinnon
The Space that it Takes: Highgate poets anthology
The Hard Word Box: Sarah Hesketh
A Life Like Other People's: Alan Bennett
The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Richard Flannagan
We have always lived in the Castle: Shirley Jackson
Woman at Point Zero: Nawal El Saadawi
Dear Lupin: Charles Mortimer
Skylights: Luther M. Siler
Carrots and Jaffas: Howard Goldenberg
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out of the Window and Disappeared: Jonas Jonasson
Rethreading My Life: Alanna McIntyre
The Sorrows of Young Werther: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gene Genie: Patricia Mullin
The Last Runaway: Tracy Chevalier
The Goldfinch: Donna Tartt
Surviving the Sword, Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942 – 45: Brian MacArthur
Serious Business: Roderick Hart
And Then Like My Dreams: Margaret Rose Stringer
The Rosie Project: Graeme Simsion
Flight Behaviour: Barbara Kingsolver
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Jewels of Paradise: Donna Leon
Malone Dies: Samuel Beckett
A Literature of Their Own: Elaine Showalter
Archangel: Robert Harris
Jeweller's Rouge, Survival by the River Kwai: Philip R … Peachey
The Glass House: Simon Mawer
Middlemarch: George Eliot
The Time of our Singing: Richard Powers
The Poisonwood Bible: Barbara Kingsolver
The Ravenous Brain: Daniel Bor
The Reader: Bernard Schlink
Verdi's Shakespeare: Gary Wills
The Hare With Amber Eyes: Edmund de Waal
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Jonathan Saffran Foer
Back from the Brink: Alastair Darling
The Last of the Wine: Mary Renault
The Light that Failed: Rudyard Kipling
The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid
An Equal Music: Vikram Seth
Faulks on Fiction:Sebastian Faulks
Collapse: Jared Diamond