Cinnamon Press: 50 books

In the Paris of 1970, the hippie revolution has yet to crash land and Minnette searches hungrily for a way to enlightenment. She finds it. Or she finds something and the path of her life is set. But, by the beginning of the 21st Century, Minnette is haunted by the shades of recurring dreams and recurring...

Set in Phnom Penh in 1962, amongst the diplomatic community with its tensions, friendships, intrigues and affairs and against the background of the Cold War and Cuban missile, The Crocodile Princess takes historical figures, from Prince Sihanouk to Peter Cook, constructing an alternative history in...

Under the Pipal Tree Beginning in India in 1966, two women, Indira and Maria, her impoverished companion sit on the verandah, reminiscing as Maria rocks a baby in her arms, whispering stories of their past to the infant, Rohini. The story unfolds in the viewpoints of Rohini in the present and Maria...

The Camino de Santiago (St James’s Way) ranked only after Jerusalem and Rome in medieval times, thought to secure ‘points’ for entry into heaven for any pilgrim to cover its 500 miles. In her late forties, Rosemary Wallace is already uneasy about setting out: whether she will last the distance...

When Owen and Jan take their three children on holiday in North Wales their life as a family is already unravelling. As relationships are made and broken a carefully pieced patchwork of events unfolds; seen from the different perspectives of parents and children, each sealed in with their own perceptions....

Introverted and emotionally aloof, Sian can’t remember what her ex-husband had been talking about, but not wanting to do as he said, she did exactly what he’d cautioned against instead. From Cardiff to Saint Vay — a four-house hamlet tucked away in a forgotten corner of ancient France — Sian...

When 12 year-old William Devoy’s Irish father sends him from New York to a new Dublin boarding school, St Enda’s, William imagines having an adventure. It is 1911; the next five years will bring William, and Ireland, turmoil and opportunity. While William is learning Irish, playing hurling and...

Set in 1969 on a council estate in north Manchester this thriller come dark satire centres on Dennis’s adolescent travails, including his longings for both Helen and a teenager, Lorraine Lever); on what he hears through the wall and the puzzle of who commits the central murder.