The Borough Press imprint: 57 books

A story from Alison Case to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. Heathcliff escapes to a cave in the moors. Cold and shivering from the rain he tries to metabolise what he has just overheard, that Cathy is to marry. He feels their connection like a cord, and as she moves away he endures the stretch of it.

The ‘bonkers’ book that 'it is impossible not to be moved by' DAILY MAIL A joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator in a land where bureaucracy reigns above all else. Perhaps...

Two strong women. Two cultures. One unifying cause: survival. Ellen Thomas, experienced war correspondent, returns to Afghanistan 's dangerous Helmand Province on assignment, keen to find the murderer of her friend and translator, Jalil. In her search for justice in a land ravaged by death and destruction,...

A beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field. Anyone who’s ever lost someone is haunted Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother’s death and moves there with her young children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own childhood,...

A story from Louisa Young to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. One woman frankly recalls the several ‘run-ins’ she’s had with Heathcliff-esque men who have called themselves her boyfriend. And shows the true repercussions of the dangers of being coveted.

Survival is hard in a land where no woman can live alone Layla is just thirteen when the men with the beards and guns burn down her beloved father’s school and begin to terrorise the Swat valley region of Pakistan. She has to flee, exchanging the tranquil beauty of the Himalayas for the squalor...

A unique chance to read these two chilling Gothic tales from the brilliant storyteller John Harding together. Modern Gothic classic Florence & Giles and it’s sequel The Girl Who Couldn’t Read are a must for fans of Edgar Allen Poe. A pair of Gothic novels that will chill and delight. FLORENCE...

A short story by Linda Grant from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In ‘The Mash Up’, a woman recalls the strain of juggling opposing cultures at her wedding. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest...

What happens when two worlds collide? This is a story about me, Clementine, and my friends: a panther called Levi, a pelican called Lola and a turtle called Jimmy. It is about dragons and goblins, my Daddy the King, my Mummy the Queen and Prince Pio my brother. At least that is the way I tell it sometimes...

A story from Laurie Penny to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. An ex-boyfriend reaches out and invites a woman to a cottage in the wilderness. But lingering behind the clapboard, a ghost from the relationship resides…

A story from Sophie Hannah to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. TV scientist Sonia tries to find a new school for her daughter. To escape the obsessional eyes of a class mate, Kitty does a taster day at The Morrow school. But the school is still shaking off rumours after a...

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parents Neville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home ownership, aspiration and advancement. The first children of their working class...

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher 1891. In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks...

A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood Bible and The Lovely Bones. Raped then murdered in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942, Lin Shui’s ‘Hungry Ghost’ clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, destined to become a school, just in time she...