Free your mind

by Carol Kirkwood (£16.99, HB, HarperCollins) On the scorching isle of Majorca, everyone is hiding something. Designer Camille Fontaine arrives there with a broken heart, fleeing from the ruins of a l

by Liz Fenwick (£9.99, PB, HarperCollins) Newlyn, Cornwall. Kerensa is sent by her father’s auction house to catalogue a ramshackle building overlooking the sea. What she discovers inside changes her

Let It Come Down Paul Bowles (Penguin ...

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

by Hazel Gaynor (£16.99, HarperCollins, HB) The greatest journeys will test your courage. Many years before Dorothy arrives in Oz, her aunt begins an unexpected adventure of her own. Emily Gale become

Author Carol Kirkwood on the books that changed her life