Mozart’s Ghost Julia Cameron £7.99

This is the first novel by the author of the classic book on creativity ‘The Artist’s Way’.

Meet Anna, a thirty-something living alone in New York City. A schoolteacher by day, by night she works as a medium, covertly helping people reunite with their lost loved ones. Anna leads a double life, guarding her secret as much as she guards her heart - until Edward, a gangly yet handsome concert pianist, moves into her building. Edward's music fills Anna's apartment with beautiful sounds that disturb her concentration and her lines of communication with spirits. Romance blossoms, but Anna is conflicted: by exposing her true identity, does she risk losing what may be her true love? And is music really his true love? Then a ghost begins to interfere - that of the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - and while he causes havoc for Anna, he begins to play matchmaker, with unexpected results.

Paper Lanterns  Christine Coleman  £7.99

The inspiration for this second novel, by the author of ‘The Dangerous Sports Euthanesia Society’, came from the discovery of a cache of original love-letters written in China in the late nineteen twenties by two separate women to the same man. Told with insight and compassion, this absorbing novel moves between Hong Kong, Norfolk and the Midlands, and shows how the consequences of an act of infidelity have shaped the lives of three generations of women. After a phone call from her younger brother, Ann travels to Hong Kong in search of the truth about their scandalous mother, Vivienne. Here, she discovers a series of letters and journal entries which reveal a secret about her beloved grandmother's early life that challenges her most deeply felt convictions. Ann must also face up to her own part in an event which took place just before her sixteenth birthday, and caused the break-up of the family.  The author has a real feel for Hong Kong itself, with its exotic mix of old and new in the bustling urban districts, and brings it fully alive on the page – making it easy to understand how the place can influence and even change lives.

Summertime   J.M. Coetzee

This is a very autobiographical novel where the author takes delight in gently mocking his artistic younger self. It’s a very refreshing and funny read. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.

Too Much Happiness  Alice Munro   £7.99

A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction (which involves reading Housman in the nude) finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Other stories of this title uncover the 'deep holes' in marriage and their consequences, the dangerous intimacy of girls and the cruelty of children. The longer title story follows Sophia Kovalevsky, a late nineteenth-century Russian emigree and mathematical genius, as she takes a fateful winter journey that begins with a visit to her lover on the Riviera, and ends in Sweden, where she is a professor at the only university willing to hire a woman to teach her subject.  Munro, the reigning queen of short fiction, takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.

Quilt Nicholas Royle   £7.99

Facing the disarray and disorientation around his father's death, a man contends with the strange and haunting power of the house his parents once lived in. He sets about the mundane yet exhausting process of sorting through the remnants of his father's life - clearing away years of accumulated objects, unearthing forgotten memories and the haunted realms of everyday life. At the same time, he embarks on an eccentric side-project. And as he grows increasingly obsessed with this new project, his grip on reality seems to slip. This is the first novel from this author who is perhaps better known in his day job as a text book writing Professor of English at the University of Sussex .