Rosamund Lupton

A school is on fire. Grace knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identity of the arsonist and protect her family from the person who's still intent on destroying them.

When Beatrice gets a call to say that her younger sister is missing, she returns home to London. As she learns about the circumstances surrounding the disappearance, she discover how little she actually knows of her sister's life and is unprepared for the terrifying truths she must now face. Richard & Judy Bookclub

In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. From the wounded headmaster in the library, unable to help his trapped pupils and staff, to teenage Hannah in love for the first time, to the parents gathering desperate for news, to the 16 year old Syrian refugee trying to rescue his little brother, to the police psychologist who must identify the gunmen, to the students taking refuge in the school theatre, all experience the most intense hours of their lives, where evil and terror are met by courage, love and redemption.

On 24th November Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby arrive in Alaska, driving alone across a frozen wilderness, where nothing grows, no one lives, and where night will last for another fifty-four days. They are looking for Ruby's father, travelling deeper into a silent land. They still cannot find him, and someone is watching them in the dark... Richard & Judy Bookclub.