Matt Haig

What if you could try out all the lives you could have lived and pick one? Would you choose differently? 'Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' Thirty-four-year-old...

'The first rule is that you don't fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .' Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare's England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific,...

Terence Cave has experienced more than his share of tragedies, with his mother's suicide, his young wife's death, & now one of his daughters has died in an accident. Now Bryony is all Terence has left, & he realises that his one duty in life is to keep her safe. The voices in his head convince him to protect her innocence at any cost.