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It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the War. Sent by her beautiful, indolent mother to...

Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far,...

This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are...

Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of...

Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of...

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A...

Mr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that he will probably never be able to pass his wonderful...

As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire...

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He...

'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long...

All over Britain life is beginning again now the war is over but for Lenny and Miriam, East End London teenage twins who have...

Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose...

A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady...

David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the...

A gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values - is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place?
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'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful,...

On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her...

In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into...

Philip Carter has spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. On his release his beautiful wife is waiting for him....

Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith...

'Ramon had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramon, his Catholic soul trapped in his passion for Lelia. He'd find Ramon and...

Morgan Stone was born with a hole in her middle. A perfectly smooth patch of nothing where a something should be.

After...

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic...

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong...

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by...

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French,...

He is watching you.

He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death.

But you...

When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labour? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become...

The wail of sirens and the bombs of the Luftwaffe shook the people of the Avenue out of their dreams and preoccupations, bringing...

Jim Carver - a tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family to find his wife...