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Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient...
Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive...
It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the War. Sent by her beautiful, indolent mother to...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Opulence. Invasion. Terror. And forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore.
'They were the golden days, when Singapore was as rich...
1912-1940
A generation fallen.
A country that will never be the same again.
Nowhere in England avoids the searing loss of...
1552. Fifteen years after Henry VIII's brutal reformation of the monasteries, Catholics in England still live in fear. When...
Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the...
Adam Swann's expanding business empire now stretches as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as far west as the Dublin Pale....
Adam Swann is hungry for success. He is one of the new breed of entrepreneurs thrown up by the Industrial Revolution, determined...
A classic tale of fantasy and self-delusion from one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century
Writing...
Susan Ferrier sold more copies of her novels than her contemporary, Jane Austen. Sir Walter Scott declared her his equal. Why,...
'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as...
Suppressed by the author during her lifetime, this is Rebecca West's fictionalized account of her obsessive love for Lord...
'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places?...
It was on an afternoon in May 1844 when the letter came from Dragonwyck. Tired of life on her father's farm in Connecticut,...
‘During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had...
Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating...
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