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It's Spring again in the village of Thrush Green and with the changing season comes change for many of the villagers.

An...

As the early sunshine begins to warm Thrush Green, it looks as if it is going to be a golden summer. But in this apparently...

Children's voices ring out from the school playground; in the distance there is the gentle hum of a lawnmower; and all around the...

'No matter how devoted, dedicated, conscientious and altogether noble a teacher is, I feel pretty sure that each and every one...

Miss Read heard about the sale of Tyler's Row from the always well-informed Mrs Pringle - and before long Fairacre is alive with...

'The story of the village goes back a long, long time, and it still goes on. I have listened to my neighbours' accounts of tales...

When Kate worked at the Barleybridge Practice, she had thought herself in love with Scott. But that was years ago and she is over...

When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career, she is alone in the world....

The arrival of a stranger in the village of Thrush Green stirs up ripples of speculation and interest. Not only does the village...

It's the May Day holiday and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green. The residents of Thrush Green all have their own...

On a blustery March day in the village of Fairacre, Miss Clare sees two strangers, 'pacing slowly, side by side, along the edge...

In her first book Village School Miss Read gave a picture of the small but detailed world of a typical primary school in a remote...

Two women - one Irish, one American - exchange homes for the summer; their unlikely and touching friendship unveils secrets and...

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises, heaps...

Three Liverpool families - the Flowers, the Baileys and the McDowds - all very different, yet inextricably linked. Beginning in...

When a terrorist returns to take revenge - watch out!

Two former Israeli intelligence agents are recalled in order to...

A brilliantly compelling Liverpool saga following the lives of two women - three generations apart.

Millie Cameron is not at...

For the locals of Turnham Malpas the rural peace is disrupted when a famous actor comes to stay to recuperate from illness....

September 1940 - the cruellest year of war for Britain's civilians as the Luftwaffe mercilessly blitz their cities. In Pearl...

The village is bedevilled by talk and all is not as it seems in the village of Turnham Malpas ...

Does pushy newcomer Venetia...

When Peter Harris arrives in Turnham Malpas as the new rector, he finds the village people welcoming but set in their ways. Yet...

Germany, 1944.

The Allied invasion is not far away, and the high command desperately need to know where it will take place. It...

The village school is to get a new head, and the inhabitants of Turnham Malpas await her arrival with curiosity. At first sight,...

Two years of war have taken a terrible toll on Pearl Street, Liverpool. German bombs have reduced some houses to rubble and most...

More than fifty years ago, Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caught the eye of the great...

Every dream demands a sacrifice…

For Crystal Wyatt, growing up on a ranch in Northern California, Hollywood seems a million...

Adrift in a raft after a terrible shipwreck, ten strangers try to survive while they wait for rescue.

After three days, short...

The people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none faster than the Court of Charles...

Behind the doors of the magnificent Ashmore Castle, secrets are waiting to be uncovered…

1901. When the Earl of Stainton dies...

You can pay a terrible price for keeping a promise...

Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the...