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Does 'friends' ever really mean just 'friends'?

Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were...

'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as...

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the...

Two lives intertwined and seemingly harmonious. One decision that changes everything.

Lizzie and Frances are twins, together...

Only a miracle can unite a congregation in turmoil...

In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms.

The...

At first their ages made no difference...

Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be...

It's never too late to find your own way

For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in...

One encounter and life is never the same again...

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza...

Would you take a chance and set something in motion that could change everything?

The Grey House is the final piece in the...

Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here.

Yesterday they were a family just like any other: Anna and...

Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently...

It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled...

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows,...

Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives:

Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak.

Evelyn who...

Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving...

Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about...

It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She...

Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to...

When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to...

July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of...

1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of...

Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school...

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department...

'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.

Smart, diligent, and a bit...

Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a...

The soldiers are coming home – after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and...

When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up?

Rachel loves being at the centre of her...

William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the...

The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller about the marriage of an American First Lady: A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of...

Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her.

He loved their...