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A vivid portrait of life in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, focusing on the secrets, lies and traumas of the inhabitants of a Caracas...

A twenty-four-hour whirlwind of death and life.

In the depths of a winter's night, the heart of Simon Limbeau is resting,...

When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed -...

Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he...

Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his...

Julio Carrion Gonzalez, a man of tremendous wealth and influence in Madrid, has come home to be buried. But as the family stand...

An extraordinary, beguiling bestselling tale of fly-fishing and political spinning, of unexpected heroism and late-blooming...

It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as...

Thrush Green is buzzing with gossip, which everyone is keen to share with two ex-schoolteachers, who have returned to visit their...

When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she...

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place, eight...

Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living up to his predecessor when he moves to the parish of Lulling. He...

Ellen has been living on her own in a picturesque if damp cottage in Cheshire since her husband abandoned her to go and live with...

Dulcie Ballantyne knows that creative writers' groups attract an unlikely mix of people, so when she starts up Hidden Talents,...

In the heart of the Cheshire countryside, Cholmford Hall Mews, a converted eighteenth-century barn, is far more than an exclusive...

'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...

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

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

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...

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

In a seaside suburb on Australia’s golden coast, four women head to the water to swim every day . . .

Housewife Theresa wants...

In Second World War Bath, young, naive wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and...

When middle-aged veteran Meadows learns that the authorities have told him a lie about the circumstances of the death of his son,...

'It was just sex, Anj, it didn't mean anything.'

When Anjali finds out that Jack, her boyfriend of ten years, has been...

In this addictive short story collection, twenty-four very different women reach a pivotal moment in their lives.

A widow is...

Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of...

'Trust wasn't something you could have in degrees; it was all or nothing...'

Greg and Amanda are happy. They've been together...

Elderly retired architect Otto Laird lives a peaceful, if slightly bemused, existence in Switzerland with his second wife, Anika....