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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 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...

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

Housewife Theresa wants...

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...

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....

For a moment it's as if they've never been apart. They're still Vixen and Cassandra, summer sisters forever. The rest is a...

Meet the Dobsons and the Jamiesons: two ordinary families on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Joe Dobson left his wife and kids...

Welcome to South London, to one of the nicest streets in one of the country's vilest boroughs...For the residents of Lark Grove,...

Never Far From Nowhere is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a...

Better opportunity that s why Angela s dad sailed to England from America in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Six months later her...

An unforgettable story of loneliness, isolation and finding your way. Heart-wrenching, wise and wryly funny, this novel will make...

When your mother considers another country home, it's hard to know where you belong. When the people you live among can't...

A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting...

An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family....

Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighbourhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those...

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of...

A terminally ill old man returns to his hometown, Cherry Village, to live out the remaining days of his life. Kang Dae-su...

A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her death. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, he and...

A grandfather who learns to let go. A grandson who learns to love.

Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon...

As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not...

This gripping, moving and hiliarious novel introduces seven characters, each of whom has a profound effect on each other s lives....

Released from prison after serving his sentence for the assisted death of his wife, his health failing and his chronic impatience...