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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...

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,...

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

After three days, short...

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...

'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....

Jean Collins had two daughters. But she only loved one of them.

She knew it was wrong, but she just couldn't help herself....

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...

At nine years old, Frankie Presto is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six...

When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks -...

Helen Ross, a twenty-nine-year-old biologist, is sent to a sleepy Rocky Mountain ranching town to defend a pack of wolves from...

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,...

Faith Jackson fixes herself up with a great job in TV and the perfect flatshare. But neither is that perfect - and nor are her...

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...

The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her bed, Pat said, 'You can't live...

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...

The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor...

Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise...