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Charlotte Bold is nothing like her name - she is shy and timid and just wants a quiet life. When her job doing the traffic news...

Only the truly devoted manage to swim every day at Whitstable, because the sea's only deep enough at high tide. So when Deb...

Will is a Yorkshire lad, through and through. He's in his element when he's outside in the country air, not stuck in a classroom...

Ten-year-old Jonah lives in a world of his own.

He likes colours and feathers and the feel of fresh air on his skin.

He...

Meet the women of Delaney Square:

Coco and Cassie haven't seen their mother since she walked out when they were...

The Gardens of Delight brochure promises the opportunity to visit some of the most beautiful gardens in the Lake Como area of...

'This isn't a mid-life crisis OK? For a start I'm not old enough yet to have one of those. I'm calling it a happiness project....

It's a time of turmoil for the village of Turnham Malpas...

Peter and Caroline Harris live a comfortable life at the rectory,...

You can't escape your past. At least that's what the residents of Turnham Malpas would say…

While clearing out the rectory's...

'Someone had made a perfect job of creating a place in which to hide a notebook . . . there was no address, only a date:...

In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in their lives.

Moll is a...

Mia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home, a happy marriage, a job she enjoys and three grown-up children...

A secret that changed everything...

Katie Lavender has always thought she was pretty unshockable, until a year after her...

Things are heating up in the village of Turnham Malpas. Now comfortably settled in the Big House, Johnny and Alice Templeton are...

The villagers of Turnham Malpas are in for a shock. With Sir Ralph now dead, his fortune and title go to newcomer, Johnny...

When Harry Dickenson arrives in Turnham Malpas, the warm welcome he receives convinces him to stay. Handsome and charming, Harry...

This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the...

Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his colleagues at the University of Regensburg's Institute of Romance Philology...

London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation divided against itself, a...

Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her...

A Scatter of Light is a companion novel to the National Book Awards winner and New York Times bestseller Last Night at the...

A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter...

The start of something new...

When Kate is faced with an 'empty nest' when her youngest daughter, Ella, leaves for university,...

They recognized that they were all existing in a perfect moment, and eventually it would have to end. Other times it felt like it...

This is a True Story.
An author goes on a book tour for his new bestseller Hell of a Book - which, as people keep telling him,...

Hannah is twenty-eight when the worst happens.

Her first instinct? To call her mum.

The problem is, her mum having an...

Underbelly
[n.] singular
The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.
An area vulnerable to attack.
A dark, hidden part of...

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks...

At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's...

It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of...

Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh...