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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...

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...

Welcome to the neighbourhood. We do things differently here.

Recently, Nora has started to feel that 'having it all' - a...

In Morocco, behind the ancient walls of the medina, secrets will be revealed…

Amina Bennis has come back to her childhood home...

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...

Oman. The ancient land of frankincense, wind-swept deserts, craggy mountaintops and turquoise seas. Into this magical nation come...

'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 -...

Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their...

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...

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend...

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