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For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate...

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house...

A family in crisis. A catalyst that threatens to change everything...

The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed...

It's 1991. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. Only lately, he's been feeling dead...

Does 'friends' ever really mean just 'friends'?

Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were...

'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as...

Like Water For Chocolate tells the captivating story of the De la Garza family. As the youngest daughter, Tita is forbidden by...

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the...

Two lives intertwined and seemingly harmonious. One decision that changes everything.

Lizzie and Frances are twins, together...

Only a miracle can unite a congregation in turmoil...

In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms.

The...

At first their ages made no difference...

Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be...

It's never too late to find your own way

For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in...

One encounter and life is never the same again...

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza...

Would you take a chance and set something in motion that could change everything?

The Grey House is the final piece in the...

'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the...

Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have...

'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some...

Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst...

Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about...

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in...

Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to...

When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to...

Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school...

'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.

Smart, diligent, and a bit...

Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a...

The soldiers are coming home – after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and...

When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up?

Rachel loves being at the centre of her...

William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the...

The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller about the marriage of an American First Lady: A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of...

Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her.

He loved their...