What becomes of the broken-hearted?
Grace was just a teenager when Jimi broke her heart. But now she's moved on and is happy...

When the abandoned strays from a local dogs home are matched with brand new owners, it turns out it might not just be the dogs...

How to turn forty:

1. Set yourself a personal challenge.
2. Clear wardrobe of all age inappropriate clothing.
3....

1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France.

While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions...

Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness he...

It's Easter in Reading – a bad time for eggs – and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery...

The Great War opened up an exciting new career for Vi in London. But that was yesterday. Now, the war's over, her husband is dead...

Dora Preston has guts but it will take more than that for her to break free from Hedderby and make a life for herself on the...

Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a...

Marjorie is the pretty one of the Preston sisters. So pretty that when a performer at her sister’s music room breaks her leg,...

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an incompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food...

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading.

It isn't...

Thomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join...

Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere. Its folk are an independent...

Recently widowed, Hannah Firth is still young - young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daughter-in-law uses her...

In 1863 the authorities send Irish orphans Ismay and Mara to Australia against their will. Worse, on arrival they're separated...

Whirlwind is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and...

It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In...

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles...

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job...

Over one hundred years have passed since Dirk Struan founded Hong Kong’s oldest trading company. But now, the Noble House is in...

Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master...

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own...

When Mattie Harris's body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn't a swimmer -...

Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit; ever since her father's death she has had to be a survivor.

She makes an ill-advised...

Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are The Famous Five - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All...

Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun...

Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe. And it can only be found on a single planet:...

Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint?

France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in...

By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is a college student, and one of the only black kids at Jefferson Academy. By night, she...