England, September 1939
Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of...

London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb.
Out of the blue, she receives...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect . . .

Cassandra...

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful...

Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that...

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

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

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

Lizzie and Frances are twins, together...

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

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

The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone.

Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using,...

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

Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. From its earliest origins in the sixteenth century (or an early...

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

Alice and Alife couldn't be more different.

He's charming, talkative and outgoing. She's reserved, efficient and a...

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human...

A fascinating and revelatory journey along the Danube to appeal to fans of Michael Palin's New Europe.

The Danube is Europe's...

With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds...

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she...

When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge...

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

Rachel loves being at the centre of her...

Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe...

From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last...

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

We all know politics is absurd. But could a Republican be brought down by a stuffed aardvark?
Republican congressman Alexander...

Meet Felix Pink. The most unlikely murderer you'll ever have the good fortune to spend time with.

When Felix lets himself in...

What happened to the women we were supposed to become?

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on...

At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes,...

'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral....

Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the...

Farouk's country has been torn apart by war.

Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe.

John's past torments him as he...

Can long-term hopes and dreams hold fast in the face of an exotic wind of change?

Gillon - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable...