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

Cassandra...

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On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their...

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Eve Singer makes her living from death. As a TV crime reporter, she'll...

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the...

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

Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watford semi, was always getting into trouble. When she wasn’t...

She knows all your secrets. But will she keep them?

Look around you. Who holds the most power in the room? Is it the one who...

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...

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

The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast...

Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know...

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...

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...

Two centuries of reform, revolution and political intrigue in Chris Bryant's epic biography of Parliament

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Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here.

Yesterday they were a family just like any other: Anna and...

It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled...

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows,...

Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives:

Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak.

Evelyn who...

Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving...

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

Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science conundrums...

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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...