For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections,...

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...

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

All Marnie wants is somewhere to call home. Mourning lost years spent in a marriage that has finally come to an end, she needs a...

Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a baby. Adopted but then later rejected again by a...

The witty, weird and wonderful abound in this early romantic comedy by Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley.

Tina...

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

Cassandra...

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

Snap Decisions Can Be Dangerous...

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

They wanted the same things. Death - and an audience.

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...

To Las Vegas . . . and beyond!
Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises, and...

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...

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...

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...

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...