The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first...

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...

A beautiful, magical novel.

It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is...

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 brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate...

'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...

The classic story of an innocent who changes the world

The hero of this astonishing novel is called Chance - he may be the man...

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

Over the last two...

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

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

Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently...

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...

1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as...

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