Small, well appointed future. Semi detached.

If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make...

Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are...

Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry...

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from...

Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man. Away from her...

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

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

Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life....

'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that...

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London,...

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
Bewildered and distraught, Paddy...

It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to...

You never know where danger may come from...
6.45 am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people...

Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren't always what they make them out to be.
What would happen if they told...

It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead.
When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she allows the...

Some say the river drowned her... Some say it brought her back to life
On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the...

'Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' Daily...

It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She...

The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian...

'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was...

A former tiffinboy from Mumbai, Ram Mohammad Thomas, has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz show to win a cool one...

At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he could stay in England, she didn't...

The latest installment in Rosamunde Pilcher's Bookshelf series presents Fleur Daxney, who preys on rich and newly widowed men,...

Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a...