It's America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of...

In the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest, Mr Mulliner tells his amazing tales, which hold his audience of drinkers (referred to...

It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip...

The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has...

'It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for...

'Without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'

Welcome to the world of the delightfully...

The first book in the captivating Spanish Trilogy, focusing on the remarkable lives of Spain's most famous monarchs.

In the...

The sixth book in Jean Plaidy's marvellous Plantaganet series

Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, had...

The fifth book in Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet saga tells the fascinating story of the hatred between two queens

The first half...

Boone Daniels is a laid-back kind of private investigator. He has sleuthing skills to burn but is rarely out of his boardshorts,...

Send Me No Flowers is the story of a young woman's fight for survival.

Donna Stewart's family is poor but respectable and hard...

The fourth Will Trent novel, from the #1 bestselling author

When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy...

A secret from the past can change your life for ever. A heart-breaking love story set in Cold War Berlin by the author of The...

The stunning new novel by the acclaimed author of The Power of the Dog ('so good you want to keep him to yourself' Ian Rankin),...

Richard Bolitho -- Midshipman

October 1772, Portsmouth. And sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon ordered...

The Western Ocean. 1942: from the bridge of HMS Gladiator, Lieutenant-Commander David Howard's orders were chillingly clear....

It's a deadly game of blackmail. And they're making him play.
Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his...

All you need is love. A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French...

A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape.

Jo Edwards...

Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional...

Every summer the four Ryan children play in the ruins of Fernscourt, the once-grand house on the bank of the river.

But when...

Desmond and Deirdre Doyle's silver wedding anniversary is drawing ever closer, and it falls to the couple's eldest daughter,...

Generous-hearted Benny Hogan and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends for years, growing up in sleepy Knockglen. Their one...

A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces...

1789: NEW SOUTH WALES. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's...

1794: as the year draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading...

1784: at a time when most of the fleet is laid up, His Majesty's frigate Undine weighs anchor at Spithead to begin a voyage to...

1782: British Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take the frigate Phalarope to the Caribbean, where the hard-pressed royal...

1778: a seminal year for the young Richard Bolitho... The American War of Independence changes to an all-out struggle for freedom...

1774: Bolitho is now a newly appointed third lieutenant joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny at Plymouth. It is a far step from...