Nothing is as permanent as it appears...

Denver, 1962
Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single...

In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in...

Scotland, 1950s
Walter MacMillan is bewitched by the clever, glamorous Jean Thompson and can't believe his luck when she agrees...

Meet the 'Keeper of Lost Things'...
Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has...

Elizabeth Pringle lived all her long life on the Scottish island of Arran. But did anyone really know her? In her will she leaves...

Away from the hotels and holiday lets, there is an unseen side of Cornwall, where the shifting uncertainties of the future breed...

Cyprus in the run up to the civil war of the 1970s... the threat of it hangs in the atmosphere like a fine mist. A terrible...

A spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally...

Paris, 1939
Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and her new job at the American Library in Paris - with its thriving community...

1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among...

Masha's life has stopped. Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, her life has been forever changed by a...

The Words In My Hand is the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr...

1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia
Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, ship...

Simsion... , Buist Anne

Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in...

The Great Depression, 1929.
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and utterly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a...

A rich, bighearted debut that takes us from working-class Staten Island in the wake of the September 11th attacks to moneyed...

The funny, frank and full autobiography of the nation's favourite comedian.

'It's the first time I've done this. Other people...