Nineteen-fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known...

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months...

The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith

Life...

It was here at the Manor House that Norman Blood, captain of England, spent his childhood playing cricket with the vicar's...

Real Life sucks. He's thirty, his dreams of becoming a rock star are long gone, and he's just discovered that responsibility has...

The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the...

At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has...

Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and petty...

The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44...

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone...

In Killing Monica Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame and even the meaning of life...

A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the...