They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s: Patrick, the sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled...

June 1914 and a young woman - Clara Waterfield - is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a...

Ruth's going to risk everything to have her daughter's baby...

Ruth Furnival has built the life she always dreamed of: a...

The oyster party had the kiss of death upon it - even though there were two 'R's in the month. Miriam Birdseye - famed revue star...

From Noel Streatfeild, the author of Ballet Shoes, Caldicott Place is a moving story of unexpected friendships, new beginnings...

One glorious gothic mansion - Garonlea - and two rather different ladies who would be Queen . . .

Lady Charlotte...

When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms...

A timeless Cinderella story, A Little Princess is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. A heartwarming tale that...

Joan Aiken, classic author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, wrote the Armitage family stories all throughout her life - from...

A thrilling first novel - a big, wonderful, romantic wartime story - from the famous broadcaster and journalist. A debut at...

In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be...

Miriam Birdseye is daring, brilliant - and a long way from The Ivy. Our dashing heroine, a famous revue artist, takes to the...

I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by...

Written by the author of "Union Street", "The Century's Daughter" and "The Man Who Wasn't There", this is a story about a killer...

The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .

'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your...

Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good-looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her sober...

An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to...

An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world.

Adam...

Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola...

Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and...

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining...

When Prince Charming is murdered and the principal dancer hits the bottle, amateur sleuths Miriam Birdseye and Natasha Nevkorina...

The breathtaking historical novel about love, beauty, the politics of sex and the power of loyalty set in Venice, by the...

At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never...