Set on a bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, THE WEDDING tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made...

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall fall in love at university.

Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself...

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with...

By a frozen lake, ten-year-old Jesse waits for his father. It's New Year's Day, and his dad promised a fresh start. But Jesse...

The Forums are a musical family, and one child, Sebastian, shines out as a prodigy. He is a brilliant violinist and when his...

In the near future, in a world that seems just like our own, Eve grows up in a loving family that is increasingly threatened by a...

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the...

Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient...

Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive...

It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the War. Sent by her beautiful, indolent mother to...

Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far,...

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in...

This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are...

Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of...

Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of...

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A...

Mr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that he will probably never be able to pass his wonderful...

As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire...

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He...

'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long...

All over Britain life is beginning again now the war is over but for Lenny and Miriam, East End London teenage twins who have...

Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose...

A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady...

David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the...

A gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values - is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place?
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'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful,...

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the...

On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her...

In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into...

Philip Carter has spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. On his release his beautiful wife is waiting for him....