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

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

‘I was running on happily because it was so good to be able to watch him under cover of my own talk, knowing exactly now what I...

The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But...

Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes...

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

The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But...

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them is aware...

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

Witty yet elegant, Territorial Rights is a celebration of human imperfection and complexity, with as many shifting identities,...

Born on the wrong side of the creek, John Buddy Pearson, the son of a slave, has come a long way since his shoeless days. With...

When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil...

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...

These short fictions and prose poems are beautifully bizarre: bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves;...

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn...

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

Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is...

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

The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his...

A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a...

A subtle love story by one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century

Vinny Tumulty is a quiet, sensible man. When...

On a stroll through Greenwich Village, security guard Ralph Linderman finds a wallet on the sidewalk. It belongs to Jack...

A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a...

Doone Penny is a child with passion, and a gift - he is a born dancer, a ballet genius in the making. But though others may...

It is Columbia University, 1968. Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as roommates on the first night. Ann is rich and radical;...

A brilliant novel about the damage caused by relentless 'niceness'. Uncritical, encouraging, 'the soul of kindness', Flora's help...

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...

In a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband...

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...