Women’s Fiction
The Woman on the Bus
It was a typical Tuesday evening in Kilbrody. Cathy Long was on her way to collect her drunken father from the pub; Ozzy O’Reilly was in the graveyard watching the Dublin bus through his...
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Things I Wish I'd Known
Reader: Suzy Aitchison
When Claire Cooper was 15 she'd swear on her Wham! album that: big hair and rah-rah skirts were here to stay; Spandau Ballet would never split up; she would marry her idol, heart-throb footballer...
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Somewhere, Someday
Reader: Carole Boyd
Kelly had always known Barney would leave, but she could never have envisaged how his leaving would turn her whole world upside down. But now he was gone, and she wondered if she would ever see...
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Not the End of the World
Reader: Geraldine James
Everyone knows the story of the Ark. The flood rising, the animals entering two by two, Noah. But what about the women and children? Did they all accept Noah’s orders to ignore their friends and...
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Pause Between Acts
Reader: Kim Hicks
Joan's answer to life after divorce from Jack is simple: happy seclusion. She rejects the outside world and embarks on a contented existence of isolated self-indulgence. But when her nice...
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Queen of the Mersey
It is Liverpool, 1939. The Second World War is about to start when pretty Laura Oliver meets Queenie Todd. Laura is twenty-one and happily married, whereas plain Queenie is only fourteen and has...
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The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
Reader: Eleanor Bron
In the title story, we find Wallis Simpson aged and bedridden, forbidden to leave the house by her Paris lawyer who will not allow anyone, friend or foe, to visit her.
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I Did a Bad Thing
Sarah Roberts used to be good. Then she did something bad. Very bad...
Now, years later, she’s living a good life. She works as a local newspaper reporter and lives with her saintly...£11.48 £19.69£13.70 £23.50
A Peaceful Retirement
Fairacre's retired schoolmistress was looking ahead joyfully to an easier way of life. But right from the start Miss Read receives lots of advice on how to spend it. Then there are the many...
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How Not to Shop
Reader: Kate Harbour
Personal shopper Annie Valentine is about to hit the big time: presenting a glamorous TV makeover series! But too late, Annie discovers this is TV on a shoestring. They’re paying her buttons and...
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Is There Anything You Want?
Reader: Susan Jameson
What do Mrs H., Rachel, Edwina, Ida, Sarah, Dot and Chrissie have in common? They’re all women, but they’re as diverse as human nature can be. But they are all survivors. This enthralling...
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Little White Lies
Reader: Jane MacFarlane
For sixteen-year-old Lizzie McDougall, life in the Glasgow tenements comes as a culture shock after her sheltered upbringing in the Highlands. But for her father, who has just lost his job,...
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Pins and Needles
Reader: Nerys Hughes
Twins Tanwen and Donna Evans are as different as chalk and cheese. Tanwen is pretty, a bubbly extrovert – but selfish and as sharp as a needle. Donna is plain, placid and shy, although...
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Winning Through
It’s nearly thirty years since the Chadwick siblings arrived at the Keep in Devon to live with their grandmother, Freddy. And while much has altered since then, the Keep remains a sanctuary for...
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Village School
Reader: Phyllida Nash
Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and, at the heart of the school, its head mistress Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see...
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Love
Reader: Maureen O’Brien
With surgical precision, ‘Love’ charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband, and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and...
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Au Revoir Liverpool
Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with purely for the sake of her two young children. To make up for the love and passion that is missing...
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Fresh from the Country
In this humorous and charming story, Miss Read draws us magically into the world of the primary school. Anna Lacey, a young country girl, is given her first job in Greater London, and as she...
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The Painted Veil
Reader: Sophie Ward
This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. When her husband discovers her deception, he exacts a terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him...
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Village Centenary
The village school is a hundred years old, and Miss Read, the schoolmistress, is fully occupied trying to recapture the march of those full and busy years under its roof. But that’s not all Miss...
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The Jewel in the Crown
'The Jewel in the Crown' is the first book in Paul Scott's sequence of novels about the last years of British rule in India.
In the India of 1942, two rapes take place simultaneously -...£10.99 £21.99£22.50 £27.50
The Wives of Bath
Reader: Suzy Aitchison
Two wildly different couples meet in an antenatal class and loathe each other on sight.
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After the War is Over
Reader: Nerys Hughes
Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all...
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Wishes and Tears
Reader: June Barrie
When a naive encounter at a Coronation party leaves 16-year-old Janet Slater pregnant there's no question in her scandalised parents' mind of her keeping the baby. Bundled off to a home for...
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Girl from the South
Set partly in London and partly in South Carolina, ‘Girl from the South' follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and the single - the children, in fact, of sixties swingers. They...
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Getting it Right
Reader: Eleanor Bron
Getting it right was not Gavin Lamb’s forte, at least where human relationships were concerned. In the hairdressing salon he was expert with the tools of his trade. But, back home with his...
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The Girl in the Mask
Reader: Ruth Sillers
Stand and deliver! Hand over your valuables if you value your life!' Sophia's duty is clear: look pretty, behave well, and find a husband as soon as possible. But Sophia hates the social whirl of...
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On Dangerous Ground
Reader: Jilly Bond
It’s devastating enough when Pru’s husband confesses to a long-term affair on their twentieth wedding anniversary. Then, when her daughter, Molly, announces she’s leaving for Vietnam on a...
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Against the Tide
Reader: June Barrie
Twin sisters Winnie and Dora are accustomed to conflict. Their fisherman father has always been a controversial figure, stirring up resentment among the locals for his modern fishing techniques...
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The Next Big Thing
Reader: Stephen Thorne
Herz is seventy-three and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end? He could propose marriage to an old friend he hasn’t seen...
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Mystical Paths
Reader: Glen McCready
1968, with the Swinging Sixties sliding into decadence, finds Nicholas Darrow wrestling with overwhelming personal problems: how can he bring himself to marry his fiancée, Rosalind, when he is...
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Moon Island
On a small stretch of coast, five clapboard houses which gaze out to sea are visited by the same group of families every year. When May arrives at the beach for the summer, she is on the brink of...
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Love Song
Hope Merriott has always thought of herself as truly blessed; her three daughters bring her much joy.
But when Hope’s fourth daughter arrives, her birth coincides with the failure of...£9.84 £19.69£24.50
The Waitress
Katie Simmonds wants to be an educational psychologist. Last week she wanted to be a teacher, and the week before that a film director. Katie isn’t short of ambitions, but none of her ambitions...
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Blind Trust
Reader: Thomas Judd
On the face of it, househusband Joe Wynde has it all apart from his sight. Robbed of 90% of his vision by a degenerative eye disorder, Joe's goals are simple: to raise his two sassy daughters...
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Something Like Love
Reader: Dearbhla Molloy
Eight years ago, Ben walked out on Rose and their three children. Just like that: no warning, no discussion, no attempt to put right whatever had gone wrong. Picking up the pieces has been tough,...
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The Landscape of Love
Reader: Sophie Ward
1967: thirteen-year-old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a medieval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her sisters. Maisie embarks on a portrait of...
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Over
Reader: Susan Jameson
What is left when the tide recedes and it’s over?
Don and Louise’s 18-year-old daughter Miranda has died in a sailing accident. While Louise takes steps to move on with her life,...£7.99 £15.99£21.50
Come Away with Me
Jenny and Ruth were best friends at school until Ruth abruptly moved away from their Cornish village and they lost all contact. Fourteen years later, a chance meeting on a train throws both their...
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Rhode Island Blues
Thirty-four-year-old Sophia, a film editor living in Soho, has (she thinks) only one living relation: her Connecticut-based grandmother, Felicity. Sophia is torn between her delight in her freedom...
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The Love Verb
What is love? For Callie, love is about looking after her family - her husband and two children - and their beautiful home. For Steff, Callie’s younger sister, love is about experiencing all...
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Celebrations at Thrush Green
It was Harold Shoosmith who had restored the name of Nathaniel Patten to its rightful place as part of the heritage of Thrush Green, for Patten was one of the village’s most famous sons. A...
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The Other Woman
Reader: Kate Jarman
Gwenllyn Lyons, young and spirited, has married the drover Harry Rees, but only to give her unborn child a name. Caradoc Jones, whom she nursed back to health after a terrible accident in which he...
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Our Street
It was a time of poverty and overcrowding. Food was rationed and carrying gas masks was compulsory. The threat of death and destruction from German bombers meant that nights were spent in air-raid...
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Over the Gate
A weight-losing recipe sends a portly Victorian housemaid literally sky-high; Mrs Next-Door, the queen of copycats, drives her patient neighbour mad with rage; the tragic tale of the ghost of...
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The Reluctant Widow
Reader: Cornelius Garrett
Penniless Elinor Rochdale is rather surprised that her new employer is as comfortably circumstanced as appears to be the case from the carriage that meets her from the stage, and more so at the...
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Secrets of the Heart
Agnes Campion is thirty when she inherits Flagge House from her uncle. Together with its resident aunts, it feels more of a burden than an inheritance. As she struggles with its upkeep, she...
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The Making of a Lady
Reader: Emilia Fox
Emily Fox-Seton is poor but well-bred, and makes a living as a general dogsbody for rich aristocrats. Sweet, kind and unselfish, she does not resent her situation and thinks only of how she can...
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Turning for Home
Reader: Eva Haddon
Lady Pamela Bentham is old, difficult, and disliked by most of her family, who plot unceasingly to evict her from the lovely Somerset house which has been her home all her married life. Once...
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The Lovers of Pound Hill
When city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the village of Lufferton Boney, she creates quite a stir. With her determined manner and alluring looks, she sets off a wave of intrigue that ripples through...
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The Garden Party & Other Stories
Four Maeve Binchy short stories, specially commissioned for BBC Radio 4.
Maeve Binchy is one of Britain’s most popular and bestselling authors, and this collection of four stories...£1.84 £3.69£4.62 £9.25
The Ex-Wife's Survival Guide
Reader: Jilly Bond
Sarah Stagg thought she had it all: a lovely husband, twin teenage sons, a cottage in the country. Then her husband, a keen amateur thespian, leaves her for his leading lady, her sons go off to...
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Goodbye, Jimmy Choo
Under normal circumstances bohemian, skint Izzie would never have met Maddy, a Gucci-clad, Beemer-driving urbanite.
But when they are dumped into the English countryside, fish out of...£23.50
The Ugly Sister
Reader: Alison Reid
Abi has spent her life in the shadow of her stunningly beautiful, glamorous older sister Cleo. Headhunted as model when she was 16, Cleo has been all but lost to Abi for the last 20 years, with...
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Quentins
Reader: Kate Binchy
Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge. There has been great hope and deep despair. The staff who come and go have stories of their...
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Whispers on the Water
Reader: Carole Boyd
The first time Grace Tooley meets Rupert Bradley she is the tomboyish only girl in a happy, noisy family of six boys. He comes back into her life when her eldest brother’s sudden death has...
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Lone Eagle
Reader: Ron McLarty
Danielle Steel's fifty-first bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be brokenThe phone call came on a snowy...
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The Spa Decameron
A group of high-achieving ladies gather at the remote and expensive Castle Spa over the ten days of Christmas and New Year. None of them have met before. As the ladies lounge around in the...
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Dusty Answer
This is Judith Earle's story - her solitary childhood spent in the seclusion of her riverside house, her awkward, intense experiences at Cambridge rounded with passion and disillusionment, and her...
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The Forgotten Waltz
Reader: Caroline Lennon
If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that...
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Lovers and Liars
Reader: Carole Boyd
It is 1902. Emily is sixteen and blissfully in love with John, two years her senior. Together they are secretly planning a life, when they are brutally driven apart. Denied a man she loves, and...
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The Wedding Day
Reader: Suzy Aitchison
A harassed single mother (of almost teenaged Flora), Annie O’Harran has escaped her faithless first husband with a few shreds of dignity intact, and against all expectations met her hero: David...
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Janice Gentle Gets Sexy
Reader: Kim Hicks
Plump, virginal Janice Gentle reluctantly writes her delicate romances with one goal in mind: to make enough money to find the man she loved and lost twenty years ago. Before she begins each book...
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The Nanny Diaries
Reader: Laurel Lefkow
In between looking after four-year-old Grayer and running a thousand errands for Mrs X, his rich, uptight Manhattanite mother, Nan is trying to have a life. There's college, shopping, her friends,...
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Frankie & Stankie
Dinah and her sister are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family, and it’s a time of dreadful change.
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Doña Nicanora's Hat Shop
Surrounded by forest and reached only by a treacherous road, the sleepy South American town of Valle de la Virgen is almost unknown to the outside world. After a silent stranger rolls in on the...
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Coming Home: Volume Two
With her family living abroad, Judith Dunbar was to spend her teenage years at boarding school. It is not an unhappy life, but sometimes a lonely one. So when her new friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis,...
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How to be Married
Reader: Suzy Aitchison
Sadie Drew thinks she must be the world's worst wife. She only needs to walk into a room to make it untidy. She wears flannel pyjamas in bed. Furry things breed in her fridge. But she's a busy...
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Thursday's Child
Reader: Carolyn Pickles
Helen Forrester’s moving story of an English girl and her love affair with an Indian man.
Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning to live again after the heartache of...£22.50
The Blue Note
Reader: Judy Bennett
It is wartime, and Miranda, little cockney orphan Ted and Roberta (Bobbie) have been evacuated to an old-fashioned household in the country. Despite the war, the children’s time spent with two...
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A Family Affair
Reader: Eve Matheson
Charlotte Brandon built up Victoriana, her hugely successful nostalgic clothing business in Dorset, from nothing, even though it meant putting the needs of the company before those of her two...
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Thea's Parrot
As soon as George Lampeter, a submarine commander, sets eyes on Thea, twenty years his junior, he’s found his partner for life. Just about everyone knows of George’s long-standing affair with...
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The Chef
Reader: Pal Aron
As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich's leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the...
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The Second Wife
Reader: Kate Sachs
Minty Lloyd is struggling to make her life work as Nathan’s second wife. Mother to six-year-old twins, sidelined at family gatherings by Nathan’s hostile family, ostracized by his friends, she...
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The Price of Love
Lucy Collins and her brother Sam have lived side by side with the Tanner family all their lives. Lucy and Robert Tanner long for the day when they can marry and the future is full of promise for...
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News from Thrush Green
One bright April morning, a red Mini stopped outside Tullivers, the neglected old house that had stood empty for two years since old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy had died. Discreet onlookers...
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Beauvallet
Reader: Cornelius Garrett
Mad Nicholas to his friends, Scourge of Spain to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge.When a captured galleon yields the lovely Doña Dominica de Rada y...
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Return to Thrush Green
It’s spring again in the village, and with the change of the seasons comes change in the lives of many villagers. The Young family’s tranquillity is disrupted by the sudden arrival of Joan’s...
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The Gap Year for Grown Ups
After 20 years of comfortable marriage, and with the kids finally off her hands, Sarah Lewis realises she has filled the washing machine once too often. Surely there must be more to life than...
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The Sweet Dove Died
Reader: Sheila Hancock
A chance encounter over a Victorian flower book brings together Leonora, single, beautiful and approaching 50; Humphrey, a widowed antiques dealer; and James, his young, good-looking nephew....
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Santa Baby
‘I thought Tiffany should know that she has a half sister. She’s Angel Summer – the famous model.’With these few words from the mother who gave her away, aspiring stylist and pizza...
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The French House
Reader: Suzy Aitchison
CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it's time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her life....
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Sleeping Beauties
Reader: Penelope Keith
Tabitha’s Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a perfumed world where never a harsh note is struck. To Tabitha, Beauty is a broad canvas from which she will draw out...
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Other People's Children
When a man and a woman get married, things can get complicated. When they have children from previous marriages, "complicated" can become the understatement of the year.
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Marking Time
Reader: Jill Balcon
Now the sunlit days of childish games and family picnics are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of the Cazalets. At Home Place, in the heart of the Sussex countryside, the...
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The Market Square
The first charming Caxley tale introduces the deep-rooted camaraderie between Septimus Howard, a calm and controlled man, and Bender North, a confident, successful but gruff ironmonger. Their...
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Winners and Losers
Reader: Kate Jarman
At thirteen, Megan Williams had been sent from her family’s farm to keep house for her widower uncle and his five children. But when her uncle can no longer pay her wages, she is forced to seek...
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If You Could See Me Now
Reader: Caroline Lennon
Everything in Elizabeth Egan’s life has its place. Order and precision keep life under control, and keep Elizabeth’s heart from the pain and hurt she has suffered in the past. The only cloud...
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Falling Slowly
Reader: Eleanor Bron
Beatrice and Miriam are sisters. Their lives fall short of what they would have wished for themselves: love, acknowledgement in the eyes of the world, even a measure of respect. Each discovers to...
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Glamorous Powers
Reader: Dermot Crowley
Jon Darrow is a man who has played many parts. He has been a shady faith-healer, a dedicated naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, a tormented widower and finally an...
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White
Sam McGrath, on impulse, follows a young woman all the way to Nepal. Finch Buchanan flies out as a doctor to an expedition, but she will be reunited with a man she has never been able to forget....
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Forgive and Forget
As the Second World War enters its final year, Ruth Bentley feels life has dealt her more than her fair share of trials and tribulations. For the second time, she has lost her home in a bomb...
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The Pursuit of Love
'The Pursuit of Love' is one of the funniest and most biting novels about love and growing up ever written, by the author of 'Love in a Cold Climate'... Oh, the boredom of waiting to grow up!...
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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
Reader: Jenny Agutter
On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a...
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Miss Webster and Cherif
Reader: Sheila Hancock
Elizabeth Webster is a cantankerous spinster pushing seventy. Forced out of her school-teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue on everyone in her village. Then one cold spring night, sitting...
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A Quiet Life
Reader: Mark McGann
The Second World War has ended, but not the battles waged daily on the domestic front A deeply troubled family are living in genteel poverty and unremitting strife in their shabby seaside house....
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The Battle for Christabel
Reader: Susan Jameson
Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn’t want is the baby’s father. Yet, five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident.
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And What Do You Do?
Laura has it all: a gorgeous husband, two beautiful children and an idyllic lady-of-leisure Parisian lifestyle. She spends her mornings sharing croissants and a grand crème with her friends, her...
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Wives and Lovers
Victoria Stratford’s birthday party for her husband, David, is a resounding success. It shows off their beautiful Wimbledon house, their wonderful children, their perfect lives. It also conceals...
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Getting Mad, Getting Even
Georgie and Flick are a girl’s best friend - and secret weapon. Their agency, 'Domestic Angels', provides invaluable help to armies of harassed women. After years of hard work, Georgie and Flick...
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