It is a crisp December day when Annette Byrne walks to the end of her long, curving driveway and drops five sealed envelopes into the mailbox. Quickly, before second thoughts prevent her. It is a...

After the death of Emily Davis, school teacher and well-loved member of the local community, many of those who knew her cast their minds back to days past and to their memories of Emily. Dolly...

Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the...

Diana owns a bookshop, is thirty-something, and is single again after a long relationship. The Brahms Requiem was once her favourite piece of music, but now she cannot listen to it without it...

The excesses of the young Marquis of Vidal are even wilder than his father’s before him. Not for nothing is the reckless duellist and gamester called the Devil’s Cub. But when he is forced to...

Evacuated from Blitz–battered London, genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous Irish O’Connors. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling...

Emmy is newly single. Having always dreamed of wedding plans, she’s now buying take-out for one. Adriana is about to turn thirty. Are her days as a party girl running out? And Leigh has a...

Victoria Macara is twenty-seven and lives in the old house on the corner that was once home to the family removal business. When the land is sold, she finds herself surrounded by a small estate of...

Frankie Rowley is far too practical to believe in karma or fate ... and her family and friends reckon that work-obsessed Frankie's strongest relationship is with her phone. (And why not? At least...

On a sun drenched beach in Barbados, feisty sports presenter Charlie meets the irresistibly gorgeous Felipe Castillo. Instantly attracted to each other, they have a passionate affair, until he...

Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour fourteen–year–old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Yet her path to...

In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius, unparalleled wit and the toast of all society, he accepts an introduction to the table of Henry Thrale, a wealthy Southwark brewer, and his...

In the hot summer of 1994, Lewis Little, a clever and precocious thirteen year–old boy, goes to Paris with his mother, Alice.

Alice is there to translate the latest medieval romance...

Arthur Craythorne has barely married Queenie May when he is called away to fight in the First World War. When he returns from the trenches, he is a changed man. He struggles to contain the violent...

When Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, moves a mile downhill to the living of Lulling, his many friends rejoice in his promotion. But an unfortunate skirmish with one of his wealthy...