Sophie’s marriage was perfect. But now it’s all gone wrong. Mark works late and she’s left with the baby, domestic drudgery, her own career to keep on the go and a feeling Mark’s up to...

Set in the countryside of western Ireland, ‘In the Forest' centres on unwitting victims for sacrifice: a radiant young woman, her young son and a trusting priest, all despatched to the...

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...

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...

In ‘Village Affairs', the people of Fairacre are up in arms about the possible closure of the village school. This anxious time for Miss Read is made bearable by the support of all her friends...

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...

This is the story of Fay’s might-have-been younger sister, Frances.

It’s 2013, and 80-year-old Frances (has-been writer) is sitting on the stairs of No.3 Chalcot Crescent, Primrose...

When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris's wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore - expensive, inconvenient - but Julia was thrilled. When the time...

When Anna Durrant is reported missing her friends seem unconcerned at her disappearance. After all, her life has been one of concealment. For years Anna submitted to the protective dependence of...

Take a year in Soho and a house like no other.From a woman grieving on New Year's Day to a Victorian maid's passion for poetry, from a wartime widower picking up the pieces of his life to a...

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...

One night, Melanie walks through the garden in her mother’s wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London...

Enter Olivia Joules: fearless, dazzling, independent beauty-journalist turned master-spy. From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts...

Lucy Lombard thought her ‘Happily Ever After’ was all sorted when her gorgeous boss finally declared his love for her. But when she catches him in bed with another woman it’s time to call an...

As the solitary child of mild and gentle parents, Jane is fascinated and astounded by her exotically European aunt, Dolly. Dolly’s ways are certainly not her parents’ ways, yet she is an...