Master Georgie is the centrepiece of this novel set in the time of the Crimean War. It unfolds through the narratives of three protagonists—the geologist Doctor Potter, Pompey Jones,...

Sometimes love needs a helping hand... Lucie Farrara and Aren Fairchild meet after bumping into each other - seemingly by accident - in Times Square on New Year's Eve. They immediately hit it off...

Mrs Pringle, the lugubrious school cleaner, has always been a favourite character in the ‘Fairacre’ series. Here, through the eyes and anecdotes of the schoolmistress Miss Read, and others, we...

Sophia is 21 years old, carries a newt around in her pocket and marries - in haste - a young artist called Charles. Swept into bohemian London of the thirties, Sophia is ill-equipped to cope....

Illegal battering of gingernuts and conkers in a murky corner of the playground; a procession of bearers of lost property interrupting the telling of the story of Joseph; justice being firmly done...

‘Gardam’s touch is deft and light’ – Spectator.

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his...

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...

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...

Alice Rowlands lives with a father glowering ‘like a disappointed thunderstorm’, a fast-fading mother and a beastly menagerie in a dark house in 1930s Battersea. With her mother’s death,...

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....

Having enjoyed robust health throughout her career, Miss Read, the village schoolmistress at Fairacre, is looking forward to an energetic retirement in a few years’ time. But, to her dismay, she...

The summer holidays are imminent and Miss Read is really looking forward to the rest and peace they offer. Things are not to be so simple, however. On the very first day of her holidays, she falls...

This is the story of two girls lost in the Tasmanian bush, saved and raised by two Tasmanian tigers. Our story starts with an old woman, acutely aware of her own imminent death, looking back on a...

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...

Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. Top of his class at Princeton, he thrives on the energy of New York, the intensity of his work, and his infatuation with the elegant, beautiful...