Let it Shine
Reader: Carole Boyd
Ada Williams was once an ambitious woman who believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now, she is all alone in the world, except for her greedy, bitter son Peter, who despises her...
£22.50
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...
£23.50
The Light of Evening
From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her: emigration to America in the 1920s, a romantic...
£22.50
Shadow Baby
Reader: Phyllida Law
Born in 1887, brought up in a children’s home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair, seems a quiet, undemanding child. Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and...
£25.50
Firefly Summer
Reader: Kate Binchy
Kate and John Ryan have four children, of which the eldest are Michael and Dara. Their small town is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long hot summers,...
£27.50
Beyond the Shining Water
Reader: Carole Boyd
In 19th-century Liverpool, Lily Elliott is not so much spoilt as loved – a little girl for whom nothing is too good, petted and indulged by her adored Ma and Pa, dreaming of the day when she...
£24.50
Sisters Three
In ‘Prized Possessions', Jessica Stirling introduced the Conway women: indomitable Lizzie, who endures despite everything that life in Glasgow’s notorious Gorbals slums can throw at her, and...
£24.50
That Summer Affair
Reader: Phyllida Nash
When Jodie Roberts goes missing from a sleepy Dorset village, the repercussions that reverberate through the small community are as far-reaching as they are devastating.
Rachel begins...£23.50
The Chocolate Lovers' Club
Reader: Clare Corbett
There’s one thing Lucy Lombard can’t live without, and that’s chocolate – rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For her there’s no substitute. There’s nothing it won’t cure, from...
£23.50
Brother and Sister
Where do we come from? Where do we belong? For David and Nathalie, this need to know is more urgent than for most people because they are adopted. Born to different mothers, brought up by the same...
£22.50
Fortune's Hand
Rob McDaniels, a schoolteacher with noble intentions, comes into a little money, enabling him to go to law school. Upon graduation he goes to work for a fine, honourable firm and marries the...
£23.50
Echoes of the Dance
Nearly twenty-five years after a tragic accident forced Mim to give up her career as one of the world’s leading ballerinas, history is repeating itself. Daisy, Mim’s most talented former...
£23.50
Having a Lovely Time
Reader: Jenny Éclair
Meet the Dobsons and the Jamiesons: two families on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Joe Dobson left his wife and his kids when his young girlfriend, Nina, discovered she was pregnant....£23.50
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...
£24.50
Tyler's Row
Reader: Gwen Watford
Miss Read heard about the sale of Tyler’s Row from the always well-informed Mrs Pringle - and before long Fairacre was alive with rumours. Why were the present owners selling? Was it true that a...
£21.50
The Rules of Engagement
Reader: Joanna David
Elizabeth and Betsy knew each other as school-children. When they meet again in later life one is safely married, the other most unsafely partnered. They discover that what they have in common is...
£22.50
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...
£27.50
If My Father Loved Me
Sadie’s life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come to believe that she has everything she wants,...
£24.50
Finders and Keepers
Reader: Kate Jarman
Harry’s babyhood was blighted by a brutal stepfather. However, when he was five his mother, Sali, finally met and married a decent man – Lloyd Evans, a Rhondda coal miner. Loved and cosseted...
£24.50
The Journey
Reader: Carole Boyd
Three strangers are thrown together by chance. It’s an encounter which is destined to change all of their lives for ever.
Ben Morris is deeply unsettled when he makes the...£22.50
Battles at Thrush Green
The Cotswold village of Thrush Green is normally a peaceful backwater where the placid surface remains unruffled by adverse winds. It was all the more surprising, therefore, when a number of...
£21.50
Forgotten Laughter
When Louise Parry arrives at Foxhole for her summer holiday, she is welcomed by kind, sensitive Brigid Foster and her incorrigible, elderly mother, Frummie.
Amid the peace of Dartmoor,...£24.50
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...
£23.50
Rebecca's Tale
Reader: Robert Powell
April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, and since Manderley, the ancient family seat, was razed to the ground. Now, family friend...
£26.50
When Morning Comes
Reader: Carole Boyd
Lucy Dean is a young woman of eighteen years with no money, no job and four young brothers and sisters to support. James Buchanan is a young man of thirty-four years with a great fortune, who...
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