In the years before the First World War, sisters Iris, Marianne, Eva and Clemency seek to follow their dreams. Marianne meets the love of her life in Arthur Leighton but later finds herself...

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...

The residents of Pearl Street, Liverpool, are having a street party, but it is 1939 and Britain is on the brink of war. For Annie, the outbreak of war means constant worry for her twin boys. For...

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, almost destroyed, fought over and bequeathed, a picture makes its way from Paris to Hampstead, pops up on a London market stall after the Great War, finds its...

The Second World War has brought its own special turmoil to the small fishing village of Coverack in west Cornwall. Maizie Blackacre is the owner of the Paris Hotel, and her husband, Sam, has...

In April, when blackthorn blossom clothes the hedgerows like a wedding veil, there sometimes comes a spell of frost or snow so severe that it seems as if spring and summer will never return. This...

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...

What do you do when the man in your life lets you down? Show him the door? If only it was that easy – especially when you’ve got an eight-year-old daughter to think about.

Nessa...

Twenty-something Daria is an intelligent, bilingual secretary who should have her pick of the men in Odessa - except that the only men who are making advances are a dashing mafia gangster and her...

Filth, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong.

Alice Peel is a geologist. With a broken relationship behind her, she joins an expedition group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica. James Rooker has been running since his childhood in...

The stories in this long-awaited collection all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves...

In ‘The Christmas Mouse', a mouse’s appearance on Christmas Eve in an old widow’s bedroom leads to a chance encounter with a small boy – a meeting that would be remembered by both of them...

At the beginning of the last century, that three women determine on making their own way at a time when to be independent was to risk social ostracism, or even tragedy, is partly due to the...

'The Sea Change' is a beautiful and unusual novel concerned with four people: a 61-year-old playwright who is half-Irish, half-Jewish; his younger wife who has a weak heart and is unable to...