Tom Seymour is a child psychologist who has worked in the north of England for many years. One day, while walking by a river near his home, he rescues a young man from drowning, and realises that...

The lights of London seem to burn brightly for runaway Kitty Miller, but their sparkle soon fades when she finds herself alone and destitute, at the mercy of the shadowy inhabitants of the...

Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809. In the bitter winter of 1809 the French are winning the war in Spain and Britain's forces are retreating towards Corunna, with...

Virginia Woolf’s exuberant biography tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical...

When Tubby informs his fiancée that her new hat makes her look like a Pekingese and then questions the validity of the story of her narrow escape from a hungry shark, the engagement is naturally...

It is February 1818 and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain’s fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered H.M.S. Onward, a new...

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...

When Mathilda Rainbird bequeaths her beautiful house on the cliffs of an isolated cove to three unknown relatives, she brings together a group of people who have had little in common.Among them...

Returning from the war, handsome Michael Quinn the cobbler is a changed man. Admired and liked by his customers, he is a tyrant at home, ruling his family with a rod of iron and a fist of steel....

The Green Man’s Maurice Allington is a worldly publican, but haunted. His pub is inhabited by the spirit of Dr Thomas Underhill, the seventeenth-century scholar rumoured to have killed his wife....

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...

Five years after the battle of Waterloo, Sharpe's peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered by a plea for help. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands...

If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he had ever floated, he would be a very rich man indeed.

In these ten stories he tries every way of making...

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...

Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in rural New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband after the collapse of her marriage to a...