Olivia has settled on the tiny Greek island of Halemni. She is married to a Greek man and is mother of two small sons. As the turquoise of summer dissolves into the cool of autumn, so the rhythm...

It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the days: there are new spells to be learnt, more...

It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness as the Vichy regime clings ever closer to the Nazi occupier in their danse macabre. From Edinburgh, Charlotte Gray, a...

This, the third volume of the bestselling ‘The Cazalet Chronicles', takes up the story of the Cazalet family in the spring of 1942 and follows them through the war to VE Day.Polly and Clary...

In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius, unparalleled wit and the toast of all society, he accepts an introduction to the table of Henry Thrale, a wealthy Southwark brewer, and his...

Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunken father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck’s dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi...

The spring of 1811 brings one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular War on which all British hopes of victory in Spain will depend. Sharpe is given a poorly equipped, untrained Irish...

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...

Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter...

The Virals' home on Loggerhead Island is under threat, and only one thing can save it: a lot of money. Rumour has it that notorious pirate Anne Bonny hid her treasure somewhere in Charleston in...

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...

Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor of growing fame, is determined to find his ideal in womanhood, a quest that has led to many fruitless encounters. For just as it seems that he has found his heart’s...

The house-party at Château Blissac, Brittany, features a rather odd array of guests this yearMr J. Wellington Gedge is hoping for some peace and quiet while his wife takes herself off for a...

Throughout their childhood, the love between Silas and Cathleen has grown stronger and now, in 1900, they start to plan a life together. But a jealous woman is determined to ruin their happiness...

Siena, a 21st century woman, has so far managed to avoid the ticking of the biological clock – her high-powered career as a stylist, making over tired housewives, has given her a horror of the...