Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to...

Sarah Fortune is bored to death - but few know, and less would guess, how the beautiful and successful redheaded solicitor escapes the stultifying tedium of her career. Since the death of her...

Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award

Marianne Shearer is at the height of her career, a successful barrister, respected by her peers and revered by her clients. She has...

The first book in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series. A drug dealer is found battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he learns that...

Two families, two tragedies. Separated by time, linked by an enduring curse...

In Renaissance Florence, a young painter visits the Medici palace, seemingly to paint Lorenzo de...

When Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian signorina In the...

Offering wisdom on the subject of happiness and how to achieve it, Weldon explores what makes women happy; how our lives, jobs, families, bodies, morals, and responsibilities affect that...

When Sarah Fortune, with her impeccable qualifications and chequered history, is sent to a small seaside town in Norfolk, she goes willingly. Sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes,...

Italy, 1605: For the ruling Borgia family, Rome is a place of grand palazzos and frescoed cathedrals. For the lowly artist Caravaggio, it is a place of rough bars, knife fights, and grubby whores....

Richard Beaumont hoped to see the rarest species of crow on the white cliffs of Dover. Instead, he saw a young woman jump to her death, so that is the scene he painted.

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Englishwoman in Italy Annie Hawes isn't quite as baffled by Ligurian life as she was when she first came to this land of hills and olive groves. But she is as surprised—and, often,...

Sarah Fortune’s surname has visited her domestic arrangements—an ex-lover has bequeathed her a flat in London’s Fitzrovia. Here she lives alone, unfettered by her past career as a lawyer,...

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves...

Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers, and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling lies. None of this matters to Natalie. At first she finds...

Rome in the 1950s - narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night... Serafina has grown up with her...