Kathryn Brooker is the headmaster's wife. While her husband spends his days disciplining unruly teenagers in the grand halls of Mountbriers Academy, Kathryn spends hers baking scones for her son's...

‘Jennifer’s Diary’Jennifer has a diary. Iolanthe doesn’t. What Iolanthe has are ideas. Zillions of ideas for stories are spilling out of her head. But what she wants isJennifer’s...

Catherine Havisham was born into privilege. Handsome, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer, and lives in luxury in Satis House. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the...

1967: thirteen-year-old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a medieval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her sisters. Maisie embarks on a portrait of...

Sophia is 21 years old, carries a newt around in her pocket and marries - in haste - a young artist called Charles. Swept into bohemian London of the thirties, Sophia is ill-equipped to cope....

At the dawn of the new millennium, as the candle of democracy flickers in the Russian winter, Finn, an MI6 spy, and Anna, a colonel of the KGB, have been sent to spy on each other. Instead they...