In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people including 25..

Far away and long ago when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black and..

Anaesthetic Fellow Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine procedure went horribly wrong he has been..

Everyone knows about the Cambridge Spies from the 1950s but no spy ring was ever unearthed at Oxford..

1963. Alexandra arrives at a chateau in Provence: old substantial its four large towers seeming to g..

In this delicious feast of Christmas short stories: Meet the man of your dreams in Italy. Get snowed..

For twenty years Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through r..

Cressida Collins is the queen of makeovers. With a well-placed stitch button or seam she can transfo..

Meteorologist Sky Matthews does not like surprises. Sky monitors her life like she does the weather ..

Princess of Mycenae daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra sister of the sacrificed Iphigenia and th..

It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Roya..

One evening Patrick discovers a polar bear - in his parents' freezer! How did Monty - official name ..

Change is afoot in the usually sleepy village of Risingdale. Gerald Gaunt headmaster of the primary ..

Rosalind and her husband Paul move from Australia to England due to his job with a multinational com..

Age is just a number. Trouble is a lifestyle. When octogenarian sisters-in-law Sadie and Bronagh fin..

The Fitch children are finally safe after they and their friends were rescued from the grim orphanag..

It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a gro..

Laurie and Pete should never have met. But fate has pushed them together for a reason. Six months ag..

Grace is about to turn 90. She doesn't want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants to heal the ..

Mrs Quinn is the unlikely star of Britain's favourite baking show but could her newfound stardom cau..

Carmen has always worked in her local department store. So when the building closes its doors for go..

Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother's death intent only on wrapping up that dismal p..

This is the true story of Aemilius Felix Boioannes the younger the intended and unintended consequen..

Two years ago the Monochrome inquiry was set up to investigate the British secret service. Monochrom..

In Australia Simone has been widowed for four years and is ready to make a more interesting life. He..

A big shabby Victorian suburban house the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall the six mugs..

It is said there is a price that every passenger must pay. A price beyond the cost of a ticket. It i..

When Breen Kelly makes a leap into the unknown with a summer trip to Ireland in search of her father..

The story opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their ..

Allie has unexpectedly taken leave from her job as an academic research scientist to fly to a place ..

Noosa Heads 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her home town from Los Angeles to reconnect..

Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife an exasperated daughter a dri..

After the death of her father El moves into his home just outside Tavistock in Devon. Fresh out of u..

In the peaceful Wiltshire valley of Essington St Mary architect Corin Drayton stumbles upon a ghastl..

Straddling old world and new Mila and the Bone Man explores the corrosive power of guilt the solace ..

When a glamorous redhead wishes to locate the son she put up for adoption 32 years ago it seems like..

The City may be under siege but everyone still has to make a living. Take Notker the acclaimed playw..

It's Zoe's wedding day. She's about to marry Jamie the love of her life. Then a phone call comes out..

Sophie Apperly’s family has never taken her seriously. So when her best friend Milly invites her o..

Andee Lawrence is in heaven. Well L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue to be exact. Ex-detective Andee has switche..

Shauna Vincent has just learned that the job she set her heart on has gone to a well-connected rival..

Jess and her ten-year-old son William set off to spend the summer at Château de Roussignol deep in ..

Ava loves city life but when something happens to make her feel unsafe she retreats to the calm and ..

Breen Kelly had always been a rule follower. So when her father left when she was twelve years old p..

Civilisation is collapsing. Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction a government of ..

It's only been a few months since Olivia got the all clear and she's just begun piecing her life bac..

When the teenage girl who's been hanging around near the house knocks on the door and tells her she'..

It’s not easy being a witch and it’s certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks but Tiffany..

William Benson knows what it's like to be accused of something you didn't do. Now he speaks on behal..

Zelda's looking for a fresh start and a beautiful hilltop town in Sicily looking for new residents s..

More than two decades ago Maggie fell in love. She was 16 and far from home waiting to give her baby..

New York 1980s. Heady excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript..

Hampshire 1913 Amidst the glitz and glamour of England's High Society Sarah Trenwith is more of a wa..

Ellie Browne has found happiness running the Dog & Duck pub in the idyllic village of Little Leyton...

Lorna is a talented gardener and Philly is a plantswoman. Together they work in the grounds of a bea..

Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence forever constrain..

When Amy Ashton's world fell apart eleven years ago she started a collection. Just a few keepsakes o..

This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired but who pulled the trigger and who lives and who dies? ..

Princess of Troy sister of Hector and Paris Priestess of Apollo._x000D_Blessed by the Sun God with t..

In an all-too-possible near future when genetic engineering has become the norm for humans parents a..

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At seventy-four cane farmer Grace Maud is feeling her age and her isolation and thinks the best of l..

Katie never stops moving - constantly changing her address her boyfriends her life. But every June f..

Kate thinks all her wishes have come true when she opens her own little craft shop in the idyllic ha..

Amber Lachlan and Raffaele met as teenagers in the seaside home of kind-hearted foster parents. Now ..

Half-witch Kiki never runs from a challenge. So when her thirteenth birthday arrives she's eager to ..

Olivia and Anthony are planning A Very Extravagant Wedding at the newest hotel on the tiny Scottish ..

1916: Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Phi..

When single mum Amelia hears that she is the last descendent of the Chesterford family and has inher..

This is the first memory I have of my mamma the first sweet memory. Sometimes her laughter bursts in..

John Tyler has gone rogue pursuing an international vendetta against those responsible for killing h..

Roxy's marriage has always been rock solid. After 20 years and with two carefree kids she and Dave a..

With Odran's defeat at the Battle of the Dark Portal his quest to rule over Talamh and Breen has sta..

After enduring months of extreme drought on their modest freehold farming couple Dimple and Ruthie f..

The Daintree breeds survivors - those who can weather the storms heat and floods that come hand in h..

When Harry Clifton is elected the new president of English PEN he immediately launches a campaign fo..

Finland 1901. Eeva the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary is sent from the orphanage to work..

When a shocking news report shatters Juno Ryan's world she suddenly finds herself without the man sh..

Sorceress Princess of Colchis Securer of the Golden Fleece._x000D_Medea - her very name is a byword ..

Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outsid..

Brendan has always lived a careful constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work he's a man ..

At the urging of her husband Paul Robin accompanies him to Morocco for a holiday. Desperate for a ch..

It’s nearly Christmas and it’s snowing hard. Six people have an unexpected stay in the tiny haml..

To make amends for past mistakes the enigmatic assassin known only as Victor is now in servitude to ..

1938. Eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing with Amanda Kendall at her brother’s birthday p..

In a village in Wiltshire just off a busy road Larch Tree Lane winds slowly up a low hill. Among the..

Seren Maddison left behind a rainy Britain to follow her dreams and live and work in Lisbon. The vib..