Romance
Magic in His Kiss
This is the final in a romance trilogy featuring the de Leon sisters, 12th-century descendants of King Arthur, and all…
The Absent Wife
In 1811, Roslyn Meredith is new to London and its Season after a quiet country upbringing in Monmouthshire. At…
The Last Cowgirl
Seven-year-old Darlene (Dickie) Sinfield’s life takes an altering turn when her teacher father decides to uproot his family from…
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
This a poignant love story spanning three periods of India’s turbulent history between 1907 and the mid 1950s and…
Arrows of Desire
Life is hard for Beth Somerville in a Glasgow torn apart by the Second World War. Her sweetheart, Teddy,…
The Story of a Marriage
This is a book that prides itself on its plot surprises, and begs readers not to give them away. So,…
Birds in the Spring
It is 1920 and women are no longer prepared to take a back seat in business. Fiona MacDowell is…
The Penny Bangle
It is 1942 and a nineteen-year-old munitions worker, Cassie Taylor leaves Birmingham to become a land girl in Dorset. When…
The Diplomat’s Wife
This is the follow-up to the author’s debut novel, The Kommandant’s Girl, a tale centering on a woman reluctantly…
The Outcast
Editors' choice
Set in a middle-class commuter town in southern England in the late 1940s and 1950s, this is a highly…
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