he Cotswolds: the perfect retreat for a stressed-out teacher. And Lucy has found just the right cottage for a bargain rent. All she has to do is keep an eye on Bunty, her extremely feisty ninety-something neighbour . . . With her West Highland terrier Hamish at her side, Lucy plans to relax and read up on the women of nearby Bletchley Park. But the...

Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned br...

A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dance-hall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers. In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an 11-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest...

The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. That’s one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. The other is that Miss Rue – midwife, healer, crafter of curses - will know what to do. But for once Rue doesn’t know. Times have changed since her mother, Miss May Belle, held the power to influence the life and death o...

Family means everything to Lily and Zinnia Cortez and, growing up in their non-conventional family unit, they and their two mums couldn’t have been closer. So it’s a bolt out of the blue when Lily finds her father wasn’t the anonymous one-night stand she’s always believed. She is in fact the result of her mum's reckless affa...

'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny' Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. Fo...

The brand-new book from the bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together - birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnn...

Young, beautiful, and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over themselves to pay for her Mercedes, her penthouse, and her Instagrammable holidays. It's a long way from the neighborhood she started out in, and it's been far from easy. Along with making sure she always looks fabulous-bec...

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace. To design experts, she's a revolutionary architect. And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend, and quite simply, mum. Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee must take a t...

Generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy Knockglen. When they both go to study in Dublin, they meet a circle of friends that includes handsome Jack Foley and the selfish and beautiful Nan Mahon, whose ambition will drag them all into trouble. As Knockglen is surprised into new life...

Brought to you by Penguin. The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian, Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie;...

The last thing Tom Jones had expected was to run into Portia on holiday. His wife Amy knows he had an affair some four years ago, but she had never met 'the other woman'. What a curious twist of fate that she is on the same flight as them - and staying at the same hotel. Philip Mann, also staying at the Hotel Parthenon, is in Greece to make sense o...

For Lucy Evans, life is perfect. An unrepentant tomboy, she lives with her best mate, Ollie, in a great flat, has her dream job reviewing computer games and just enough cash for a few pints and a takeaway. But life takes a turn for the worst when not only Ollie's girlfriend, Annoying Victoria, proposes and wants Lucy out of the flat but, soon after...

Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty and solitude, made worse by the early death of his friend Putnam. Into his life comes the invasive and mercurial Katy Gibb, with designs on George that are unquestionably financial. To George however she represents a last chance to abandon discretion a...

Ben is, at last, leaving home. At 22, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back after decades of family life. His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. His sister, Ro...

Although the Cleves generally revelled in every detail of their family history, the events of 'the terrible Mother's Day' were never discussed. On that day nine-year-old Robin Cleves was found hanging by the neck from a rope slung over a tree in the garden. Twelve years later, Robin's youngest sister Harriet, a baby when the tragedy occurred, is de...

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the wealthy La Houssiniere and the impoverished village of Les Salants, have fought for control over the island's only beach and the source of its prosperity. When Mado, a spirited local girl, returns to Les Sa...

This story is narrated by a painter, who specialises as a copyist. All around him, the women with whom he is in love leave signs which alter emotional details: Clio, his child-bride, is destructive in her pliancy; his first wife, Helen, betrays him; and Maisie, his forthright East End mother has her own secrets. And the two central figures - the pa...

This audiobook is based on the BBC1 television programme Ballykissangel. English curate Peter Clifford begins to find his feet in the eccentric Irish community where he is being trained. However, the activities of certain members of the community and the arrival of two mysterious strangers prove to be a recipe for confusion for the entire village.

Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. Dinah is weedy and doesn't eat much. Lisa is an angel-face who likes chocolate sprinkles on bread. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones provides instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch-break. 'Wo...

Written by actor Ethan Hawke, this audiobook tells the story of Jimmy Heartsock who is so afraid of losing his love Christy that he goes AWOL from the army and chases her to propose marriage. Christy is terrified, not so much that she's expecting a baby, but because if she takes on Jimmy, she may end up with two. Can Jimmy stop taking recreational...