J’s wife has left, and J is trying to understand why. How could someone you loved so much, who claimed to love you once, just walk away? How could they send divorce papers accusing you of terrible things, when...

In early-seventeenth-century Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany, dangers are plentiful – especially for those of Jewish heritage. Non-Catholics have been expelled from Spain, and the Inquisition has now come to Portugal to impose its prohibitions. Fourteen-year-old Isabela, an obedient...

An epic 18th-century historical romance from the author of the celebrated ‘Lady of the Butterflies’. Fletcher Christian and Isabella Curwen are first cousins who grow up together in the Lake District; kindred spirits who, like Heathcliff and Cathy, are...

The story begins in the ruins of an old chateau in Normandy. The narrator of the story, Gérard Lacase, is showing some friends around the property where he was a guest many years earlier as a young university student...

As dynamic, enthralling, and powerful as the visionary artist it captures, Amelia Gray’s Isadora is a relentless and living portrayal of a woman who shattered convention, even in the darkest days of her life. In 1913, Isadora Duncan was...

Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on brooding artist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And, after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer break, romance might be closer than Isla...

Tuga Trilogy 2 On remote Tuga de Oro, vet Charlotte Walker’s caseload of donkeys, cows, and ailing lizards has only increased. She still can’t believe the humiliating truth about her father. Probably, she ought to feel worse than she...

‘I grew up on the world’s largest island.’ From his childhood, Tim Winton’s relationship with the landscape around him – Australia’s swamps and bush, rockpools, seacaves and scrub – has been as vital as any other connection. Whether camping...

Two great loves. One shattering betrayal. A war that changes everything. Singapore, 1897 Harriet and Mae Grafton are twenty-year-old identical twins born from a scandalous affair. They grew up in India slighted by gossip and ostracised from polite society....

Dominica. A beautiful remote island where the sun shines and the living is easy. And where Cass goes to photograph a rare stone carving as a favour to her father. With her is Ranulph, a deeply attractive, much-travelled journalist,...