The tear-jerking wartime tale of an orphaned baby who needs a home, and the woman who risks everything to provide it. England, 1941: Life has always been cruel to Ethel. Raised in an orphanage by a merciless mistress, she never knew...

Change looms in Havana, Cuba’s capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliche, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years,...

LONDON 1921 – Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a society decimated by war but resolutely clinging to the status quo. She marries Edward Warre an engaging but complex man and the...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As...

Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, this is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships. It all begins with the scratching in the ceiling. From the moment Alison...

Emma’s the one that got away. The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as ‘the hairdresser’ – because of the trophies he takes from his victims. Or she thinks she was. The police aren’t convinced. Nor...

Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of revolution: this is the epic story of...

Roy & Effie Hounsell escaped from England to Corfu in 1980, before deciding in 1991 to buy and renovate a traditional stone house in Koukouli, one of the 46 villages in remote, mountainous Zagoria, on the north west Greek...

When Amber Pepper’s jeweller boyfriend Hugh asks her to join him on a business trip to the paradise islands of Tahiti she’s not keen – Amber loves big jumpers and rain. She’d rather be pedalling through puddles at home...

Nancy Roach has fled her dissertation advisor for Paris, where her PhD research is proving fruitless. When her curiosity is piqued by an illustration of “The Parasol Flower” in a 19th century treatise, she is drawn into the life...