“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like....

HEALER? Meet Hollie Jenson, presenter of the smash-hit docu-series Bad Medicine, which exposes the perils of extreme therapies. Her next target: a new retreat run by wellness guru Ariel Rose, who claims to have discovered the secret to healing...

Sigmund Freund makes a single visit to New York in 1909, together with Carl Jung. A beautiful debutante is found murdered in her penthouse above Broadway. Within 24 hours Nora Acton, an heiress is found tied to a chandelier,...

This summer, four women are hoping to escape their troubles… Birdie is organising a wedding, though her own marriage is falling apart. Her sister India is running away from her first chance of happiness in a long time, while...

After an affair with a married man, Issy believes she will never love again. Fleeing from her pain she ends up in Naples teaching English. There she meets Dan. But Dan is a man with troubles of his own....

Margot, book conservator, discovered a manuscript and prints The Sixteen Pleasures by Pietro Aretino, which featured in the prequel to this book. Meanwhile Alan Woody Woodhull pays his guitar at the local Bebop Club while also teaching at the...

From Escape’s queen of ro-magic comedy comes a sweet, emotional contemporary romance about the pleasures of making a wish and seeing it come true. When Dr Sylvia Greene makes an impromptu wish at the Tarrin’s Bay Wishing Festival, it’s...

It is 1862. Young Count Adam Grabowski, a Pole brought up abroad after the 1830 Insurrection forced his parents into exile, visits Poland for the first time, summoned by a mysterious letter signed ‘Scipio’. He soon finds himself pulled...

A very striking novel set in modern day Northern California, the story of Victoria a young girl who has lived her life in the Californian state care system. Yet she has spend time with Elizabeth who teaches Victoria the...

The socialist state is in crisis, the shops are empty and old Bucharest vanishes daily under the onslaught of Ceaucescu’s demolition gangs. Paranoia is pervasive and secret service men lurk in the shadows. In The Last 100 Days, Patrick...