When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career, she is alone in the world. This book begins with the story of life in a Devonshire village in the 1950s and shows us a picture of Britain...

Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Five of his relatives are desparate to get their hands on Cloade's money, and Rosaleen begins to fearfor her life.

Pawley's Island, South Carolina, seems like an idyllic, picture perfect community. But then a tabloid news programme airs a feature about the community's one unsolved murder - that of Tara Mitchell and the disappearance of...

A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child, Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage and grows up longing to feel that she belongs somewhere. Eighteen years later, her father,...

Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling... so she became known as Star and no-one remembered that her name was Oona.

When the Russians learn that the British ambassador to Moscow is to return to London as the Prime Minister's personal adviser, they give orders to the KGB that he is to be drawn into the Soviet net.

The extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, and how, in September 2000, she finally escaped to freedom. Mende Nazer grew up in the remote Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Her happy childhood was...

Sharpe has lost his command but is determined to win it back in an assault on the fortress town of Badajoz. Heroism and action in the Napolenoic wars by a masterful storyteller.

Matthew and Evelyn have bought a new home - but paying the bills is not easy, so they have no alternative but to work harder than ever before. Life is hard but happy for the couple, until a chance encounter threatens to remove Matthew...