Alison loves her husband and their three children. But the emptiness she feels is tied to her decision to run away with Marc, her best friend's man. On the verge of divorce, Catherine loves her children as well, yet still pines for Marc...
England
- Author:Coleman, RowanSummary:
- Author:Walsh, JaneSummary:
Miss Grace Linfield has resigned herself to life as a lady's companion as the only path to respectable security. At least it allows her to visit the beautiful seaside town of Inverley with her charge, Lady Edith. Passions flare...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
There's a serial killer on the loose, workinghis way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston....
- Author:Hardy, ThomasSummary:
What do sexual violation, murderous farm implements, and Stonehenge all have in common? Thomas Hardy’s classic heartbreaker. On the one hand, this might be the most depressing novel you’ll ever read. On the other hand, women have come a...
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Unit's partners. Arthur Bryant and John May. But this time...
- Author:Chase, Loretta LyndaSummary:
The last shreds of Cassandra Pomfret's reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her sister's future and her family's good name along with them. The Duke of Ashmont knows that damaging a lady's good name isn'...
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
The House of Lords will never be the same. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, “Jack” Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she...
- Author:Goodman, JoSummary:
In 1787, desperate to leave England, Jessa Winter marries a wounded American, Noah McClellan. She expects to become a widow and escape to his homeland. But she hasn't counted on Noah's will to survive--nor his desire to make her his...
- Author:Thomas, AudreySummary:
Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...
- Author:Hoyt, ElizabethSummary:
When prim and thrifty Eve Dinwoody agrees to control the purse strings of Harte's Folly, London's premier pleasure garden, she butts heads with the infuriating Asa Makepeace. But the harder Eve tries to manage him, the harder it is to...
- Author:Bernard, Jay.Summary:
Brought To You By Penguin. The audiobook edition of Surge, written and read by Jay Bernard. Winner of The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2020. * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018 * Jay Bernard'...
- Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:
They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy...
- Author:Rennison, LouiseSummary:
In a series of humorous diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson tries to decide between two potential boyfriends--Masimo from Pizzagogoland (Italy) or local boy Dave the Laugh.
- Author:Aird, CatherineSummary:
A letter received by an old woman's son after her death alerts Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan that one woman's death by natural causes in a local nursing home may actually be murder.
- Author:BARCLAY, TessaSummary:
Margaret is the breadwinner in her family. Then Margaret is made redundant. She's down and her marriage is in crisis; for the first time in her life, she sees herself as a no-hoper.
- Author:Ellis, Joy.Summary:
DI Nikki Galena's close friend Helen Brook is involved in a serious accident where she is trapped in a collapsed cellar. After her hard-won recovery, Helen is still getting flashbacks to a man she says was down there with her and...
- Author:Frayn, MichaelSummary:
When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives....
- Author:SkyySummary:
Willow is at a crossroads. When a fluke change in the weather brings a sexy stranger into her life, she decides to throw caution to the wind and take her chances on love, which brings her to Memphis, Tennessee. Seeing her happily ever...
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory. The dagger in the man’s chest is engraved with a strange, cursive design, and the...
- Author:FRANCIS, JuneSummary:
Plucky Lucy Linden is the mainstay of her family, selling firewood and toffee apples on the streets of Liverpool to support her widowed mother. Police constable Rob Jones, keeps a watchful eye over her, much to her annoyance.