Bristol, 1939: when lovely nineteen-year-old Imogen Caldwell learns from her father that their haberdashery shop, Caldwell Supplies, is in crisis, she realises that her life and that of her family is about to change beyond recognition...

On the surface this is the story of a woman's search for her father, missing from his lonely island fastness, but at a deeper level, it is a woman's search for herself.

Explores the growing relationship between the recently widowed minister and the new lady doctor on the Hebridean island of Rhanna in the mid 1960's.

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.

A detailed account of the life of Paul Morrell, son of a mining family in an English colliery town, and of his emotional attachment to his mother and in turn, to two young women Miriam and Clara, despite his mother's opposition.

Secure in the loving contentment of her marriage to Lorn, Ruth felt her happiness was complete. She was thrilled to hear that her oldest friend Rachel was coming back for a rest. Rachel's arrival brings heartache and estrangement...

Story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom grow rich and powerful but never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other.

Luther and Nora Krank decide to skip Christmas and set sail on a Carribean cruise. But, as this weary couple are about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and it isn't half as easy as they'd...

Hiroko, an 18-year-old Japanese girl is staying with her uncle in California during World War II when President Roosevelt gives the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities. They are sent to a detention centre...