The face Esme Waters presents to the world is not the face she sees in the mirror. Even her three daughters don't know the truth behind her careful smile. But a chance meeting with a psychiatrist in Paris opens the first crack in Esme's mind. While her own children are falling in love, learning about loyalty and rebelling against the rules, Esme discovers that sometimes the walls you build for pro... More >

In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that was to blow her life apart.The woman on the other end of the line calmly told her that she and Will Jordan, Mary’s husband and father of her two younger children, had been married for 14 years and had five children together. Told in her own words, this is the shocking true story of how one man manipulated an intelligent, independent woman, co... More >

Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the Crimean battlefields, determined to make his mark. Two years later, Thomas returns to England. Desperate to forget the atrocities of the Crimea, he becomes a ‘street philosopher’, a society writer reporting on the gossip of the day. But as Manchester prepares to welcome Queen Victoria, Thomas’s past returns to haunt him...... More >

Spring, 1853. Legendary American entrepreneur and inventor Colonel Samuel Colt expands his gun-making business into England. His London secretary, Edward Lowry becomes romantically involved with Caroline Knox who is caught up in a plot to steal revolvers from the factory. Among the workforce is a gang of Irish immigrants who intend to use these six-shooters for a political assassination. As pistol... More >

A newborn baby’s abandoned. A five-year-old boy’s abducted. A police officer’s dead. And Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss thinks she’s having a hard time. Struggling to cope after a vicious attack, desperate not to reveal what’s happening under the skin, Bev is fighting for survival. But when you barely trust yourself – who can you rely on? Her lover’s moving on, her guv’s losing patience, her new D... More >

For more than a century, hopping was the main event in the East End calendar, with over 200,000 East Enders descending on Kent looking for casual work picking hops. Thoughtful, moving and beautifully rendered, Hopping captures the essence of ordinary family lives often obscured from history during an extraordinary period in London’s past. Charting the shift of the East End from poverty, to the ste... More >

Just when everything was going so well for Jenny and Mike, Roan Williams had to come back into their lives. Four years earlier, while her friends Tessa, Gerry, Karen and Shane were falling in love and heading for happy ever after, love-rat Roan had broken Jenny's heart and completely shattered her life. Harbouring a terrible lie, Jenny had struggled to pick up the pieces of her life, but if Roan w... More >

An ancient artifact is stolen from beneath Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.The violent theft leaves 13 Israeli soldiers dead, and the Palestinians up in arms over the desecration of sacred grounds. In Italy, American forensic scientist Charlotte Hennesey and Italian anthropologist Giovanni Bersei have been hired by the Vatican to examine a newly-discovered 2000-year-old skeleton of a crucified man. Coul... More >

The Caribbean, 1665, where the island of Jamaica holds out against the supremacy of the Spanish empire. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking. Word in port is that the galleon El Trinidad is awaiting repairs in a heavily fortified harbour, guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla. Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to undertake a perilous raid: infiltrate the enemy o... More >

Every summer throughout her childhood, Florence would return to her family home on the west coast of France, where she would be joined by her exotic, hopelessly glamorous cousins. Life here, under the benevolent eye of her grandmother Mimi, was a heady existence of illicit drinking, stolen kisses and the bittersweet pains of first love. But now Florence is living completely alone with her new baby... More >

After John Sutter’s wife killed her Mafia don lover, he set out in his boat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the stretch of Long Island’s North Shore to attend the funeral of an old family servant. John finds himself living less than a mile from Susan, and though the infamous Mafia don, Frank Bellarosa is long dead, ... More >

Britain, 1045 – The Normans are waiting to wrest the English throne away from the Anglo-Saxon barons. King Edward the Confessor does his Machiavellian best to aid them. Everything centres on the succession. Earl Lovric of Mercia and his wife, Godiva, are drawn into the machinations at Court. When Edward makes their son a pawn in his power play, Godiva’s maternal instincts rise to the fore, and int... More >

This is the story of Ved Sant, an Indian from Port of Spain, Trinidad — a ramshackle carnival culture, which is suddenly becoming oil and gas rich. Ved has a gift for business, and is the enlightened boss of his family business. But while success brings very tangible rewards, it also brings more than its share of heartache, as he finds himself unable to apply the lessons he has learned at work to ... More >

The village of Burley Cross has been plunged into turmoil by the theft of the contents of its postbox, and when PC PC Roger Topping takes over the case, his expectations of success are not high. Yet Topping’s investigation into the curtain-twitching lives of Burley Cross weird and wonderful characters, will not only uncover the dark underbelly of his scenic beat, but also the fundamental strengths... More >

For Pip, swimming is a necessity. With a hopeless mother, a drug-addled sister and a best friend more interested in her own love-life than in friendship, swimming provides a welcome escape. But as Olympic stardom beckons, Pip must decide whether her future lies in the water or on land. Swimming is a novel about growing up, about talent, and about having what it takes to survive.... More >