Collection: Fiction

It's January 1941, and the Blitz is devastating England. A weary Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's most trusted advisor, is sent to London and comes face to face with the Prime Minister and an attractive young female driver Leonara Finch...

1882: Since Sidney Grice's last case led an innocent men to the gallows, business has been light. Then an eccentric member of a Final Death Society has the temerity to die on his study floor. Finally Sidney and March have an investigation to mount...

Luke and Anna decide on a sea-change. They leave the city, fleeing a past and a future that fill them with fear. On the coast they discover a natural world that is both destructive and rejuvenating. Events sweep them up and they must confront what they have tried to put behind them.

While delivering a message to her father, Florentino Ariza spots the barely pubescent Fermina Daza and immediately falls in love. What follows is the story of a passion that extends over 50 years, as Fermina is courted solely by letter...

When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common wit...

Motivated by advancing age, loneliness, latent guilt and a sense of unfinished business, the erstwhile Witches of Eastwick return to their former Rhode Island coastal town in this sequel to the 1984 novel....

Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth Bennet, who married Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. But what about Elizabeth's sister Mary? Master storyteller Colleen McCullough imagines a life for Mary Bennet twenty years after the events of Jane Austen's novel.

A teenage girl on her way home from a night out reports stumbling across a body. But during the subsequent search, no body is found. Due to her drunken state, the police are sceptical of her story. Only DI Joe Plantagenet is inclined to believe her.

Renting a house on the Florida coast after a crippling accident and ending his marriage, millionaire Edgar Freemantle creates paintings that have a power that cannot be controlled. They lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady's past....

Lily and Ceily are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them, leaving them at the mercy of the Church and the authorities. When Father Flitter's people arrive to take the children into care, they resist and a riot breaks out...