Collection: Fiction

Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. As Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn.

Dazzling her patrons with scrumptious cupcakes at her Salem, Massachusetts, bakery, Elizabeth Tucker continues to fall for the irresistible Diesel, who protects her from a villain who is seeking mystical stones tied to the seven deadly sins.

Caroline MacAfee is a carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It, a home renovation series on television. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host, she is devastated...

After eighteen years of marriage Sarah decides to go back to school, to Harvard, to get her Masters Degree. Now the only parent, Daddy must somehow cope with his troubled family.

At Iyot Lock, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel housekeeper. At first the petty meannesses seem simply unpleasant but affairs inexorably take a much darker turn...

In Gawell, NSW, a POW camp for European, Korean and Japanese captives, is built close to a farming community. Alice is a woman living a dull life with her father-in-law on his farm while her new husband first fights, then is taken prisoner, in Greece...

The Welsh Borders, 1069. When Ashdyke Manor is attacked, Lady Christen is forced to witness her husband's murder and the pillaging of her lands at the hands of brutal Norman invaders. It seems the pain is finally over when Miles Le Gallois, Lord of Milnham-on-Wye, calls off the attack. But he has...

Jangamuttuk, the master of the ghost dreaming, sends his son, George, to resue Wadawaka from the 'ghost' vampire woman who has taken him as her 'dark lord' and imprisoned him in her underground kingdom.

They call them the custard tarts - the girls who work at Pearce Duff's custard powder factory in Bermondsey before the First World War. Conditions are hard but nothing can quench the spirit of friendship as the girls go out on strike for a better deal...

Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb. She struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s