Collection: Fiction

The story of Matthew Flinders and his bride Ann Chappell. He left her behind for 9 yrs as he carried out great feats of seamanship and navigation, charting much of Australia's coastline, being shipwrecked and later held prisoner by the French on Mauritius

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief.

Will Bertie ever get away from his overbearing mother? And will we say goodbye to a Scotland Street resident Angus Lordie and his gold-toothed dog Cyril as a jaunt to the hills of Tuscany beckons?...

Hauled to a field hospital in northern France in 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness with an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw and her name is Stella Bain...

The small house at Allington is one of Trollope's gentlest and most delightful heroines. the social background and political satire of the story are presented with all this author's usual acuity and broad sympathy.

When facing injustice, the residents of New York City's tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. The two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women.

Waverly Bryson's life is officially perfect: She's engaged to her gorgeous boyfriend, Jake. Her TV show and store are successful. What could go wrong? Drama follows Waverly wherever she goes and her trip down the aisle is set to be no different

When Susanna's heart for the poor and Ben's disillusionment with British rule cross paths in 1763 Massachusetts, the two find themselves bound in a dangerous fight for justice.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that develops leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls.

Impoverished sisters Gladys and Annie Barnes live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their lives are thrown into turmoil when a new landlord arrives