Collection: Fiction

Daisy can't believe her luck when her parents announce they're off on a midlife crisis gap year, leaving her in charge of their garden. Some peace and quiet in the countryside is just what she needs. Only, village life turns out to be anything but...

A mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud Bailey discovers a love affair between two Victorian writers.....

White examines an artist's creativity, where it comes from, whether it can be controlled. As he traces the life of Hurtle Duffield from the age of four until his death as an elderly avant-garde artist, we see Duffield always as somehow different from his

In 1836 a woman leaving Australia for England believes she is leaving behind her a multitude of vices but the ship upon which she is sailing will never reach its destination, and there are ahead of her ordeals more trying than those she is leaving...

Twelve years ago, one fateful event drove three sisters apart. Now Cassie has returned to Washington with her daughter. Though her sisters don't live far away, she doesn't expect to see them. But one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen...

Follow the moving stories of four women as they are drawn into a spiritual formation journey at a retreat centre: Hannah, a pastor who doesn't realise how exhausted she is. Meg, a widow and recent empty-nester who is haunted by her past. Mara, a woman who has experienced a lifetime of rejection a...

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...