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All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics. But for proud and high-profile left-wingers Emma and Eddie Hughes, the return of their o...

When Nick Wychwood loses his wife Elise in a shocking accident, he is left to bring up their daughter Lucy on his own. A move from Cornwall to the Cotswolds should give them the fresh start that they need, a tranquil setting where they can put tragedy behind them and forge new friendships. But Lu...

When Liam unexpectedly turns up in Jude's life after ten years of no contact, asking her for a favour, she just can't say no. He was her first love, and even though she is now a successful doctor and about to get married, he will always be someone special to her. But after she does the favour, sh...

Libby can't believe her luck when she wins two tickets to the biggest event of the summer: Solstice, a music festival celebrating the longest day of the year. Wanting to escape her problems for a few days, Libby, along with her best friend Dawn head deep into the Welsh countryside for a weekend o...

Josie Moore has given the opposite sex - and love - plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magaz...

Ros is too busy for a boyfriend; between work and looking after her poorly father, there's no time left for a relationship. But when she overhears her dad's dying wish is for her to find love, Ros is determined to make it happen - or at least, make it look like it has. Enter Cameron, a struggling...

Sophie King is missing. Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last 17 years, they've done everything for their only daughter. The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are growing increasingly frantic - and increasingly obsessed with their highly suspicious neighbour. He won't o...

Emma is a CEO, wealthy, independent, sensible - and has long put behind her a chaotic childhood at the hands of alcoholic parents. She meets Matthew, a photographer at a conference. He is a widower, gentle, interested, full of admiration for her success and they quickly fall into a serious relati...

Just because the most dangerous criminals in society are caught and locked up, doesn't mean they stop committing crime. That's where Kennedy Allardyce comes in - monitoring not just the prisoners, but also the staff. And she's just stumbled across her most dangerous foe yet - rumours of a corrupt...

Set in a New York apartment building, 'Fourteen Days' is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Emma Donoghue and...