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Becky is getting married to Luke. Her parents are assuming that the wedding will be at home, but Luke's mother has different ideas - a huge affair in New York. Becky can't say no to anyone - and soon the plans are going ahead for both weddings.

When Anna loses her family and her fortune in a fire she must find work as a servant girl. Her mysterious master, De Malapert, fascinates her and she soon becomes obsessed with discovering the secret he is hiding.

India Jane isn't looking forward to being the new girl, in a new term at a new school. At least she's at the same school as Joe, the boy she met on holiday in Greece. She soon finds that the paths of true love and friendship never seem to run very smoothly.

'Suite Francaise' is a lost masterpiece written in World War II France, telling the spellbinding story of a group of characters living under Nazi occupation.

'Then We Came to the End' is about how we spend our days and too many of our nights. It is about being away from friends and family, about sharing a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers we call colleagues. The novel is the story of your life, the story of our times.

After a lifetime of moving about with her bohemian parents, 15-year-old India Jane is about to have a proper home at last. However, when her father takes a job, the family are to move again. So India is shipped off to her aunt's new age holiday centre for the summer.

Part of a human torso washes up near G.ư̐oteborg in Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with the police. Then a third co...

Wilfred and Duncan live in a large old house in Sussex, only ever see their parents on Wednesdays for lunch, and spend their days catching butterflies and dreaming of adventure. When their mother elopes, the brothers decide to run away from home. They plan to go to London and buy a tram they have...

The novel centres around a female character, Isserly, who seems to be obsessed with picking up male hitch-hikers, as long as they are muscular and fit. As the story unfolds, the reader comes to realise that Isserly's motives are rather unusual.

Samantha Smith got the highest law degree of her year and she's on the fast track for a partnership at a high pressure legal firm. Until she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge, she goes into meltdown, walks out of the office, gets on the first train she sees, and finds herself in the middle of no...