Modern & contemporary fiction

When unexpected circumstances bring Grace's estranged daughter, Amelia, and granddaughter, Charlotte, to live in her home, complicated feelings start to emerge, revealing a messy and emotional past which drove this family apart. It will take a school mystery, an exquisite miniature railway and so...

An invitation to the most glamorous social event of 1958, the Ball at Versailles, was the stuff of dreams for many young women looking to 'marry well'. Amelia, Caroline, Samantha and Felicity all see the ball as an outdated tradition, but agree to fly to Paris to please their excited parents.

Frances Strange - now known as Birdie Johnson - has always felt that something was missing from her life. She also has a secret - a big secret. Will that secret, and the thing she is always missing, come back to ruin her life? Or will the charmingly eccentric Frenchman Noel save her from herself?

Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family'...

What would you do if one night your whole life changed? If everything you thought you knew was suddenly turned on its head? If you had to take your child and keep moving. Away from the questions, away from the prying eyes, away from everyone you knew. Because it's your job to make sure that your ...

The Blue sisters have always been exceptional - and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she's hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever. Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she's been wor...

Summer, 1957. Melody Bright begins her dream job as one of Bob's Blazers - the entertainers and hosts at Trimbles Holiday Camp. Melody and her chorus partner Trevor grow closer as they sing, dance, and deal with some challenging customers together. But when Melody's brother Charlie arrives, claim...

Still grieving the death of her best friend, Erin knows she needs to start living - but has no idea how. Then she loses her favourite book, a heavily annotated copy of To Kill A Mockingbird containing her friend's last gift. When James finds Erin's note-filled book in his local community bookshel...

When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Book Store, Hazel can't understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues. She just need someone to help her out. Gorgeous and outgoing fisherman, Noah, is always up for an adv...

1816. A massive volcanic eruption has caused the worst storms that Europe has seen in decades, yet Percy and Mary Shelley have chosen to visit the infamous Lord Byron at his villa on Lake Geneva. It wasn't their idea: Mary's eighteen year old step-sister, Claire Clairmont, insisted. But the reaso...