Although she's surrounded by a loving family, Marie is lonely. The secret she has been carrying for many years is a burden - it's telling could ruin the lives of those she loves most. Marie's granddaughter, Cathy, is a cheerful young woman and in the first flush of love. Her grandmother's secret will not only change Cathy's future but rewrite her past. Sister-in-law Beth seems to have a happy life and a goodmarriage but behind closed doors she's heartbreakingly...

?WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You?ll want to read it over and over again.? - Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete?s struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows...

This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be dead. Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love and loss and peace and war, and it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection. A family from two nations, England and Greece, live a simple...

Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome...

'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters' Margaret Dickinson 'Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas' Lyn Andrews Thursday's child has far to go . . . 1912, London. Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position of lady's maid to young Constance Ogilvie, and is able to provide for her beloved parents and four younger siblings. She has even fallen in love, and though she does not feel quite ready to marry...

The third book in the Swell Valley series by bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe. Henry Saxton-Brae has it all - a titled, self-made millionaire,his fianc�e just happens to be a supermodel who is as kind and loyal as she is ravishingly beautiful. To top it all, he?s just bought Hanborough Castle, the jewel in the crown of the Swell Valley. Life couldn?t be better? for someone who was ready to settle down. Could he really be the only man in the world...

Joely tells other people?s secrets for a living. As a ghost writer, she?s used to scandal - but this just might be her strangest assignment yet.�Freda has never told her story to anyone before. But now she?s ready to set the record straight and to right a wrong that?s haunted her for forty years.�Freda?s memoir begins with a 15-year-old girl falling madly in love with her teacher. It ends in a way Joely could never possibly have imagined.�As...

Anansi, your four gifts raised to nyame granted you no power over the stories I tell... This is the story of K. K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. He grows up in fields and woods, and he is happy, he thinks. When K is eleven, the city reclaims him. He returns to an unknown mother and a part-time father, trading the fields for flats and a community that is alien to him. Slowly, he finds friends. Eventually, he finds love. He learns...

'10 out of 5 stars. I LOVED IT ... a great story with many surprises. Janey Fraser writes with such a sensitivity, she touches the right points' Reader review, 5 stars Parenting just got a whole lot messier... Bobbie's children never listen to a word she says. Even worse, she's forced to constantly sit through her nearest and dearest critiquing her parenting skills and she can't ever win. Andy's swapping a high-flying career to be a stay-at-home dad....

Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate - the first automobile any of them have seen - and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates...