'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

LESSONS IN HEARTBREAK, ONCE IN A LIFETIME and HOMECOMING make the perfect excuse to have some Cathy Kelly time. Three lives. LESSONS IN HEARTBREAK tells the story of three women and the lessons they learn - both past and present - which bring both joy and heartbreak. And the hardest lesson of all is learning to let go. In ONCE IN A LIFETIME, three women find that sometimes things can happen which change your life forever, and each learn that the chance...

Do you believe in happy endings? Laura Foster used to be a hopeless romantic. She was obsessed with meeting her own Prince Charming until she grew up and realised real life doesn't work like that. Then she met Nick. A romantic hero straight from a fairytale, with a grand country estate and a family tree to match. They've been together four years now and Laura knows that what really matters is the two of them, not everything else around them. She can't...

Tess Gold - the current wife When Tess married Drew Gold, she believed love conquered all - including their age difference and two ex-wives who were still part of his life. But now Drew has planned a luxury Mediterranean cruise to celebrate a special birthday. It could be the ultimate romantic break? if the former Mrs. Golds weren?t coming too. Mona Gold - the second wife When it comes to style, top fashion editor, Mona, never puts a Jimmy Choo wrong,...

When Emily Mattison falls victim to a near-fatal accident shortly after receiving an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin, her ruthless nephew seizes the opportunity to take control of his aunt's assets. Awaking from a coma, Emily finds herself locked up in a geriatric care unit. She must rely on her wits to escape.

This is Linda's story. She's lucky. She knows that. It's what makes being unhappy even worse. Her friends advise taking medication, but Linda wants to feel more, not less. A meeting with a politician, and ex-boyfriend, reawakens a side of her that she - respectable wife, devoted mother and ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared. She embarks on a relationship that is addictive, dangerous and undeniably exciting. But the consequences are far-reaching....

Dr Jason Drake - cynical genius, passionate lover?devoted father?Dr Jason Drake is a brilliant diagnostician - the man everyone turns to for answers when they cannot diagnose a sick child. Shaped by a painful past, his manner is brusque and his methods outrageously unorthodox?Yet his formidable personality conceals a burning passion for medicine matched only by the intense desire he feels for his boss, Dr Stephanie Montclair! Their red-hot affair...

A is for affection - between childhood best friends; between their parents; between brothers and sisters. B is for brokenhearted - Natalie when the boyfriend who was meant to propose dumps her just before Christmas. Her mother when she realises what her life has come to. C is for chemistry - could Natalie and Tom have it?

As the camera rolls on the film set of Cleopatra, the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton love affair is about to capture the world?s attention. When Diana Bailey arrives on set to begin work as a historical advisor, tensions are running high. The film is in financial crisis and a media storm is brewing over the Taylor-Burton relationship. As Diana adjusts to a new life away from her troubled marriage, she strikes up a close friendship with Helen,...

Santina is spending her final days at her home, Villa San Vito, in the beautiful Italian town of Positano. As she decides the fate of the magnificent eighteenth-century palazzo, she must confront the choices that led her here. In 1949, hoping to escape poverty, young Santina became housekeeper to a distinguished British major and his creative, impulsive wife, Adeline. When they moved to Positano, Santina joined them, raising their daughter as Adeline's...