Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond. Epic in scope and deep in feeling, 'Common People' is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country...

This deeply moving novel tells the interconnected story of two very different families, during a time of momentous change in twentieth-century Britain.

June, 1933: the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn't. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered...

Emilie de la Martinieres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her mother, she finds herself sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France. As she rediscovers her family's story, Emilie realizes that the chateau may hold more secrets than just fond childhood memories.

Richard and Judy summer bookclub read 2013, Goodreads category winner, and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013, stunning story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who face a life-changing moral dilemma. A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper's island. It holds a dead man - and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom and his wife Izzy, are about to make a devastating decision. They break the rules and follow their...

Biographer Selina Hastings has had access to Maugham's extensive private correspondence as well as to important family testimony, to shed new light on this complex and extraordinary writer.

Too often when dieting or trying to cut back, dinner times leave you feeling hungrier than before: the portions too small, the food too bland and boring. Gina Holmolka's 'The Skinnytaste Cookbook' offers the perfect solution - 150 flavour-full, skinnified versions of family favourites and hearty yet healthy dishes to suit every preference.

Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Each member of the family holds some clue to the chain of events which may have led to the accident and each holds themselves to blame. Most closely affected is Will's cousin Cecelia, whose affinity with Will leaves her most vulnerable to his suffering and whose...