Beth is running away. With her young son Leo to protect, Willow Cottage is the lifeline she so desperately needs. Overlooking the village green in a beautiful Cotswolds idyll, Beth sees a warm, caring and safe place for little Leo. When she finally uncovers the cottage from underneath the boughs of a weeping willow tree, Beth realises this is far more of a project than she bargained for and the locals are more than a little eccentric! A chance encounter...

100 years ago, young women were killed in this workplace. Is history about to repeat itself? Rachel, a young woman in serious debt, needs to find a job fast before she?s made homeless. She gets a lucky break when she is offered a great position in a successful company. Then she discovers that the building was once a Victorian sweatshop with a tragic history. Is this why Rachel feels something increasingly sinister? Soon her new job becomes a living...

The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that?s as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now. A young couple on the brink of marriage-the charming Veblen and her fianc� Paul, a brilliant neurologist-find...

Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there?s the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it?s very popular in...

All she wanted to do was get out of there. Get on a train and head for London, the place she?d been avoiding for so many years. But it was finally time. Casey Edwards has demons to put to rest. Since she had to give away her baby at 15, she?s been lost in booze and bad company. But now she wants to find her child and put things right. Heading to Soho, Casey meets former gangster Vince Sadler, an old-school hard man who can still handle himself - and...

Clara held onto the precious button, glimmering like a jewel in the dark alleyways of London?s notorious Seven Dials. She needed to save her family? but who was going to save her? There was a time when the Carter sisters? father was their hero. Now he?s a drunk who?s gambled away everything they had and put them all in peril. It's on Clara's shoulders to save the four sisters from destitution. Clutching her precious button box, the only thing of value...

Alone at Christmas, will she find somewhere to call home? No more than 18 years old, alone and heavily pregnant, Kathleen stumbles through the snow, desperate for somewhere to rest her weary head. As the Christmas bells chime around her, she glimpses a man through the haze, before collapsing into his arms. On a farm in the beautiful Kent countryside, Jessie and her family take Kathleen in as their own. But little do they know that there's a baby on...

The sensational new page-turning thriller from the number 1 bestselling author of LIES *300,000 copies sold* Perfect for fans of FRIEND REQUEST by Laura Marshall and BRING ME BACK by BA Paris. What if a single 29 second phonecall could change your life forever? 'Give me one name. One person. And I will make them disappear . . .' When Sarah rescues a young girl in trouble, she expects nothing in return. But her act of bravery puts a powerful and dangerous...

Everything changes for Kate, Moya and Romy when they receive word that Maeve Dillon, their mother, is critically ill. It is time to return from Dublin, London and New York to Rossmore and the old stone house overlooking the Irish Sea where they grew up. But ancient jealousies surface as each sister confronts the past and the decisions they have made. For work-driven Kate it is time to take stock of her role as a high-flying ambitious lawyer and single...

One day, Mori and her mother fight a powerful, magical battle that kills her sister and leaves Mori crippled. Devastated, Mori flees to her long-lost father in England. Adrift, outcast at boarding school, Mori retreats into the worlds she knows best: her magic and her books. She works a spell to meet kindred souls and continues to devour every fantasy and science fiction novel she can lay her hands on. But danger lurks... She knows her mother is looking...