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This is the story of Hugo Mayne''s progress t hrough life, from idyllic childhood, to troubled adolescence and manhood. '

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Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again,. Lavinia ... More

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It's crisis time again at Porterhouse. Skullion is showing signs of frailty and the tricky task of appointing a new Master has to begin once more. ... More

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A saga about one young gifted Liverpudlian girl's struggle against hardship in the 1920s. By the author of MAGGIE MAY, MIST OVER THE MERSEY and ... More

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I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...' Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St ... More

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Tabitha's Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a perfumed world where never a hard note is struck. To Tabitha, Beauty is ... More

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In the slums of Hull, at the turn of the eighteenth century, lived Will and Maria Foster, constantly fighting a war against poverty, disease and ... More

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May, Harriet and Sally need money and so work for Quality Cleaners under "Slimeball" Slater. When they discover it is them being taken to the ... More

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An astonishing novel that probes into the strange world of genetic engineering. Joanna May thought herself unique, indivisible -- until one day, to ... More

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"The Shell Seekers" is a tale of connection from one generation to the next, of the parent that lives in the child, and of the symbols and legacies ... More

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Read with his trademark delivery, Garrison Keillor tells of the ups and downs of small-town life in Lake Wobegon at Christmas time. Now on CD for the ... More

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This recording is part of a series of narratives by Anthony Powell. The story presents a vivid portrayal of the English upper class through the eyes ... More

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What is it that binds together a series of violent murders across America and the long-lost Secret of the Templars? The killings always take place in ... More

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Karen North, a young student, makes herself indispensable to Tom Martin and his infatuated 11-year-old daughter Sarah. Karen's abrupt departure for ... More

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California, 1957. Feeling stifled by her Mormon upbringing, Zoe finds solace among the Jewish intellectual family of her friend Margo, with whose ... More

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'Ernest was another outsider, who failed to properly understand the rules, who talked too much.' Set in Nairobi in 1953 onwards, this is a coming-of ... More

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A reissue of the saga of three generations of a Yorkshire family from the time of Edwardian England through the drama of World War Two, where the ... More

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Forced to marry a cousin in order to keep the de Bellefort money intact, the heroine of this novel is in love with the cousin she could not marry and ... More

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Set in resistance France, this is the story of forbidden love between an English SOE and a German Abwehr officer. The author's first novel, ... More

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This was Gibran's last book, featuring Almustafa the Prophet, returned home after visiting his homeland in "The Prophet". The questions and views of ... More

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This early work by Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth chronicles one of his literary obsessions--the corruption of innocence--and forms it ... More

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