Rule 1: When you’re dancing, shoulders back and point your toes.Rule 2: Keep your thumbs clear when you’re chopping vegetables.Rule 3: Don’t go wandering through the house without permission.But who can make any sense of Home Rule? Ten-year old Brede asks herself. Homeless and destitute, she and her Aunt Kate are employed as the only Catholics in the household of the beautiful spendthrift Adelina Thompson and her bullying husband, Alexande...

There is always a before and an after…Sophie and Miles have a long marriage, twin daughters, a close-knit circle of friends and a happy home, until an accusation of inappropriate sexual conduct with a pupil blows everything apart. Sophie knows Miles as her husband of thirty years, the father to their twins and a dedicated teacher. Could he really be a sexual abuser? As the trial approaches, Sophie must ask herself if Miles is merely a bumbling innocent or a schemin...

Ollie Moorhouse is a struggling journalist, heavily in debt and fearful of losing his increasingly restless girlfriend. When his editor offers him the chance of pursuing an intriguing story, Ollie is hopeful that it will solve his personal and financial problems. His investigations lead him to an eccentric peer of the realm, a grieving philanthropist, a homeless drug addict and a wealthy landowner. But what is it that connects them?As events move between London, Wiltshire and Easte...

Perfect for fans of Robyn Carr’s Virgin River Series, the author of Goodbye, Lark Lovejoy returns with a stirring story of a mother’s enduring love, a family’s betrayal, and the ultimate act of forgiveness.One mistake can steal your innocence. One promise can plague a friendship. One secret can tear apart a family.Sissie Klein barely remembers the night that tore her from the carefree life she knew. Not long after the shocked teen is pushed into marriage, she’s rus...

Some investigations end when the body is found. This one begins. Aoife Walsh is commissioned to write a national crime series. It feels like the break she's been waiting for. Her first subject: Matt Gallagher, a newly wed who vanished on his honeymoon in Italy. Then Matt's body is found.What should have been a closed case turns into something darker - and into a world that doesn't welcome questions.As Aoife digs deeper, the danger turns dead...

Step into the shadowy world of seventeenth-century England with Widdershins, a haunting historical novel that lays bare the terror of the 1650 Newcastle witch trials.Jane Chandler is a natural healer. Her knowledge of herbal remedies leaves her vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft.John Sharpe is a witchfinder driven by religious zeal. His crusade against witches is as personal as it is relentless.In a Puritan society mesmerised by supers...

★Pulpwood Queens & Timber Guys International Book Club Official Selection★★Oklahoma Book Awards Best Fiction Finalist★A bittersweet story of friendship and overcoming grief from a critically acclaimed author.Olivia Montag is a professor who doesn't have all the answers. The devastating loss of a child ended her marriage, and she's been overlooked for a job promotion one time too many. Not sure what comes next, she l...

From the author of the National Book Award–winning An American Requiem and the classic bestseller Constantine’s Sword comes the story of Colman Brady, an Irish farmer who involves himself in the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s and later escapes to Boston where he rises to and falls from political power and seeks a second chance through the life of his son.Richly imagined scenes, a complex plot, and masterful writing combine fact and fiction; characters like May...

Easter Monday, 1809: Kirkley Hall manor house is mysteriously burgled. When suspicion falls on Jamie Charlton, he and his family face a desperate battle to save him from the gallows.When £1,157 rent money is stolen from Kirkley Hall, it is the biggest robbery Northumberland has ever known. Suspicion soon falls on impoverished farm labourer, Jamie Charlton, and the unpopular steward, Michael Aynsley.Jamie Charlton is a loving family man but he is hot-tempered and careless. A...

Four friends. One night. A secret that changed everything.They grew up believing their friendship would last forever.They were wrong.One choice fractured everything, leaving wounds none of them could name.Twenty years later, they are drawn back into one another’s lives.Old loyalties resurface. Buried truths come to light.And this time, the past refuses to stay quiet.As they confront what was lost, and what was never s...

Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the sixth-century Roman world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard's apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary to the Empress. How does this unlikely pair become such allies that one day Empress Theodora asks Stephen to write her biography?Fortune's Child is "a meticulously researched historical account presented in the form of a thrilling political drama."

“This afternoon I shall go to my own funeral service before I watch them bury me under six feet of London clay.”When kindly provincial solicitor, Andrew Soulsby, fails to listen to his instincts he is condemned to live an evil man’s life in a tailspin to destruction. Plagued by dark memories that do not belong to him and arrested for crimes of which he has no knowledge, he faces professional ruin, bankruptcy and a prison cell.Can Andrew discover what has happened t...