Set in England, the story describes how Jaki, a young graduate, finds her life turned around after a meeting with a strange woman who lives in an old house in the middle of a wood.Jaki is looking for a job that will make her independent, while at the same time preparing to marry her childhood sweetheart, Hugh, a rising star at the factory where she has a temporary contract.The wood and the old house are threatened with destruction by a road scheme. Jaki meets others who are...

When a busker asks Kay, a translator in Paris, to translate a furious letter of accusation from a dead woman, she is drawn into a web of secrets and betrayals, jewellery, music, books and a missing cat. Can a ghost be haunting the metro, with its dark underground maze of tunnels and corridors? The mystery unfolds against a backdrop of boulevards, cafés, tiny flats and bridges over the Seine.

Zoe has split up with her boyfriend. Now, all she wants is to be safe, caring for small children in a Paris school. But a violent incident rocks her world, after which a colleague invites her to an idyllic Greek island to recover. While on holiday, she finds a wristwatch that that gives her such scary experiences whenever she touches it that she feels compelled to trace its owner. Zoe longs for peace and security, yet somehow violence never seems far away, and people are not always what th...

Can a desert lion become the faithful companion of a man? Leo, a rather dreamy lion, meets Father Jerome and finds that he can. He can also be a hero. But people, even those who work as translators, can't understand the language of lions. When Rebecca, the donkey, disappears, Leo is punished. How can he prove his innocence? This reworking of an old legend is intended for children aged 8-12.

I rescued two baby birds, a blackbird and a starling. Over time, first Ebony and then Spica became an important part of my life here in France. I describe their growth from helpless fledglings to confident adults, their antics, quirks and highly distinctive characters, and how I had to adapt my working life to their needs and demands. Birds are so unlike us, yet trust and affection can flourish.

Flora, running wild in the forest, longs to see a wolf, but her parents and grandmother are afraid of lurking dangers. Something unusual does indeed happen to her. Besides, who is the stranger in town that all are talking about? This story for children, set in mediaeval Italy, covers human relations with animals, respect for the natural world and the interconnectedness of all living beings.

Stella's neighbour Rose attracts birds and will have no electrical plugs in her flat. The mystery deepens. Is Rose a witch? What powers does she hold? When Stella falls in love with their mutual friend, Olivier, a curious triangle is woven that one senses can only end in drama and shocking revelation. More than a mystery and more than romance, 'Candlepower' is a social commentary at many levels: family relationships, the nature of friendship, loneliness, the paranormal, the hard-edge effec...

Several centuries B.C, in Mesopotamia, Tag is a dog who loves his master, Tobias. He is ready to defend him from all dangers on their journey over the mountains to collect the money that Tobias's blind father now desperately needs. But when they set out, neither boy nor dog realizes that an evil demon is tracking them. Only Azarias, their mysterious pipe-playing companion, can guide them to the place where destiny awaits them. Music runs like a strong thread throughout their quest. In far-...

From the bestselling author behind Channel 5's Carol Drinkwater's Secret Provence **comes an epic story of enduring love and betrayal, from Paris in the 1960s, to the present day'One to get lost in'** Woman & Home - Best Books of Summer________No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . .Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of a...

Now available in one collection, four classic crime thrillers from the award-winning “French master of noir” (Observer)Unravelling like a paranoid nightmare, Bird in a Cage melds existentialist drama with thrilling noir to tell the story of a man trapped in a prison of his own making. Crush is a chilling 1950s suspense story of youthful naivety, dark obsession—and the slippery slope to murder. The Executioner Weeps is the winner ...

The Sunday Times No. 1 paperback bestseller.…because it’s where the heart is.Four women. Four lives. One place they call home.Eleanor Levine left Ireland years ago with just a suitcase and her mother’s recipe book. And now, a lifetime later, she returns from New York for Dublin’s beautiful Golden Square full of hard-won wisdom. As she watches life unfold from her window, she is drawn into the lives of the women who...

**A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ"NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE“Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove KnausgaardFrom the author of the “dazzling. . . . and daring” Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets–and dr...