Three women from different backgrounds play their part in the moulding of Helen Calloway's character as she makes the transition from life in a cottage, to fame in the world of haute couture and a marriage which takes her across the sea.... The spinster for whom education is all; a Baroness, the epitome of charm and gentility and an Indian Princess, who reflects all that is best of her creed and culture. Set in the Edwardian era with the country. Moving towards war, Helen's changing fortun...

Furious that his son has joined the Roundheads, a Royalist father bequeaths his estate to his daughter, Ann Faraday, decreeing that only girls bearing that name may inherit. Down the years these women of his bloodline, or adopted and renamed, have kept diaries detailing their life-styles and current affairs and a 21st century Ann becomes aware of the parallels there are between their lives and her own, a mixture of happiness and sorrow. Through her own daughters eyes she sees beyond her fa...

A small girls reaction to the arrival of a baby brother is assumed to be sibling jealousy. No-one is aware that her mother, Susan, has concealed the fact that her own family history contains sinister genes. Gemmas attempts at getting rid of her brother have unexpected results, but as Leo becomes aware of the threat he learns how to evade it. Puberty brings the voices urging Gemma to remove those who threaten her superiority and the Box Day tsunami in Sri Lanka provided her with an excellen...

Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, a spellbinding story of the dangers of digging up the dark secrets of the past. This edition features an introduction by Selina Hastings.Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All rep...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERBONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Perry's Dorchester Terrace.The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant with details of an international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with him, arrives seconds after the knife-wielding assassin—who, in turn, flees on an erratic course that leads Pitt in wil...

A sweeping story of wealth, power, privilege and betrayal, set on a grand sugar cane plantation in Queensland.LEGACY IN THE CANE FIELDSIn 1881 'Big Jim' Durham ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour.SUGAR AND SECRETSThe massive estate becomes a self-sufficient fortress and home to hundreds of worke...

'Cecelia Ahern is a master storyteller' Clare PooleyGirl in the MirrorLila knows how lucky she is to have found the man of her dreams. But when a secret from her family's past comes to light on her wedding day, her destiny changes in the most unexpected of ways…The Memory MakerThey say you never forget your first love. But what happens when those cherished memories start to fade? Some people would do anything to hold on to the past and, for one heartbroken m...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY RT BOOK REVIEWSIn this superbly accomplished Charlotte and Thomas Pitt adventure, Anne Perry takes us beneath the glittering surface of wealthy Victorian society into a nightmare world of fear and intimidation, where women are too often blamed for the violent attacks against them, and powerful men take what they want, leaving others to pay the price.The horrifying rape ...

"A gripping mystery that skips between Edwardian and modern-day London . . . to uncover the bonds between generations of women. . . . Thrilling." —Sally Hepworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Mother-in-LawWhy would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return?Present Day. When respected American jewelry historian, Kate Kirby, receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she's on the brink of th...

Named a New York Times Best Book to Give!“This house of correction is booby-trapped with twists, thefloors paved with trapdoors, quicksand churning in the garden. Enter if youdare.” –A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestsellingauthor of The Woman in the Window“Full of unexpected turns . . . Immensely satisfying.” – TheNew York T...

From a New York Times– bestselling author, members of Parliament are murdered crossing Westminster Bridge in this "sterling" novel set in Victorian London ( Library Journal ).In the few minutes it takes to cross Westminster Bridge, Sir Lockwood Hamilton has his throat slit and is tied securely to the lamppost with his evening scarf. The killer then vanishes without being seen. In...

Prince William and Kate Middleton's fairytale romance is the greatest love story of the century, with a happy ending to come – a Royal wedding that will truly capture the hearts of the British people.Will was the boy who would one day be king; Kate was the middle class girl who had harboured a crush on him since her school days. Both were new students at the University of St Andrews in 2001, facing the same challenges that any new student faces – away from the family nest and striv...