If the past came knocking, would you open the door?Abigail has spent twenty years holding her life together with stubborn determination and strong tea. But her small cafe is struggling, her daughter is about to leave for university, and the future feels suddenly uncertain.Then the man she thought she’d never see again walks back into her life.Jack Chance was once her best friend. The boy she trusted with everything. The person she’s been in love wit...

Discover a moving and uplifting read from Jane CranePraise for Jane Crane:'A perfect book for a snuggle up with a glass or mug of something lovely' Reader Review'A book that takes the reader on a journey of misunderstanding, compassion, hope and kindness' Reader Review'This was exactly the kind of book I needed to read right now. Family drama focused on the relationship between sisters; their differences, arguments but al...

Discover an emotional, uplifting read from Jane CraneGrace Watson has built a life that looks perfect from the outside. A successful career in Mayfair. A long-term relationship. A future that feels safe and certain. But beneath the surface, nothing is quite as it seems.When a devastating tragedy tears her family apart, Grace is forced back to the East End home she left behind years ago – and into the middle of the secrets, heartbreak and tensions she thought she’d escaped...

From dirt-floor huts to refugee camps to halls of power, Jane L. Crane traveled across Africa to see if the plight of widows was as dire as she'd heard. Is one in four women in Africa, many young with young children, really a widow? In an easy-to-read style, Half A Piece of Cloth tells the gripping stories of nearly 60 widows, and Crane's story as she finds them. She met with widows who survived the genocide in Rwanda, ran from the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, survived the 'rape capit...

If the past came knocking, would you open the door?Abigail has spent twenty years holding her life together with stubborn determination and strong tea. But her small cafe is struggling, her daughter is about to leave for university, and the future feels suddenly uncertain.Then the man she thought she’d never see again walks back into her life.Jack Chance was once her best friend. The boy she trusted with everything. The person she’s been in love wit...

The Betty Trask Award winner: A young female convict recounts her life to discover the good in it, and in herself, in this "moving, compassionate" novel ( The Sunday Times).Twenty-one-year-old Beth has done plenty of good, grown-up sorts of things—including having a baby. But she's also done something bad enough to land her in prison. At the urging of her counselor, she begins to make a list of all the good things that have happened to her. It's difficult ...

A hilarious, heart-warming read from the No.1 bestselling author of The Christmas Invitation…When Tansy Poole inherits a run-down shoe shop tucked away in the village of Sticklepond, ‘Cinderella’s Slippers’ is born – providing the footwear to make any fairytale wedding come true…Carrying everything a bride would want to walk down the aisle in, Tansy’s shop soon expands to carry shoe-themed wedding favours, bridesmaid gifts and even delicious chocolate shoes. It’s t...

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she’s too young to even understand.When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who’s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she immediately senses something’s wrong. Something in Kiera’s eyes alerts Casey that this is an “old head on young shoulders”, and with Kiera’s constant tiredness and self-soothing habit of pulling her h...

Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this new series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. In "Murder at the Mousetrap," the first Bunburry book, fudge-making and quaffing real ale in the local pub are matched by an undercurrent of passion, jealousy, hatred and murder - laced with a welcome dose of humour.Alfie McAlister has retreated from London to the peace and quiet of the country to recover from a personal tragedy. But an accidental death - which m...

India lives in a large, luxurious house with a mum she can't stand and a dad she adores, though he hasn't had much time for her recently. She seeks solace in her journal, which she keeps in sincere imitation of her heroine, Anne Frank. Treasure lives on the local council estate with her loving and capable grandmother. She is devoted to her nan but lives in fear of having to go back to live with her mother and violent stepfather.A chance meeting sparks a great friendship between the...

‘Witty, funny, warm and wise’ Marian KeyesIs it a break? Or is it a blip?‘You’ve just had a holiday,’ I pointed out, trying not to yawn. ‘Wasn’t that enough of a break?’‘I don’t mean that kind of break.’There’s nothing worse than the last day of holiday. Oh wait, there is. When what should have been a proposal turns into a break, Liv and Adam find themselves on opposite sides of the life they had mapped out.Friends and family...

A new Woodlea Community rural romance by USA Today bestselling author Alissa Callen.Will facing the past bring them together?After losing a patient, Dr Fliss Knight returns to small town Woodlea and buys a rundown farm, her confidence and city career in tatters. She intends to live a solitary life and hopes that the slow country pace will help her heal.Pickup rider Hewitt Sinclair is no stranger to how hairy things can get in a rod...