Katherine, Charlotte and Esme – three girls seeking escape. Each of them is captivated by the idea of a travelling theatre; each is pretending to be someone she is not; all are in love with the same man.

MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE – After a broken love affair, biographer Kate Kennedy retires to a remote cottage on the wild Essex coast to work on her niew book until her landlord’s daughter uncovers a Roman site nearby and long-buried passions are unleashed.
HOUSE OF ECHOES – When Joss Grant, adopted at birth, inherits a beautiful old house on the East Anglian coast, it is a dream come true. Eager to begin a new life there with her husband and son, she is also impatient to find out abour her newly discovered family who lived there for generations.

Glamorous, rich and rife with scandal, the clannish Macarthur family, rarely out of the glossy pages of every high-society magazine, reigns over Edinburgh’s wealthy New Town. But as the formidable family patriarch Jack Macarthur lies on his deathbed, it emerges that one of the clas has broken the strict code of silence…

A chance encounter with a stranger, Priscilla Blunt, seems to offer Nina Crowther an escape from her problems. Middle-aged, struggling to recover from the shock of her husband divorcing her to marry a younger (and pregnant) woman, Nina happily falls in with Priscilla’s idea to house-sit for her while she and her husband visit South Africa. When the phone rings on her first night in the Blunts’ Berkshire manor house she expects it to be one of her duaghters, but when she lifts the receiver no-one speaks. All Nina hears is a shuddering sigh. As the calls persist Nina fears she has attracted an unwelcome suitor – or is it the man who is brutally murdering women in a nearby village? Or could it be one and the same person?

Harriet Turner knows all about journeys. After all, she’s arranged hundreds of them for the travel agency her family runs in the Australian coastal town of Merryn Bay. But when her work colleague and foster sister Lara disappears on the eve of a big overseas trip, Harriet finds herself in uncharted territory.
Left alone in England with a coachload of eccentric tourists on a themed tour of locations from the Willoughby TV detective series, Harriet has her hands full. But as the bus trundles through the picturesque Cornwall countryside, the tour becomes another kind of journey for her. She finds herself facing big questions about her family and her childhood; about her feelings for the guest of honour on the tour, star of Willoughby, Patrick Shawcross – and the biggest puzzle of all: what has happened to Lara?

Lance Bradley, idling his life away in the little Somerset town of Glastonbury, suddenly receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Rupe appears to have vanished without trace. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London, to discover that Rupe’s employers want him tried for fraud. A Japanese businessman claims he has stolen a document of huge importance. And a private detective is demanding money for trying to trace, on Rupe’s behalf, an American called Townley, who was involved in a mysterious death at Wilderness Farm, near Glastonbury, back in 1963.

Perhaps several times in a lifetime, we come across a book with such a singular nature, it defies categorization. A book so provocative, it forces us to examine not only our personal values, but also our society’s values–the very way in which we live. A word-of-mouth phenomenon embraced by readers, booksellers, and critics alike, Into The Forest is that all-too-rare book. This extraordinary story of two sisters struggling to survive amid the collapse of technology and society is at once a classic tale of epic proportions–and a modern myth with a timely message.

The day the Jutland telegrams arrive in Portsea, the lives of three women change dramatically. Miriam Slattery, Beattie Forrest and Lily Forrest all find reserves of courage and hope beyond even their own dreams, as the war gives way to peace, they grab their futures with both hands.

The year is 1947, ten years after the famous zeppelin Hindenburg burst spectacularly into flames while landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The cause of the disaster is still a mystery. The airship was a symbol of world peace and German technological prowess and was carrying important American industrialists and high-ranking Nazi officers. The reasons to think the crash was something other than a horrible accident are manifold and contradictory. Birger Lund, a survivor, suspects sabotage.

Since childhood they had been inseparable friends: Lorn, Lewis, Ruth and Rachel. The close-knit island community of Rhanna had watched them grow, seeing each other through the bad times. But now they were grown and they faced a harsher world, and all the problems of love and loss for which their tranquil Hebridean childhood could not prepare them.