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As a young child, Lydia endured a cruel and loveless childhood. Years later, she has found peace and fulfilment in the beautiful city of Venice, until one day Lydia glimpes a young man’s face in the crowd that threatens to bring back reminders of a dreadful secret. Lydia is forced to return to England to face her past, and maybe her future… Compelling and heartbreaking, capitvating and beautfully written, this three book set offers a brilliant introduction to the bittersweet novels of Erica James.

These stories of derring-do on the battlefields of the Napoleonic War have deservedly become classics of the boy’s own genre. Featuring a hero who is as devastating to women as he is fearsome to his opponents, Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels are fast-moving, full of wit and always historically accurate. This barnstorming 12-book set follows Sharpe from skirmishes in India at the side of the Duke of Wellington to Portugal, where he comes across a prickly English governess, giving the reader barely a chance to pause for breath!

The stabbing of irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith fails to stir up grief in anyone, least of all his family, which is no wonder considering the way he had treated them all during the fateful weekend.

He had disinherited his son, humiliated his wife, refused to help his financially stricken nephew and made no secret of his loathing for his son’s fiancée, a cabaret dancer.

As Inspector Harding picks his way through a mass of familial discontent to find the culprit, he discovers much more besides…

The Unfinished Clue is just one of the ten delightful whodunnits in this set from Georgette Heyer, a writer who deserves a place alongside Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey and Margery Allingham.

In her latest mystery, Isabel Dalhousie - philosopher and amateur solver of other people’s problems - meets an old foe at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved and is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment. Meanwhile, Isabel’s niece Cat has just become engaged to a tightrope-walking stuntman and her own boyfriend Jamie has marriage in mind too…

The wonderful Alexander McCall Smith returns with another witty, entertaining novel. He takes us to the bustling streets of London’s Pimlico, inhabited by another glorious cast of memorable characters.

In the summer of 1909, seventeen-year-old Nell Golightly is the new maid at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Cambridgeshire when Rupert Brooke moves in as a lodger. Famed for his looks and flouting of convention, the young poet captures the hearts of men and women alike, yet his own seems to stay intact. Even Nell, despite her good sense, begins to fall for him. What is his secret? This captivating novel gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a tale of mutual fascination and inner turmoil, set at a time of great social unrest. Revealing a man far more complex and radical than legend suggests, it powerfully conveys the allure — and curse — of charisma.

Anita Shreve is one of the world’s best-loved and bestselling novelists. Thoughtful, evocative, powerful and compelling, each novel will sweep you up in its emotional journey. From The Pilot’s Wife, a tale of love, loss and betrayal, to Sea Glass, the timely tale of marriage and recovery set against the backdrop of the 1929 stock market crash, these beautiful books are stories that you will be recommending and sharing for many years to come.

Sapphire Rose doesn’t believe in relationships anymore - not since she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Now Sapphire only sees men on her terms which is why her current lover is younger than her. Sapphire puts all her passion into running her own business. She is doing well until she meets a charming businessman.

From the bestselling author of ‘The Red Tent’ comes a contemporary novel that explores the burden of secrets, the weight of grief and the healing power of female friendship. When Kathleen meets Joyce, each woman has come to a turning point in her life. Kathleen, whose sister died of breast cancer fifteen years earlier, has just been diagnosed herself and finds her world abruptly thrown into terrifying turmoil. While Joyce, increasingly distant from her awkward, adolescent daughter, is taking stock of her marriage and family, and struggling to get to grips with a burgeoning career as a novelist. Neither realizes that their chance meeting will result in a life-altering friendship.

This novel draws in the secrets, lives and affairs of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth. In the early 1800s, Louise, a French peasant, calls her priest, fearing she is about to die. She has a secret to confess which she must tell from the beginning and which involves a young English poet.