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The daughter of one of the town’s richest men, Vanessa Ratcliffe’s provocative manner often draws envious eyes in her direction. Angus Cotton is a rough diamond, living in filthy Ryder’s Row, but as engineer at Affleck and Tate he’s worth his weight in gold. Angus has ambitious plans for his future, plans that have never included Vanessa, until now… A beautifully imagined story of power, love, honour and greed, the award winning The Round Tower is joined in this special set by nine more of Catherine Cookson’s bestselling and most popular novels. Chosen to commemorate Cookson’s extraordinary life as a novelist, these ten books also recognise the huge contribution she made to popular fiction.

A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda’s last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. When the villagers’ safe, predictable lives come to a halt, Bougainville’s children are surprised to find the island’s only white man, a recluse, re-opening the school.

Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens. Matilda and the others think a foreigner is coming to the island and prepare a list of much needed items. They are shocked to discover their acquaintance with Mr Dickens will be through Mr Watts’ inspiring reading of Great Expectations. But on an island at war, the power of fiction has dangerous consequences. Imagination and beliefs are challenged by guns. Mister Pip is an unforgettable tale of survival by story; a dazzling piece of writing that lives long in the mind after the last page is finished.

We’re delighted to feature, for the very first time, this year’s Orange Prize shortlist, the prize dedicated to celebrating the achievement of women writers around the world. Offering some of the most exciting fiction you’ll read this year - including the winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall - this is an outstanding collection. Daisy Goodwin, the 2010 Chair of Judges claims to have achieved “the near impossible of combining literary merit with sheer readability”.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Columbian born Gabriel García Márquez is one of the most important writers of the 20th century - the undisputed master of magic realism, black humour and the quirkier side of human nature. This beautiful paperback collection features ten of his bestselling novels and memoirs including Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, the modern classics for which he is best known.

Bestselling author Cathy Glass returns with her novel ‘The Girl in the Mirror’, which is a moving and gripping story of a young woman who tries to piece together her past and uncovers a dreadful family secret that has been buried and forgotten. When Mandy learns her much-loved Grandpa is dying, she is devasted and returns to the house where she spent so many wonderful summers as a child. But the childhood visits ended abruptly and those happy days are now long gone. Having lost touch with the rest of her family, Mandy returns as a virtual stranger to her aunt’s house to nurse her grandfather. Mandy hardly recognises the house that she loved so much as a child and it is almost as though her mind has blanked it out. But as certain memories come back to her, Mandy begins to piece together the events that brought a sudden end to her visits that fateful summer. What she discovers is so painful and shocking that she understands why it was buried and never spoken of by the family for all those years.

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.