Collection: Adult fiction

When the body of a man is found in the countryside outside Dundee with a gun in his hand, DI Dania Gorska dismisses suicide in favour of murder. Italian voice coach, Luca Terranova, in the city to search for his missing twin brother Piero - a fashion designer - confirms that the dead man is indee...

Annabel loves her sisters. But when their mother decides to sell her leafy London home and divide her time - and the money - between her three daughters, their bond is tested. Strident Clarissa wants to restore her ramshackle farm. Glamorous Ginnie, her stately country pile. Only Annabel is quest...

In the 1960s four ambitious MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over the next three decades they share the turbulent passions of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes of all.

Emma Clifton, now the chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign, but Sebastian Clifton, newly elected to the board, is determined that she'll remain chairman. Sir Giles Barrington is now a minister o...

It's 1944, after D-Day. Doodlebugs are the latest threat to war-battered southern England. Local crook Samuel Golden is still finding ways to exploit people's hardship for his own gain. Heroine Em, who we first met in 'The Munitions Girls', finds herself caught up in one such scheme while having ...

Trundling through the scenic countryside of Kyoto and Osaka is the Hankyu Line, a burgundy-coloured electric train that has been carrying its commuters to their destinations for decades. Over the course of a single journey in springtime, and the return journey six months later just as the leaves ...

Cleo Finch has loved gothic literature all her life. She's spent years researching and writing her thesis on the works of one gothic novelist in particular, Orlando Browne, and is determined to prove that Browne was the pen name of a female author, Alys Weston. Then Cleo's Uncle Ambrose unknowing...

Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that she's on the slippery slope to the big four-oh. With the thought suddenly lodged in her mind that she's a mere cat's whisker away from becoming a single eccentric female ...

Not every relationship makes it out of university. But Kiki and Malakai were supposed to be forever. Everything was perfect, until it all went up in flames. Three years after their epic break-up, Kiki's worked hard to forget her first love. But just as she thinks she's got her life under control ...