‘A writer is being buried today. It’s like a final demonstration: an unexpected crowd – silent, respectful and anarchic – is blocking the streets and the boulevards around the Montparnasse cemetery……How absurd to pay homage to a man who was wrong about almost everything, was constantly misled, and who put his talents into defending the…
Lies.They can make you.THEY CAN BREAK YOUSometimes they come back to hurt you…. [ About the Book ] Daisy and Simon’s marriage is great, isn’t it? After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter Millie sealed everything in place. A happy little family of three. And so what if Simon drinks a bit too much…
‘It’s been seven years since Holly Kennedy’s husband died – six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life…’– Postscript There was a seismic shift, the planets moved, there was a collective roar when it was announced that the very much longed for sequel to the…
‘After the war, after he was out, Martin Heath did almost nothing for several months. He was still young but his dreams – nocturnal and diurnal – belonged to an older man, a man much damaged and long steeped in blood. Death operated the film projector inside his head’– Mr Godley’s Phantom [ About the…
‘Although the characters who live and die in these pages are the figment of my writerly imagination, the experiences they endure are rooted in the terrible truth of a dark, dark chapter in Spanish history’– Johana Gustawsson, author of Blood Song [ About the Book – Blood Song ] Spain, 1938: The country is wracked…
Betty Wellows is running for her life….– You’ll Never See Me Again Lesley Pearse is a much-loved storyteller for many reasons. In the UK alone a Lesley Pearse book is purchased EVERY 4 minutes, with her tales packed with characters that her readers truly care about. ‘ There is no formula to her books or…
‘A moment’s delay.Then a frenzy of motion.The woman’s eyes open. Her body rises, head and shoulders lifting from the pillows, legs rising beneath the sheets. She opens her mouth as if to scream…’– REWIND [ About the Book ] PLAYAndrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in…
‘Each scent holds a mystery, its own story. That was the first lesson Papa taught me. “To be a parfumeur is to be a detective Sophie”I would inhale and be whisked away in an instant. A touch of jasmine hinted at carefree days in the sun. Woodsmoke conjured a cool autumn night and rich cassoulet…
‘Courage can be found in the unlikeliest of places’– A Single Thread [ About the Book ] It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ‘surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to…
‘And in the absence of truth, in the absence of a miracle, we turn to prayer.And to violence…’ – In the Absence of Miracles [ About the Book ] John Docherty’s mother has just been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke and she’s unlikely to be able to live independently again. With…