Collection: Fiction

Hull, 1904. As the much doted-on daughter of the local doctor Violet Stroud had a comfortable, happy childhood - despite a distinct lack of love from her cold-hearted mother. But when her father unexpectedly dies, Violet's life is turned upside down. As secrets about the family come to light, Vio...

Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions - but when Charlotte organises the baby shower from hell for pregnant Nicki, the girls are reunited. Under a sweltering hot summer day, tensions rise - and b...

The Yorkshire village of Beddingfield is home to the wonderful women of the Allen family: teacher Robyn, wannabe chef Jess, teenage tearaway Sorrel and matriarch Lisa, who holds the whole family together. But underneath her warmth and brilliance, Lisa has a secret - she longs to know who she real...

1990: In a hot, humid Hong Kong summer, three young singers are loving life, performing to packed crowds every night in a swanky hotel bar. Twenty-three-year-old Scottish songbird, Moira Chiles is living the dream alongside Carina Lloyd and Lisa Dixon. They work hard, play hard, and always stick ...

When Bee loses her job, home and boyfriend - all on the same day that a man accidentally spills coffee all over her; she decides life can't get any worse. So when her mother finally tells Bee the name of the father she's never met - a musician named Luke Friday - she decides to take a risk and go...

He's the perfect man. He says he loves you. You think he might even be made for you. Before long he's moved into your house - and into your heart. And then he leaves for days at a time. You don't know where he's gone or who he's with. And you realise - if you looked back - you'd say to yourself: ...

After a spine-chilling summer in The Bahamas, Jessie Madison jumps at the chance to join the FBI Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team. Seven elite divers are trying to reach a World War II plane stranded at the bottom of the sea, close to the stunning Aeolian Islands north of Sicily. But ...

A man sits by his father's bedside and watches him die. Watches as his past begins to crack, leaving him buried in all its afternoons. The quietly collapsing afternoons of childhood. Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world.