Born into WW1, Dorothy has a bleak childhood under an implacable mother and a browbeaten father. Her escape is achieved just before the disastrous advent of Hitler. Here, follow her through childhood and adolescence, then on into her twenties when she wins her own battle for freedom, for love, and for her own place in the world.

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Jess Monroe is thirty-four and perfectly happy being single. But her friends think otherwise and, as a birthday present, buy her an ad for an online dating site. Furious at first, she eventually agrees to try it out - and ventures into a world where the description on the tin rarely matches the contents.

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Satirizing the tedium of upper-middle-class life in post-war London, this novel depicts a world in which substance is far less important to anyone than appearance. The question asked throughout the text concerns the differences between doting and loving.

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When Ed Strachan's parents were killed in a car crash 18 years ago, they left their son a miserly inheritance: the memory of a mangled nursery rhyme, and a cufflink inscribed with a single set of coordinates. But 18 years later, when a girl tries to poison Ed and steal the cufflink, he guesses it may have greater significance than he had imagined.

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Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself.

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Summer 1940 - Dunkirk has been evacuated. Dover is inundated with young soldiers, who wearily wander its streets, wondering what the future holds in store for them. This book chronicles the lives and loves of ordinary people in besieged Britain during these tense, but curiously elated days.

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Pretty, brave and 18 years old, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husband of another.

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A dramatic family saga, filled to the brim with scandal and intrigue

Written 13 years after his first autobiography, "My Left Foot", this is an autobiographical novel, set in Dublin during the '40s and '50s. The author, who died in 1981, was born a spastic and for the first six years of his life could not walk, talk nor control any of his limbs.

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The author recalls his early experiences with poverty and discrimination, his involvement with drugs and gangs, and his prison sentence for armed robbery which led to his rehabilitation and work with street gangs and drug addicts.

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When Michaela Anderson signs up for a parachute jump she gets more than a case of vertigo

A magical tale that will enchant and enthral fans of Cecelia Ahern and Sophie Kinsella.

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The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn lunatics picks over the rivers detritus.

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Since inheriting a pile in Killiney, the author can add a new string to his not inconsiderable (you know what I mean) bow - lord of the manor. This title tells the story of how he tackles his new responsibilities.

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And Esther soon finds herself caught in an erotic drama offstage as well as on...

Fredrica Alleyn also writes as Marina Anderson and is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Haven of Obedience, as well as The Bracelet

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The third novel in a brand-new contemporary series by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author, Lisa Kleypas - Nora Roberts meets Marian Keyes

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Set against the impressive landscape of the Yangtze River, "Dream of the Blue Room" explores the nature of friendship and the deep intimacy that often exists between young friends as they struggle toward adulthood.

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From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with sharp intensity the memories and events that make a man.

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You won't really understand your times until you understand mine...'
Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, diffident schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin has taken the trip of a lifetime: to Egypt and the Holy Land.

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She's smart. She's savvy. She's...well, she's working on the thighs. And with God as her witness, she'll never let that man spoil her happy ending!

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Everyone's favorite film geek Phoebe Grant heads off to Merrie Old England-and changes her cinematic dreams from black and white to living color.