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'Distant Horizons' continues the story of Alice Chase and her family in the days leading up to the Second World War. It is the early days of the Phoney War and Alice is awaiting the birth of a fifth child. With the arrival of two young evacuees it seems that the war is finally changing life in th...

In 1979 Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school. Jack and his staff struggle to keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulence of the school terms, as once again the official school log fails to record what is really going on beneath the seemingly qu...

London, 1848 - for the last two years, following an attack of scarlet fever, Winifred Hathaway has been an invalid. She's been told she can do nothing but succumb to her illness but her bright and optimistic nature means she will not accept such a fate. She has too much to live for, namely the ha...

In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, a crime for which he was found not guilty. In response to public outrage, the book was never published. Here is the...

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland.

In 1976, Madeleine is a young and vibrant girl, singing in a club and in love. But murder lies ahead - murder that will force her to vanish and live looking over her shoulder. 20 years later, just when she thinks her life is truly over, the kindness of one young girl brings her back from the brin...

An eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, a Washington litigator just out of rehab and trying to hold it together and a women who left the modern world to live with Indians are all brought together by The Testament.

Hannah Drayton's only relief from her stifling husband was Thursday nights. A meeting with David, an assistant to a publisher, changed her life. Soon she began to think of him as her Thursday friend.

A Methodist minister gone astray, a trout bum gone fishing with his father's ashes, an artist overwhelmed by embodied beauty, these are among the uncommon heroes and exquisite narratives in this first collection of stories by the American poet and essayist, Thomas Lynch.

In 'Corrag', Susan Fletcher tells us the story of an epic historic event, of the difference a single heart can make - and how deep and lasting relationships can come from the most unlikely places.