Aged 18, Poppy and Serena were witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate and scrutiny, the teens were dubbed 'The Ice Cream Girls' by the press and forced to go their separate ways. Now 20 years later, Poppy is keen to set the record straight, while Serena wants no one in her present to find out about her past.

Never make a promise you can?t afford to keep ? This is a story about Charlotte - a mother and a wife with the perfect job, the perfect life ? at least, that?s how it looks from the outside. But behind closed doors, the marriage is breaking, and Charlotte?s husband Tris doesn?t even know how much. He has no idea what Charlotte has planned for him, who she has found, why she has hired someone to pretend to be her. But he doesn?t have long to wait to...

When her husband returns shell-shocked and broken from the Great War and his mother makes her life a misery, Betty Wellow discovers how bitter and hard life can truly be. But it is not until a devastating storm sweeps through their small fishing village and endangers her life, that she sees her chance to escape - and takes it. Fleeing to Bristol, she changes her name to Mabel Brook and takes a position as a maid. But tragedy strikes once more after...

By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. This tree is the gateway to Maeve Binchy's portrait of a small Irish town.

Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannions: Paradise, the house at the head of a sheltered Cornish valley where Mrs Trevannion lives, surrounded by her family. Frail and elderly Honor Trevannion, bedridden following a nasty fall, is inexplicably anxious and distressed by the arrival of a young American bearing an old black and white photograph of a double wedding and looking for a long-lost relation. Her children Bruno and Emma, granddaughter...

Timely, humorous and deeply moving. This is the absolute standout new novel by acclaimed author (and 2018 Asian Woman of Achievement nominee) Ayisha Malik For years Bilal Hasham and his wife Mariam have lived contented, quiet lives in the sleepy rural village of Babbel's End. Now all that is about to change. On her deathbed, Bilal's mother reaches for his hand. Instead of whispering her final prayers, she gives him a task: build a mosque in his country...

Emotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she'd found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath. Both very private people, they've kept their pasts hidden from the world, and each other, until Heath's escalating nightmares begin to put an undeniable strain on their relationship. Determined to give their impending marriage the best chance of succeeding, Heath insists that Daphne join him on a seven-day retreat with Dr Matthew Cerny, a psychologist...

My name is Lucy Townsend. I was born on Friday the 13th, and I was the 13th girl living in the big house. Unlucky for some. But I was the fortunate one. I escaped. The only one who made it out alive. And now, 20 years after that fateful night, the secrets of the past and what happened in that house are pulling me back. I might not be so lucky this time ...

You lost your daughter. You will never forgive yourself. And now someone is determined to make you pay ? Seventeen years ago, something happened to Jess?s daughter Beth. The memory of it still makes her blood run cold. Jess has tried everything to make peace with that day, and the part she played in what happened. It was only a brief moment of desire ? but she?ll pay for it with a lifetime of guilt. To distance herself from the mistakes of the past,...

Steph has spent decades building a family with her husband Mal and putting their family first. She is the glue that holds them all together and she has convinced herself that she's been happy ... most of the time. But as she stands at her birthday party watching her husband talking about a wonderful marriage she doesn't fully recognise, the doubts that she has been pushing down for so long begin to grow ... After the party, as Steph tries to gather...