Modern fiction

JACKIE COLLINS' 25TH NOVEL and LUCKY IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE!. From Miami to Beverly Hills, from Mexico City, Acapulco and Las Vegas, LUCKY SANTANGELO is back! And so is the illegitimate son ANTHONY BONAR, of her one time Godfather and lethal enemy, ENZIO BONNATI. Lucky is preparing for the open...

On the threshold Henry's new bride, Margaret, gave him a black eye and went straight to bed, apart from the malevolent outburst, for rest of her life. Two couples became regular house guests over years, keeping a watchful eye on Margaret's door, piecing together the gossip, the rumours, the myste...

Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excel...

The streets of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, where disease and squalor jostle with high culture and grand ambitions, are the setting for Jessica Stirling's powerful new novel. On the brink of a disastrous marriage Nicola Templeton finally rebels, and flees to Edinburgh to seek refuge with her sis...

A funny tale from "Sunday Times" number 1 bestselling author. The eagerly awaited new novel from the bestselling author When Mary meets gorgeous Monty, heir to a stately pile, romantic bliss seems assured. But after the roof falls in and the pictures are flogged, happiness is thin on the ground. ...

It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her window she sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling and plainly lonely - and decides to ask them in, and see what happens. What happens is that a group gradually forms, a group of six different and disparate women, who bec...

Adam Lang has been Britain's prime minister. And now that he's left office, a cash advance to compose a tell-all memoir of his life and years of power. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this magnum opus, he hires a ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discover...

Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. It stands there, surrounded by its four asphalt car-parks, to condemn us - a huge enveloping supermarket. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move mindlessly about Hyperpo...

The new novel from the international no. 1 bestselling author. The new novel from the international no. 1 bestselling author. Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind her for life in New York. She's big, beautiful, and dreams of her own model agency for plus-sized women (what her...